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ShakeOut 2018
October 18, 2018 at 10:18 AM
A successful ShakeOut Booth on the UC Riverside Campus! Many people came out to talk about earthquake safety, ask questions, and try out some of our new demonstrations! From saving animals in a tsunami warning demo, liquefaction demo, to looking at a 3D print of the CA fault map, what to put in an learning about how waves propagate, different types of faulting, and even an earthquake analog model -- Everyone had many things to try!
Drop. Cover. Hold On!
2017 Summer Field Work
For more photos of the trip, click here!
Where are we? The Geysers Geothermal Field in northern California.
What are we measuring? The surface deformation around the very active Geysers Geothermal Field. Unfortunately, we were not able to go into the field but we were able to measure around the field.
How many sites did we measure? 65 GPS sites
Why do we care? We want to understand the relation between the surface deformation of the field and the rate of injection and extraction.
Want to learn more? Talk to MS student: Rachel Terry who is working on this project.
2018 Summer Field Work
Check out the AGU Instagram to learn about some highlights of our trip! Or click here for more photos!
Where are we? Northern Coast Ranges of California
What are we measuring? We are re-measuring the location of benchmarks, using GPS, in Northern California, from Petaluma to Boonville, that surround three main faults; the San Andreas, Rodgers Creek, and Maacama Faults. --
How many sites did we measure? 80 GPS sites
Why do we care? We want to better understand the overall motion of the Pacific-North American plate boundary in Northern California. Along with previous measurements, we can improve on the density as well as precision of the current map of GPS velocities in the area.
California faults in 3D!
UCR Earth Sciences Department has a 3D fault map of all the faults in California. You can not only see the surface trace of the faults but also see the dip of each fault and how they all interact with one another at depth.
Dr. Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, a researcher at UCR pioneered this model and we bring it out for display during tabling events!
I love to crochet for some stress relief, check out some of my creations here!
Evidence of Creep!
(Left) An offset traffic arrow!!
(Right) Beautiful en echelon cracks in a parking lot!
What to do in an Earthquake?
Drop, Cover, Hold ON!
UCR's Scotty the Highlander and two other Grad students are showing you how!
If you feel an earthquake, don't forget to log it in on the "Did you feel it?!" Page!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/dyfi/
First Grad Life Poster
My first findings on fault creep along the Maacama and Bartlett Springs fault in northern California
Presented at the UNAVCO 2016 Workshop
Updated results at AGU 2016 Annual Conference
I got my Physics B.S. from California State University, East Bay where I had a great physics advisor, Dr. Kimball. A great professor who loves what he does and can always find the happiness out of any situation.
Favorite quotes from Dr. Kimball:
"Six months in the lab saves an hour in the library!"
"If you never give up, then you never lose because the game (life) isn't over yet."
I love dogs.
I have many dog-friends in my life. I also volunteer at the local adoption center, Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center. http://www.petsadoption.com/
If you are looking for something to do on the weekends or even to impact peoples/dogs lives, go volunteer or adopt a dog or cat!