I am a Postdoc Research Associate at Purdue University working with Dr. Andrea Donnellan. Before joining Purdue, I was part of the GATR Research Group in the Earth and Environmental Science department at Tulane University and worked with Dr. Cynthia Ebinger.
My research focuses on the use of geodetic tools (i.e. SAR, LiDAR, GNSS data) to estimate vertical land motion in different areas in the Gulf of Mexico and LatAm at different temporal and spatial scales. I am interested in learning open software to use these datasets to quantify surface processes and find out how they relate to human activities worldwide.
I am originally from Bogota, Colombia, where I did my bachelor´s degree in Cadastral and Geodesy Engineering at the Universidad Distrital.
I am interested in sharing with other scientists and non-scientists what I know and learn from them! That is one of the reasons that I joined GeoLatinas 💜in 2019!
This is my CV (ENGLISH and SPANISH) (last updated October 2025). If you have questions or are interested in collaborating, please contact me!
Contact me:
dhurtad[AT]purdue.edu