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April 2026 - Paper alert 🚨
In this paper we looked at causes of seasonal deformation in Baton Rouge, we took advantage of the knowledge about the aquifer system in the area and the great signal from Sentinel-1 for urban areas. For the first time we describe poroelastic motion in the area and propose what aquifer layers are most likely to cause deformation.
May 2025 - GeoLatinas mentoring circle
Me, Ana Cristina Vasquez y Maria Paula Velásquez García we have the honor of leading the circle ¿Cómo darte a conocer y presentar tu investigación? (Circle run in Spanish)
During six weeks, we shared our knowledge about science communication, specifically for presentations at scientific conferences. We learned a lot in this space, and we appreciate the feedback from our community!
March 2025 - Starting at Purdue as a postdoc!
I joined the EAPS department at Purdue as a postdoctoral research associate in March 2025! So far (to June), I have had the opportunity to present some of my work and the current state of my new project in two meetings: GAGE/SAGE in Bloomington, MN, and at the II Colombian Academic Diaspora Symposium in Lafayette, IN.
January 2025 - PhD defense
Finally, in January, I defended my Doctoral thesis with minimal comments. Thanks to everyone who accompanied me during this process!
February 2024 - First PhD publication!
After months of working and improving this piece, now it is out there!
December 2023 - AGU23 First time giving a talk and first time representing GeoLatinas
Left picture: Talk about my research using LiDAR and InSAR in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Right picture: eLightning presentation about the work done during the last three years by the GeoLatinas mentoring team.
September 2023 - Geolatinas, Check In meeting
All Wednesdays we meet for 30 minutes to talk about anything, take a break, and known each other.
April 2023 - Outstanding Research Assistant, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University
No my best angle but I earned the award!
March 2023 - GAGE-SAGE meeting
Showing some preliminary results about the project "Ground vertical displacement and its relationship with injection and extraction of fluids in North Louisiana"
July 2022 - CUAHSI Workshop (MT, USA)
In-person workshop "Hands-on Hydrogeodesy: Combining GPS and Hydrologic datasets"
December 2021- My first AGU in person!
Poster with preliminary results about the project "Variations in subsidence patterns in the Gulf of Mexico passive margin from Airborne-LiDAR data and Time Series InSAR: Baton Rouge Case Study". Link to abstract
May 2021 - Speaker for the DeVolver ConCiencia (online)
Talk in Spanish to kids in Colombia in their last high school year about what does a Cadastral and Geodesy Engineer. Title “¿Qué hace una ingeniera catastral? (What is the work of a Cadastral engineer? )”. Presentation recording on Facebook.
April 2021- Guest in the podcast "GeoLatinas por el mundo"
I was invited to talk about my experience as a graduate student in the USA and in Tulane. Episode link in Spotify
July 2020 - Speaker for the Programa Haiko digital, Fundación Haiko (online)
Talk in Spanish to kids in Colombia with ages ranging from 11-16 about what is remote sensing and what I do as a Ph.D. student. Title “Remote Sensing – Descubriendo el mundo con un rayo laser (Remote Sensing - Discovering the world with a laser ray)”.
September 2019 - Volunteer for BATS
Workshop The Missing Tooth activity led by Dr. Jeffrey G. Agnew.
August, 2019 - UNAVCO facilities (CO, USA)
First workshop as a graduate student in the UNAVCO facilities (CO, USA). "InSAR theory and processing Short course".
August 18, 2017 - Presentation on "la Semana Geomática 2017", Bogota - Colombia.
After this presentation I was selected to submit an article about my research in the journal Análisis Geográficos (Link)
Contact me:
dchurtad[AT]purdue.edu
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