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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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