[Biography]
R.C. (she/her) is a PhD Candidate at the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. She has a BSc in geological engineering from the University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS). She is currently working at CERI under the direction of Dr. Eunseo Choi as part of his Geodynamics Research Group. Her research interests include long-term crustal deformation and numerical modeling.
Research Projects
Simulating a low-angle normal fault using effective medium theory (EMT)
Incorporating EMT into numerical solver DynEarthSol (DES) and impose a scalar crack density and crack orientation in the structure. See git for code.
Using deep learning to predict 2D mantle convection time-dependent temperature field
Simulating basic mantle convection of spherical hot anomaly using ASPECT and incorporating data into LSTM neural network for forward prediction model. See git for more details.
News
[upcoming] 2023 December - Poster presentation at AGU
[upcoming] 2023 October 18 - Poster presentation at GSA
2023 August - Attending SEG/Chevron Student Leadership Symposium and IMAGE '23 in Houston, TX
2023 April - Outreach activity w/UofM Dept. of Earth Sciences for Earth Day; table leader explaining earthquake physics to 6th graders
2023 April - Poster presentation at Graduate Student Research Forum (DynEarthSol w/Effective Medium Theory). Placed 1st in section (Physical and Applied Sciences)
2022 December - Poster presentation at AGU fall meeting (L0w-angle normal fault)
2022 September - Elected as President of UofM's SEG Student Chapter
2022 April - Outreach activity w/UofM Dept. of Earth Sciences for Earth Day
2022 March - Poster presentation at Graduate Student Research Forum (Mantle convection machine learning)
2020 August - Joined CERI