Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Utah State University. I am interested in how faults and fault networks behave from seconds to millennial timescales. My group uses geologic and geodetic data together with numerical models to study how fault geometry influences large earthquakes, how neighboring faults interact over many earthquake cycles, and how inelastic strain is distributed around faults. We also study the competition between earthquakes and surface processes in landscape evolution, and the implications of all of this work for seismic hazard.
You can learn about my work addressing these topics in the research tab. In my free time, I enjoy rock climbing, skiing, reading, and befriending dogs.
Prospective students:
I am recruiting graduate students at USU at the MSc and PhD level. My research spans a wide range of methods, from spending time in the field collecting data (for example, mapping fracture distributions), to running numerical simulations in an external server (for example, to model fault interactions over timescales longer than those we can observe in the paleoseismic record). Ongoing projects reflect this breadth and I am happy and excited to bring in students with different training and backgrounds to the group, whether they want to spend their time in the field, processing remote sensing data in GIS, writing code, or doing a bit of it all! Send me an email if you’re interested in working together and include your CV and a brief statement of your interests and how they align with my research program. You can reach me at alba.rodriguez@usu.edu .
View of a normal fault in the Volcanic Tableland, Bishop (CA).