Active Tectonics @ USU
Current group members
I will be starting a faculty position in the Department of Geosciences at Utah State University in January 2025. I am recruiting graduate students and am especially interested in those wanting to pursue a MSc. Send me an email if you're interested 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@caltech.edu or amrodriguezpadilla@gmail.com. I also have funding to support undergraduate students (from USU or otherwise) for summer research projects, reach out if you are interested!
We are part of the broader Earthquake Science at USU group and regularly collaborate with other faculty in the group.
Former group members
Here's a list of undergraduates that I have mentored in research projects through UC Davis, the State-wide California Earthquake Center, and the McNair program and their current whereabouts as best known:
- Karen Castañeda (UC Davis senior thesis 2023), now a MSc student at San Jose State University
- Vanessa Herrera (SCEC SOURCES intern 2022-2023), now a MSc student at San Diego State University
- Lupita Bravo (UC Davis senior thesis and McNair scholar 2021-2022, co-advised with Mike Oskin), now a PhD student at UC Riverside
- Mercedes Quintana (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021-2022), now a MSc student at Georgia Tech
- Sophia White (SCEC SOURCES intern 2022), now a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz
- Kimberly Bowman (UC Davis mapping project, 2021), now at the California Department of Water Resources
- Ruth Prado (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021), now an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara
- Tom Shea (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021), now at the National Park Service
- Michael Hernandez (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021), now an engineering geologist for the State of California
- Brian Aguilar (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021), now a MSc student at Cal State Bakersfield
- Leslie Garcia (UC Davis research project 2021), now a PhD student at USU with Alexis Ault
- Sofia Marino (UC Davis senior thesis 2020, co-advised with Mike Oskin), now a MSc student at UNC Chapel Hill
View of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California from a hike up San Gabriel Peak