Group
Current group members
See the landing page for information for prospective students.
Students at Utah State University
- Sophia Esquenet (PhD expected 2030, co-advised with Dr. Srisharan Shreedharan) - Rupture propagation mechanics in natural and laboratory earthquakes
- Katerina (Kat) Wood (MSc expected 2027) - Large-scale detection and morphologic dating of fault scarps in the Basin and Range
- Leslie Garcia (PhD expected 2029, advised by Dr. Alexis Ault) - Rupture characteristics of the 2023 Elbistan earthquake
SCEC SOURCES interns summer 2025
- Allison Schiffmaier (UC Davis)
- Yajaira De Haro (San Jose State University)
We are part of the broader Earthquake Science at USU group and regularly collaborate with other faculty and students 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) - MSc student at San Jose State University
- Vanessa Herrera (SCEC SOURCES intern 2022-2023) - MSc student at San Diego State University
- Lupita Bravo (UC Davis senior thesis and McNair scholar 2021-2022, co-advised with Mike Oskin) - PhD student at UC Riverside
- Mercedes Quintana (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021-2022) - MSc student at Georgia Tech
- Sophia White (SCEC SOURCES intern 2022) - PhD student at UC Santa Cruz
- Kimberly Bowman (UC Davis mapping project, 2021) - California Department of Water Resources
- Ruth Prado (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021) - undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara
- Tom Shea (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021) - National Park Service
- Michael Hernandez (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021) - engineering geologist for the State of California
- Brian Aguilar (SCEC SOURCES intern 2021) - MSc student at Cal State Bakersfield
- Leslie Garcia (UC Davis research project 2021) - PhD student at USU with Alexis Ault
- Sofia Marino, MSc (UC Davis senior thesis 2020, co-advised with Mike Oskin) - geologist in training at HDR
View of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California from a hike up San Gabriel Peak