Group
Current group members
- Sophia Esquenet (MSc expected 2027) - Rupture propagation mechanics in normal faults
- Katerina (Kat) Wood (MSc expected 2027) - Off-fault deformation and supershear rupture
- Neha Narayan (PhD expected 2031) - Fault interactions in numerical models, laboratory experiments, and nature
- Leslie Garcia (MSc expected 2026, advised by Dr. Alexis Ault) - Controls on strain localization during the 2023 Elbistan earthquake
We are part of the broader Earthquake Science at USU group and regularly collaborate with other faculty and students in the group. Many of my students end up being co-advised with other faculty in the group in one or more projects. We are also affiliated with the Utah Earthquake Engineering Research Center.
Former group members
Here's a list of undergraduates and graduate students that I have mentored in research projects through UC Davis, the State-wide California Earthquake Center, the McNair program, or through collaborative projects, and their current whereabouts as best known:
- Mindy Zuckerman (PhD 2026, ASU, project co-advised with Ramon Arrowsmith) - postdoc at ASU
- Allison Schiffmaier (SCEC SOURCES intern 2025) - undergraduate at UC Davis
- Yajaira De Haro (SCEC SOURCES intern 2025) - undergraduate at San Jose State University
- Karen Castañeda (UC Davis senior thesis 2023) - MSc student at San Jose State University
- Vanessa Herrera, MSc (SCEC SOURCES intern 2022-2023) - Geophysicist at Atlas
- 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) - GIT at HDR
View of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California from a hike up San Gabriel Peak