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 the supershear transition
- Leslie Garcia (PhD expected 2029, advised by Dr. Alexis Ault) - 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.
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:
- 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 (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