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Diego Melgar

Assistant Professor

B.E. Geophysics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
M.S. Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ph.D. Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Amy Williamson

Postdoctoral Scholar

B.S Geosciences, Denison University
Ph.D. Geophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Amy is working on tsunami propagation problems trying to understand the relationship between the kinematics of rupture and its effects on inundation at the local coastlines. She also works on a joint NASA/NOAA tsunami early warning project to bring local warning to the Cascadia Subduction Zone. An important question she tackles is quantifying how good a tsunami forecast can be in the first 1-2 minutes following an earthquake
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Dara Goldberg

Postdoctoral Scholar

B.S Geosciences, Brown University
Ph.D. Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Dara works on a combination of earthquake source observations and rupture modeling. She has researched the source process of the 2019 Ridgecrest, California sequence by combining seismic and space geodetic methods. She is also developing a modeling code for realistic broadband P-waves and strong ground motion

Jiun-ting "Tim" Lin

Ph.D. Student (Co-advised with Amanda Thomas)

B.S Earth Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan
M.Sc. Geophysics, National Central University, Taiwan
Tim is working on machine learning and high-rate GNSS displacement data. He is building an algorithm that uses complex crustal deformation patterns to rapidly characterize earthquakes and their hazards. He has also worked on source models of large earthquakes from joint inversion of many geophysical data. 

Sydney Dybing

Ph.D. Student

B.S Geophysics, Washington University in Saint Louis
Sydney is working on using borehole strainmeters to observe the nascent stages of earthquake rupture. Ultimately the goal is to evaluate whether there is any determinism to rupture and develop methods of speeding up earthquake early warning system

Sean Santellanes

Ph.D. Student

B.S Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin
​M.S Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University
Sean is currently researching the stress states of subducted slabs. He is working on using the regional moment tensor catalog to produce stress inversions to study the complex deformation of the slab in the Mexican subduction zone

 David Small

Ph.D. Student (co-advised with Doug Toomey)

B.S Geophysics, University of California Santa Cruz
David is researching how geodetic coupling models can inform forecasts of large earthquake ruptures. His research focuses on how different models of locking at the Cascadia subduction zone inform what the next big earthquake (and its hazards) will look like

Alumni

Christine Ruhl

Postdoctoral Scholar  (2016-2018 co-advised with Richard Allen @ UC Berkeley)
​Now Asst. Professor at Univ. of Tulsa

Christine researched the performance of GNSS based earthquake early warning algorithms. Specifically she worked on the timeliness of ground motion predictions by studying a global database of large earthquakes recorded by near-field seismic and geodetic data.

Fernando Salazar Monroy

Visiting Ph.D. Student  (2018)

Fernando visited UO for 6 months from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He worked on probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis for the Mexican subduction zone where earthquakes as large as M8.6 have been identified in the past.

Miriam Lizzeth Vazquez

Undergraduate IRIS intern  (2019)

Lizzeth was an undergraduate intern who visited for 10 weeks from the Universidad del Mar in Oaxaca Mexico to do research as part of the IRIS internship program. Lizzeth studied the great 1787 M8.6 San Sixto earthquake in south central Mexico. This is the largest known earthquake on the Mexican subduction zone. Lizzeth generated over 500 hypothetical kinematic rupture models and modeled the ensuing tsunamis to understand the potential impacts of such a large event