ESP Biography

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm a 5th year PhD student in the Stanford Geophysics Department working on locating sources of repeated seismicity in volcanic environments. I look for special types of volcano-seismic signals that are often undetectable by standard subsurface imaging techniques. These signals can often be very good short- and long-term indicators of potential volcanic hazards (i.e. eruptions), but have been hard to locate in the past because they are buried within the abundant "noise" that a volcanic system (or the town/city/ocean/wind, etc. near it) continuously makes. I use seismic array processing to get as much information out of the data as possible and determine the most likely source locations of repeated volcanic earthquakes in the subsurface.

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