Fieldwork

Southern California

 
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Ridgecrest Earthquake

Pointing out a surface fault trace across a road that ruptured as part of the Ridgecrest Earthquakes.

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Ridgecrest Earthquake Instrumentation

Picturesque node cooling off in the evening near Ridgecrest, California.

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Ridgecrest Earthquake Deployment

Sunset and final few nodes deployed near Ridgecrest, CA.

I have also assisted in nodal deployments along the San Jacinto fault in Southern California (2017, 2018).

Alaska

 
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Node Deployment 2019

The snowshoeing nodal deployment crew
[led by Carl Tape; pictured includes graduate students Lynn Kaluzienski, Cole Richards, and myself] in charge of a dense line of instruments along the Denali fault near Cantwell, Alaska

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Node Deployment 2019

Staying warm and taking notes on a cold morning during the deployment.

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Node Retrieval 2016

Retrieval of nodes along the Denali fault in the Spring of 2016. Also, my first time in Alaska!

Bonneville Salt Flats

 
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ATV through the Dunes

Myself & then-undergraduate student Emily Kam driving around in an ATV deploying nodes in the sand dunes.

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Deploying Nodes along the Salt Flats

Stormy mid-morning discussions with graduate student Evan Kipnis on the Salt Flats.

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Sunset on the BSF

Beautiful sunset on the Bonneville Salt Flats to wrap up a long day of field work.

This was an incredible opportunity to test geophysical methods in a harsh (salty!) environment and collaborate with the Bonneville Salt Flats research team, led by Prof Brenda Bowen at the University of Utah.

Yellowstone National Park

 
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Deployment Crew

Yellowstone deployment crew, led by Prof Jamie Farrell, including Prof Amir Allam, Yadong Wang (then PhD Candidate), and myself.

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Cold Mornings

Cold morning and beautiful Old Faithful Geyser eruption.

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GPS

Taking GPS while Galen Kaip (UT El Paso Director of Seismic Source Facility) preps active source hammer equipment.

 
 

Other major deployments:

  1. Oregon / Cascadia (led by Prof Kevin M. Ward)

  2. Salt Lake City, Utah (led by Prof Fan-Chi Lin)

  3. GEO2500 Wasatch in the Field Class Exercise - Dry Creek Canyon, Utah

  4. Nevada (led by Prof Cliff Thurber)