At the end of May, Emilie Hooft, an Earth Sciences Professor at the University of Oregon, invited me to help with a large-scale deployment of seismic sensor nodes. I was part of a team of about 30 undergrad and grad students, along with four professors, who during the course of Read more…
In my reading on critical zone science (the interface between earth atmosphere, surface, and subsurface processes), I come across a mathematical relationship in a graduate text that caused me a bit of consternation last week. After several attempts, I unsuccessfully tried to derive the following Taylor series expansion to the Read more…
Wow! It certainly has been some time since my last post! First and foremost in this update is kudos for the official launch of ShakeAlert for the State of Oregon yesterday. This has been a monumental effort by Doug Toomey and the Oregon Hazards Laboratory for the past few years, Read more…
Its been a while since my last post–perhaps too long. My first term as a PhD student was successfully wrapped up. I thought it became a bit busy toward the end. My next term is promising to become even busier as I am trying to complete program requirements during my Read more…
Thursday last week I spent a day in the Coastal Range of Northwest Oregon near Portland installing a post-hole seismic sensor as part of the Oregon Hazards Lab management of resources in Oregon for the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. This was a combination sensor that captures large events quickly and Read more…