Research Interests and Opportunities
My research interests include: 1) studying how the Earth’s crust deforms in response to the earthquake cycle, 2) modeling slow slip events (SSEs) and their potential to trigger large earthquakes, 3) determining how stuck megathrust faults are and how that may change through time, 4) volcanic deformation modeling and hazard assessment, and 4) advancing current techniques for investigating crustal deformation in both model representation and data analysis. The goals of my research are to better understand seismic and aseismic processes and the causes of crustal deformation, as well as to improve geologic hazard assessment for local communities. To accomplish these goals, I use high-precision GPS and seismic data to constrain computer-based models of plate boundaries at both the regional and global scale.