I love field work! As part of the Active Tectonics Research Group at UC
Berkeley, I regularly have the opportunity to participate in GPS campaigns
covering our Central California Network and Hayward Fault Network. My interest
in this area has only grown since I first came to Berkeley so that now I
have become the lead organizer of the campaigns surveying these two networks.
These networks, along with sites regularly surveyed by other agencies, have
been used by our group to determine velocities of GPS benchmarks within the
greater San Francisco Bay area in the BAVU project.
I also had the EXCITING opportunity to be part of the UC Berkeley envoy to
Alaska which helped with the Emergency Response to the Mw7.9 2002 Denali
earthquake (Alaska).
Yearly GPS campaigns help monitor deformation from the San Andreas and Calaveras faults in the Monterey Bay / Santa Cruz Hills / Salinas Valley region. For large earthquakes, such as the 2004 Mw 6.0 Parkfield earthquake, we organize an emergency GPS campaign to collect post-seismic deformation data as soon as possible after the event. Collected data is archived at Berkeley and UNAVCO.
To monitor active deformation along the Hayward fault, positions of over 50 benchmarks within 10 km of the fault are determined through yearly GPS campaigns. Collected data is archived at Berkeley and UNAVCO.
As part of the earthquake response, GPS measurements were taken to measure coseismic displacements and postseismic deformation. Two representatives from UC Berkeley, Frederique Rolandone and I, went to Alaska and became part of the multi-institutional GPS survey team.
Active Tectonics
Research Group at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Seismological Laboratory
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California, Berkeley