Project:

Baltay will work on a project to use hyperspectral imaging to support paleoseismic trench work in southern California, and possibly on a project related to the SCEC information Technology Research Project. This is a very exciting project to use advanced Information Technology to come up with much-improved physics-based models of earthquakes and their effects.

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My project is titled "Developing an intergrated rock mechanics-seismological database, field guide, and model for exhumed seismogenic faults in southern California" As of today I have been gathering information from various books, journels, and articles that will be included in the final product. I will be doing some field work from late June to early July in southern Califorina to collect data from fault locations that will be included in the field guide. (ie: pictures, directions, etc.)

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Project: Education and Outreach

Spanish translation of Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country.

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SCEC borderland project:

Processing and analyzing multibeam bathymetry data, mapping submerged shorelines, and picking and radiocarbon dating shell samples collected with a submersible.

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Project:

Geologic mapping, surveying and logging trenches for various projects along the San Andreas Fault in the San Bernardino and Wrightwood areas. Work in late June and early July would focus on measuring the slip rate of the fault in the San Bernardino area with Sally McGill and Ray Weldon. Later in the summer, work would shift to the Wrightwood area, supervised by Tom Fumal (USGS) and Kate Scharer (Univ. of Oregon graduate student), and will focus on documenting and dating prehistoric earthquakes in trenches across the San Andreas Fault.

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Project:

(1) Dynamic modeling of large earthquake rupture in order to extend the pseudo-dynamic modeling procedure to larger earthquakes. or (2) Developing a new earthquake location method for dense clusters of microearthquakes.

Did not complete internship requirements.

Project:

For my SURE 2004 internship, I was instructed to develop a Windows console version of the Seismogram Transfer Program(STP), a Windows GUI version of STP, and to add a feature to STP allowing users to receive both Phase and Event data in XML format.

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Project:

Studying scattering, attenuation and the development of caustics in seismograms from the S. Cal. seismic network and also in data we have recorded. Installing radio networked seismometers in the Sherman Oaks and in the San Gabriels.

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Project:

The Garlock and Blackwater projects will analyze event records for the western Garlock and central Blackwater faults, and the Chino work will refine slip rates for that fault.

Project: Processed San Simeon aftershock data and integrated USGS and SCEC Portable Broadband Instrument Center data sets into one relational database using Antelope software. Primary and secondary waves were picked out for the aftershocks which total over 3,000 events, enabling researchers to use the data in their research.

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Project:

Researching interferometric trends found in the Salton Trough Region that may be attributed to tectonic and/or groundwater trends.

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Project: GPS Monitoring of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults

My job was to help Dr. Sally McGill of Cal State San Bernardino with a GPS Campaign study measuring the slip rates of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in the San Bernardino area.  This included gathering GPS data in the field, combining it with previously collected data, then processing and compiling all the campaign data so it was both up-to-date and easy to access.

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Project: Volcanology and Seismology

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