SCEC Internship Programs

SURE Intern Projects Proposed for Summer 2016




Mentor(s): Professor Sally McGill
    Geodetic Studies of the San Andreas fault, San Bernardino Mountains (2016)

    I seek two interns to help with collecting GPS data from the eastern San Bernardino Mountains and vicinity. Dates of the 2015 internship will be June 20-Aug 12. Interns will learn how to set up and operate geodetic-quality GPS antennae and receivers and will then travel as a pair to remote locations in the eastern San Bernardino Mountains and vicinity to set up GPS equipment over existing benchmarks. This will often involve hiking several miles to reach remote benchmarks and may involve day-time babysitting and/or camping at less remote benchmarks in order to guard the equipment from theft. Interns will also help to train a large group of other undergraduate students and high school and middle school teachers in the use of the GPS equipment beginning on July 11. Data collection will be completed by around July 22, with the remaining 3 weeks of the internship available for modeling and interpreting the GPS site velocities for fault slip rates and preparation of a research poster to present at the SCEC meeting in September.

    Research Location: California State University, San Bernardino and field sites within a 1-2 hour drive from there.

    Institution: California State University, San Bernardino

    Number of Interns Needed: 2

    Required Skills/Coursework: Trigonometry (pre-calculus); Map-reading and use of a magnetic compass; Introductory Geology (especially plate tectonics and earthquakes).

    Desirable Skills/Coursework: Structural Geology; Tectonics; MatLab; ArcGIS.

    General Time Span: June 20 - August 12, 2016