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Earth and Space Sciences Graduation Ceremony

Celebrating a big milestone, we are doctors!

Posted on July 1, 2026

It is still hard to believe that I completed this huge milestone. I am now officially a Doctor in Earth and Space Sciences! It was incredible to be surrounded by family, mentors, and to celebrate with a wonderful cohort of peers and friends. [Read More]

Tags: graduation PhD milestone

Jesús Rangel Presents at UW Undergraduate Research Symposium

Posted on June 24, 2025

My undergrad mentee, Jesús Rangel (Earth and Space Sciences major, UW), presented his research at the 2025 UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. His poster is titled: [Read More]

Tags: mentoring undergraduate research poster landslides Washington

Mentee Ashley Martinez Presents Research at UW Undergraduate Symposium

Posted on June 1, 2024

I’m incredibly proud of my undergraduate mentee, Ashley Martinez, who presented her research at the UW Undergraduate Symposium on May 17, 2024. Her project, titled “Comparative Analysis of Geomorphic Markers: Synthetic Landscapes vs. Remote Observations of Strike-Slip Faulting in Northern Chile,” was a great contribution to the symposium. [Read More]

Tags: mentoring undergraduate DEM

Best Overall Talk and Upgoer5 Presentation

Posted on April 15, 2023

I am excited to share that I won the Best Overall Talk at the recent 2023 ESS GALA with my presentation titled “Role of sediment and climate variability in strike-slip fault arid landscapes.” It was an incredible opportunity to share my research, and I’m honored to have received this recognition.... [Read More]

Tags: numerical modeling geomorphology sci comm

Summer Visitor at CSDMS, CU Boulder

I spent two months in Boulder working on my code and enjoying the Rockies

Posted on September 1, 2022

I enjoyed spending two months in Boulder Colorado at the CSDMS facilities advised by Dr. Gregory Tucker. I worked on my chapter 2 research project exploring the landscape evolution of strike-slip faults in environments with climate variability. My funding for this project was through CSDMS. Look at this cool video... [Read More]

Tags: geomorphology coding python

Best Geodesy and up-goers-5 talk!

We had the Earth and Space Sciences department research and I won my two categories.

Posted on April 1, 2022

Every year in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, we celebrate and share our research. This year we have the opportunity to do it in person! I gave two talks about my research, one in the geodesy category and another one in the upgoers-5.... [Read More]

Tags: geomorphology geodesy scicomm

AGU Ignite Talk

Do you have five minutes to watch my talk?

Posted on January 20, 2022

During AGU 2021 in New Orleans, LA, I had the pleasure to give an Ignite talk. What is an ignite talk? Ignite is an strict format where speakers have 5 minutes to talk on a subject accompanied by 20 slides, for 15 seconds each, automatically advanced. [Read More]

Tags: geomorphology geodesy scicomm diversity Atacama

CoCo 2022 Started and I'm a coding trainer!

CoCo is an NSF-funded Bilingual Program to learn coding and communication skills.

Posted on January 19, 2022

CoCo: Code to Communicate is a Bilingual (Spanish-English) program designed to provide coding and science communication training for graduate students in Geosciences. The training sessions are in both English and Spanish languages to reach historically excluded students within Latin and Hispanic communities. You can follow the project in twitter. [Read More]

Tags: latinx python scicomm NSF

Cascadia 2021 Project

Installing nodes in Oregon and Washington to see beneath the surface

Posted on July 12, 2021

A team of more than 30 people from different institutions around the US intalled nodes seismometers in Oregon and Washington. And yes, I was one of the volunteers! If you want to read more about this cool project, please check out their blog. I wrote a blog entry in Spanish... [Read More]

Tags: Cascadia Fieldwork Subduction Zone