I am geoscientist currently working in the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Development Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego. I am interested in utilization of cyberinfrastructure to manage and improve access to earth science data and processing tools. Specifically, I have developed expertise in the management, distribution, processing, and application of high-resolution topography acquired via LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology.

Previous to coming to SDSC, I worked on paleoseismology, earthquake geology, and active tectonics research in the western US, Caribbean, and central Asia. My interest in the application of LiDAR topography data was initiated during my time as a research assistant in the U.S. Geological Survey Western Earthquake Hazards team in Menlo Park, CA. During graduate school in the Active Tectonics, Quantitative Structural Geology and Geomorphology Group at Arizona State University I began to work on geoinformatics and online access and processing of LiDAR data as part of the GEON Project. As a graduate student, I guided the GEON LiDAR Workflow (GLW) project in its early days, and am now the Project Manager for the OpenTopography Facility, a National Science Foundation-funded data facilty that is built upon the technologies and approaches developed by the GLW project.

• NSF format (short) CV [PDF]
• Full CV [PDF]

Current Projects:

• OpenTopography Facility (Project Manager) - NSF-funded LiDAR data facility providing online access to data products and processing tools.
• NASA LiDAR Access System (NLAS) - NASA-funded project to develop a data access system to serve laser altimetry data from the NASA space-based ICESat system and the airborne LVIS platform through the OpenTopography.
• CyberGIS - an NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation program-funded with the goal of establishing a fundamentally new software framework encompassing a seamless integration of cyberinfrastructure, geographical information science (GIS), and spatial analysis and modeling capabilities.
• Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG) (Co-Organizer) - CSIG is a week-long program that provides geoscientists an introduction to emergent Geoinformatics topics.

Select Past Projects (some stil active as time allows):

• GEON Project (GEON LiDAR Workflow lead) - As a graduate student at ASU, guided GEON effort to develop an Internet-based LiDAR data access and processing system. This work underpins the currently funded OpenTopography Facility.
• Application of LiDAR data to constraining a late Pleistocene slip rate and vertical deformation of the Northern San Andreas Fault, Fort Ross to Mendocino, California - USGS National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) funded project (grant no. 06HQGR0032)
• Exploiting LiDAR for Regional Morphologic Correlation and Dating of Wave-cut and Fault-Controlled Landforms
• Seismotectonics and surface rupture of the M7.8 1911 Kebin (Chon-Kemin) and 1889 Ms 8.3 Chilik earthquakes, Northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan

Social Media:

• OpenTopography Blog
• OpenTopography Twitter
• OpenTopography on Facebook
• LinkedIn