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AGU Abstract
Submitted by Ada on Wed, 2009-09-02 18:44.Spatiotemporal Distribution of Earthquakes During Slow Slip in the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Ada R. Dominguez1, Susan Y. Schwartz2, Noel M. Bartlow3, Andrew V. Newman4
1 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States, ardomin (at) umich.edu
2 Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California Santa Cruz , Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States, sschwartz (at) pmc.ucsc.edu
3 Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States, noelb (at) stanford.edu
4 School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States, anewman (at) gatech.edu
Reflections
Submitted by Ada on Fri, 2009-08-21 17:50.As I pack my bags and get ready to go back home at the end of this week, I begin to reflect the “me” at the beginning of the summer and the “me” now. At the beginning of the summer I decided to learn as much as I could about the several software that I was going to use in my internship project. I not only wanted to learn how to use the software for the sake of the internship but also to apply them beyond the summer, in my classes and future projects. I also, of course, wanted to familiarize myself better with seismology. I am glad to say that I was able to achieve these two goals at the end of the summer. I am definitely a lot more comfortable with using the software that I was assigned to use and I’m also more knowledgeable in the field. There were many times of frustration and headache, but they made finding a solution to a problem a lot sweeter and exciting. I remember the first time I was able to fix a glitch in the software that had given me a lot of issues. I was very ecstatic and was motivated even more to continue my work. I learned throughout the internship the value of patience and how valuable it was to have someone who could help you when you were stumped. I would like to take this moment to thank all of them; they know who they are. I also realized how important listening to music was while working. I think that music kept me sane during the summer, considering the many days of frustration I had and helped keep me motivated. I am very proud of participating in this internship. I feel a warm feeling in my stomach knowing that I was able to spend the summer doing something I enjoy a lot and knowing that I was able to contribute to the advancement of science!
The wonders of modern technology
Submitted by Ada on Mon, 2009-07-27 03:40.I finally got the dbloc2 on Antelope working (with a lot of help from Heather DeShon and Andy Newman). I was getting peeved because it seemed like we would never be able to figure this one out. It also didn't help that the Linux computers had a problem with displaying the arrivals. This one issue took a while to figure out, and we caught the problem when people would even log in as me and the arrivals wouldn't even show. Then when we tried the Macs and the computers outside the Seismo Lab, the arrivals would pop up immediately. PHEW!!! So now I am going back to dbdetect and dbgrassoc to do some cleaning of the files to get rid of the teleseismic events and just look at the regional events and start prepping the catalog. I was so psyched to move on to this next stage and then...I got really sick. I couldn't even get up on Friday and I had a terrible pain and pressure in my lung and chest area. Eugh. I've been recovering over the weekend, going through all the stages of hacking cough, sore throats and the like, but I've been taking my could/flu medicine and eating a lot of chicken noodle soup and weird concoctions as recommended by my mom. I feel much better now, but I'm working from home tomorrow for sure. I'm still not in tip top shape. This is why computer labs should have ventilated areas and open spaces. It didn't help that I was working right next to a peer that was feeling like death.