Professional Experience

Graduate Associate, The Univ. of Arizona, Dept. of Geosciences. Ago, 2006–Present.

Teaching Assistant for Oceanography GEOS 212 and Natural Disasters GEOS 218 courses, development of research projects to understand the lithospheric structure of Costa Rica and Argentina, and seismic field operations of 40 broadband seismographic stations in the Central Andes region of Argentina during Sept 2007-Feb 2008 and May-June 2008.

Researcher, Univ. of Costa Rica: Lab. of Earthquake Engineering (LIS), National Seismological Network of Costa Rica (RSN) , and Central American School of Geology. Nov,2000–May, 2004.

• At LIS: analysis and processing earthquake data collected by the LIS network and development of research projects related with seismic hazard.
• At RSN: monitoring and analysis of seismic and volcanic activity, edition of the monthly and annual seismic and volcanic activity bulletins, emergency processing and media notification of felt earthquakes, and design and maintenance of the RSN website.
• At the School of Geology: lecture the Geological Mapping and Structural Geology courses.

Additional Research Experience

• Seismic field operations in Argentina, Costa Rica, Russia; and USA with broadband and short period seismometers. Basic training with Ocean Bottom Seismometers during the Sonne Vessel expedition (Jul 7-Aug 8, 2003) organized by GEOMAR (Germany) to study volatiles and fluids off the Pacific coast of Central America using geophysical techniques.
• High level of experience in geologic field mapping and participation in numerous geological field trips in USA, Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, and Chile, as well as in field mapping campaigns organized by the School of Geology in Costa Rica.