Current projects & Pictures

Nicoya Peninsula Costa Rica

Continuous GPS and Seismic installation to monitor slow slip dynamics on the Cocos-

Caribbean subduction zone.

Co-PIs: Tim Dixon (UM) & Susan Schwartz (UCSC)

Graduate Students: Kimberly Outerbridge (UM) & Jake Walter (UCSC)

Current continuous GPS network on the Nicoya Peninsula Costa Rica

Current seismic network on the Nicoya Peninsula Costa Rica

1 hour of tremor data from the time period of the geodetically captured slow slip event. PNCB is the only station not showing tremor.

Strain accumulation near San Juanillo Costa Rica. Bridge has had to be moved back 3 times and still going due to beach encroachment.

CGPS and collocated seismic station LEPA communications box and solar panels.

Modeling of hyperbolic tangent (from Larson et al 2004) fit to the North component of the GPS time series showing a slow slip event

Marino Protti, Russ Kelz, Kim Outerbridge, Tim Dixon and Susan Schwartz at GPS station GRZA

(Photo credit Jake Walter)