Undergraduate Research Opportunities at the TO
Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) program introduces students to research under the guidance of research mentors.
Caltech's TO offers a broad range of interdisciplinary research topics spanning the fields of geology, geophysics, and geochemistry. Projects range from field geology to remote sensing to numerical modeling.
Former SURF students at the TO
Name
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Year
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Mentor
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Research project
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Owen Weller |
2009 |
Avouac, Jean-Philippe |
Applying Critical Wedge Theory to the Sunda Megathrust |
Matthew Feldman |
2009 |
Kirschvink, Joseph & Raub, Timothy |
Quantifying late Cretaceous(?) dextral offset across Owens Valley:
paleointensity of the Golden Bear and Coso Dikes |
Will Steinhardt |
2009 |
Kirschvink, Joseph & Raub, Timothy |
Plumbing the Volcano: rock magnetics and paleointensity depth
profiles along a feeder dike and its flow |
Andrew Kositsky |
2006 |
Avouac, Jean-Philippe |
Investigation of the Time Evolution of Slip Distribution on the Sumatran Fault Throughout the 20th Century Using Principal Component Analysis and Okada Inversion |
Kyle Bradley |
2004 |
Saleeby, Jason |
A Structural and Petrographic Investigation of the Proto-Kern Canyon Fault Zone, Southern Sierra Nevada, California |
Judith Hubbard |
2004 |
Sieh, Kerry |
A Geometric and Kinematic Neotectonic Model of Iran Produced Through Remote Sensing Data |
Belle Philibosian |
2004 |
Sieh, Kerry |
Identification and Classification of Active Tectonic Structures of Iran: Building Knowledge of Arabian-Eurasian Collision Kinematics |
Laura Pruitt |
2004 |
Avouac, Jean-Philippe |
Modeling the India-Asia Collision Zone: Reconciling Geological and Geodetic Data |
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