Experiments that modeled the effect of the San Andreas fault on the uplift rates of the terraces surveyed in Northern California.
This summer I worked with Lesley Perg, a professor of geomorphology
at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). For the first half
of my internship, I accompanied Dr. Perg and two other interns out to Northern
California to do field work on the marine terraces of the Mendocino Triple
Junction. We used a GPS and ground penetrating radar to collect data
about the terraces. We also took soil samples from the terraces using
an augur and piston core to be used for cosmogenic radionuclide dating.
After our field work, I worked on an experiment at Saint Anthony Falls
Lab, a lab focusing on Engineering and Hydrology. I rebuilt and ran
an experiment that modeled the effect of the San Andreas fault on the uplift
rates of the terraces we surveyed.