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ASTIZ, LUCIANA

Specialist

Degrees:

• B.S., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• M.S., California Institute of Technology
• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

• Seismic array design and network operations of real time systems
• Seismic noise estimates, data quality issues
• Tectonics of Southern California and Middle America
• Tectonis of subduction zones: deep and intermediate depth earthquakes
• Earthquake source studies of large earthquakes
• Temporal variations of stress fields & seismic noise
• Site effects and seismic risk in populated areas

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO10: The Earth

Honors and Awards:

• IRIS Research Fellow, University of Washington, Geophysics Program, 1992
• Honor Cum-laude B. S. Engineering in Geophysics from UNAM, 1980

Astiz, L. and K. C. Creager 1997. Noise Study for the Recently Installed Federation of Digital Seismic Stations. In the FDSN STATION BOOK. published in CD-ROM format and edited by IRIS

Astiz, L., P. Shearer and D. Agnew, 2000. Precise Relocations and Stress-change Calculations for the Upland Earthquake Sequences in Southern California. Jour. Geophys. Res., 105, p. 2937-2853.

Stutzman, E., G. Roult, and L. Astiz, 2000. Seismic Noise Level at Geoscope Stations. Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 90, p. 690.

Astiz, L. and P.M. Shearer, 2000. Earthquake Locations in the Inner Continental Borderland, Offshore Southern California. Bull. Seis. Soc. Am.,90, p. 425.

Lewis, J.L., S.M. Day, H. Magistrale, R. Castro, L. Astiz, C. Rebollar, J. Eakins, F.L. Vernon and J.N. Brune, 2001. Crustal thickness of the Peninsular Ranges and Gulf Extensional Province in the Californias. Jour. Geophys. Res., 106, p. 13599.

Rebollar, C., L. Quintanar, R. Castro, S.M. Day, J. Madrid, J.N. Brune, L. Astiz and F.L. Vernon, 2001. Source Characteristics of a 5.5 magnitude Earthquake occurred in the transform fault system of the Delfin Basin in the Gulf of California., Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 91, p. 781-791.

Reif, C., P.M. Shearer, and L. Astiz, 2002. Evaluating the Performance of Global Seismic Stations. Seism. Res. Lett., 73, p. 46-53.

Astiz, Y. Starovoit, N. Tavener, G. Perez, H.Given, S. Barrientos, M. Yamamoto, M. Hfaeidh, R. Stewart and C. Estabrook, 2002, Low Noise Results from IMS Site Surveys: A Preliminary New High-Frequency Low Seismic Model. Presented at the 2002 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Abstract

Ebeling, C., L. Astiz, Y. Starovoit, N. Tavener, G. Perez, H.Given, S. Barrientos, M. Yamamoto, M. Hfaeidh, R. Stewart and C. Estabrook, 2002, Low Noise Results from IMS Site Surveys: A Preliminary New High-Frequency Low Seismic Model. 2002 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract

Shearer, P.M., J.L. Hardebeck, L. Astiz, and K.R. Richards-Dinger, 2003. Analysis of similar event clusters in aftershocks of the 1994 Northridge, California, Earthquake. Jour. Geophys. Res., 108, 10.1029/2001JB000685.

Eakins, F.L., F.L.Vernon, V. Martynov, L. Astiz, R.L. Newman, TA.Cox and S. Foley. 2006. The EarthScope USArray Array Network Facility (ANF): Metadata, Network and Data Monitoring, Quality Assurance During the Third Year of Operations. 2006 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract NEW

Busby, R. W., Vernon, F.L. Newman, R.L. and L. Astiz. 2006. Earthscope’s Transportable Array: Advancing Eastward. 2006 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Abstract

Astiz, L., F.L.Vernon, J. A. Eakins and V. Martynov, 2007. A Preliminary Performance Assessment of USArray Stations. 2007 Seismological Society of America Meeting, Hawaii. Abstract

Newman, R.L., K.G. Lindquist, F.L. Vernon, G.A. Davis, J.A. Eakins, and L. Astiz, 2007. Web-based tools for real-time assessment of Earthscope’s Transportable Array state-of-health: integration of the Antelope Real Time System, RRDtool, AJAX and PHP. Eos Trans. AGU, 88 (23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract S23A-03. Abstract