Communication, Education and Outreach (CEO)
	1998 SCEC Interns

Intern	Institution	Mentor	Project Title/ Link to Reports
Safaa Dergham	Cal. State Univ. Long Beach	Sally McGill, Cal State Univ. San Bernardino	Paleoseismic studies of the San Andreas Fault in the San Bernardino area.
	As of 7/15/99: I am currently working on my thesis with Sally McGill, Beth Ambos and Jim Sample. I am working on a trench out in San Bernardino where I am combining paleoseismology and geophysics. I will probably present what I am working on during the next SCEC meeting.
Leland Green	UC Santa Barbara	Craig Nicholson,  UC Santa Barbara	Development of an Interface for 3-D Visualization of SCEC Earthquake Data on the World Wide Web
Lowell Kessel	UC Santa Barbara	Arthur Sylvester, UC Santa Barbara	Folding and faulting along the San Andreas fault, Palmdale, California; Implications for simple shear mechanics and education of the public
	As of 7/15/99: I am working on a Masters degree in geology at UCSB. My thesis is on the textural characteristics of deep marine explosive volcanism. I am also pursuing funds for continued research on the San Andreas Fault within the Palmdale area. The focus will be on the small scale folds and fractures produced by the interpreted enechelon strike slip shear zone, proposed from the SCEC intern project.
Jacqueline Moccand	USC	Ann Blythe, USC	Geomorphic mapping and 3-He Chronology of rock slide scarps along the Oak Ridge fault
Tracy Pattelena	Pasadena City College	David Okaya and Nikki Godfrey, USC	Velocity structure of the San Fernando Valley from tomographic inversion of active source data
Justin Rubinstein	UCLA	Paul Davis, UCLA	Analysis of Azimuthal Variation in Amplitude Factors in Sherman Oaks During the Northridge Earthquake Aftershock Sequence
	As of 7/15/99: I am curently in Alaska working for the UAF Geophysical Institute (the GI) for a NSF REU Summer Internship program. I am involved in an effort, with Roger Hansen and Dan McNamara, to model the attenuation, find a Q value, for Lg and S waves from regional events in Alaska. Following this internship I will return to UCLA to finish my final year. I also plan to continue my research on Santa Monica, upon my return.
Javier Santillan	UC Santa Barbara	Jaime Steidl	Understanding Ground Motion Variations at the Van Norman Dam Complex Site
	As of 7/15/99: I am in graduate school at UC Santa Cruz. I will be studying mineral physics.
Lisa Sarma	Columbia University	Thomas Heaton, Caltech	Investigation of the coupling between structures and ground vibrations and the implications on damping in buildings
	As of 7/15/99: In May I graduated from Columbia Univ. School of Engineering & Applied Science, and majored in Civil Engineering and minored in Earth and Environmental Engineering. Currently I am a research assistant in the Geology Department at UC-Berkeley studying the mechanism and rates of erosion in rivers. In September I will be attending the UNESCO/International Hydrological Programme's "Advanced Course in Ecohydrology" which travels through Poland, Hungary, Austria, Croatia, and Italy. In the fall I am starting the PhD program at Stanford Univ., in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology program under the Department of Civil/Environmental Engineering.

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