Chastity A. Aiken Institute for Geophysics University of Texas at Austin J. J. Pickle Campus PHONE: +1-404-997-2536 10100 Burnet Rd., Bldg 196 EMAIL: caiken@ig.utexas.edu Austin, TX 78758 EDUCATION Ph.D., Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology 2015 Thesis: Triggered earthquakes and tremors: their characteristics and physical mechanisms Advisor: Dr. Zhigang Peng GPA 3.88/4.0 B.S., Physics with concentration in Geology, Georgia State University 2010 Advisor: Dr. Brian Thoms GPA 3.93/4.0 RESEARCH INTERESTS Nucleation of seismic sources, earthquakes, tectonic and volcanic tremor, icequakes, volcano seismology, static and dynamic triggering, aseismic processes related to triggering AWARDS AND HONORS Georgia Institute of Technology, EAS Best Graduate Student Paper 2015 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Global Impact award 2014 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting Travel award 2014 American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award 2013 Georgia Institute of Technology, EAS Symposium Best Student Poster 2013 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation award 2013 International Summer School of Earthquake Science Travel award 2013 Incorporated Research Institutions of Seismology Short Course Travel award 2013 American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas Student Travel award 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2012 International Conference of Auditory Display Student Travel award 2012 StatSei7 Conference Student Travel award 2011 Robert Hankla Award for Outstanding Senior Physics Major 2010 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates 2009 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, UTIG Postdoc Fellow 2016 present Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Project Researcher 2015 2016 Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Visiting Scholar 2014 Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Research Assistant 2010 2015 University of Central Florida, Department of Mathematics, Research Assistant 2009 Chastity A. Aiken 1
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Teaching Assistant 2010 2014 Earth Processes Introduction to Seismology Georgia State University, Physics, Teaching Assistant 2008 2010 Newtonian Mechanics Electromagnetism FIELD EXPERIENCE Scout/Deployer, 35 broadband & short period seismometers and geophone array 2016 Scout/Deployer, 100+ geophones and data loggers for SUGAR Project 2014 Tester/Deployer, broadband seismometers and GPS 2010 2011 Structural Geologist, exploration of deformation in northern Georgia 2010 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Session monitor, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting 2014 Peer-Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research 2014 Peer-Reviewer, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America 2014 Session convener, American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas 2013 ACADEMIC SERVICE Georgia Institute of Technology Organizer, Earth &Atmospheric Sciences Symposium 2014 Proposal reviewer, President s Undergraduate Research Awards 2013 present Vice president/secretary, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Student Chapter 2013 present Poster judge, Undergraduate Research Symposium (university-wide) 2012 present Computing Committee Member, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences 2011 present Mentor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Organizer, International Summer School on Earthquake Science 2015 MEDIA COVERAGE Emerald Planet (http://www.emerald-planet.org/) 2015 Women in STEM - 12 minute TV interview segment on my PhD research (YouTube video: https://goo.gl/dpxnnl) EOS, Earth & Space News 2013 News release of Aiken et al. [2013] in the Research Spotlight section titled Long-distance induced tremor observed off western Canada (Article: http://goo.gl/poqmfz) Chastity A. Aiken 2
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Member, Seismological Society of America (SSA) Member, Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics honors society Member, Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 2013 present 2008 present 2008 present VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Tree conservationist, Tree Folks 2016 present Food preparation, Second Harvest (Tokyo soup kitchen) 2014 Science Fair judge, Grady High School (Atlanta) 2013 Guest speaker, Clarkston High School (Atlanta area) 2013 Tree conservationist, Trees Atlanta 2010 2015 Builder/Judge, Georgia Science Olympiad 2008 2011 Math and Physics Tutor, high school and college levels, individual and groups 2008 2015 PUBLICATIONS In Preparation: Aiken, C., K. Chao, H. Gonzalez-Huizar, R. Douilly, Z. Peng, A. Deschamps, E. Calais, and J. Haase (2016), Exploration of remote triggering: A look at multiple fault structures in Haiti, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., submitted. Peer-Reviewed: Aiken, C., J. P. Zimmerman, Z. Peng, and J. I. Walter (2015), Triggered seismic events along the Eastern Denali Fault in northwest Canada following the 2012 Mw7.8 Haida Gwaii, 2013 Mw7.5 Craig, and two Mw > 8.5 teleseismic earthquakes, B. Seismol. Soc. Am., 105(2b), doi: 10.1785/0120140156. Aiken, C. and Z. Peng (2014), Dynamic triggering of microearthquakes in three geothermal regions of California, J. Geophys. Res., 119, no. 9, 6992-7009, doi: 10.1002/2014JB011218. Chao, K., Z. Peng, H. Gonzalez-Huizar, C. Aiken, B. Enescu, H. Kao, A. A. Velasco, K. Obara, and T. Matsuzawa (2013), Global Search of Triggered Tremor Following the 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, B. Seismol. Soc. Am., doi:10.1785/0120120171. Aiken, C., Z. Peng, and K. Chao (2013), Tremors along the Queen Charlotte margin triggered by large teleseismic earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 829-834, doi: 10.1002/GRL50220. Peng, Z., H. Gonzalez-Huizar, K. Chao, C. Aiken, B. Moreno, G. Armstrong (2013), Tectonic Tremor in Cuba Triggered by Large Teleseismic Earthquakes, B. Seismol. Soc. Am., 103(1), 595-600, doi: 10.1785/0120120253 Chastity A. Aiken 3
Hill, D.P., Z. Peng, D.R. Shelly, and C. Aiken (2013), S-wave triggering of tremor beneath the Parkfield, CA, section of the San Andreas Fault by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Japan earthquake: observations and theory, B. Seismol. Soc. Am., 103(2b), 1541-1550, doi: 10.1785/0120120114.. Peng, Z., C. Aiken, D. Kilb, D. R. Shelly, and B. Enescu (2012), Listening to the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki, Japan earthquake, Seismol. Res. Lett, 83(2), 287-293, doi:10.1785/gssrl.83.2.287. Aiken, C. and J. Veras (2012), An Inverse Source Problem in Near Zero Frequency Sounding of Layered Media, Fixed Point Theory, 13, no. 1, pp. 11-21. Shelly, D. R., Z. Peng, D. P. Hill and C. Aiken (2011), Triggered creep as a possible mechanism for delayed dynamic triggering of tremor and earthquakes, Nat. Geosci., 4, pp. 384-388, doi:10.1038/ngeo1141. Peng, Z., C. Wu, and C. Aiken (2010), Delayed triggering of microearthquakes by multiple surface waves circling the Earth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L04306, doi:10.1029/2010gl046373. Peng, Z., D. P. Hill, D. R. Shelly, C. Aiken (2010), Remotely triggered microearthquakes and tremor in Central California following the 2010 Mw 8.8 Chile Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L24312, doi:10.1029/2010gl045462. INVITED TALKS ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma 2016 Earthquake-earthquake and earthquake-tremor interactions Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University 2015 What can dynamic triggering tell us about the stress state of faults? Dept. of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba 2015 Dept. of Physics, National Chunghua University of Education 2015 Institute of Earth Science, Academia Sinica 2015 Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas Austin 2015 National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention 2014 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 2014 Dept. of Statistical Modeling, Institute for Statistical Mathematics 2014 Chastity A. Aiken 4
Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University 2014 Chastity A. Aiken 5