Present Position

Thompson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Earth Sciences, 2007.
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Master of Science, Earth Sciences, 2004,
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Bachelor of Science, Geology, 2002
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

Honors and Awards

Thompson Postdoctoral Fellowship Department of Geophysics, Stanford University 2007 - 2008

Publications

1. Prieto, G. A., Shearer, P. M., Vernon, F. L., and Kilb, D. (2004). Earthquake source scaling and self-similarity estimation from stacking P and S spectra. Journal of Geophysical Research,109, B08310, doi:10.1029/2004JB003084

2. Prieto, G. A., Vernon, F. L. , Masters, G., and Thomson, D. J. (2005), Multitaper Wigner-Ville Spectrum for Detecting Dispersive Signals from Earthquake Records, Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA. Copyright 2005 IEEE.

3. Shearer, P. M., G. A. Prieto, and E. Hauksson (2006), Comprehensive analysis of earthquake source spectra in southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B06303, doi:10.1029/2005JB003979.

4. Prieto, G. A., R. L. Parker, F. L. Vernon, P. M. Shearer and D. J. Thomson. (2006) Uncertainties in earthquake source spectrum estimation using empirical Green functions. Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting. Abercrombie, McGarr, Kanamori, and di Toro eds. AGU Geophys. Monograph 170. pp 69-74

5. Prieto, G. A., D. J. Thomson, F. L. Vernon, P. M. Shearer and R. L. Parker. (2007) Confidence intervals of earthquake source parameters. Geophys. J. Int., 168, 1227-1234, doi:10.1111/j.1365- 246X.2006.03257.x

6. Prieto, G. A., R. L. Parker, D. J. Thomson, F. L. Vernon. R. L. Graham (2007) Reducing the bias of multitaper spectrum estimates. Geophys. J. Int., 171, 1269-1281, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03592.x.

7. Ma, S., G. A. Prieto, and G. C. Beroza, (2008) Testing community velocity models of southern California using ambient seismic noise, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, (6), pp. 2694-2714, doi: 10.1785 /0120080947.

8. Prieto, G. A., G. C. Beroza (2008) Earthquake Ground Motion Prediction Using the Ambient Seismic Field. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L14304, doi:10.1029/2008GL034428

In Preparation / Submitted

1. Prieto, G. A., R. L. Parker, F. L. Vernon (2008) A Fortran 90 library for multitaper spectrum analysis. Accepted in Computers & Geosciences, June 2008

2. Prieto, G. A., J. F. Lawrence, G. C. Beroza. (2008), Anelastic Earth Structure from the Coherency of the Ambient Seismic Field, Under Review at J. Geophys. Res., 2008.

Research Interests

Earthquake source physics, source scaling and self-similarity.
Source spectrum estimation and attenuation.
Earthquake Ground Motions
Noise correlation and seismic interferometry
Time series analysis
Wave propagation
Tremor and Slip

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant, Natural Hazards 2005 - 2006 UC San Diego

Invited Lecturer, Introduction to Computing, Winter 2007, UC San Diego

Invited Lecturer, Inverse Theory, Fall 2008. Stanford University