SCG was founded by geophysicists/seismologists Heather Crume and Ricky Garza-Girón to perform applied geophysical and environmental research. We are particularly interested in shallow fault processes, oceanographic monitoring, and aquifer characterization.
Heather is a geophysicist with a background in microseismicity detection and analysis in land and offshore (i.e., high noise) environments, studying aseismic fault slip/creep by combining seismic (e.g., repeating earthquakes, tremor) and geodetic (e.g., creepmeter, borehole strainmeter, cGPS, InSAR) observations, signal processing, and the evaluation of unconventional geophysical signals including oceanic waves. Heather received her PhD in Geophysics and Seismology from UC Santa Cruz.
Ricky is a geophysicist and volcano seismologist with a background in regional and global seismology, volcano seismology, electromagnetic geophysics, signal processing, machine learning, and field campaigns. Ricky’s field campaign experience ranges from nodal and broadband seismometer array deployments, creepmeter installations, cGPS station deployments, land and airborne time-domain electromagnetic (TEM) surveys, land and offshore magnetotelluric (MT) surveys, and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys in urban environments. Ricky received his PhD in Geophysics and Seismology from UC Santa Cruz.