Present Position

Assistant Professor, Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

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.

Positions

Thompson Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

Honors and Awards

Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award - AGU Seismology Section 2010

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

9. Prieto, G. A., R. L. Parker, and F. L. Vernon (2009) A Fortran 90 library for multitaper spectrum analysis Comp. Geosciences 35, 1701-1710, doi:10.1016/ j.cageo.2008.06.007

10. Prieto, G. A., J.F. Lawrence, and G. C. Beroza (2009) Anelastic Earth Structure from the Coherency of the Ambient Seismic Field, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B07303, doi:10.1029/2008JB006067.

11. Elipot, S., R. Lumpkin, G. A. Prieto. (2010) Inertial Oscillation modification by mesoscale vorticity. J. Geophys. Res., 115, C09010, doi:10.1029/2009JC005679.

12. Baltay, A., G. Prieto, and G. C. Beroza (2010), Radiated seismic energy from coda measurements and no scaling in apparent stress with seismic moment, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B08314, doi:10.1029/2009JB006736.

13. Prieto, G. A., J. F. Lawrence and A. I Chung M. D. Kohler (2010), Impulse Response of Civil Structures from Ambient Noise Analysis, B. Seism. Soc. Am., 100 (5A), pp. 2322-2328, doi:10.1785/0120090285.

14. Baltay, A., S. Ide, G. A. Prieto, G. C. Beroza (2011) Variability in earthquake stress drop and apparent stress. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L06303, doi:10.1029/ 2011GL0466985.

15. Kane, D. L., G. A. Prieto, F. L. Vernon, P. M. Shearer (2011), Quantifying Seismic Source Parameter Uncertainties, B. Seism. Soc. Am., 101 (2), pp. 535-543, doi:10.1785/0120100166.

In Preparation / Submitted

1. Prieto, G. A.. M. Denolle, J. F. Lawrence, G. C. Beroza (2010) On amplitude information carried by the ambient seismic field. Accepted at Comptes rendus geoscience. Thematic Issue: Imaging and Monitoring with Seismic Noise.

2. Lawrence, J. F., G. A. Prieto (2010) Attenuation tomography of the western United States from Ambient Seismic Noise. Accepted at J. Geophys. Res.

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

Desastres Naturales, 2009-2010. Universidad de los Andes

Computational Physics, 2009-2010, Universidad de los Andes

Introduction to Geophysics, 2010, Universidad de los Andes

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