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My curriculum vitae

Education

I received my B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2001. I am now a Ph.D. student in geophysics at Caltech in the division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. Mark Simons is my adviser.

Research

My current research projects are:

  • Investigating earthquake clustering on a single fault due to stress recycling in the viscoelastic layers of the crust and mantle lithosphere: We are using a 2.5-D out of plane finite element model for this study.
  • Post-rifting deformation in the Northern Volcanic Zone of Iceland: A rifting episode took place on the Krafla fissure swarm in 1975-1985. GPS and InSAR data show a strong post-rifting deformation cycle. By using finite element modeling we hope to understand the processes in the northern Icelandic lithosphere that control the post-rifting signal.

Publications

DiCaprio, C. J., and M. Simons (2008), Importance of ocean tidal load corrections for differential InSAR, Geophys. Res Lett., 35, L22309, doi:10.1029/2008GL035806. [PDF]

C. DiCaprio, M. Simons, S. J. Kenner, and C. A. Williams, Post-seismic reloading and temporal clustering on a single fault, Geophys. J. Int., doi.10.1111/ju.1365-246X.2007.03622.x, 2007. [PDF]

Liu-Zeng J, Heaton T, DiCaprio C, The effect of slip variability on earthquake slip-length scaling, Geophysical Journal International, 2005, 162, 841-849.

Baker KL, Hwang DQ, Evans RW, Horton RD, McLean HS, Terry SD, Howard S, DiCaprio CJ, Compact toroid dynamics in the Compact Toroid Injection Experiment, Nuclear Fusion, 42 (1): 94-99 Jan. 2002.

Nahata A, DiCaprio CJ, Yamada H, Ryskin AI, Shcheulin AS, Linke RA, Widely tunable distributed Bragg reflector laser using a dynamic holographic grating mirror, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 12 (11): 1525-1527 Nov. 2000.

Presentations

DiCaprio, C.J., Simons, S., Modeling the post-rifting deformation on the Krafla volcanic system, NMCDEF 2008 workshop.

DiCaprio, C.J., Simons, S., Kenner, S.J., Williams, C.A., Earthquake Clustering in Noisy Viscoelastic Systems, Fall AGU meeting invited talk, 2004.

DiCaprio C J, Simons M, Kenner S J, Williams C A, Temporal Clustering of Earthquakes due to Stress Transfer in Viscoelastic Layers, Fall AGU meeting, 2004.

Gurnis M, Aivazis M, Tromp J, Tan E, Thoutireddy P, Liu Q, Choi E, Dicaprio C, Chen M, Simons M, Quenette S, Appelbe B, Aagaard B, Williams C, Lavier L, Moresi L, Law H, GeoFramework: A Modeling Framework for Solid Earth Geophysics, Fall AGU meeting, 2003.

Williams C A, DiCaprio C , Simons M, Current Development Status of an Integrated Tool for Modeling Quasi-static Deformation in the Solid Earth, Fall AGU meeting, 2003.

Kevin Baker, Russel Evans, Robert Horton, David Hwang (University of California, Davis), and Chris DiCaprio (Cornell University) Acceleration Dynamics in the Compact Toroid Injection Experiment, October APS meeting, 2000.