My undergraduate research was focused on studying deformation at Telica Volcano using data from the COSMO-SkyMed satellite. Telica Volcano is a persistently restless volcano located in Western Nicaragua and is part of the Central American Volcanic Arc that runs through most of Central America and Mexico. Using interferograms created from SAR imagery provided by COSMO-SkyMed, I developed a time series through SBAS processes that depicted the deformation at Telica during its explosive periods in 2015. My work was used in the paper “Mechanisms of Unrest and Eruption at Persistently Restless Volcanoes: Insights From the 2015 Eruption of Telica Volcano, Nicaragua” linked below:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2019GC008450

One of the interferograms I developed for this project depicting the time span 12-07-2014 to 12-11-2014. Despite being riddled with atmospheric artifacts that make finding deformation signals difficult, it’s still a beautiful sight to see.