Winchelle Ian Sevilla
Department of Geosciences
444 Deike Building
The Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA, 16802
(814) 865-3622
E-mail: wsevilla@geosc.psu.edu
Education:
Student,
PhD in Geosciences
May 2004 The
Pennsylvania State University
M.S.
Geosciences
B.S.
Geology
2nd
place 1999 Philippine Geology Licensure Examination
Profile:
- Excellent exposure and training in seismic moment tensor inversion, earthquake source time function-source
depth estimation, receiver function estimation, joint inversion of surface wave and receiver function
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Competent in preparing, analyzing, and interpreting seismic
records
- Adept and reliable at field work (e.g. gravity surveying, resistivity surveying, seismic refraction surveying, core
drilling, geological mapping)
- Proficient with several software packages: SAC2000, MATLAB7, GMT, MS Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, PYTHON, C, AWK, and the Internet.
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Proficient in platforms like Windows XP, Unix, and
Macintosh OS X
Work Experience:
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Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State
University (August 2002 - August 2005)
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Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State
University, (August 2001 - May 2002; present)
o
Handled Geosc40 (Intro. to Oceanography) laboratory (Fall
Semester, 2002; present)
o
Handled Geosc20 (Intro. to Physical Geology) laboratory (Spring
semester, 2001)
- United States Geological Survey <ETH> National Earthquake Information Center (USGS-NEIC) Golden, Colorado
(May 2002 - August 2002)
o Constructed and tested earth structure model for the conterminous US to be used for near-real time estimation
of faulting parameters of small-to-moderate sized earthquakes
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Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Metro
Manila, Philippines (October 1999 - present))
o
Conducts research on the tectonics and seismological
characteristics of the Philippine Island arcs
Notable Achievements:
2nd place - Poster presentation, 37th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Geosciences,
The Pennsylvania State University, 2004
Title: Trench-parallel
gravity anomaly and large earthquake occurrences
3rd place - Best paper presentation by a M.S. candidate student, 36th Annual Graduate
Student
Colloquium, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003
Title: Earthquake
rupture processes along the Philippine Trench
1st place - Poster presentation, 35th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Geosciences,
The Pennsylvania State University, 2002
Title: NearŠreal
time source parameter estimation of small-to-moderate sized earthquakes using
regional waveform data
Articles Published in Non-refereed Journals and
Proceedings:
Sevilla, W.I., 2004. Earthquake rupture processes along the Philippine Trench. Master's Thesis, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA.
Ammon C. J., W. I. Sevilla, R. B. Herrmann, and G. E. Randall, 2004, Systematic inversion of receiver functions and surface-wave
dispersion for crustal structure in Central Asia, Proceedings,
26thSeismic Research Review, Orlando,
Florida.
Ammon C. J., G. E. Randall, and W. I. Sevilla, 2003, Lithospheric structure beneath Asia from surface waves and receiver functions,
Eos
Trans. AGU, Fall 2003 Meeting, Abstract S32B-0845, San Francisco, CA.
Velasco, A., W. I. Sevilla, C. Flores, and C. J. Ammon, 2002, Rupture processes of the November 3, 2002 Denali (M=7.9) earthquake,
Eos Trans. AGU, Fall 2002 Meeting, Abstract
S72F-1341, San Francisco, CA.
Bautista, B., M. L. Bautista, R. S. Punongbayan, I. Narag, and W. I. Sevilla, 2001, A deterministic ground motion hazard assessment of
Metro Manila, Philippines, Third Multi-lateral Workshop on Development of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technologies
and their Integration for the Asia-Pacific region, EDM Technical
report, 11, 323-342.
Bautista, M. L., B. Bautista, W. I. Sevilla, J. Perez, and J. Salcedo, 2001, Seismic vulnerability of lifelines in Metro Manila, Philippines,
IAGA-IASPEI, Abstract, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Bautista, B., M. L. Bautista, R. S. Punongbayan, I. Narag, and W. I. Sevilla, 2000, A deterministic ground motion hazard assessment of
Metro Manila, Philippines, Proceedings, Australian
Earthquake Engineering Society Conference, Hobart,
Australia.
Reference:
Dr. Charles Ammon
The Pennsylvania State University
440 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865 2301
Dr. Harley Benz
National Earthquake Information Center
United States Geological Survey
Golden, CO
Dr. Sridhar Anandakrishnan
442 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863 6742