THESIS FILM - PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
My films and scientific research have often meshed together through my recent projects. For my final project for my Environmental Studies thesis, I created a documentary to explain all that is possible with seismology. I profiled some of my own work in the Princeton University Geosciences Department and the studies of other researchers at Princeton. My final thesis for the Geosciences Department was entitled “Seismological Analysis of the Mohorovičić and Mantle Discontinuities Below Cape Verde using Receiver Functions.”
This project was graciously funded by a grant from the Princeton Environmental Institute's Edmund Hayes Sr. '18 fund for senior thesis research. The project was released publicly in April 2019 at the Princeton Environmental Institute's Discovery Day.
Presenting my junior independent work research at the American Geophsyical Union Conference in Washington, D.C. on December 13, 2018. My project was entitled "Tehuantepec Gap Induced Cyclogenesis Examined with a High Resolution Global Climate Model."
SYNOPSIS
This documentary features a historical review of earthquake footage, interviews with associated faculty and researchers, and examples of localized seismic studies at Princeton University. This exploration communicates the importance of seismology in understanding Earth processes, the applications of seismic software to disciplines outside of the Earth sciences, and the deployment of oceanic seismographs through the MERMAID project.