Dr. Jeff Marshall
Undergraduate Research Advising
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Student: Peter Piestrzeniewicz
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Research Project: Digital terrain analysis of an active
tectonic landscape using ArcGIS, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica |
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Peter Piestrzeniewicz in San
Franciso’s China Town during Cal Poly Pomona Geology Club San Francisco
Earthquake Centennial field trip along the San Andreas Fault (March 2006) |
ArcGIS DEM created by
Peter Piestrzeniewicz showing the Río Morote incised below Pleistocene
alluvial terraces of the La Mansión surface, near Fila Jesús, central Nicoya
Peninsula, Costa Rica. |
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Images: Project
photos and illustrations Project
Overview: Peter Piestrzeniewicz’s senior thesis research is a
GIS-based study of tectonic geomorphology and landscape morphometry along
Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula. He is using newly available TERRA digital
topographic data for Costa Rica to generate digital elevation models and to
analyze morphometric indices. The goal of this project is to develop a new
digital terrain data base for evaluating active tectonics along the Costa
Rican Pacific margin. This project is part of a larger regional investigation
of Nicoya Peninsula neotectonics and paleogeodesy directed by Dr. Marshall. Research Abstracts: 2008 GSA
Annual Meeting Abstract: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 2008 2008 NSF
MARGINS Program SEIZE Workshop: Seismogenic Zone Experiment: The next decade, Mt. Hood,
Oregon, 2008 2008
Central American Geologic Congress Abstract: Congreso Geológico de América
Central, San José, Costa Rica, 2008 Senior
Thesis: Piestrzeniewicz, P., in progress,
Digital terrain analysis of an active tectonic landscape using ArcGIS, Nicoya
Peninsula, Costa Rica: [B.S. Thesis] Cal Poly Pomona University, Pomona,
California. Honors and
Awards: ·
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