Sarah is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia, studying earthquakes along the Queen Charlotte Fault offshore British Columbia. She is primarily interested in the mechanisms that drive earthquakes, fault-magma interactions, and evolution of plate boundaries. She analyzes earthquake waves to figure out the kinds of motion that creates the earthquakes and investigates them in the context of the seismic activity and tectonic processes in the region. Her serendipitous journey to becoming a seismologist was propelled by her early fascination with rocks thanks to her geologist dad, her affinity towards physics and materials science which she pursued as undergraduate degrees, and her firsthand experience of geohazards having grown up in the Philippines which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
