Diego Melgar
Director at University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDiego Melgar is a geophysicist and research leader with 13 years of experience translating seismology and GNSS science into operational earthquake and tsunami early warning systems. As Director of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center and Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, he leads interdisciplinary teams working on rupture physics, tsunami propagation, and real-time geodetic monitoring. His work uniquely blends high-rate GPS/GNSS, seafloor instrumentation, and numerical modeling to shorten warning times and improve hazard forecasts for coastal communities. Diego’s research background includes instrumental innovation—sensor fusion to produce real-time full-bandwidth displacements—and hands-on deployment and operations of regional GNSS networks. He is driven by the practical question “why do big earthquakes do what they do?” and by expanding access to geoscience careers while connecting research to community resilience.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
inversion10
gravity10
geodesy10
structural-engineering10
hydrodynamics10
geophysics10
modeling10
traits10
expressions7
earthquake6
signal-processing6
theano5
risk-assessment5
science5
seismology5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UO-Geophysics/MudPy
Feb 2014 - Aug 2022
Kinematic and static rupture forward modeling and inversion code
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 136 commits in 8 years 7 months
inversiongravityrupturestructural-engineeringgeophysics
dmelgarm/PyPGD
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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