Masooma Hasnain

Email: mhasnain@ucla.edu
Earthscope URISE REU Summer Intern (2023)

Harvard Seismology Group
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University

Masooma Hasnain

Research Project

The purpose of my research to use the dense coverage of seismic stations provided by the Transportable Array (TA) to identify and characterize local weather systems such that they can be differentiated from hurricanes. We utilize seismic and barometric data from the TA across the northeastern United States in 2014, and examine correlations between the microseismic power and the proximity of local weather systems. We also analyze differences in microseism signals related to local weather coming from different directions. This research will be important for analyzing whether a microseism signal is a tropical storm or local weather when reanalyzing historical seismograms to bolster storm catalogs.

Education

2020-Present: B.S. College of Letters and Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Experience

June 2023 - Present, Undergraduate Research on Characterizing Local Weather Microseism Response

September 2022 - June 2023, Undergraduate Research on Slowness Enhanced Back-Projection of the 2023 Turkey-Syria Earthquakes

May 2022 - June 2023, Undergraduate Research on Comparing Velocity Models in Southern California using Gravity Modeling

August 2021 - June 2023, Undergraduate Research on Iron’s Role in Reducing Methane in Wetlands

Presentations

Hasnain, M., Lee, T.A., & Ishii, M. (2023, 12). Characterizing Local Weather Microseism Response. To be presnted at 2023 AGU Meeting.

Hasnain, M., & Klemperer, S. L. (2022, 12). Using Gravity to Test Structural and Community Wavespeed Models (CVM) of the San Andreas Fault. Poster Presentation at 2022 AGU Fall Meeting.

Hasnain, M., & Klemperer, S. L. (2022, 09). Testing Community Velocity Models of Southern California using Gravity Modeling. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting.



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