Research Interests

I am interested in nuclear explosion monitoring, earthquake detection and location, specifically in the implementation of automated methods; whether using cross-correlation techniques or other methods to aid in the detection and location of events. As well as understanding the assumptions that go into earthquake location analyses, and accounting for shortcomings that different methods might have. I have a particular interest in applying non-standard data mining techniques and data science approaches to seismology, especially those with statistical approaches, to address increasingly larger and more complex data sets. Other topics of interest to me are slow earthquakes and tectonic tremor, probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and ground motion prediction.

Ph.D., Geophysics, Stanford University, 2015

M.Sc., Geology, Central Washington University, 2008

B.S., Physics, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2005

Aguiar, A. C., A. Chaing, and S. C. Myers (2025). PySolate: A Python‐Based Thresholding Tool to Denoise or Designal Seismic Waveforms Based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform. Seismological Research; v. 97 (1), p 514–523. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220250034

Lin, J., Aguiar, A. C, Kong, Q., Price, A., and S.C. Myers (2025), Anomaly Detection in Seismic Data with Deep Learning: Application for Instrument Failure Detection and Forecasting. Seismological Research Letters, v. 96 (6), p 3762–3773, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240331

Kong, Q., A. Chiang, A. C. Aguiar, M.G. Fernandez, S.C. Myers, D.D. Lucas (2021), Deep Convolutional Autoencoders as Generic Feature Extractors in Seismological Applications, Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, v. 2, p 96-106, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiig.2021.12.002.

Aguiar, A. C, and S. C. Myers (2019). Microseismic Focal Mechanisms and Implications for Changes in Stress During the 2014 Newberry EGS Stimulation, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 109 (5), p 1653–1660. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120190011

Aguiar, A. C, and S. C. Myers (2018). Microseismic event relocation based on PageRank linkage at the Newberry Volcano geothermal site. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 108 (6), p 3656–3667. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180115

Aguiar, A. C, K. Chao, and G. C. Beroza (2017). Tectonic tremor and LFEs on a reverse fault in Taiwan. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44, 6683-6691, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072148 

Aguiar, A. C., and G. C. Beroza, PageRank for earthquakes (2014). Seismological Research Letters, v. 85 no. 2 p. 344-350, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220130162

Aguiar, A. C., T. I. Melbourne, and C. W. Scrivner, Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constraint by GPS (2009). Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 114, B00A05, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JB005909.

• PLS Directorate Best Poster Award, LLNL Postdoc Poster Symposium, 2018
• Outstanding Thesis Award, Central Washington University, 2007
• Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union, 2007