Lisette Ochoa is an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego. She is going into her fourth year and will graduate with a Bachelor's in Geosciences. She plans to continue her education to get a Masters degree specializing in Geophysics. Lisette has been interested in Seismology and all things Earthquakes since moving to California in 2014. She is eager to continue her journey as a student and take advantage of opportunities to learn as much as possible.

Lisette is currently working as a SCEC SURE Intern at the University of Southern California. Her research is on microstructural characterization of Paleo-Earthquake bearing shear zones. Her project will take her out to an exhumed fault zone to collect permeability data from the exposed rocks. This data will be valuable to learning more about the fault zone and about its past activity.

Past projects include:
1. Determining sediment thickness estimations over Southern California by analyzing the spectral ratios of seismic noise.
2. Taking gravity measurements over a small area of Mount Soledad in San Diego to contribute to a larger gravity anomaly map of the mountain.
3. Using a magnetometer to determine the location, depth, and size of an iron object buried by a professor on the beach of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
4. Identifying the underground sediment structure of Scripps beach by using electrodes and a DC current to collect resistivity data.
5. Creating a geologic map of Rainbow Basin in San Bernardino County by observing the area, identifying rock layers and inferring its history.