Cone A, Okmok Caldera, 2019

Ricky Garza-Giron, PhD

About me


I am a geophysicist specialized in seismology. My work focuses on active plate boundaries, volcanoes, the cryosphere and geothermal areas.

I am a co-founder at Santa Cruz Geophysics, Inc. and also I am currently working as a postdoc scholar at Colorado State University.

I obtained my bachelors degree in geophysics engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2014 and my PhD degree from the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021.

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RESEARCH EXAMPLES


Links to brief explanations of the projects that I work on and/or to things that I am interested in

Publications


Submitted

  • Garza-Giron, R., Aster, R. (Submitted to BSSA). Detection, Location and Magnitude Distributions of Tidally Triggered Icequakes Near the Grounding Line of the Ross Ice Shelf From an Enhanced Seismic Catalog Using a Single Seismic Station.

Peer-reviewed publications

  • Villafuerte, C., Cruz-Atienza, V., Tago, J., Solano-Rojas, D., Garza-Girón, R., Franco, S., Dominguez, L. and Kostoglodov, V. (2025). Slow slip events and megathrust coupling changes contribute to the earthquake potential in Oaxaca, Mexico. Geophysical Journal International, 241(1), 17-34.
  • Garza-Giron, R., Lay, T., Ye, L. (2024). The Repeating Major Earthquakes in the Mexican Subduction Zone Along Oaxaca: Implications for Future Events. Seismological Research Letters. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240267
  • Hotovec‐Ellis, A. J., Garza‐Girón, R., Waite, G. P., Farías, C., Layana, S., & Haney, M. M. (2024). Preface to the Focus Section on Volcano Monitoring in the Americas. Seismological Research Letters, 95(5), 2577-2579.
  • Garza-Girón, R., & Tulaczyk, S. M. (2024). Brief communication: Significant biases in ERA5 output for the McMurdo Dry Valleys region, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 18(3), 1207-1213.
  • Pollitz, F. F., Garza‐Giron, R., & Lay, T. (2023). Comment on “Multievent Explosive Seismic Source for the 2022 Mw 6.3 Hunga Tonga Submarine Volcanic Eruption”. The Seismic Record, 3(3), 210-214.
  • Garza-Girón, R., Lay, T., Pollitz, F., Kanamori, H., & Rivera, L. (2023). Solid Earth–atmosphere interaction forces during the 15 January 2022 Tonga eruption. Science Advances, 9(2), eadd4931.
  • Garza‐Girón, R., Brodsky, E. E., Spica, Z. J., Haney, M. M., & Webley, P. W. (2023). Earthquakes record cycles of opening and closing in the enhanced seismic catalog of the 2008 Okmok Volcano, Alaska, eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2023JB026893.
  • Garza‐Giron, R., Brodsky, E. E., Spica, Z. J., Haney, M. M., & Webley, P. W. (2023). A specific earthquake processing workflow for studying long‐lived, explosive volcanic eruptions with application to the 2008 Okmok Volcano, Alaska, eruption. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2022JB025882.
  • Grombacher, D., Auken, E., Foged, N., Bording, T., Foley, N., Doran, P.T., Mikucki, J., Dugan, H.A., Garza-Giron, R., Myers, K. and Virginia, R.A. (2021). Induced polarization effects in airborne transient electromagnetic data collected in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geophysical Journal International, 226(3), 1574-1583. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab148
  • Cruz-Atienza, V.M., Tago, J., Villafuerte, C., Wei, M., Garza-Girón, R., Dominguez, L.A., Kostoglodov, V., Nishimura, T., Franco, S.I., Real, J. and Santoyo, M.A. (2021). Short-Term Interaction between Silent and Devastating Earthquakes in Mexico. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22326-6
  • Garza‐Giron, R., Brodsky, E. E., & Prejean, S. G. (2018). Mainshock‐aftershock clustering in volcanic regions. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(3), 1370-1378.
  • Garza Girón, Ricardo. (2014). Distribución espacial del valor b debajo del Volcán Popocatépetl y su relación con la estructura de la cámara magmática. (Tesis de Licenciatura). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México. https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/428928

In preparation

  • Garza-Giron, R., Aster, R., Wiens, D., Nyblade, A., Bromirski, P., Gerstoft, P., Stephen, R. (In prep). Tidally Triggered Cryoseismicity at the Margins of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
  • Garza-Giron, R., Tulaczyk, S., Grombacher, D., Auken, E., Foged, N., Doran, P.T., Mikucki, J., Dugan, H.A. (In prep). Geothermal heat-flux mapping in the McMurdo Sound using air-borne transient electro-magnetics.

Field work EXAMPLES


Here is a list/gallery of some of the field work that I have done for different projects

Contact


ricky.gargir@gmail.com