About the IRES Program Leaders
Dr. Paulo Hidalgo
Principal Investigator | phidalgo@gsu.edu
Dr. Hidalgo has 15+ years of experience evaluating magma transfer from crust to the surface and 8+ years of mentoring students in the field with yearly data collection experiences in Western Montana, Costa Rica, and Ecuador. Dr. Hidalgo leads one of the most diverse Field Methods courses in the nation, with up to 45% of URM students participating in any given year. All of his projects have strong field components using a great variety of field and geochemical methods.
Dr. Ana Cristina Araya
Principal Investigator | mariacristina.araya@ucr.ac.cr
Professor of Geoscience at the University of Costa Rica and Bachelor of Geology from the University of Costa Rica
with a PhD in Geodesy from the University of Bristol, England. Her speciality is tectonics and geodesy . She is passionate about the measurement of active deformation of the crust using InSAR techniques. She is leading this IRES experience.
