Msc. Mariangel Garcia A. mgarcia@sciences.sdsu.edu, MOST RECENT UPDATE: April 16th, 2015.

Mariangel Garcia Andarcia, M.Sc.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-1245 Ofic. +01 (619)-5942267

Cel: +01 (619)-3155317 Goog :+01-(619)800-2164 Skype: mvgarcia07 Email: mgarcia@sciences.sdsu.edu, mvgarcia07@gmail.com LinkedIn://Mariangelgarcia ResearchGate://Mariangel_Garcia

PROFILE Mariangel Garcia is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computational Science at both San Diego State and Claremont Graduate Universities. She is also a Teaching Associate at the Computational Science Research Center, at San Diego State University. Mariangel’s concentration is Data Assimilation in Ocean Modeling. Her focuses on simulating coastal hydrodynamics. Applications include Operational System, Tsunamis Simulation and Oil Spill tracking. She also studies ENSO Index using spatial statistic analysis and Data Mining techniques. Mariangel has also experience working in industry, teaching and conducting multidisciplinary groups that afforded the opportunity to develop a large network of contacts in Latin-America.

EDUCATION

JOINT DOCTORAL PROGRAM WITH CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY (CGU) AND SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU) Ph.D. CANDIDATE IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE Expected 2015 | San Diego, CA Cum. GPA: 3.8 at SDSU | 3.85 at CGU Conc. in Computational Coastal Modeling Thesis Proposal: Data Assimilation Unit for the General Curvilinear Environmental Model. UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA M.SC. IN STOCHASTIC MODELING (Thesis Distinction) July 2008 | Caracas, Venezuela Cum. GPA: 17.36 over 20 scale Conc. in Computational Oceanology Thesis: Interpolation of Bathymetric Data for Numerical Simulation of Historical Tsunamis Occurred in Venezuelan Coasts. UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE LIC. IN MATHEMATICS (Graduated top of the class) July 2005 | Cumana, Venezuela Conc. in Computational Statistics Thesis: Comparison of Multivariate Control Graphs for Individual Observations: For Appliance in the Food Industry.

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PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY, COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER (CSRC) PH.D. CANDIDATE AND TEACHING ASSOCIATE. September 2008-Present| San Diego, CA. Project:

§ Data Assimilation Unit for the General Curvilinear Environmental Model. § Operational System Proposal based on Data Assimilation for San Quintin Bay. § Regression Methods to Estimate Environmental Variables For Valencia Lake, Venezuela. § Model Inter Comparison Between Two Curvilinear Hydrodynamic Ocean Models. § Comparing Two Haar Wavelet Transform Algorithms in Image Compression.

VENEZUELAN OIL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INTEVEP-PDVSA) PRINCIPAL COUNSULTING December 2013 – August 2014 | Caracas, Venezuela Project:

§ Hydrodynamic simulation for the Venezuelan Gulf and its contribution to oil dispersion model. § Instructor: Course work on hydrodynamics models applications for oil dispersion model in Venezuela

Coastal Zone. § Activities: 3D hydrodynamic Model (Delft3D), Bathymetry interpolation, wind, water level and currents

statistical analysis, model calibration and validation. VENEZUELAN FOUNDATION FOR SEISMOLOGY INVESTIGATION (FUNVISIS) PRINCIPAL COUNSULTING May 2014 – August 2014 | Caracas, Venezuela Project:

§ Multidisciplinary Tsunami Project 6 researcher under my supervision § Numerical simulation a tool to detect vulnerable areas in case of tsunamis: A Web Map Service

implementation for Venezuelan coasts. § A GUI Development for Pre-Processing data and its coupling with a tsunami numerical model. § Instructor: Training in Tsunami modeling (TIMES model) § Activities: Projects advisor and supervisor, preparing scenarios for CARIBE WAVE/LANTEX 2015

UNESCO Exercise. NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE OF ECUADOR (INOCAR) EXTERNAL COUNSULTING December 2013 – February 2014 | Guayaquil, Ecuador Project:

§ Development of Ocean Atmospheric indexes to reduce uncertainty in projections of oceanographic conditions between the Galapagos Island and the coast of Ecuador and the coastal precipitation regime.

§ Developed and delivered a Matlab toolbox to analyze environmental variables for Ecuadorians Coast. § Instructor Assistant: Training course to use the toolbox (15 participants).

HYDROGRAPHY AND NAVIGATION SERVICE OF VENEZUELA (SHN) PRINCIPAL COUNSULTING October 2013 - January 2014 | Caracas, Venezuela Project:

§ Training and conforming the Numerical Models Unit Group. § Simulation of hydrodynamics in different coastal regions of Venezuela using Delft3D Models. § Tsunami simulation for the Puerto Cabello Navy Base. § Instructor: Introduction to numerical simulation with oceanography application.

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UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA (UCV) INSTRUCTOR Mathematics Department January 2006 - July 2008 | Caracas, Venezuela

§ Teaching Courses: Calculus II, Calculus III, Statistics I, Statistics Laboratory.

VENEZUELAN FOUNDATION FOR SEISMOLOGY INVESTIGATION (FUNVISIS) INTERNSHIP October 2006 - July 2008 | Caracas, Venezuela

§ Collaboration with the Tsunamis project: Application of Models of Propagation of Waves Towards Venezuelan Coasts.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FISHING AND AQUICULTURE. (INAPESCA) STATISTICAL ADVISER January 2006 - December 2006 | Caracas, Venezuela

§ Descriptive statistical study of social-economical and technical fishing aspects in Venezuela. § Statistical analysis on fishing production in the country.

FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FUNDACITE-SUCRE). PART TIME TEACHING ASSISTANT 2002 - 2005 | Cumana, Venezuela Collaboration in Mathematics Program for kids, “PIÉNSALO!”:

§ Elaboration of contents for the Ludic-Informative Bulletin. § Workshops on motivation for learning of Mathematics. § Workshops of Probability and Statistics addressed to 7th grade professors.

UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE (UDO) PART TIME TEACHING ASISTANT, Mathematics Department 2001 - 2004 | Cumana, Venezuela

§ Teaching Course: Mathemathics I

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE IN DATA ASSIMILATION WITH OPENDA DELFT UNIVERSITY | Applied Mathematics Department

Jun 2013 | Delft, The Netherlands. Instructor: Dr. Martin Verlaan INTERDISCIPLINARY SUMMER SCHOOL: DATA ASSIMILATION IN GEOSCIENCES.

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling. Jun 2013 |Maryland USA. • Instructors: Dr. Jeff Anderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). • Instructors: Dr. Brian Hunt, Kayo Ide, Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland. MODELING COASTAL CIRCULATION IN CURVILINEAR COORDINATES UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO May 2010 | Valencia, Venezuela Conference: IV Pan-American Advance Studies Institute In Computational Sciences and Engineering (PASI). • Instructor: Dr. Carlos Torres, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico MIMETIC FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO May 2010 | Valencia, Venezuela Conference: IV Pan-American Advance Studies Institute In Computational Sciences and Engineering (PASI). • Instructor: Dr. Jose Castillo CSRC San Diego State University, USA. • Instructor: Dr. Juan Guevara Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela. INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE IN TSUNAMIS SIMULATION CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION OF ENSENADA (CICESE) |Department of Physical Oceanography Feb 2010 | Ensenada B.C, Mexico • Mentor: Dr. Modesto Ortiz, CICESE, México. MARKOV CHAIN, MONTECARLO METHODS UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA | Graduate Department, School of Sciences Oct 2006 | Caracas, Venezuela. •Instructor: Dr. Christian Robert, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris. MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR FINANCE UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA | Graduate Department, School of Sciences Sep 2003 | Caracas, Venezuela. • Instructor: Dr. Pablo Olivares, York University, Toronto, Canada. THEORY OF MEASURE UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE Aug 2002 | Cumana, Venezuela Conference: III Workshops on Mathematical Upbringing (III TForMa). Instructor: Dr. Ricardo Ríos. UCV. Caracas, VE.

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SUMMARY OF GRADUATE COURSES (Listed according their pedagogical dependence)

Discrete Dynamical Systems & Chaos (SDSU-MATH 0538) Ordinary Diff. Equations (SDSU-MATH 0537) Intro Numerical Differential Equation (SDSU-MATH 0542) Partial Diff. Equations (SDSU-MATH 0531) Advanced Numerical Analysis (CGU-MATH 368) Image Compression (MATH 436) Topics in Signal Processing (MATH 383) Computational Methods For Scientist (SDSU-COMP-0526) Parallel Computing (CS 0505) Computational Methods Statistic (UCV-307113111) Asymptotic Meth in Stat w/Apls (CGU-MATH 353) Data Mining (CGU-MATH 350) Spatial Statistic (UCV-307113214) Topics. in Aleatory Models: Theory of Risk & Applications (UCV-307113401) Stochastic Processes (UCV-307113113) PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICALS REPORTS Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M. Castillo, J. and Blanco R. (2014 under preparation). Ensemble Filters to Reduce Uncertainties in San Quintin Bay’s Hydrodynamic Forecast System to be submitted in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M. and Castillo, J. (2014). Application of a Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Model for San Quintin Bay, B.C Mexico. Calibration and Validation using OpenDA. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 273, pp. 428-437. doi:10.1016/j.cam.2014.05.003 L. Bravo Garcia M. A.G. Muñoz, J.L. Santos , C. Perugachi A. Cedeño , and J. Castillo. (Submitted Sep, 2014). Linear Transfer Function Models and the ENSO Signal in the Precipitation of Coastal Ecuador. Journal Advances in Geosciences. Valera M., Garcia M., Ramos R., Romero G. (Submitted Oct, 2014). Comparative evaluation of three Tsunamis models: Goto-Ogawa, GEOCLAW and Delft3D for 1867 Virgin Islands scenario and its afectation in the western venezuelan coast. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Garcia, M., Bravo L., Cedeño A., Castillo, J. (2014). Componente Oceanográfico Para El Desarrollo De Técnicas Y Del Índice Oceánico -Proyecto ENOS Del INAMIH Instituto Oceanográfico De La Armada de Ecuador, Departamento De Ciencias Del Mar. Report ID: CDC-INAMHI-129-2013 Garcia, M., Bravo L., Cedeño A., Castillo, J. (2014) ENSO Ecuador Matlab Toolbox Tutorial. Instituto Oceanográfico De La Armada de Ecuador, Departamento De Ciencias Del Mar. Garcia, M., Abreu E. Valera, S. (under review 2014). Sistema Operacional para la Predición de Patrones de Hidrodinámicos de corrientes y Vientos del Golfo de Venezuela. Instituto de Tecnología

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Venezolana para el Petróleo - Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA-INTEVEP). Ref: 13-307. Abouali M., Garcia M., Torres C., Castillo J. (2010) Model Inter-Comparisons Between Two Curvilinear Hydrodynamic Ocean Models. Modelos Proceedings of the X International Congress of Numerical Methods in Engineering and Applied Sciences (CIMENICS 2010), March 20 - 24, Merida, Venezuela. pp: 110-115 Garcia C., Garcia M. (2010) Regression Methods to Estimate Environmental Variables For Valencia Lake, Venezuela. Report CGU-MATH 350 Data Mining. Claremont Graduate University. Department of Mathematics. Garcia, M. Interpolación de datos batimétricos para la simulación numérica de tsunamis históricos ocurridos en las costas venezolanas (2008). Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela de Matemática, Postgrado de Modelos Aleatorios. Pt:76 Ref: TM-17032 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATION Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M., Castillo, J. (March 2015). Data Assimilation for an Operational System in the Bay of San Quintin. 8th Annual San Diego State University Student Research Symposium. Dean’s Award for Research and Scholarship -­‐‑ College of Sciences  . Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M., Blanco R., Castillo, J. (July 2014). Data Assimilation for an Operational System in the Bay of San Quintin. VIII Pan-American Workshop Applied and Computational Mathematics. Barranquilla, Colombia. Rojas M, Uzcategui R., Garcia M. Romero G. (July 2014) Numerical simulation a tool to detect vulnerable areas in case of tsunamis: A Web Map Service implementation for venezuelan coasts. VIII Pan-American Workshop Applied and Computational Mathematics. Barranquilla, Colombia. Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M. and Castillo, J. (May 2013). Data Assimilation for Hydrodynamical Modeling of San QuintinBay, B.C.,Mexico. 4th International Congress on Computational Engineering and Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M. and Castillo, J. (July 2013) Data Assimilation for Hydrodynamical Modeling of San Quintin Bay, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico. SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Garcia, M., Miranda, G., Bailey B. and Castillo J. (May 2012). Ensemble Kalman Filter with the Advection Equation, Jornadas de Matmáticas, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela Garcia M., Abouali. M, Dany De Cecchis, (Feb 2011). Data Asimilation Techniques for the GCEM. SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Reno, USA. Garcia M., Miguel Dumett, (Jun, 2010). A Bayesian Kalman Filter Algorithm for Some Exponential Dispersion Models. VII Pan American Workshop Applied & Computational Mathematics. Choroní, Venezuela.

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Mohammad Abouali, Garcia M, Jose Castillo. (Jun, 2010). Local A Coastal General Curvlinear Ocean Model Intercomparison Study for the Bottom Boundary Layer Dynamics. VII Pan American Workshop Applied & Computational Mathematics. Choroní, Venezuela. Garcia M., Ortiz M.(Oct, 2007). Local Tsunamis in Venezuelan Eastern Coasts. II International Congress of Computational Numeric Simulation. Cumaná, Venezuela.

Garcia M. Fermín J.(2004) Graphics of Control X based on Downton’s estimator, σ and S amended by means of the estimation of standard deviation of the process. LIV Annual Convention of AsoVAC – 5th Congress of Investigation, Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela. POSTERS Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M. and Castillo, J. (April 2015) Data Assimilation for an Operational System in the Bay of San Quintin. Applied Computational Science & Engineering Student Support (ACSESS), San Diego, CA. USA. Liendo, A. Acosta, C. Moreno, J., García, M. and Romero, G. (July 2014) GUI Development for Pre-Processing data and its coupling with a tsunami numerical model. VIII Pan-American Workshop Applied and Computational Mathematics. Barranquilla, Colombia.

Garcia, M., Ramirez, I., Verlaan, M. and Castillo, J. (April 2013). Application of a Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Model for San Quintin Bay, B.C Mexico. Applied Computational Science & Engineering Student Support (ACSESS), San Diego, CA. USA. Garcia, M., De Cecchis, D. and Abouali, M. (Mar 2011). Implementing Data Assimilation Scheme in Shallow

Water Equation with Curvilinear Coordinates. Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS). San Diego State University, San Diego, USA.

Abouali M., Zarei S., Garcia M., (2010). Comparing Two Haar Wavelet Transform Algorithms in Image Compression, Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support (ACSESS). San Diego

State University, San Diego, USA. Garcia M, Ortiz M . (Dec, 2008). Numerical Simulation of Local and Regional Tsunamis in Venezuelan Coast. Days of Research, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Faculty of Sciences. Caracas, Venezuela. Romero G. Garcia M., (Jun,2007). System of Alarm against Tsunamis in Venezuela. IV Session: Meeting of the Commercial & Industrial Sectors with Applied Math. Caracas, Venezuela.

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RECOGNIGTION Dean’s Award for Research and Scholarship (College of Sciences). Student Research Symposium (SRS 2015), San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA Industry Award for Best Poster Presentation. VII Applied Computational Science and Engineering Students (ACSESS 2013), Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA Honorable mention awarded to thesis for the Master degree in Stochastic Modeling Entitled: Interpolation of Bathymetric Data for Numerical Simulation of Historical Tsunamis Occurred in Venezuelan Coasts. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Faculty of Sciences, Caracas, Venezuela. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDED GRANTS ICIAM15 Travel Award (2015). 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Beijing, China. SIAM Student Travel Award – GS15. (2015). SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences. Stanford University, California. COAST Student Travel Award (2013): COAST provides travel support for CSU graduate students to present the results of original research at marine, estuarine and coastal-themed scientific meetings and conferences, San Diego, U.S. COAST/funding DAS13 Travel Award (2013): Interdisciplinary Summer School: Data Assimilation In Geosciences. University Of Maryland. Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling das13/ - Participants BE10 Travel Award: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking Storage and Analysis 2010 (SC10) Broader Engagement (BE) Superhighway Community Program, New Orleans, USA. BE09 Travel Award: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking Storage and Analysis 2009 (SC09) Broader Engagement (BE) Superhighway Community Program, Portland, USA. PANAM Travel Award: VII Pan-American Workshop in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2010, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, Choroní, Aragua, Venezuela. PASI Travel award: IV Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute 2010 in Computational Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, San Diego State University, Universidad Central de Venezuela, and Universidad de Carabobo, Naguanagua, Carabobo, Venezuela. SCHOLARSHIP 2008-2015: Joint Doctoral Program in Computational Science with Claremont Graduate University, San Diego State University, Colleges of Sciences and Engineering, Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) and Claremont Graduate University, School of Mathematical Sciences, California, USA.

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MEMBERSHIPS _Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM): Graduate Student Member 2012, 2014. _ American Statistical Association (ASA): Graduate Student Member (2012). LANGUAGE STUDIES AND STANDARD PROFICIENCY TESTS

�Spanish (Native) �English (Fluent) ETS® Test of English as a Second Language (TOEFL) Internet Based Test (IBT) (January 2009). Total Score: 86 out of 120 International English for Communication (July 2008) American Language Institute, San Diego State University. San Diego, CA. USA. Foreign Language Test (English) (2007). Universidad Central de Venezuela. School of Science. Caracas, Venezuela. SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY ADVANCED: INTERMEDIATE: FAMILIAR: Ocean Models Tools • Delft3D-Flow •Delft-Dashboard •Quickplot •Quickin •Tsunamis TIME model Data assimilation Tools •OpenDA • DART Data Management: Netcdf Programming Techniques • Matlab Operating system • Mac OS• Windows Document and Text Processing • LaTeX with Beamer •Office

Ocean Models tools •SIMAP (Oil Impact Model) •Open Earth •GoogleEarth Tools •gvSIG •Panoply Programming Techniques •Fortran90 Statistical computing •R Operating system •Linux with Bash Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation •Maple Designer Programs •Adobe Photoshop •Bridge •Lighroom •FinalCut

Ocean Models Tools •ROMS

•POM

•ARGIS• QGIS

Programming Techniques •MPI• C++

Data Management: HDF5

Statistical computing •SPSS •Minitab Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation •Mathematica

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INTERESTS, SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES AND APTITUDES

§ Fast learner with strong tendency towards self-education. § Able to conduct multidisciplinary groups. § Large network of contacts in Latin-America. § Strong experience as event planner: Logistic, POP, social media, web design, managing

registration database, press release. § Interested in languages, traveling, and cultural expansion experiences. § Surfing lover: digital media, magazines, surfboards technologies, wave forecast model,

photography a video editing. VOLUNTEERING AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROJECTS San Diego Festival of Sciences & Engineering SDSU Sciences & Engineering Sampler. Motivational talk to kids for learning the use of computational sciences in real life problems. SurfAid’s San Diego SURF-N-SERVE (2011) Events to help spread the message of global citizenship to local Latin students. Kearney High School, San Diego. USA. Granito de Arena movement (Venezuela Volunteer): Granite Arena Project is a movement of surfers whose mission is to promote the care of the sea through the reuse of plastic bottles. AREAS OF INTEREST

§ Climate Change Studies. § Data Assimilation. § Environmental Modeling. § Atmosphere and Ocean Modeling. § Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. § Statistical Climatology and Climate Data Analysis § Climate Risk Assessment and Hydrological Modeling § Stochastic Hydrology. Environmental Statistics. § Spatial Statistics.

PERSONAL INFORMATION DOB: 10/07/1981 Citizenships: Venezuela Eligibility to work in the USA: I am currently on a J-1 Visa (Non-Immigrant Student). I require an H-1B Visa (Non-Immigrant Worker on a Specialty Occupation). Current location: San Diego, California, United States of America, 92120. I am open to relocation PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Available upon request