Sydney Dybing

Sydney Dybing

Sydney is very excited and honored to be starting her PhD as a Raymund Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences, where she will be researching large earthquake processes and their applications to earthquake early warning and hazard communication. 

Growing up in the Seattle area, Sydney became interested in earth science at a young age from her experiences in the outdoors.

She made her way to Missouri for her undergraduate education at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating summa cum laude with a BA in Geophysics. 

As an undergrad, she worked for several years in a geochemistry lab analyzing the mineral components that form on the insides of lead pipes and protect drinking water from lead contamination.

She also spent a summer as an IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) intern at the US Geological Survey in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she worked on a project about removing wind-induced noise from seismograms to improve data quality.

This internship resulted in her first first-author publication earlier in 2019, and also motivated her to apply for PhD programs in seismology. 

Sydney hopes that through her research, education, and outreach at UO, she will be able to help make communities in the Pacific Northwest safer in the event of a large earthquake, and aspires to someday work again for the USGS.