Geohazards & Monitoring Project Department

Geohazards & Monitoring Project teaches students to detect and assess geohazards — landslides, subsidence, and induced seismicity — in energy project areas at an early stage. Students analyze InSAR-based deformation data, model slope stability, and complete a capstone project designing and validating early-warning systems and traffic-light protocols. Having trained across the full arc from hazard detection to response-system design, graduates are ready to contribute immediately to site safety management and hazard-mitigation planning.

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⭐ Richter

Chair

💡 Earthquake Seismology & Hazard Assessment

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 14

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1918–1985

Carl A. Wiley

Researcher

💡 Invented synthetic aperture radar (SAR, 1951), the foundational imaging technology behind InSAR ground deformation monitoring

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1914–2001

Alec Skempton

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern soil mechanics applied to landslide investigation; developed the effective stress concept applied to slope stability

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1899–1968

Hugo Benioff

Researcher

💡 Invented the linear strain seismograph and made key advances in seismic instrumentation (Benioff zone namesake)

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1908–1991

Joseph F. Poland

Researcher

💡 Founder of the scientific study of land subsidence caused by groundwater and fluid withdrawal

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1933–2014

Roger Tomlinson

Researcher

💡 Known as the "father of GIS" for developing the Canada Geographic Information System (1963)

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1910–2008

George W. Housner

Researcher

💡 Father of earthquake engineering; developed the response spectrum method for seismic structural design

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1879–1958

Harry O. Wood

Researcher

💡 Co-invented the Wood-Anderson seismograph (1925) and founded the Southern California seismographic network

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1914–1998

Haroun Tazieff

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of applied volcanic hazard mitigation and eruption forecasting through direct crater-level field observation

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1922–1989

Harry Bolton Seed

Researcher

💡 Founder of soil liquefaction engineering; developed the simplified cyclic stress procedure for liquefaction assessment (Seed-Idriss method)

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1910–1981

Nathan M. Newmark

Researcher

💡 Developed the Newmark sliding block method for predicting permanent seismic displacement of slopes and dams (1965)

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1908–1988

Leopold Muller

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern rock mechanics as a discipline distinct from soil mechanics

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1896–1990

Ralph Alger Bagnold

Researcher

💡 Founder of the physics of granular/sediment flow (Bagnold number, dispersive stress theory)

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1857–1949

Bailey Willis

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of seismic geology, systematic field investigation of the San Andreas Fault and California earthquake hazard

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1911–2006

Gilbert F. White

Researcher

💡 Founder of natural hazards research as an academic discipline ("father of floodplain management")