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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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Field-based Curriculum · 14

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

InSAR & Remote Sensing Ground Deformation Monitoring
InSAR & Remote Sensing Ground Deformation Monitoring
Teaching the principles of phase-based InSAR observation of ground deformation a…
Carl A. Wiley
Landslide & Slope Stability Analysis
Landslide & Slope Stability Analysis
Teaching limit-equilibrium slope stability analysis and the residual-strength be…
Alec Skempton
Induced Seismicity Monitoring & Traffic Light Protocols
Induced Seismicity Monitoring & Traffic Light Protocols
This course teaches the system for monitoring injection- and extraction-induced …
Hugo Benioff
Land Subsidence & Sinkhole Monitoring
Land Subsidence & Sinkhole Monitoring
Teaching monitoring and management of land subsidence and karst sinkholes, this …
Joseph F. Poland
GIS-Based Geohazard Risk Mapping
GIS-Based Geohazard Risk Mapping
This course teaches GIS methodology for compiling multiple geohazard layers, lan…
Roger Tomlinson
Earthquake Damage Assessment & Reconnaissance Engineering
Earthquake Damage Assessment & Reconnaissance Engineering
Teaching post-earthquake damage assessment against design response, this course …
George W. Housner
Tsunami & Seismic Early-Warning Detection Systems
Tsunami & Seismic Early-Warning Detection Systems
Teaching the principles and operation of earthquake and tsunami early-warning sy…
Harry O. Wood
Volcanic Monitoring & Eruption Forecasting
Volcanic Monitoring & Eruption Forecasting
Teaching volcano monitoring, integrating gas, thermal, and seismic signals of un…
Haroun Tazieff
Soil Liquefaction Assessment
Soil Liquefaction Assessment
Teaching liquefaction assessment of saturated loose sands by the cyclic-stress a…
Harry Bolton Seed
Strong Ground Motion & Seismic Displacement Design
Strong Ground Motion & Seismic Displacement Design
Teaching Newmark's sliding-block method and strong ground motion design, this co…
Nathan M. Newmark
Rockfall & Rock Slope Hazard Assessment
Rockfall & Rock Slope Hazard Assessment
Teaching rockfall hazard assessment of rock cuts through discontinuity mapping a…
Leopold Muller
Debris Flow & Granular Hazard Modeling
Debris Flow & Granular Hazard Modeling
This course teaches prediction of debris-flow runout and destructiveness through…
Ralph Alger Bagnold
Active Fault Mapping & Historical Seismicity Investigation
Active Fault Mapping & Historical Seismicity Investigation
This course teaches locating active faults and quantifying recurrence through fi…
Bailey Willis
Disaster Risk Reduction & Resilience Infrastructure Planning
Disaster Risk Reduction & Resilience Infrastructure Planning
Starting from the finding that structural protection alone does not reduce losse…
Gilbert F. White