Current Post-doctoral Associate


Jobin Thomas, Ph.D. - Helping Rural Counties to Enhance Flooding and Coastal Disaster Resilience

Current Doctoral Students


Abdul Rashid Zakaria, - Sensing and Machine Learning for Railway Ground Hazard Mitigation


Navin Tony Thalakkottukara, - Helping Rural Counties to Enhance Flooding and Coastal Disaster Resilience


Anush Kasargod, - An Integrated and Automated Decision Support System for Ground Hazard Risk Mitigation for Railway using Remote Sensing and Traditional Condition Monitoring Data


William Roland, - GPU accelerated Point Cloud processing as benchmarked against the Small Body Mapping Tool


Kathryn Marlor, - Mine Tailings Dam Stability Monitoring


James Bialas, - A Crowdsourced Knowledge Base for the Damage Assessment of Extreme Events (coadvised with Prof. Tim Havens)


Jordan Ewing, - Remote Sensing Based Terrain Strength Characterization for the Next Generation NATO Reference Mobility Model Development


Vishnu Chakrapani Lekha, - Landslide studies

Current MS Students


Kassidy O'Connor, - Forest Fire-induced Debris Flow

Past Post-doctoral Associates


Rudiger P. Escobar Wolf, Ph.D. - Building local capacities for monitoring eruptive and catastrophic landslide activity at Pacaya Volcano (Guatemala)


Sajin Kumar Kochappi Sathyan, Ph.D. - Application of remote sensing to quantify uncertainties related to climate change in landslide hazard characterization in Idukki District, Kerala, India.

Graduated Ph.D. Students


Chandan Kumar, - Minerals and Rock Type Mapping Using Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) Data (coadvised with Prof. Snehamoy Chatterjee)
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Colorado School of Mines


Michael Sayers, - Spatial Characterization using Remote sensing (coadvised with Prof. Robert Shuchman)
Research Scientist, Michigan Tech research Institute


Priscilla Addison, - Remote Sensing Based Assessment System for Evaluating Risk to Transportation Infrastructure Following Wildfires
Product Manager, Descartes Labs


El Hachemi Bouali, NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow - Sustainable Geotechnical Asset Management along the Transportation Infrastructure Environment Using Remote Sensing Assistant Professor, Nevada State College


Lauren Schaefer, Ph.D., NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow - Application of remote sensing and numerical modeling to volcanic hazard monitoring Mendenhall Research Fellow, U.S. Geological Survey


Bonnie Zwissler, Ph.D., - Biomediated Geomechanical Processes for Dust Mitigation and Monitoring at Mine Tailings Impoundments (coadvised with Prof. Eric Seagren) Geotechnical Engineer at Barr Engineering


Renee Oats, Ph.D., - Application of Remote Monitoring Techniques for Civil Infrastructure (coadvised with Prof. Qingli Dai) Engineer, NAVSEA Warfare Centers

Graduated MS Students


Ryan Klida, - InSAR-based Dam Monitoring


Iuliia Tcibulnikova, - Applying Remote Sensing to Characterize Permafrost


Stepan Pikul, - Debris Flow Modeling


Joyata Raval, - Landslide Hazards in Kerala


Maria Diletta Acciaro, M.S., - Security against geohazards at the major Enguri hydroelectric scheme in Georgia (coadvised with Prof. John Gierke)


Jonathan Sanders, M.S., - Slope stability analysis integration in ArcGIS


Lindsay Ellingson, M.S., - Landslide hazard and risk assessment in Nicaragua (coadvised with Prof. John Gierke)


Priscilla Addison, M.S., - Rail embankment stabilization needs on the Hudson Bay Railway (coadvised with Prof. Pasi Lautala)


James Bialas, M.S., - Object based image classification for earthquake induced damage assessment (coadvised with Prof. Eugene Levin)


Samantha Justice, M.S., - Remote sensing for proactive management of slope instability (coadvised with Prof. Stan Vitton)


Daniel Cerminaro, M.S., NSF Graduate Research Fellow - Object-based earthquake-induced damage assessment using remote sensing


Patrice Cobin, M.S., - Probabilistic modeling of rainfall induced landslide hazard assessment (coadvised with Prof. John Gierke)


Rachel Hetherington, M.S., - Stability of Mount Meager Volcanic Complex (MMVC) in British Columbia, Canada (coadvised with Prof. Benjamin van Wyk de Vries)


Ren Keyport, M.S., - Comparison of pixel-based versus object-oriented classification of landslides using remote sensing data


Bonnie Zwissler, M.S., - Modeling the impact of freeze thaw on cliff recession: A case study of Calvert Cliffs in Calvert County, Maryland


Daniel Smith, M.S., (2012) - Stability and rainfall susceptibility of volcanic slopes on the Chichontepec Volcano in Central El Salvador (coadvised with Prof. John Gierke)


Abhishek Jain, M.S., (2012) - Sampling bias in evaluating the probability of seismically-induced soil liquefaction


Lauren Schaefer, M.S., (2012) - Geotechnical data and numerical analysis of edifice collapse and related hazards at Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala


Patrick Manzoni, M.S. (2012) - Slope stability analysis of the Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, using limit equilibrium and finite element method (coadvised with Prof. Alessandro Tibaldi)

Past Under-graduate Students


Kirsten DePrekel - California PSI Bridges Project


Luke Weidner - Earthquake Damage Assessment


Erica Anderson - DeVlieg Fellow: 2016-2017


Valeria Suarez Bolivar - Pavlis Young Investigator Fellow: 2016-2017


Denada Planaj - Pavlis Young Investigator Fellow: 2016-2017

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