Professor Dimitrios Zekkos is co-PI of the Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH), recently awarded a 5-year, $15million grant from NSF. CLaSH is a multi-institutional center headquartered at the University of Michigan, and it will develop new scientific frameworks and modeling tools to forecast and mitigate cascading natural hazards.

Professor Zekkos aims to gain insights on cascading hazards by using state-of-the-art technologies and computational tools. "Recent technological advances in remote sensing, robots and sensors provide an unprecedented opportunity to monitor the geologic processes in a way that was completely impossible only a few years ago,” Zekkos said. “These advances paired with new computational tools such as artificial intelligence and regional geologic process simulations provide a truly unprecedented opportunity to advance our scientific understanding of how geologic processes are coupled and lead to geohazard cascades.”

Read more at https://ce.berkeley.edu/news/3204.