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Leslie Hsu

Physical Scientist; Coordinator, Community for Data Integration (CDI)

US Geological Survey

Denver, CO 80225

Email: hsu.leslie@gmail.com

Homepage: sites.google.com/site/lhsu000001

Positions Held

• Physical Scientist (September 2015 to present)

  • Coordinator, Community for Data Integration (CDI) 

  • US Geological Survey, Denver, CO 80225

• Associate Research Scientist (November 2013 to September 2015)

• Integrated Earth Data Applications Research Group

• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

• Postdoctoral Research Scientist (January 2011 to November 2013)

• Integrated Earth Data Applications Research Group

• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

• Postdoctoral Researcher (June 2010-December 2010)

• Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

• University of California, Santa Cruz 

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

• Ph.D in Earth & Planetary Science (2010)

• Dissertation: Bedrock Erosion by Debris Flows

• (advisor: William E. Dietrich)

• University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• M.S. in Geosciences (2002)

• Thesis: Dating Quaternary Alluvial Fan Surfaces by Morphological Methods Based on Hillslope Diffusion

• (advisor: Jon D. Pelletier)

• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• B.A. Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors (2000)

• Senior thesis: Atmospheric and Oceanic Distributions of Methyl Iodide (CH3I) for Global 3-D models

• (advisor: Daniel J. Jacob)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Hsu, L.; Mayorga, E.; Horsburgh, J.S.; Carter, M.R.; Lehnert, K.A.; Brantley, S.L. (2017) Enhancing Interoperability and Capabilities of Earth Science Data using the Observations Data Model 2 (ODM2), Data Science Journal. 16(1), http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-004.

2. Horsburgh, J.S.; Aufdenkampe, A.K.; Mayorga, E.; Lehnert, K.A.; Hsu, L.; Song, L.; Spackman Jones, A.; Damiano, S.G.; Tarboton, D.G.; Valentine, D.; Zaslavsky, I.; Whitenack, T. (2016) Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations, Environmental Modelling and Software, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.01.010.

3. Hsu, L.; Martin, R.L.; McElroy, B.; Litwin-Miller, K.; Kim, W. (2015) Data management, sharing and reuse in experimental geomorphology: challenges, strategies, and scientific opportunities, Geomorphology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.03.039.

4. Hsu, L.; Lehnert, K.A.; Goodwillie, A.; Delano, J.W.; Gill, J.B.; Tivey, M.A.; Ferrini, V.L.; Carbotte, S.M.; Arko R.A. (2015) Rescue of long-tail data from the ocean bottom to the Moon: IEDA Data Rescue Mini-Awards, GeoResJ, 6:108-114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.grj.2015.02.012. 

5. Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W.E.; Sklar, L.S. (2014) Mean and fluctuating basal forces generated by granular flows: laboratory observations in a large vertically rotating drum, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, doi:10.1002/2013JF003078.

6. Kaitna, R.; Dietrich, W.E.; Hsu, L., (2014) Surface slopes, velocity profiles and fluid pressure in coarse-grained debris flows saturated with water and mud, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.675.

7. Chen, W.-P. & Hsu L. (2013), Historic Seismicity near the Source Zone of the Great 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake: Implications for Seismic Hazards, Tectonophysics. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.035.

8. Yohannes, B.; Hsu L.; Dietrich, W.E. & Hill, K. (2012), Boundary Stresses due to Impacts from Dry Granular Flows, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 117, F02027, doi:10.1029/2011JF002150.

9. Schneider, D.; Kaitna, R.; Dietrich, W.; Hsu, L.; Huggel, C. & McArdell, B. (2011), Frictional behavior of granular gravel-ice mixtures in vertically rotating drum experiments and implications for rock-ice avalanches, Cold Regions Science and Technology 69(1), 70 - 90.

10. Hsu, L.; Finnegan, N. J. & Brodsky, E. E. (2011), A seismic signature of river bedload transport during storm events, Geophys. Res. Lett. 38(13), L13407. [pdf with supplement]

11. Hill, K.; Yohannes, B.; Dietrich, W. & Hsu, L. (2011), Discrete Element Modeling and Large Scale Experimental Studies of Bouldery Debris Flows, in R. Genevois; D.L. Hamilton & A. Prestininzi, ed., Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation, Mechanics, Prediction and Assessment, Padua, Italy, June 14-17, 2011, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment.

12. Kaitna, R.; Hsu, L.; Rickenmann, D. & Dietrich, W. (2011), On the development of an unsaturated front of debris flows, in R. Genevois; D.L. Hamilton & A. Prestininzi, ed., Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation, Mechanics, Prediction and Assessment, Padua, Italy, June 14-17, 2011, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment.

13. Hsu, L.; Kaitna, R.; Dietrich, W. & Sklar, L. (2011), Boundary shear stress of granular flows, in R. Genevois; D.L. Hamilton & A. Prestininzi, ed., Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation, Mechanics, Prediction and Assessment, Padua, Italy, June 14-17, 2011, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment.

14. Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W. E. & Sklar, L. S. (2008), Experimental study of bedrock erosion by granular flows, J. Geophys. Res. 113(F2), F02001.

15. Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W. & Sklar, L. (2007), Normal stresses, longitudinal profiles, and bedrock surface erosion by debris flows: initial findings from a large, vertically rotating drum, in C. L. Chen & J.J. Major, ed., Debris-Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Prediction, and Assessment: Proceedings 4th International DFHM Conference, Chengdu, China, September 10-13, 2007, Millpress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

16. Hsu, L. & Bürgmann, R. (2006), Surface creep along the Longitudinal Valley fault, Taiwan from InSAR measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33(6), L06312.

17. Hsu, L. & Pelletier, J. D. (2004), Correlation and dating of Quaternary alluvial-fan surfaces using scarp diffusion, Geomorphology 60(3-4), 319 - 335.

18. Bell, N.; Hsu, L.; Jacob, D. J.; Schultz, M. G.; Blake, D. R.; Butler, J. H.; King, D. B.; Lobert, J. M. & Maier-Reimer, E. (2002), Methyl iodide: Atmospheric budget and use as a tracer of marine convection in global models, J. Geophys. Res. 107(D17), 4340.

Other Publications

1. Lehnert, K.; Hsu, L.; Rivera, T.A.; Walker, J.D. (2015 working draft), IEDA EarthChem: Supporting the sample-based geochemistry community with data resources to accelerate scientific discovery, Authorea, [link]. 

2. Hsu, L.; B. McElroy, R.L. Martin, W. Kim (2013), Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network (SEN): sharing best practices for experimental methods and data management, Sedimentary Record. [pdf]

3. Hsu, L., (2013), Four Things You Can Do To Extend the Impact, Reach, and Longevity of Your Research Data. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 94:389-393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9623-94.4.389.

4. Hsu, L. and Nguyen, C. (2012), St. Anthony Falls Laboratory Assessment of Data Practices and Needs. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1294232.

Other products (data, photo galleries, video)

1. Hsu, L., Dietrich, W.E., Sklar, L.S., Johnson, J.P. (2016), Debris flow flume video (mp4), SEAD, http://doi.org/10.5967/M0416V23.

2. Hsu, L., Dietrich, W.E., Sklar, L.S. (2016), Debris flow flume - bedrock erosion data, SEAD, http://doi.org/10.5967/M0086399. [.mat and .pdf of images].

3. Hsu, L., Dietrich, W.E., Sklar, L.S., McArdell, B.W., Badoux, A. (2016), Illgraben bedrock erosion samples, SEAD, http://doi.org/10.5967/M0XG9P4P. [.jpg images]

4. Hsu, L. (2015), Synthetic bedrock strength measurements for debris flow erosion experiments, SEAD, http://doi.org/10.5967/M0SQ8XDZ. [.xls spreadsheet]

5. Hsu, L. (2015), Field observations of bedrock channels scoured by debris flows, figshare, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1309500. Best viewable at https://sites.google.com/site/lhsu000001/debris-flow-sites-gallery

6. Hsu, L., Dietrich, W.E.; Sklar, L.S. (2014), Debris-flow flume force measurements, figshare, https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.988297.v1. [.mat]

Conference Abstracts

1. Hsu, L., Ignizio, D.A., Myers, J.D., (2016), Strategies for curating big data in the heterogeneous long tail: examples from the USGS ScienceBase repository and SEAD data services, Paper 280-5 presented at the 2016 Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO, 24-28 Sept. [abstract and slides html]

2. Hsu, L., (2016), USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI): a community approach to managing science data, SciDataCon, Denver, CO, 11-13 Sept. [html]

3. Hsu, L., Powers, L., Hutchison, V., Graves, S. (2016), Connecting Communities: identifying synergies between international integration initiatives, 2016 ESIP Summer Meeting. ESIP Commons, March 2016. [pdf report]

4. Hsu, L., Bristol, Sky; Lehnert, Kerstin; Arko, Robert; Peters, Shanan; Uhen, Mark D.; Song, Lulin, (2014), Exposing USGS sample collections for broader discovery and access: collaboration between ScienceBase, IEDA:SESAR, and Paleobiology Database, in Abstract IN23A-3724 presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 15-19 Dec.

5. Hsu, L., Kerstin A. Lehnert; Suzanne M. Carbotte; Vicki Lynn Ferrini; John W. Delano; James B. Gill; Maurice Tivey (2013), Rescue of Long-Tail Data from the Ocean Bottom to the Moon, AGU, Fall Meeting.

6. Hsu, L., K.A. Lehnert, S.M. Carbotte, R.A. Arko, V.L. Ferrini, S.H. O'Hara, J.D. Walker (2012), Use of Persistent Identifiers to link Heterogeneous Data Systems in the Integrated Earth Data Applications (IEDA) Facility, AGU, Fall Meeting.

7. Hsu, L.; Lehnert, K.; Walker, J.; Chan, C.; Ash, J.; Johansson, A. & Rivera, T. (2011), Maximizing data holdings and data documentation with a hierarchical system for sample-based geochemical data, in Abstract IN23C-1462 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

8. Lehnert, K.; Klump, J.; Arko, R.; Bristol, S.; Buczkowski, B.; Chan, C.; Chan, S.; Conze, R.; Cox, S.; Habermann, T.; Hangsterfer, A.; Hsu, L.; Milan, A.; Miller, S.; Noren, A.; Richard, S.; Valentine, D.; Whitenack, T.; Wyborn, L. & Zaslavsky, I. (2011), IGSN e.V.: Registration and Identification Services for Physical Samples in the Digital Universe, in Abstract IN13B-1324 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

9. McArdell, B.; Hsu, L.; Fritschi, B. & Dietrich, W. (2011), Field observations of particle impacts by debris flows and debris floods on instrumented rock samples, in Abstract EP31C-0836 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

10. Mottl, M.; Lehnert, K.; Johansson, A. & Hsu, L. (2011), VentDB: A Global Online Synthesis Database of Seafloor Hydrothermal Spring Geochemistry, in Abstract OS11B-1474 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

11. Rivera, T.; Lehnert, K.; Hsu, L. & Johansson, A. (2011), Overcoming Challenges to Making Data Re-Usable: The Example of Geochemical Databases, in Abstract ED53B-0780 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

12. Tewoldebrhan, B.; Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W. & Hill, K. (2011), Boundary Stresses due to Impacts from Dry Granular Flows, in Abstract EP24A-04 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec.

13. Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W. & Sklar, L. (2010), The fluctuating component of basal normal force generated by debris flows, in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, pp. p. 385.

14. Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W. & Sklar, L. (2009), Bedrock erosion by debris flows: experiments in a large rotating drum, in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, pp. p. 610.

15. Johnson, J.; Hsu, L. & Dietrich, W. (2008), Clever Cobbles, Embedded Accelerometers: Quantifying the Internal Dynamics of Experimental Debris Flows, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract H42C-08.

16. Kaitna, R.; Rickenmann, D.; Hsu, L. & Dietrich, W. (2008), Comparative Investigations of the Flow Behavior of Debris Flow Mixtures in Rotating Drums of Different Size, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract H51F-0893.

17. Hsu, L. & Dietrich, W. (2008), Debris flow boundary stresses and bedrock erosion: large scale laboratory experiments, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract H42C-05.

18. Yohannes, B.; Hill, K.; Hsu, L. & Dietrich, W. (2008), Distinct Element Modeling and Large Scale Experimental Studies on Bed Stresses due to Debris Flow, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract H42C-06.

19. Hsu, L.; Dietrich, W.; Sklar, L. & McArdell, B. (2006), Field and laboratory observations of bedrock erosion by granular flow, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract H53D-0658.

20. Hsu, L. & Dietrich, W. (2005), Measurement of bedrock erosion by debris flows, in Geophysical Research Abstracts.

21. Sklar, L.; Stock, J.; Roering, J.; Kirchner, J.; Dietrich, W.; Chi, W.; Hsu, L.; Hsieh, M.; Tsao, S. & Chen, M. (2005), Evolution of fault scarp knickpoints following 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in West-Central Taiwan, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract H34A-06.

22. Hsu, L. & Dietrich, W. (2004), Experimental Study of Surface Erosion by Granular Flows, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract H44A-02.

23. Hsu, L. & Pelletier, J. (2002), Hillslopes on Alluvial Fans: Investigating Links between Climate, Fan Deposition, and Diffusivity, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract H12B-0930.

24. Hsu, L. & Pelletier, J. (2001), Quantitative Matching of Landform Evolution Models With High-Resolution DEMs as a New Quaternary Surface Dating Technique, in American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract NG51A-0456.

25. Hsu, L.; Schultz, M. & Jacob, D. (1999), Methyl Iodide: Suitability as a Marine Atmospheric Tracer, in American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 1999, abstract A52D-04.