People

Prof. Manoochehr Shirzaei

shirzaei@vt.edu

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Department of Geosciences (GEOS)

Virginia Tech National Security Institute (VTNSI)

Director of Earth Observation and Innovation @VT (EOI-Lab)

Shirzaei's Roles and Positions at United Nations

  Senior Research Fellow

  Lead, Land Subsidence Analytics

  United Nations University 

  Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH

  United State Representative to UNESCO LASII (LASII)

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Shirzaei's National Memberships and Affiliations

  Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

  Center for Space Science and Engineering (Space@VT)

  Global Change Center (GCC)

  Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies (CCS)

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Shirzaei's Editorship

   PNAS NEXUS (NAS)

   Journal of Geodesy (JoG)

Prof. Susanna Werth

swerth@vt.edu 

Director of Hydrologic Innovation and Remote Sensing Lab (HiRes)

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Dr. Ashutosh Tiwari  (Postdoctoral Researcher)

ashutosh22@vt.edu

Project: Application of AI for geospatial data democratization

 

Mohammad Khorrami  (Graduate student)

khorrami@vt.edu  

Project: Physics-based models for induced earthquake forecasting 



Leonard Ohenhen   (Graduate student)

ohleonard@vt.edu   

Project: Understanding and predicting coastal land subsidence and flooding hazards 



Carmen Atkins   (Graduate student)

carmena@vt.edu    

Project: Understanding and predicting coastal land subsidence and flooding hazards 



Oluwaseyi Dasho   (Graduate student)

seyidasho@vt.edu

Project: Understanding and predicting coastal land subsidence and flooding hazards and risks



Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam    (Graduate student)

nitheshnirmal@vt.edu

Project: Quantifying Groundwater Resources and Geohazards in Central Valley, California


Florence Onyike    (Graduate student)

florenceo@vt.edu 

Project: Managed Aquifer Recharge and Environmental Justice in Climate Change Era 


Mahmoud Reshadati    (Graduate student)

mahmoudreshadati@vt.edu 

Project: Artificial Intelligence for 21st Century Relative Sea Level Rise Projection and Flood Mapping 


Clayton Wise      (Graduate student)

claytonw@vt.edu 

Project: Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of Potomac aquifer managed recharge through SWIFT project on the Chesapeake Bay 


Jonathan Lucy   (Graduate student)

jlucy01@vt.edu    

Project: Global Exploration of Vertical Land Motion, Its Link to Anthropogenic Droughts and Impacts on Human System 



Kaitlyn Osworth    (Undergraduate researcher)

krosworth22@vt.edu 

Project: Assistant to the International Panel on Land Subsidence (IPLS) secretariat 



Dr. Khosro Ghobadi-Far  (Former Postdoctoral Researcher)

 

Now Assistant professor at CU Boulder


 

Sonam Sherpa (Former Graduate student)

sfsherpa@vt.edu

Now NSF postdoctoral fellow at Brown


Grace Carlson (Former graduate student)

gcarlson@vt.edu

Now postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley


Ahmed Bin Hussain (Former Undergraduate Researcher)

ahmedm1421@vt.edu



Dr. Guang Zhai (Former Postdoctoral Researcher)

gzhai@vt.edu

Now researcher at TNO

Dr. Megan M. Miller (Former graduate student)

megan.m.miller@jpl.nasa.gov  


Now InSAR research scientist at CGG


Dr. Mostafa Khoshmanesh (Former graduate student)

mkh@caltech.edu   


Now AI specialist at Schneider Electric


Dr. Jennifer Weston (Former postdoc)

Now researcher at International Seismological Centre



Dr. Chandrakanta Ojha (Former postdoc)

chandrakanta@iisermohali.ac.in


Now Assistant Professor 

Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali


Dr. Sui (Jay) Tung  (Former postdoc)

Jay.Sui.Tung@ttu.edu  


Now Assistant Professor

Department of Geosciences

Texas Tech University

 



Jui-Chi (Vickie) Lee (Former graduate student)

vickielee@vt.edu 

NOW: Researcher at FM Global



Sonia Zehsaz   (Former graduate student)

szehsaz@vt.edu