Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN Public Seminar Series

Diego Melgar (University of Oregon)

"Who cares about the earthquake? Towards real-time hazards forecasting systems with machine learning"

A virtual seminar of the Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN, and co-sponsored by the CoPes HUB.  The seminar is open to the public.  

Speaker biography: Diego Melgar is the Ann and Lew Wiliams Chair of Earth Sciences and an associate professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on large earthquakes. He works on understanding the physics of faults using many diverse kinds of on-shore and off-shore data. He researches the hazards associated with these large events, working on tsunami modeling and coastal impacts, as well as studying how strong shaking can be forecast. Prof. Melgar was awarded the 2016 Charles Richter early career award from the Seismological Society of America. He is also a member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics. Prior to joining the University of Oregon he spent three years at the University of California Berkeley's Seismological Laboratory. He earned his B.Eng. in geophysics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and his M.S. and Ph.D. in geophysics from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.