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Ambient seismic noise reveals soil hydromechanics for water management and geohazard mitigation.
We aim to transform our understanding of geohazards by combining big data, advanced seismological tools, and insights from climate and hydrological sciences. Our research not only uncovers the processes that drive earthquakes, landslides, and other hazards, but also reveals how a changing climate reshapes Earth’s subsurface and impacts society and the environment.
Central to our mission is the development of low-compute, massively scalable, fully reproducible research workflows that facilitate seamless collaboration across scientific domains. Our most active group development now lives at Gaia HazLab, with open code and workflows shared through the Denolle Lab GitHub. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, empowering our members to embrace modern technologies and AI-aided software practices.
Our newest directions push into agentic scientific research and physics-grounded digital twins:
On software. Open-source science has always been at the core of what we do — our tools and workflows live openly on the Denolle Lab GitHub and Gaia HazLab. What is changing is how we build: increasingly with agents in the loop, and always with an emphasis on personalization and reproducibility — software that adapts to a scientist’s workflow and yields the same answer every time. A good example is CodaMeter (code), where we are transforming operational seismology into reproducible, shareable practice.
Our mantra encapsulates our commitment to:
Ambient seismic noise reveals soil hydromechanics for water management and geohazard mitigation.
We detect and characterize earthquakes using novel observations, large-scale data, and physics-based models.
We study offshore earthquakes, seafloor processes, and submarine hazards using ocean-bottom seismometers and DAS.
Physics-guided AI fuses simulations and sensing to forecast climate and compounding hazard impacts.
We are located in Seattle, WA, at the University of Washington, in the heart of the Pacific Northwest (PNW). The PNW is a wonderful natural laboratory to monitor earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, glaciers, and more broadly speaking the subduction-zone environment.
We are looking for new graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate researcher (more info) !
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