Experts Directory: Earthquakes and Disasters
Ali Amini
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
work: (818) 677-3609 / 2190
email: ali.amini@csun.edu
Also speaks: Farsi
- Earthquake engineering and instrumentation
- Vibration measurement and analysis
- Control system
- Stochastic processing
Behzad Bavarian
Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management
work: (818) 677-3917 / 2167
email: bavarian@csun.edu
- Corrosion—electrochemistry
- Failure analysis
- Fracture
- Welding
- Materials processing
- Composites materials
- Water treatment
- Construction
- Concrete — earthquake and property damage
Ronald M. Borczon
Department of Music
Director, Music Therapy Clinic
work: (818) 677-3174 / 3184
email: rborczon@csun.edu
- Music therapy
- Music therapy with adult and adolescent psychiatric clients
- Music therapy with developmentally disabled clients
- Music therapy with various populations
- Music therapy for victims of disasters
Learn more about Ronald M. Borczon:
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Priya M. Ganguli
Department of Geological Sciences
work: (818) 677-4669
email: priya.ganguli@csun.edu
- Mercury cycling in the environment
- Mining impacts
- Environmental remediation/restoration
- Groundwater-surface water interaction
- Contaminant transport and fate
- Technical consultant in 2010-2011 to the EPA Klau/Buena Vista Mercury Mine Superfund Site, specifically riparian and reservoir sampling design and remediation strategies
- From 1999-2006 served as engineering geologist and environmental specialist for the San Francisco Bay Water Board, specifically for environmental remediation for such areas as mine sites, streams, groundwater, wetlands/slough
Scott Hauswirth
Department of Geological Sciences
work: (818) 677-4880
email: scott.hauswirth@csun.edu
- Groundwater contamination
- Contaminated site remediation
- Contaminant fate and transport
- Hazardous waste
- Groundwater
Elena A. Miranda
Department of Geological Sciences
work: (818) 677-4671 /3541
email: elena.miranda@csun.edu
- Mid-ocean ridges
- Marine geology
- Detachment faults
- Shear zone development
Amalie J. Orme
Department of Geography
work: (818) 677-3864
email: amalie.orme@csun.edu
- Flooding
- Weather—storms
- Landslides
- Beach erosion
- Fire
- Gang prevention
- Earthquakes and climate change in Owens Valley
- Learn more about Amalie J. Orme's work:
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Dayanthie Weeraratne
Department of Geological Sciences
work: (818) 677-2046/ 3541
email: dsw@csun.edu
- Geophysics
- Geophysical fluid dynamics of Earth’s interior and seismology
- Mantle connection
- Earth’s core dynamics
- Seismology of tectonic plates
- Marine seismology
Learn more about Dayanthie Weeraretne:
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Tadeh Zirakian
Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management
work: (818) 677-7718
email: tadeh.zirakian@csun.edu
- Structural and earthquake engineering