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Climate change, aging infrastructure, and increasing seismic and environmental stressors demand more than point-based monitoring alone. This webinar explores how satellite-based deformation monitoring (InSAR) and ground-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) work together to deliver earlier warnings, broader context, and more confident decision-making for dams and critical infrastructure.

A major reason is too much groundwater is being pumped out, new research shows, threatening buildings and infrastructure nationwide.

Poor local management and climate change amplified the impacts of Helene, says the new study by UN University

In this episode, prof. Manoochehr Shirzaei, professor at Virginia Tech, dives into his cutting-edge work using satellite data to understand coastal subsidence! From his fascinating research to his unique career journey, this conversation is packed with insights.

A critical part of recovery from Helene is assessing the damage, but with such widespread destruction, where do you even begin?

Problems associated with land subsidence can cost U.S. homeowners 6% of their home value. In areas with high subsidence, that number can jump to 8.1%.

Our study has found that more than two dozen US coastal cities are sinking by more than 2mm a year. It’s a similar picture across the world. Nearly half of China’s major cities, as well as places such as Tehran and Jakarta, are facing similar problems. These issues are compounded by sea level rises caused by global heating.

Land is sinking underneath millions of peoples’ feet in China’s major cities due to human activities, putting the country’s coastal areas more at risk of flooding and rising sea levels, new research shows.