The Evacuation Simulations Team visited Sunol on a site visit (May 7, 2024) to learn more about wildfire risk and emergency preparedness. Professor Louise Comfort and PhD Student Paola Lorusso with Sunol Experts Sunol site visit trailhead Sunol site visit… Read More »Evacuation Simulations site visit to Sunol
Listen to the interview of Prof. Thomas Maiorana with radio stations regarding the Tomales Board Game Workshop (June 8, Tomales Town Hall) here: Emergency experts evaluating Tomales resilience Prof. Thomas Maiorana Emergency preparedness game simulation with PhD Students Pengshun Li… Read More »Tomales Resilience: A Wildfire Board Game Workshop
The CSI Team was invited to the American Water Works Association (AWWA) 2024 Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE24)! Professor Kenichi Soga, Clifford Chan, and David Katzev presented recent achievements in innovation and research from CSI and EBMUD. Furthermore, Shih-Hung Chiu,… Read More »CSI Team at AWWA ACE24 Conference
On April 4, 2024, our very own Clifford C. Chan was inducted by the Academy of Distinguished Alumni (ADA) at Berkeley CEE into its Class of 2023. This year’s banquet celebrated the 12th anniversary of the ADA’s founding and brought together… Read More »Clifford C. Chan inducted to UC Berkeley Academy of Distinguished Alumni
A UC Berkeley engineering research team, led by Professor Kenichi Soga, was recently granted $3 million by the California Energy Commission to enhance the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure. Over a 3 year period, the… Read More »CEC awards $3 million to integrate advanced technologies for enhanced risk assessment
On March 13, 2024, the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) announced that our very own Professor Kenichi Soga will be delivering the 63rd Rankine Lecture in March 2025 at Imperial College London. The Rankine Lecture is renowned as one of the… Read More »Professor Kenichi Soga announced as 63rd Rankine Lecturer
The plume of steam from UC Berkeley’s natural gas-fired power plant is a familiar sight on the skyline of San Francisco’s East Bay. But the facility’s days are numbered: The campus is on track to switch to an electrical heating… Read More »How three UC campuses are phasing out fossil fuels
In a recent milestone event, National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) Project team invited community members in Alameda County to the 2nd Alameda Community Meeting on January 12, 2024. The workshop, graciously hosted by the Head-Royce School in Oakland,… Read More »SCC Project’s Recent Workshop and Ongoing Initiatives in Alameda County
Seismic events, such as earthquakes, have the potential to induce ground movements that can adversely affect the structural integrity of gas well casings, thereby leading to the occurrence of gas leakage. An experimental investigation conducted in November 2023 aimed to… Read More »Gas well shearing experiment using fiber optic sensing
The Soga Research Group and collaborators have published a new paper in the journal Computers and Geotechnics: “Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method”, authored by Lauren Talbot, Joel Given, former SRG member Dr. Ezra Tjung, Dr. Yong… Read More »Paper: Modeling large-deformation features of the Lower San Fernando Dam failure with the Material Point Method