Dr. Ignacio Sepulveda Oyarzun
Pronouns: He/His/Him
Assistant Professor
Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
SDSU
Primary Email: [email protected]
Phone/Fax
Primary Phone: 619-594-4709
Building/Location
Professional Studies and Fine Arts - 436A
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego,
CA
92182
Website Links
Bio
Ignacio Sepulveda is Professor in Coastal Engineering at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University. He earned a Phd Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He was also a John Miles Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD.
Education
2011 - Civil Engineer - Santa Maria University
2015 - M.S. Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Cornell University
2017 - Ph.D. Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Cornell University
2019-21 - Postdoc. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
Areas of Specialization
Professor Sepulveda's expertise is Coastal Risk Assessments. He has developed new methods for probabilistic tsunami hazard assessments and Uncertainty Quantification, combining top-notch stochastic and geophysical models. His new research addresses the use of citizen data, the development of new remote sensing techniques for coastal observation and the impact of climate change.
Awards & Honors
2017 OSPA Award in Natural Hazards. American Geophysical Union
2019-2021 John Miles Fellow
2021 Invited Speaker. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2022 NSF EarthCube Opening Keynote Speaker
Courses
CIV E 596 Introduction to Coastal Engineering
CIV E 444 Applied Hydraulics
CIV/ENV E 499 Special Research Studies
Directed Student Research
Non-stationary Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment in United States (Andrew Mosqueda)
Long-wave-induced dispersion in coastal regions (Kameron Lumanlan)
Grants
SEED SDSU Research Foundation
Media
BBC Science in Action Radio Show
The causes of Indonesia's Palu Bay tsunami last year are being examined thanks to social media.
23 May 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csym1q
EOS Magazine
Modeling Tsunamis with Social Media
31 MAY 2019
https://eos.org/editor-highlights/modeling-tsunamis-with-social-media
Scripps News
UC San Diego at Epicenter of Earthquake Research
17 OCT 2019
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/uc-san-diego-epicenter-earthquake-research
EOS Magazine
Social Media Helps Reveal Cause of 2018 Indonesian Tsunami
26 JUN 2020
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/social-media-helps-reveal-cause-of-2018-indonesian-tsunami
Scripps News
UNVEILING THE ACCURACY OF TSUNAMI PREDICTIONS
8 Oct 2020
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/unveiling-accuracy-tsunami-predictions
Publications
Sepúlveda, I., Haase, J. S., Liu, P. L. F., Grigoriu, M., & Winckler, P. (2021). Non-stationary probabilistic tsunami hazard assessments incorporating climate‐change‐driven sea level rise. Earth's Future, 9(6), e2021EF002007.
Sepúlveda, I., Haase, J. S., Carvajal, M., Xu, X., & Liu, P. L. (2020). Modeling the sources of the 2018 Palu, Indonesia, tsunami using videos from social media. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(3), e2019JB018675.
Sepúlveda, I., Tozer, B., Haase, J. S., Liu, P. L. F., & Grigoriu, M. (2020). Modeling uncertainties of bathymetry predicted with satellite altimetry data and application to tsunami hazard assessments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(9), e2020JB019735.