Dr. Ignacio Sepulveda Oyarzun

Ignacio Sepulveda Oyarzun

Pronouns: He/His/Him
Assistant Professor
Academic Affairs
College of Engineering
Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

SDSU

Email

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.