Costas Synolakis
Expert on tsunamis and tsunami hazard mitigation, ocean water flow and pollutant migration, and coastal and beach erosion
Professor of civil and environmental engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Contact at: (213) 740-0613, (310) 301-2155 or costas@usc.edu
Expertise:
- computer tomography applications in materials testing
- nondestructive testing of composites
- nondestructive testing of asphalt pavements and concrete
- natural hazard mitigation
- vibration control
- tsunamis
- tsunami hazard mitigation
- hydrodynamic pressures on dams
- reservoir vibrations
- disaster mitigation
- natural hazard mitigation
- ocean dispersion of pollutants
- coastal effects of long waves
- coastal and ocean engineering
- beach erosion
- Recipient, Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation (1989)
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For biographical information go to:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/dept/faculty-staff/faculty-directory/synolakis-costas.htm
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