For 38 years, the U.S. Agency for International Development-U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) has been a global leader in international volcanic risk reduction, assisting resource-limited countries around the world. T...

John Bolten is a modern adventurer. He is eager to experience and embrace new places and cultures. His passport is riddled with proof. His social media is filled with photos of him exploring foreign shores; riding on the back of a scooter to get to a...

Dr. Sarath Guttikunda is a rigorous scientist and air quality modeler with a deep interest in community and policy action. He has a strong record of peer-reviewed publications in high-quality journals as well as reports, working papers and op-eds ...

Professor Atalay Ayele Wondem is the director of the Institute of Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy (IGSSA) at Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia. He is a seismologist who studies the seismovolcanic nature of conti...

Faisal Hossain has long recognized the gap between use-inspired research and research that is actually used. He relishes the practical hurdles necessary to close this gap, leveraging the academic environment as an incubator for developing new ...

Few scientists have had a greater impact on promulgating earthquake awareness and education in developing nations than Susan Hough. She has tirelessly enriched cooperative projects between the United States and local scientists in Kashmir, Pakistan, ...

I was able to follow the international scientific and teaching activity of G. F. Panza for more than 30 years. At the beginning of the 1990s, Prof. Panza, together with strong support from Prof. Keilis-Borok (of Russia), created, in the framework of ...

Hubert Savenije, professor of hydrology at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has had a long and distinguished record of research as a hydrologist and water resources engineer in many parts of the world, including Bangladesh, Vietnam,...