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  • Co-authored work focusing on 2023 Libya Dam Collapse published in npj Natural Hazards (link).
  • Recipient of William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) on January 2025.
  • I am part of a UN report led by Dr. Manoochehr Shirzaei detailing the asset damage based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data during the recent Hurricane Helene, which hit east coast of USA. Incident Brief Report, Press Release.
  • I presented my talk on October 23, 2025 about my work on California’s Central Valley groundwater recharge during wet year 2023 in Geological Society of America Connects 25.
  • I presented a poster on May 18, 2025 about my work on California’s Central Valley groundwater recharge during wet year 2023 in 2025 USGIF GEOINT Symposium.
  • Co-authored abstract got accepted for the 2025 EGU session NH6.2 – SAR remote sensing for natural and human-induced hazard applications (updates on this soon).
  • Sadhasivam, N., Werth, S., Carlson, G., Shirzaei, M. (9 December 2024). From Dry to Wet: Are Deep Central Valley Aquifers Recharged Following the Very Wet 2023? AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington D.C.
  • I presented my research work on Central Valley of California as a talk in the 2024 GRACE/GRACE-FO Science Team Meeting.
  • I presented my research work on assessing infrasturcture vulnerability in a populated Himalayan slope as a poster presentation in the 2024 Geological Society of America meeting (Link to abstract).
  • I co-presented our team project on estimating water footpint of a reservoir in the Transboundary US-Mexico Region (link) along with another team member from 2023 NSF I-GUIDE summer school on December 4, 2024 (note: recordings will be available soon online).
  • I got a best graduate poster award at the Virginia Tech Office for GIS and Remote Sensing Research 2024 Symposium.
  • I presented my study on building damage risk in Indian megacities from land subsidence at AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, CA.
 
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