Postfire Debris Flows
I lead the effort to build, scale, and deploy the PWFDF Collection, the USGS's official postfire debris-flow (PFDF) hazard assessment product. Over my tenure, I've modernized this product from a collection of unpublished legacy scripts to a production-grade, open-source software stack. These improvements have allowed us to scale these assessments to a publicly-released, national hazard product, complete with a strict data specification and access API.
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For more details, here's a seminar I gave about this work at the Geologic Hazards Science Center:
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