Our group’s research emphasizes the use of geodetic and remote sensing techniques to study Earth surface and subsurface processes that have significant societal impacts, including crustal deformation near plate boundaries, sea level change and land subsidence in coastal areas, as well as changes in Earth’s polar regions. While our research is primarily data-driven, we have been actively working on innovative marine and coastal geodetic instrumentation, in the hope of improving our capabilities in observing critical processes that were not well monitored by conventional methods. Several active research topics are listed below:

• Seafloor Geodesy
        GNSS-A Portal
• Crustal Deformation
• Coastal Subsidence and Sea Level Monitoring
• GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry
• Changes in the Cryosphere

 

Externally funded projects:

       > Lead PI, Collaborative Research: Novel Designs of GNSS-Acoustic Surveying for Low-Cost Seafloor Geodesy, NSF, 1/2026–12/2028

       > Co-PI, Enhancing Graduate Geodesy at the University of Houston, NGA, 6/2025–5/2030

       > Institutional PI, Collaborative Research: Meshed GNSS-Acoustic Array Design for Lower-Cost Dense Observation Fields, NSF, 1/2024–12/2026

       > Institutional PI, Collaborative Research: Improved Understanding of Subduction Zone Tsunami Genesis Using Sea Floor Geodesy Offshore Central America, NSF, 1/2024–12/2026

       > Institutional PI, Collaborative Research: Near-Trench Community Geodetic Experiment, NSF, 1/2023–12/2027

       > Co-PI, Development of GNSS-Acoustic Surveying for Shallow Water, NSF, 9/2022–8/2024