Projects

The USC Urban Trees Initiative brings together faculty, staff, and student researchers to help the City of Los Angeles and local nonprofits grow an equitable and resilient urban forest.

To address environmental inequalities and prepare for a warming climate, the City of L.A. is planting 90,000 new trees in areas of greatest need. However, the tree-planting process is not simple. How do we identify areas of greatest need? What do we do when there’s no space to plant in those areas?

Since August 2020, USC experts in spatial mapping, landscape architecture, and air quality monitoring have been working with the City and local communities to answer challenging questions about where, how many, and what kinds of new trees to plant in areas of East and South L.A.

Implications of the rheology of ductile shear zones for the width of plate boundary fault zones below the brittle-ductile transition.

Aims to investigate the tectonics of the San Andreas Transform system, primarily through the use of the geodetically-defined velocity field in California.  It has three main themes: Geodetic and seismotectonic constraints on the active tectonics of California, Analysis of the slip-rate distribution on SAF-related faults in California, and the Bookshelf slip on rotating panels of sinistral faults within the San Andreas Transform system.