M.S. · SDSU
Aleksandra Kalnozola
Dispersion of contaminants.
People
Members & student researchers
Students and collaborators contributing to coastal hazards, hydrosphere sensing, environmental transport, and numerical modeling.
Current members
Student researchers
Current research topics reflect the most recent lab update.
M.S. · SDSU
Carolyn Cornelio
Water-borne biological hazards in salmon farming.
Undergraduate · SDSU
Katrina Wallacher
GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR).
Ph.D. student · Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Fabian Kutchera
Tsunami generation models.
M.S. · SDSU
Victor Vargas-Cuadra
Recent graduate
Recently completed
M.S. · SDSU · completed 2026
Thanh Do
Dispersion of brine from a desalination plant.
Read final project PDFM.S. project · SDSU · 2025
Mohammed Abdur Rahman Shakoor
Climate-driven wave impacts and operational downtime at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Read final project PDFGraduate mentoring
Master's researchers
Graduate projects listed in the laboratory CV.
Axel Samuel Rinder
M.S., SDSU · GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry, including tide measurements and smartphone GNSS-IR experiments.
Read master's project PDFEnrico-Joaquin Santos
SDSU · COMCOT modeling of the 1960 Valdivia and 1964 Alaska tsunamis and their effects along the California coast.
Read project PDFUndergraduate mentoring
Undergraduate researchers
Research mentoring through independent study, summer research, and funded programs.
Lucas Frillici
Far-field tsunami hazards in Southern California from earthquakes in Asia.
Samuel Price
Far-field tsunami hazards in Southern California from earthquakes in the Americas.
Read research posterTegan Goodman
Near-field tsunami hazard assessment in Southern California.
Alvin Jay Gopez
GNSS-IR using National Geodetic Survey stations.
Read research posterJayvree-Michael Gonzales
GNSS-IR using smartphones.
Read research posterFabian Gutierrez
GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry.
Read research posterSydney Burham
Far-field tsunamis along the California coast.
Andrew Mosqueda
Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for California and volcanic tsunamis.
Kameron Lumanlan
Tsunami and dispersion models.
Doctoral mentoring
Doctoral committee & co-advising
Students for whom Ignacio Sepulveda has served in a committee or secondary advising role.
Ruei-Jiun Hung
Ph.D./JDP, Geological Sciences · Physics-based fault-zone fluid response associated with near- and far-field earthquakes.
Andrea Fabrizzi
Ph.D./JDP, Geological Sciences · Plate-boundary deformation at the East Pacific Rise and California Continental Borderland.
Yue Du
Ph.D./JDP, Geological Sciences · Fully coupled dynamic rupture, wedge plasticity, ocean acoustic waves, and tsunami modeling for great Japan Trench earthquakes.
Historical student roles and research topics are based on the laboratory CV; current-member descriptions reflect the latest lab update.