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OSU researchers working on a better, faster way to design and maintain buildings  Matt O'Banion Geospatial Younger Professional  PacTrans Researchers Develop New Techniques to Assess Rock Slopes Endangering Highways Partners preparing for the Big One UESI Member in Focus: Michael Olsen, May 3, 2017 ,  ASCE UESIScientist use high tech to make roads safer from rockfalls ,  King 5 News, May 1, 2017Researchers Develop New Technology Showing Rockfall Hazards Quake Creates Massive Lake on Family Farm Tech in the Trees Meet the Editor:  Journal of Surveying Engineering Leaders in Resilience and Safety  Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University.  (November 03, 2016).Quake creates massive lake on family farm UW to open research center to study disasters UW will host global center for disaster reconnaissance New UW center will investigate natural disaster damage Moving at the speed of lidar More foundation options for Canterbury Home Owners Manmade quakes shake eastern Christchurch ,  One NewsRoboBees Can Fly and Swim, What’s Next?  Laser Vision New OSU tool greatly speeds landslide risk detection Mapping a Path for the Future, CCE News, Fall/Winter 2013.  
Mobile lidar enables high resolution, vehicle-based mapping Oregon 9.0.  When the next big one comes, will we be ready?, Laser scanner helps predict landslides Mobile lidar technology expanding rapidly How the new mobile lidar guidelines will drive lidar adoption Meet your major TopCAT—Topographical Compartment Analysis Tool to Analyze Seacliff and Beach Change in GIS Anatomy of a Disaster: Mapping Catastrophe in 3-D, Our Amazing Planet, October 27, 2011.  Also appears in MSNBC.  
Scan data aids tsunami engineer’s inquest New program to expand, enhance use of lidar sensing technology, OSU News and Communication Services, (October 10,2011) Transportation Research Board grants $250k for mobile lidar guidelines development, SparView 9(27), (September 20,2011).  http://www.sparpointgroup.com/News  
Mount Hood Hides Secret Earthquake Fault, Our Amazing Planet, (August 31, 2011) 
Hidden earthquake faults revealed at Mount Hood OSU using scanners to watch for landslides, Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce, (December 21, 2010), http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/12/21/osu-using-scanners-to-watch-for-landslides/ 
North Americans await a similar earthquake, Carlos Oyarce S., El Sur (April 23, 2010), http://www.elsur.cl/diarioelsur/pagina.php?fecha=20100423&pagina=01 
Making waves, saving lives, NSF Science Nation Special Report, (December 14, 2009), http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/tsunamiresearch.jsp  
Conference Review: 2009 Leica Geosystems HDS Worldwide User Conference,  Geoinformatics, (December 9, 2009) 
OSU Researchers Develop Earthquake Imaging System, KEZI News, Eugene, (November 5 2009), http://kezi.com/news/local/147837  
Lidar mapping after Samoan Tsunami Could Boost Research Efforts  (November 4, 2009), OSU News and Communication Services, Leica User’s Conference wrap-up and Revit PC feature, lidarnews.com, (October 30, 2009), http://lidarnews.com/leica-uc-wrap-up-and-revit-pc-feature