Magesh Chandramouli is a Professor of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University Northwest and is a Distinguished Visiting Faculty of Computer Graphics at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Dr. Chandramouli has served as Principal Investigator & collaborator in Federal and Regional grants including NSF, SMART grant (Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology), NASA/INSGC Grant, etc. He served as the Director of Programs of the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. He was a Frederick Andrews Fellow at Purdue University, West Lafayette, where he completed his Ph.D. He received Master of Science from the University of Calgary, Canada, Master of Engineering from the National University of Singapore, and B.E. from College of Engineering, Guindy, India. He has received National and International awards for his scholarly accomplishments and has delivered invited lectures in reputed universities and research centers around the world.

Bruno Basso is John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor and MSU Foundation Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Michigan State University.
He is an agroecosystem scientist and a crop systems modeler with interest in long-term sustainability of agricultural systems, digital agriculture, circular bioeconomy.
His research focuses on assessing and modeling spatial and temporal variability of crop yield, soil organic carbon, GHG emission, water, and nutrients fluxes across agricultural landscapes under current and future climates.
He holds global patents on AI, remote sensing, and crop model systems to evaluate cropland productivity and environmental sustainability.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Soil Science Society of America (SSSA); American Society of Agronomy (ASA). He is the recipient of the 2021 Morgan Stanley Sustainability Solution Prize Collaborative; 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University; 2016 Recipient of the Innovation of the Year Award from Michigan State.
He serves as member of the Board of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). He is a member of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (BERAC), Department of Energy, Office of Science. He is ranked as top 2% scientist across all disciplines (PLOS one, 2021).
He has published more than 200 peer-review papers, and several high profile journals (Nature Climate Change, Nature Food, Nature Plants, Nature Sustainability, Nature Communication, PNAS, Scientific Reports). His H-index is 62 and his citation in November 2022 are 16349.
He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

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My research falls broadly in the area of sustainable agriculture. My approach is to integrate diverse disciplines such as Biophysics, Climatology, Hydrology, Genetics, Agronomy, and Soil Science to understand the overall agricultural systems and to improve decision-making across a broad spectrum of stakeholders, from the smallholder farmer in the developing world to the industrial producer and policy maker at all scales.
I am mainly interested in the ecosystem of row-crop production systems. Chemically intensive production requirements have raised serious concerns about the sustainability of these systems. Of particular importance is the ability to provide sustainable ecosystem services (crop production, carbon sequestration, and nitrogen conservation, in particular).
Key aspects of my approach include the following:
1.Developing and applying advanced crop system models to predict the impact of weather, soil and management on short-term and long-term yield, nutrient uptake, water use efficiency and environmental outcomes
2.Exploring the advances and limitations of different air and space-borne platforms to obtain remotely sensed data and link this information with algorithms to understand spatial and temporal nutrient and water uptake by plants and to integrate this information in quantitative models
3.Assessing the impact of climate variability and change on agricultural production systems.
The understanding of the spatial and temporal variability aspects of the soil-plant-atmosphere system is at the core of my research. One of my main research goals is to develop new technologies and transfer knowledge to farmers to better manage this variability and to quantify the risk associated with the decisions they make in order to optimize economic and environmental outcomes.

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Alessandro Pasuto is the Research Director at Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection of the National Research Council of Italy (IRPI-CNR) and responsible of the Padova Unit. His research activity is mainly focused to applied geology and geomorphology as well as landslide hazard and risk assessment and management. He is consultant for the Nation Dept. of Civil Protection in case of emergencies. Since 1990 he is involved in EU funded research projects and conduct research activities in many countries worldwide (e.g., Japan, China, Argentina, Svalbard Islands, Malta).
In 2003 he established GRJL, Geo-Risk Joint Lab, Italy-Japan Joint Laboratory on hydrogeological risks supported by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Moreover in 2005 he was founder member of TellNet, “International Disaster Transfer Live Lessons Network” (https://tell-net.jp). He was member of the Italian official delegations at the 2nd and 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (Kobe, Japan 2005; Sendai, Japan 2015).
Since 2014 he is coordinating bilateral scientific research activities between CNR-CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) on landslides hazard and in 2017 in cooperation with Institute of Mountain Hazard and Environment he established the Sino-Italian Joint Laboratory on Geological and Hydrological Hazards based in Chengdu (Sichuan, China).
He is member of the European Landslide Expert Group and of the Executive Committee of CERG (European Centre on Geomorphological Hazard). Moreover, he collaborates with several universities and research centres both in Italy and abroad and is author of more than 200 scientific papers also acting as guest editor for prestigious scientific journals.

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In the past decade, a series of significant landslides events in the United States and territories has brought these geologic hazards to the attention of the public, media, politicians, and scientists. Events include a ~8 M m3 landslide in Washington state that took 43 lives in 2014, ~70,000 landslides triggered by hurricane-related rainfall in Puerto Rico in 2017, post-fire debris flows in California that killed 23 people in 2018, and in 2021 the discovery of a ~500 M m3 landslide in Alaska that continues to threaten several coastal communities and maritime traffic from a potential landslide-triggered displacement wave (tsunami). These events have fundamentally changed how the United States Geological Survey (USGS) responds to landslide emergencies, including the focus of our current research. This includes directing additional resources to enhancing preparedness, assisting first responders during landslide disasters, and investigating these landslides events to increase the scientific communities understanding of significant landslide events. This presentation will touch on these four landslide events, the USGS response, and lessons learned through response and research.

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Catastrophic and continuous debris yielding from large gravitationally deformed slopes. Some deep-seated gravitational slope deformations transform into catastrophic failure, suddenly yielding a large volume of debris, and other deep-seated gravitational slope deformations continue to yield debris for a long time. Those examples would be shown in relation to sediment control.