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​Ignacio Sepúlveda
SDSU Coastal Engineering

Relevant awards
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2013-2017 Fulbright Scholarship for doctorate studies in the United States.
2013-2017 Becas-Chile Scholarship for doctorate studies in the United States (first place among 633 applicants).
2015,2017 2nd place, Graduate Student Symposium, Cornell University.
2018 Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2017.
2018 Miles Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Foundation. Fellowship for post-doctoral research at Scripps.
2020 Top 10% most read AGU JGR:Solid Earth and GRL papers 2018-2019. For Sepúlveda et al. (2019); Carvajal et al. (2020)
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Selected presentations
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Virtual International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2020
Oral: Uncertainty of altimetry-predicted bathymetry and application on tsunami hazard assessment. Presentation of results and future work.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco,2019
Oral: Tsunami hazard assessments with consideration of uncertain bathymetry.
Asia Oceania Geosciences Conference 2019, Singapore, 2019
Oral: Tsunami hazard assessments with consideration of uncertain bathymetry. Presentation of proposed methodology.
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American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2018 Washington DC. 2018
(1) Oral: Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessments in South China Sea with consideration of uncertain earthquake characteristics. (2) Poster: On the co-seismic contribution of co- seismic displacements to the 2018 Palu tsunami.
South China Sea Tsunami Workshop 2018, Singapore. 2018
Oral: Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessments in South China Sea with consideration of uncertain earthquake characteristics.
International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2018, Baltimore. 2018
Oral: Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessments in South China Sea with consideration of uncertain earthquake characteristics.
SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Garden Grove (California). 2018
Oral: Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessments with Consideration of Uncertain Earthquake Characteristics. Session: Data Sources and Modeling of Uncertainties in Geophysical Hazards.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans. 2017
Oral: Tsunami Hazard Assessments with consideration of uncertain earthquakes.
International Tsunami Symposium 2017, Bali. 2017
Oral: Earthquake Uncertainty Effects on Tsunami Hazard Assessments.
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco. 2016
Oral: Estimating Tsunami Runup with Fault Plane Parameters.
International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2016, Turkey (cancelled). 2016
Oral: Estimating Tsunami Runup with Fault Plane Parameters.
4th Annual Marine Renewable Energy Technical Conference, UMASS. 2013
Oral: Hydrodynamic modeling of tidal currents and power extraction in Chacao Channel.
XX National Conference of Hydraulic Engineering, SOCHID, Chile. 2011
Oral: Hydrodynamic modeling of tidal currents and power extraction in Chacao Channel.
XXXI Conference of Marine Sciences, Chilean Society of Marine Sciences. 2011
Oral: Hydrodynamic modeling of tidal currents and power extraction in Chacao Channel.
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Media
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BBC Science in Action Radio Show
The causes of Indonesia's Palu Bay tsunami last year are being examined thanks to social media.
23 May 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csym1q
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EOS Magazine
Modeling Tsunamis with Social Media
31 MAY 2019
https://eos.org/editor-highlights/modeling-tsunamis-with-social-media
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Scripps News
UC San Diego at Epicenter of Earthquake Research
17 OCT 2019
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/uc-san-diego-epicenter-earthquake-research
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EOS Magazine
Social Media Helps Reveal Cause of 2018 Indonesian Tsunami
26 JUN 2020
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/social-media-helps-reveal-cause-of-2018-indonesian-tsunami
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Scripps News
UNVEILING THE ACCURACY OF TSUNAMI PREDICTIONS
8 Oct 2020
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/unveiling-accuracy-tsunami-predictions
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