Robb Moss

Professor | Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Areas of Expertise

Geohazard Mitigation

(including earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, debris flows, fault rupture) 

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Biography

Robb Moss, a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, is an expert in geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and risk and reliability with respect to earthquake engineering. His research and consulting focuses on the physics and probability of natural hazards such as strong ground motions, seismic soil liquefaction, surface fault rupture, seismic induced landslides, debris flow and others. He has worked in more than 15 countries on projects to address earthquake hazards, and has been a member of nine earthquake nine earthquake reconnaissance teams that traveled to Nepal, Japan, Chile, Alaska, Turkey, India, Mexico and around California. His teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses in geotechnical engineering, engineering risk analysis, geological engineering and earthquake engineering.

Education

• Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• M.S., Utah State University, Logan, Geotechnical Engineering 
• B.S., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Civil Engineering

Research Interests

• Soil Mechanics
• Reliability and Probabilistic Analysis
• Lifelines Engineering
• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Engineering Risk Analysis
• Liquefaction Engineering
• Engineering Seismology
• Geohazard Mitigation