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Joseph Wartman is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with specific focus on areas such as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering, Geophysics, and Transportation.

The research topics Wartman explores include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Human Vulnerability to Landslides" (2020), published in GeoHealth
  • "Rainfall triggers more deep-seated landslides than Cascadia earthquakes in the Oregon Coast Range, USA" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Research Needs, Challenges, and Strategic Approaches for Natural Hazards and Disaster Reconnaissance" (2020), published in Frontiers in Built Environment
  • "Volume Characteristics of Landslides Triggered by the MW 7.8 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand, Derived From Digital Surface Difference Modeling" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "East Palu Valley flowslides induced by the 2018 M 7.5 Palu-Donggala earthquake" (2020), published in Geomorphology

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Michael J. Olsen
  • Scott B. Miles
  • Ben Leshchinsky
  • Nicole A. Errett
  • Jeffrey W. Berman

Joseph Wartman has published multiple works in several key academic venues such as:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Frontiers in Built Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Landslides

Best Publications

  • Shaking Table Modeling of Seismically Induced Deformations in Slopes

    Joseph Wartman;Joseph Wartman;Raymond B. Seed;Raymond B. Seed;Jonathan D. Bray;Jonathan D. Bray

  • Landslides Triggered by the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand

    C. Massey;D. Townsend;Ellen M. Rathje;Kate E. Allstadt

  • INCLINED PLANE STUDIES OF THE NEWMARK SLIDING BLOCK PROCEDURE

    Joseph Wartman;Jonathan D. Bray;Raymond B. Seed

  • SELECT ENGINEERING CHARACTERISTICS OF CRUSHED GLASS

    Joseph Wartman;Dennis G. Grubb;A. S. M. Nasim

  • The 22 March 2014 Oso landslide, Washington, USA

    Joseph Wartman;David R. Montgomery;Scott A. Anderson;Jeffrey R. Keaton

  • Landslides in Eastern Honshu Induced by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

    Joseph Wartman;Lisa Dunham;Binod Tiwari;Daniel Pradel

  • Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005

    Remon I. Abdelmalak;Adda G. Athanasopoulos;Robert G. Bea;Gordon P. Boutwell

  • Human Vulnerability to Landslides.

    William Pollock;Joseph Wartman

  • Laboratory Evaluation of Crushed Glass–Dredged Material Blends

    Dennis G. Grubb;Patricia M. Gallagher;Joseph Wartman;Yigang Liu

  • Landslides caused by the M 7.6 Tecomán, Mexico earthquake of January 21, 2003

    David K. Keefer;Joseph Wartman;Carlos Navarro Ochoa;Adrian Rodriguez-Marek

  • Rainfall triggers more deep-seated landslides than Cascadia earthquakes in the Oregon Coast Range, USA

    Sean R LaHusen;Sean R LaHusen;Alison R Duvall;Adam M Booth;Alex R. R. Grant

  • Uncertainty in seismic slope deformation model predictions

    Patrick M. Strenk;Joseph Wartman

  • Immediate and Time-Dependent Compression of Tire Derived Aggregate

    Joseph Wartman;Mark F. Natale;Patrick M. Strenk

  • Regional-scale co-seismic landslide assessment using limit equilibrium analysis

    Angela Saade;Grace Abou-Jaoude;Joseph Wartman

  • Rock slope response to strong earthquake shaking

    C. Massey;F. Della Pasqua;C. Holden;A. Kaiser

  • Research Needs, Challenges, and Strategic Approaches for Natural Hazards and Disaster Reconnaissance

    Joseph Wartman;Jeffrey W. Berman;Ann Bostrom;Scott Miles

  • Volume Characteristics of Landslides Triggered by the M W 7.8 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand, Derived From Digital Surface Difference Modeling

    C. I. Massey;D. Townsend;K. Jones;B. Lukovic

  • East Palu Valley flowslides induced by the 2018 MW 7.5 Palu-Donggala earthquake

    H. Benjamin Mason;Jack Montgomery;Aaron P. Gallant;Daniel Hutabarat

  • Rockfall Activity Index (RAI): A lidar-derived, morphology-based method for hazard assessment

    Lisa Dunham;Joseph Wartman;Michael J. Olsen;Matthew O'Banion

  • Field evaluation of crushed glass-dredged material blends

    Dennis G. Grubb;Atwood F. Davis;Steven C. Sands;Michael Carnivale

  • New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. III: The 17th Street Drainage Canal

    R. B. Seed;R. G. Bea;A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos;G. P. Boutwell

  • Landslides caused by the Mw7.8 Kaikōura earthquake and the immediate response

    Sally Dellow;Chris Massey;Simon Cox;Garth Archibald

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond B. Seed
Raymond B. Seed University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan D. Bray
Jonathan D. Bray University of California, Berkeley
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery University of Washington
Brian D. Collins
Brian D. Collins United States Geological Survey
Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A. Farber University of California, Berkeley
Ann Bostrom
Ann Bostrom University of Washington
Ellen M. Rathje
Ellen M. Rathje The University of Texas at Austin
Jean-Louis Briaud
Jean-Louis Briaud Texas A&M University
Karlene H. Roberts
Karlene H. Roberts University of California, Berkeley

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