2013 Alumnus’s research garners media attention at 2016 Fall AGU

Bradley Wilson, a graduate student in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas and 2013 alumni of the IRIS Internship Program, garnered media attention with his research presented at the  2016 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Wilson's work, investigating methods to account for the large influx of Syrian refugees in Turkey’s earthquake risk assessments, highlights the importance of including physical, political, cultural and socio-economic factors when building natural hazard risk assessments. Wilson finds that including such populations could increase the death toll from a major earthquake in the country’s most populated districts by up to 20 percent, potentially causing hundreds or thousands more casualties than currently projected. More information can be found here in Wilson's abstract "Fleeing to Fault Zones: Incorporating Syrian Refugees into Earthquake Risk Analysis along the East Anatolian and Dead Sea Rift Fault Zones" or in the AGU press release.