Member Since 2011
Mojtaba Sadegh
Associate Professor, Boise State University
Mojtaba (Moji) Sadegh is an associate professor of Civil Engineering at Boise State University. Moji is enthusiastic about characterizing how climatic changes shape the future of Earth and its inhabitants. He is passionate about increasing the resilience of natural, built and societal infrastructure to escalating climate/weather extremes. Moji uses data-driven methods to unravel mechanisms that drive climate extremes and their societal impacts.
Professional Experience
Boise State University
Associate Professor
2017 - Present
Education
University of California Irvine
Doctorate
Current Roles
Member
Ambassador Award Committee
Associate Editor
Earth's Future
Honors & Awards
Publications
Downslope Wind‐Driven Fires in the Western United States
Downslope wind‐driven fires have resulted in many of the wildfire disasters in the western United States and represent a unique hazard to inf...
May 02, 2023
Increasing Heat‐Stress Inequality in a Warming Climate
February 04, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Drivers of Recent Extreme Regional-to-Continental Fire Seasons
COMPOUND, CONSECUTIVE, AND CASCADING EVENTS: CHALLENGES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTIHAZARDS II ORAL
natural hazards | 15 december 2023
John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal Kolden, Matthew W. Jon...
In the past decade, several regions across the globe have experienced devastating fire seasons with fire attributes unparalleled in the modern era. Th...
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Multivariate Statistical Methods for Varying Scenarios of Compound and Cascading Hazards
COMPOUND, CONSECUTIVE, AND CASCADING EVENTS: CHALLENGES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTIHAZARDS II ORAL
natural hazards | 15 december 2023
Charlotte A. Love, Amir AghaKouchak, Mojtaba Sadeg...
Multivariate statistical methods that account for the relationship between hazardous events with extreme impacts, whether it be spatially and/or tempo...
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Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States
CLIMATE-INFORMED RISK ASSESSMENT FOR EXTREME EVENTS I ORAL
natural hazards | 14 december 2023
Mojtaba Sadegh, Arash Modaresi Rad, John T. Abatzo...
An increasing number of wildfire disasters that directly impact human population and infrastructure have occurred in recent years across the globe, in...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2025
Associate Editor
Earth's Future
2024 - 2025
Member
Ambassador Award Committee
2023 - 2023
Member
Earth’s Future EIC Search Committee
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