Professor Marin Clark (University of Michigan) (lead PI) is Professor and Chair in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan. Marin is a geologist with expertise in geomorphology, geodynamics, tectonics and geohazards. Her research group has worked in tectonically active settings around the world, with projects in central Asia, the US, Europe, the Caribbean and New Zealand involving collaborators from US and international universities, USGS and NASA. She has expertise in field geology, landslide hazards, thermochronology, landscape evolution and geodynamic modeling. Motivated by the importance of steep landscapes in the Earth system and their key role as loci of natural hazards, she is deeply interested in leveraging natural hazards research to advance understanding geomorphic processes and to serve societal needs across multiple scales and disciplines.

Professor Josh Roering (University of Oregon) (co-PI) is a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon. He brings expertise in hillslope geomorphology, landslides and topographic analysis. His research group has studied landsliding and related hazards with a range of tools (LiDAR, InSAR, numerical modeling, cosmogenic nuclides, photogrammetry, tephrochronology and dendrochronology) for fundamental and applied problems. He recently aquired NSF support for a new multi-hazard characterization and mitigation project across SE Alaska that originates with engagement of remote, tribal communities. He also led the geoscience component of an NSF project that recently implemented a landslide warning system for Sitka, Alaska. That project is described in a March 2023 NPR All Things Considered segment.

Professor Josh West (USC) (co-PI) is a Professor of Earth Sciences and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. He works at the intersection of Earth's landscapes, water & soil resources, and the carbon cycle & climate, focusing especially on mountains and their interaction with surrounding floodplains. His work addresses questions about how topography forms and evolves; how mountains control fluxes of water, sediment, and nutrients; how they interact with global biogeochemical cycles to regulate the long-term evolution of Earth’s life-sustaining environment; and how they contribute to generating natural hazards, particularly landslides and debris flows.

Professor Dimitrios Zekkos (UC Berkeley) (co-PI) is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. Dimitrios is a civil geotechnical engineer, with expertise on landslides, soil and rock mechanics, and geophysics. He is passionate about multi-scale sensing and modeling approaches that help understand system-wide response in natural hazards and climate change. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Geotechnical Extreme Events reconnaissance (GEER) group funded by NSF and is co-Director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Smart Infrastructure. He has served as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments at the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley and is co-owner and senior Principal in an infrastructure analytics firm, as well as a geo-consulting firm based in the US and Europe.

Associate Professor Brian Yanites (Indiana University) (co-PI). His research focuses on how the evolution of topography links the atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. He has studied the landscape legacy of extreme events such as earthquakes, tropical cyclones, and mid-continental weather events (e.g. supercells) across a range of tectonic and climatic environments such as Taiwan, the western US, and the Midwest. He addresses these research topics with a combination of field observation, numerical modeling, and lidar.