William Schulz, PhD
William Schulz is a research engineering geologist in the Landslide Hazards Program.
His efforts focus on creating products to reduce landslide hazards, including landslide hazard maps and systems to enable temporal landslide forecasting. These efforts include researching mechanisms contributing to landslide failure modes, geometries, locations, triggering conditions, timing, and speed.
Prior to joining the U.S. Geological Survey in 2002, William Schulz worked as an engineering geologist in the private sector in California and Wisconsin, mostly investigating and mitigating landslide and coseismic ground displacement hazards. Schulz relies on cutting-edge technologies to support his work, such as advanced in-situ monitoring systems, remote sensing including lidar and InSAR from satellite, aerial, and terrestrial platforms, geotechnical testing including using novel ring-shear apparatuses for shear-strength analyses, and numerical modeling.
