About

The EWOS Lab @theUofU focuses on understanding and observing current environmental challenges by integrating cutting-edge spaceborne technologies, computational approaches, advanced data analytics, and field measurements. We study the dynamics of a changing Earth across coastal, mountainous, and urban landscapes, with particular attention to hydrologic extremes and climate- and human-driven hazards such as solid Earth deformation, rising sea levels, and water resource availability and their interactions with the cryosphere and climate. The EWOS Lab is led by Dr. Sonam Sherpa, Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability at the University of Utah. Dr. Sherpa is an Earth scientist and 2023 NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellow, formerly at Brown University’s Department of Earth, Environment, and Planetary Sciences and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Her work bridges computational geoscience and Earth observation to advance the understanding of geohazards, flood exposure, and climate-cryosphere-hydrology interactions.