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Richard L. Wood

Richard L. Wood

Contact Information:

City Campus (Lincoln)

C190D SEC

rwood@unl.edu

Personal Links:

• Group Webpage
• Faculty Profile Single Page Summary
• Online Point Cloud Data Viewer
• NOBL: Nebraska Outdoor Bridge Lab

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Associate Professor

Academic Degrees

Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
M.S., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
B.S., with Greater Distinction, Civil Engineering, Clarkson University

Experience

Professional Committee Leadership in International and National Organizations:
- Local Leader/President, Nebraska Section, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Chair, Remote Sensing Subcommittee, Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Steering Member, Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Post-disaster reconnaissance mission to assess structural and geotechnical damage following:
- 2019 Hurricane Dorian (Bahamas): NSF StEER as imaging team lead for FAST-2
- 2017 Hurricane Harvey (Texas): 2 missions of GEER and NSF Rapid
- 2015 Pampa Tornado (Texas): NSF Rapid
- 2015 Gorkha Earthquake (Nepal)
- 2014 Pilger Tornado Family (Nebraska)
- 2010 Baja California Earthquake (California and Bajac California): 2 missions of EERI and GEER

Professional Committee Membership:
- Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network, Level 4 Member
- Surveying and Geomatics Educators Society (SaGES), member
- Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member and steering committee
- Remote Sensing Subcommittee, Wind Speed Estimation In Tornadoes, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member and co-chair
- National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, member
- Advances in Simulation, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)-American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member
- School Earthquake Safety Initiative, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), member

Research Opportunities (Graduate/Undergraduate)

• Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure
GeoAI
Point Clouds
Built and Natural Environment
Health Monitoring
Damage Assessment & System Identification

Research Profiles:

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In the News: Powered by the

Jan 26, 2022: Wittich, Wood part of Husker team using 3D scanning to preserve Mayan temple

Dec 02, 2019: Wood gauges Hurricane Dorian's impact on the Bahamas

Sep 28, 2019: CEE researchers, History Nebraska team up for digital mapping of Robber's Cave

Jan 03, 2019: Moment of silence during Cather-Pound demolition resonates with research team

Jun 11, 2018: Civil engineers invent software to detect structural damage

Apr 06, 2018: Cather Pound demolition research to help make buildings safer

Jan 03, 2018: Data looks 'promising', say faculty studying Cather Pound demolition

Dec 19, 2017: CATHER-POUND DEMOLITION/WHAT TO EXPECT: How the buildings will fall

Dec 08, 2017: Cather, Pound razing offers landmark research opportunity for engineers

Oct 06, 2017: Richard Wood assesses Hurricane Harvey damage

Courses Taught

Honors and Awards

2019 Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award, UNL College of Engineering, 2019
Top Poster Prize in the UNL REU Sustainability of Horizontal Civil Networks in Rural Areas Program, Alexis Laurent, Visiting undergraduate student under my advisement, 2019
2018 Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding Thesis Award, Garrett P. Martindale, MS student under my advisement, 2018
1st Place Finish for Student Competition. Mohammadi ME, Wood R. (2018). Automatic Bridge Damage Detection from Point Cloud Representations. 2018 International Highway Engineering Exchange Program (IHEEP), Lincoln, NE, September 22-27, 2018. Awarded to the PhD student under my advisement
3rd Place Finish for Student Competition. Liao Y, Wood R. (2017). Distributed Infrastructure Assessment of Gravel Roads via Point Clouds. 2017 International Highway Engineering Exchange Program (IHEEP), Covington, KY, September 24-28, 2017. Awarded to the PhD student under my advisement
Certification of Recognition for Contributions for Students (Teaching Award), 2017
ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, West Point, NY, July 2015
Dissertation Fellowship Recipient, 2012
Powell Fellowship Recipient, 2006-2009
Regents Fellowship Recipient, 2007-2008
Charles Martin Clark Prize for Outstanding Character and Scholarship, 2006
Living the Mission Service Award for Excellence, Compassion, Creativity, and Service to Others, 2003