Bio
Derek, age 28, graduated from Stanford University in 2013 with dual Bachelor’s in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architectural Design, and in 2015 with a Master’s in Structural Engineering and Geomechanics. He was project manager of Stanford’s first-ever entry to the U.S. DOE’s 2013 Solar Decathlon and has been featured as an up-and-coming designer in the Los Angeles Times, in Home Energy magazine’s “30 under 30”, at TEDxStanford, and at Stanford+Connects NY and Seattle. He is Co-Founder of City Systems and a Lecturer in Stanford’s Future Bay Initiative (bay.stanford.edu).
2020-21 Courses
- Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 118X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 118Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 118Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 218X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 218Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 218Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
ESS 118X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
ESS 118Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
ESS 218X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
ESS 218Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOLSCI 118X, GEOLSCI 218X, GEOPHYS 118X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 118Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 118Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 218X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 218Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 218Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
PUBLPOL 118X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
PUBLPOL 118Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
PUBLPOL 218X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
PUBLPOL 218Y (Win) - Independent Studies (1)
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Prior Year Courses
2019-20 Courses
- Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 118X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 118Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 118Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 218X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 218Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
CEE 218Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
ESS 118X, ESS 218X, GEOLSCI 118X, GEOLSCI 218X, GEOPHYS 118X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 118Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 118Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 218X (Aut) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 218Y (Win) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
GEOPHYS 218Z (Spr) - Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
POLISCI 224X, PUBLPOL 118X (Aut) - Urban Development and Governance
CEE 136, CEE 236, PUBLPOL 130, PUBLPOL 230, URBANST 130 (Win)
2018-19 Courses
- Sustainable Urban Systems Fundamentals
CEE 124X, CEE 224X (Aut) - Sustainable Urban Systems Fundamentals
ESS 118X, ESS 218X, GEOLSCI 118X, GEOLSCI 218X, GEOPHYS 118X, GEOPHYS 218X, POLISCI 224X, PUBLPOL 118X (Aut) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 124Y (Win) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 124Z (Spr) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 224Y (Win) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 224Z (Spr) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
GEOPHYS 118Y (Win) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
GEOPHYS 118Z (Spr) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
GEOPHYS 218Y (Win) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
GEOPHYS 218Z (Spr) - Sustainable Urban Systems Seminar
CEE 124S, CEE 224S (Aut, Win, Spr)
2017-18 Courses
- Disasters, Decisions, Development in Sustainable Urban Systems
ESS 118, ESS 218, GEOPHYS 118X, GEOPHYS 218X, GS 118, GS 218, POLISCI 224A, PUBLPOL 118 (Aut) - Disasters, Decisions, Development in Sustainable Urban Systems (CEE)
CEE 124X, CEE 224X (Aut) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 124Y (Win) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 124Z (Spr) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 224Y (Win) - Sustainable Urban Systems Project
CEE 224Z (Spr) - Sustainable Urban Systems Seminar
CEE 224S (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Shaping the Future of the Bay Area
All Publications
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When floods hit the road: Resilience to flood-related traffic disruption in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Science advances
2020; 6 (32): eaba2423
Abstract
As sea level rises, urban traffic networks in low-lying coastal areas face increasing risks of flood disruptions. Closure of flooded roads causes employee absences and delays, creating cascading impacts to communities. We integrate a traffic model with flood maps that represent potential combinations of storm surges, tides, seasonal cycles, interannual anomalies driven by large-scale climate variability such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, and sea level rise. When identifying inundated roads, we propose corrections for potential biases arising from model integration. Our results for the San Francisco Bay Area show that employee absences are limited to the homes and workplaces within the areas of inundation, while delays propagate far inland. Communities with limited availability of alternate roads experience long delays irrespective of their proximity to the areas of inundation. We show that metric reach, a measure of road network density, is a better proxy for delays than flood exposure.
View details for DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aba2423
View details for PubMedID 32821823