Yuri Gorokhovich

Dr. Yuri Gorokhovich is a physical geologist who combines geologic and geographic methods, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), for the assessment, modeling, and mapping of current and historical natural hazards and disasters. His current research is focused on investigating long-term scale hazards (e.g. sea-level rise and its consequences on coastal vulnerability in Alaska, deglaciation processes (in Greenland and Hudson Valley) affecting climate change, etc.) and short-term scale disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc.), specifically understanding vulnerability and risk components, finding and quantifying physical and other related conditions of hazards and disasters; expanding applications of new data and methods in studying and modeling contemporary and historical environments turning hazards into disasters. 

Recent Publications:

• Machado E., Y. Gorokhovich, M. Ghahremani. 2022. Landslide inventory dataset post Hurricane Stan (2005), Lake Atitlan region, Guatemala. Data in Brief (43), August, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108356 

• Tian Y., N.J. Themelis, A.C.(Thanos) Bourtsalas, S. Kawashima, Y. Gorokhovich. 2022. Systematic study of the formation and chemical/mineral composition of waste-to-energy (WTE) fly ash. Materials Chemistry and Physics. Available online 5 October 2022, 126849. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254058422011555?via%3Dihub. DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126849 

• Velez R., D. Calderon, L. Carey, C. Aime, C. Hultquist, G. Yetman, A. Kruczkiewicz, Y. Gorokhovich, and R. S. Chen. 2022. Advancing Data for Street-level Flood Vulnerability: Evaluation of Variables Extracted from Google Street View in Quito, Ecuador. IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 3, 51-61, doi: 10.1109/OJCS.2022.3166887. 

• Gorokhovich Y., K. K. Cawse-Nicholson, N. Papadopoulos, D. Oikonomou. 2022. Use of ECOSTRESS data for measurements of the surface water temperature: significance of data filtering in accuracy assessment. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 26, 2022, 100739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2022.100739 

• Hall, J., M. Scholl, Y. Gorokhovich, M. Uriarte. 2022. Forest cover lessens the impacts of drought on stream runoff in Puerto Rico. Hydrological Processes, 36 (5). https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14551 

• Gorokhovich Y., and A.Voustianiouk. 2021. Implications of slope aspect for landslide risk assessment: a case study of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. Geomorphology, 391, 107874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107874. 

• Livingston, R., C. Grissom and Y. Gorokhovich. 2020. Portable XRF Study of the geographic distribution and growth rate of mn-rich rock varnish. Monument Future Decay and Conservation - Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone. S. Siegesmund and B. Middendorf. Halle, Germany, Mitteldeuscher Verlag: 161-166. 

• Ozcelik C., and Y. Gorokhovich. 2020. An Overland Flood Model for Geographical Information Systems. Water, 12, 9, 1 - 20 

• Gorokhovich Y. K. Block, C. McNeil, E. Barrios, M. Marionkova. 2020. Mercury source in Copan (Honduras): local mining or trade? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33, 1 - 11