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Over the past decades, we have seen escalating costs associated with the direct socio-economic impacts of rising sea levels, and extreme events, such as flooding in addition to water security concerns due to changes in climate and other anthropogenic activities. As the global population continues to grow amidst a changing climate, it is anticipated that the number of individuals affected by sea-level rise, freshwater scarcity, and flooding will rise in the coming years. In such cases, the growing number and continually improving coverage of earth-observing satellites, a large archive of big data, and machine learning approaches have transformed the community’s capacity to timely respond to coastal disasters, flooding, and water security concerns. In this seminar, Dr. Sherpa will present research that addresses these grand challenges through earth observation from a large archive of available remotely sensed space-borne measurements for large-scale flood extent mapping using big data and machine learning approach, Understanding, and projecting the relative sea-level rise, and flooding for coastal hazard resilience. She will also highlight her ongoing research, which involves tracking water in the proglacial environment using cutting-edge remote sensing technology.