Waiting for Superman: Coastal Erosion and Environmental Accountability
Alex Leibeskind |
TEDxCSUSM
• November 2017
As Alex noticed the threat to the grunion on his beloved family grunion runs, he began working as an academic researcher on computer models and simulations of various coastlines. In this talk, Alex provides insight into coastal erosion, how we may preemptively mitigate it, and what it reveals about our approach to the environment.
Alex Liebeskind is a high school senior at Brentwood School in Los Angeles, California. After discovering a love for coding early in his education, Alex joined the UCLA Computer Graphics and Vision Laboratory , where he has been developing image processing and data mining algorithms for facial recognition software and for assisted medical diagnoses for patient brain functional MRI scans. More recently, Alex became interested in how computer modeling can be applied to predictive simulations of the coastline and ocean systems. Alex is currently working with the Lynett Wave Research Group at the USC Department of Environmental Engineering to make such projections more widely accessible to the general public. Growing up in Southern California playing soccer, backpacking, and going to the beach, Alex is passionate about taking action to preserve the environment.