Journal Publications

  • Asteriou, P., Zekkos, D., & Manousakis, J. (2025). Fully remote assessment of rockfall incidents based on crowdsourced imagery. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 84(4), 204.
  • Clark, M. K., Zekkos, D., & Manousakis, J. (2025). Enabling 3D landslide event statistics using satellite and UAV-enabled topographic differencing. Landslides, 22(4), 1041-1058.
  • Medwedeff, W. G., Clark, M. K., & Zekkos, D. (2025). Regional back‐analysis of earthquake triggered landslide inventories: A 2D method for estimating rock strength from remote sensing data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130(1), e2023JF007471.
  • Chen, C. M., Hollingsworth, J., Clark, M. K., Chamlagain, D., Bista, S., Zekkos, D., Siwakoti, A.. & West, A. J. (2025). Erosional cascade during the 2021 Melamchi flood. Nature Geoscience, 18(1), 32-36.
  • Admassu, K. A., Lynch, J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Zekkos, D., & Benhamida, B. (2024). Risk-based asset management framework for highway retaining wall systems using wireless structural health monitoring data. Advances in Structural Engineering, 27(16), 2929-2949.
  • Kim, J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., & Zekkos, D. (2024). The Effect of Initial Static Shear Stress on Liquefaction Triggering of Coarse-Grained Materials. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 150(10), 04024099.
  • Jo, Y., & Zekkos, D. (2024). Analysis of long-term MSW settlement based on field data measured at two closed landfills. Environmental Geotechnics, 1-16.
  • Kitsis, V., Athanasopoulos, G. A., Zekkos, D. (2024). Kinematic Response of a Gravity Retaining Wall in the Cephalonia, Greece, 2014 Earthquakes, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, 1-24 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-024-02776-7
  • Gong, W., Zekkos, D., and Clark, ., (2023), The influence of seismic displacement models on spatial prediction of regional earthquake-induced landslides. Engineering Geology. 325,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2023.107288
  • Gong, W., Zekkos, D., and Clark, M. (2023). A pseudo-3D methodology for regional-scale back-analysis of earthquake-induced landslides. Engineering Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2023.107277.
  • Roy, J., Rollins, K. M., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., & Zekkos, D. (2023). Correlation between Shear-Wave Velocity and Dynamic Cone Resistance for Gravelly Soil. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149(9), 04023081.
  • Amatya, P., Scheip, C., Déprez, A., Malet, J. P., Slaughter, S. L., Handwerger, A. L., Emberson, R., Kirshbaum, D., Jean-Baptiste, J., Huang, M-H, Clark, M. K., Zekkos, D., Huang, J-H, Pacini, F., Boissier, E., (2023). Learnings from rapid response efforts to remotely detect landslides triggered by the August 2021 Nippes earthquake and Tropical Storm Grace in Haiti. Natural Hazards, 118 (3), 2337-2375
  • Zalachoris, G., Zekkos, D., Yerro, A., Bowers, G. A., & Wissmann, K. J. (2023). 3D Numerical Assessment of Rammed Aggregate Pier Performance under Dynamic Loading in Liquefiable Soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149(3), 04023001.
  • Hubler, J. F., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., & Zekkos, D. (2023). Pore Pressure Generation of Gravelly Soils in Constant Volume Cyclic Simple Shear. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 149(2), 04022130.
  • Trigg, M. A., Dehghani, M. S., Kesete, Y. Y., Carr, A. B., Trigg, S. G., Zekkos, D., Lopez, D., Pertierra, M., van Westen, C.J., Jetten, V. and Ogden, F.L. (2023). Realities of bridge resilience in Small Island Developing States. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 28(1), 1.
  • Kallimogiannis, V., Saroglou, C., Zekkos, D., & Papadimitriou, A. (2022). Back-analyses of co-seismic landslides in carbonate fault rocks due to the Mw 6.5 earthquake (2015) in Lefkada island, Greece. Engineering Geology, 309, 106850.
  • Valkaniotis, S., Papathanassiou, G., Marinos, V., Saroglou, C., Zekkos, D., Kallimogiannis, V., Karantanellis, E., Farmakis, I., Zalachoris, G., Manousakis, J. and Ktenidou, O.J. (2022). Landslides Triggered by Medicane Ianos in Greece, September 2020: Rapid Satellite Mapping and Field Survey. Applied Sciences, 12(23), 12443.
  • Rollins, K. M., Roy, J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Zekkos, D., Amoroso, S., Cao, Z., Milana, G., Vassallo, M., & Di Giulio, G. (2022). A New V s-Based Liquefaction-Triggering Procedure for Gravelly Soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 148(6), 04022040.
  • Roy, J., Rollins, K. M., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Harper, M., Linton, N., Basham, M., Greenwood, W. & Zekkos, D. (2022). Gravel liquefaction assessment using dynamic cone penetration and shear wave velocity tests based on field performance from the 1964 Alaska earthquake. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 160, 107357.
  • Zhou, H., Lynch, J., & Zekkos, D. (2022). Autonomous wireless sensor deployment with unmanned aerial vehicles for structural health monitoring applications. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 29(6), e2942.
  • Medwedeff, W. G., Clark, M. K., Zekkos, D., West, A. J., & Chamlagain, D. (2022). Near‐Surface Geomechanical Properties and Weathering Characteristics Across a Tectonic and Climatic Gradient in the Central Nepal Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(2), e2021JF006240.
  • Rollins, K. M., Roy, J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Zekkos, D., Amoroso, S., & Cao, Z. (2021). A New Dynamic Cone Penetration Test–Based Procedure for Liquefaction Triggering Assess-ment of Gravelly Soils, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147(12).
  • Loli, M., Mitoulis, S. A., Tsatsis, A., Manousakis, J., Kourkoulis, R., & Zekkos, D. (2022). Flood characterization based on forensic analysis of bridge collapse using UAV reconnaissance and CFD simulations. Science of The Total Environment, 153661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153661
  • Zalachoris, G., Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Gerolymos, N. (2021) “The Role of Liquefaction on the Seismic Response of Quay Walls during the 2014 Cephalonia, Greece, Earthquakes”, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147 (12), 04021137.
  • Greenwood, W., Zekkos, D., and Lynch, J. (2021). UAV-Enabled Subsurface Characterization using Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 147 (11), 04021120.
  • Little, T. A., Morris, P, Hill, M. P., Kearse, J., Van Dissen, R. J., Manousakis, J., Zekkos, D. and Howell, A.. “Coseismic deformation of the ground during large-slip strike-slip ruptures: Finite evolution of “mole tracks”.” Geosphere (2021) https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02336.1.
  • Townsend, K., F., Clark, M., and Zekkos, D. (2021). The control of depositional and erosional histories on the near-surface strength of clastic sedimentary rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005694
  • Datta, S., and Zekkos, D. (2021). The Influence of Waste Composition on Landfill Gas Generation Model Parameters, Environmental Geotechnics https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.20.00058
  • Medwedeff, W.G., Clark, M. K., Zekkos, D., & West, A. J. (2020). Characteristic landslide distributions: An investigation of landscape controls on landslide size. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 539, 116203.
  • Schaefer, M., Teeuw, R., Day, S., Zekkos, D., Weber, P., Meredith, T., & Van Westen, C. J. (2020). Low-cost UAV surveys of hurricane damage in Dominica: automated processing with co-registration of pre-hurricane imagery for change analysis. Natural Hazards, 1-30.
  • Athanasopoulos, G. A., Kechagias, G. C., Zekkos, D., Batilas, A., Karatzia, X., Lyrantzaki, F., & Platis, A. (2020). Lateral spreading of ports in the 2014 Cephalonia, Greece, earthquakes. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 128, 105874.
  • Greenwood, W., Lynch, J., Zekkos, D. (2019). Applications of UAVs in Civil Infrastructure, Infrastructure Systems, J. Infrastruct. Syst., 2019, 25(2): 04019002.
  • Datta, S., Zekkos, D., Fei, X., McDougall, J. (2018). Waste-composition-dependent ‘HBM’model parameters based on degradation experiments, Environmental Geotechnics, Environmental Geotechnics, 1-10.
  • Zekkos, D., Greenwood, W., Manousakis, J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Clark, M., Cook, K.L. and Saroglou, C. (2018). Lessons Learned from the Application of UAV-Enabled Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry in Geotechnical Engineering. International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, Vol.4, Issue 4, p.254-274. doi:10.4417/IJGCH-04-04-03
  • Hubler, J. F., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., & Zekkos, D. (2018). Monotonic and cyclic simple shear response of gravel-sand mixtures. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 115, 291-304.
  • Saroglou, H., Asteriou, P., Zekkos, D., Tsiambaos, G., Clark, M., Manousakis, J. (2018) “UAV-enabled reconnaissance and trajectory modeling of a co-seismic rockfall in Lefkada”, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 18(1):321-333. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-18-321-2018
  • Fei, X., Zekkos, D. (2018), “Coupled experimental assessment of physico-biochemical characteristics of municipal solid waste undergoing enhanced biodegradation” Geotechnique, DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.16.p.253
  • Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Hubler, J., Fei, X., Zehtab, K. H., Marr, W. A. (2017) “Development of a large-size cyclic direct simple shear device for characterization of ground materials with oversized particles”, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, March 2018 Volume 41 (2), 263-279, DOI: 10.1520/GTJ20160271 .
  • Nevett, L., Tsigarida, E., Archibald, Z., Stone, D., Horsley, T., Ault, B., Panti, A., Lynch, K. M., Pethen, H., Stallibras, S. M., Salminen, E., Gaffney, C., Sparrow, T. J., Taylor, S., Manousakis, J., and Zekkos, D. (2017). Towards a multi-scalar, multidisciplinary approach to the classical greek city: The Olynthos project. The Annals of the British School at Athens, 112, 155-206. doi:10.1017/S0068245417000090
  • Von Voigtlander, J., Clark, M., K., Zekkos, D., Greenwood, W., W., Anderson, S. P., Anderson, R. S., Godt, J. W. (2017) Influence of Weathering on Seismic Velocities of a Basalt Climosequence, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4290.
  • Fei, X., Zekkos, D. (2017), “Comparison of Direct Shear and Simple Shear Response of MSW”, Environmental Geotechnics Journal, September 2017, DOI: 10.1680/jenge.16.00036
  • Zekkos, D., Clark, M., Whitworth, M., Greenwood, W., West, J., Roback, K., Li, G., Chamlagain, D., Manousakis, J., Quackenbush, P., Medwedeff, W., Lynch, J., (2017). Observations of landslides caused by the April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal based on land, UAV and satellite reconnaissance. Earthquake Spectra, 33(S1), S95–S114, December 2017; DOI: 10.1193/121616EQS237M.
  • Carlson, C., Zekkos, D. (2017) “A Metric to Screen Acceptable Velocity and Displacement Time Histories of Modified Ground Motions”, Earthquake Spectra, 33 (4), 1495-1512  https://doi.org/10.1193/011117EQS012M.
  • Stahl, T., Clark, M. K., Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, D., Willis, M., Medwedeff, W., Knoper, L., Townsend, T., and Jin, J. (2017). Earthquake science in resilient societies, Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004604
  • Hubler, J., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Zekkos, D. (2017). “Monotonic, Cyclic and Post-Cyclic Simple Shear Behavior of Three Uniform Gravels.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 143(9), September 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001723. Editor’s Choice paper in October 2017.
  • Roback, K., Clark, M. K., West, J., Zekkos, D., Li, G., Gallen, S. F., Chamlagain, D., Godt, J. W. (2018). “The size, distribution, and mobility of landslides caused by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal.” Geomorphology, 301, 121-138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.01.030.
  • Zekkos, D., Fei, X. (2016). “Comparison of Constant Load and Constant Volume Shearing Response in Simple Shear Testing of Municipal Solid Waste.” Waste Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.09.029.
  • Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Grizi, A., Greenwood, W. (2016). “The May 25th 2011 Railroad Embankment Failure in Ann Arbor, Michigan, As a Means for Teaching Geotechnical Engineering.” International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, 3 (4), 234-245. doi: 10.4417/IJGCH-03-04-03
  • Zekkos, D., Fei, X., Grizi, A., Athanasopoulos, G. A. (2016). “Response of Municipal Solid Waste to Mechanical Compression.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0001608 , 04016101.
  • Fei, X., Zekkos D., Lei, L., Woods, R. D., Sanford, L. (2015).  “Geoenvironmental Characterization of Water Treatment Lime Sludge” Environmental Geotechnics Journal. 2 (6), 319-325.
  • Greenwood, W., Zekkos, D., and Sahadewa, A. (2015). ”Spatial Variation of Shear Wave Velocity of Waste Materials from Surface Wave Measurements.” Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 20(4), 287-301.
  • Fei, X., Zekkos, D., Raskin, L. (2016). “Quantification of parameters influencing methane generation due to biodegradation of municipal solid waste in landfills and laboratory experiments.” Waste Management 55, 276-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2015.10.015
  • Carlson, C., Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A. (2015) Predictive Equations to Quantify the Impact of Spectral Matching on Ground Motion Characteristics. Earthquake Spectra, 32 (1), 125-142.
  • Sahadewa, A., Zekkos, D., Woods, R. D., Stokoe, K. H. (2015). “Field Testing Method for Evaluating the Small-strain Shear Modulus and Shear Modulus Reduction of Solid Waste.” ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, June 2015, 38 (4), 427-441.
  • Hoyos, L R., DeJong, J. T., McCartney, J. S., Puppala, A. J., Reddy, K. R.,  and Zekkos, D. (2014). “Environmental Geotechnics in the U.S. Region: A Brief Overview.” Environmental Geotechnics Journal, DOI: 10.1680/envgeo.14.00024, Available online: March 31 2015.
  • Carlson, C. P., Zekkos, D. and McCormick, J. P. (2014). “Impact of time and frequency domain ground motion modification on the response of a SDOF system.” Earthquakes and Structures, 7(6), 1283-1301. DOI: 10.12989/eas.2014.7.6.1283
  • Fei, X., Zekkos, D., Raskin, L. (2014). “Archaeal Community Structure in Leachate and Solid Waste is Correlated to the Methane Generation and Volume Reduction during Biodegradation of Municipal Solid Waste.” Waste Management Journal (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2014.10.027)
  • Sahadewa, A., Zekkos, D., Woods, R. D., Stokoe, K. H., II, Matasovic, N. (2014). “In-situ assessment of the dynamic properties of municipal solid waste at a landfill in Texas.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 65 (2014), 303–313.
  • Carlson, C., Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A. & Hubler, J. (2014). “Impact of modification on ground motion characteristics and geotechnical seismic analyses for a California site”, Journal or Earthquake Engineering DOI: 10.1080/13632469.2014.898602.
  • Zekkos, D., Sahadewa, A., Woods, R. D., Stokoe, K. II (2014). “Development of a model for shear wave velocity of Municipal Solid Waste”, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, March 2014, 140 (3), 04013030(14).
  • Fei, X., Zekkos, D., Raskin, L. (2014). “An Experimental Setup for Simultaneous Physical, Geotechnical, and Biochemical Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste Undergoing Biodegradation in the Laboratory”, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, 37 (1), 1–12.
  • Zekkos, D., Vlachakis, V. S., Athanasopoulos, G. A. (2014). “The 2010 Xerolakka Landfill Slope Instability”, Environmental Geotechnics Journal, 1 (EG1), 55-65.
  • Zekkos, D., Gkrizi, A., Athanasopoulos, G. A. (2013) “Investigation of fibrous reinforcement effect on shear resistance of soil-waste mixtures”, ASTM Geotechnical Testing Journal, 36 (6), 867-880.
  • Ohm, H.-S., Sahadewa, A., Hryciw, R. D., Zekkos, D., and Brant, N. (2013).  “Sustainable Soil Particle Size Characterization through Image Analysis.”  Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, December 2013, 31(6), 1647-1652
  • Zekkos, D. Kabalan, M., Syal*, S. M., Hambright, M., and Sahadewa, A. (2013).  “Geotechnical Characterization of a Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Ash from a Michigan Monofill.”  Waste Management Journal, 33, 1442–1450.
  • Zekkos, D., Kabalan, M., and Flanagan, M. (2013).  “Lessons Learned From Case Histories of Dynamic Compaction of Municipal Solid Waste Sites.”  ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Va., 139(5), 738-752.
  • Fei, X. and Zekkos, D. (2013).  “Factors Influencing Long-Term Settlement of Municipal Solid Waste in Laboratory Bioreactor Landfill Simulators.”  ASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste, 17 (4), 259-271.
  • Cox, B. R., Boulanger, R. W., Tokimatsu, K., Wood, C. M., Abe, A. Ashford, S. Donahue, J. , Ishihara, K., Kayen, K., Katsumata, K., Kishida, T., Kokusho, T., Mason, H. B., Moss, R., Stewart, J. P., Tohyama, K., and Zekkos, D. (2013).  “Liquefaction at Strong Motion Stations and in Urayasu City During the 2011 Great East Japan, Earthquake.”  Earthquake Spectra Journal, 29 (S1), 55-80. 
  • Zekkos, D., Carlson, C., Nisar, A. and Guisbert, S. (2012).  “Effect of Ground Motion Modification Technique on Seismic Geotechnical Engineering Analyses.”  Earthquake Spectra, 28 (4), 1643-1662.
  • Zekkos, D., Bray, J. D., and Riemer, M. F. (2012).  “Drained Response of Municipal Solid Waste in Large-Scale Triaxial Shear Testing.”  Waste Management, 32 (10), 1873–1885.
  • Medley, E. W., and Zekkos, D. (2011).  “Geopractitioner Approaches to Working with Antisocial Mélanges,” in: Wakabayashi, J., and Dilek, Y., eds., Mélanges: Processes of Formation and Societal Significance, Geological Society of America Special Paper 480, 261-277. Note: invited, peer reviewed special paper.
  • Zekkos, D., Kavazanjian, E. Jr., Bray, J. D., Matasovic, N., and Riemer, M. F. (2010).  “Physical Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste for Geotechnical Purposes.”  Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Va., 136 (9), 1231-1241.
  • Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos, G. A., Bray, J. D., Theodoratos, A., and Grizi, A. (2010).  “Large-Scale Direct Shear Testing of Municipal Solid Waste.”  Waste Management Journal, 30, 1544–1555.
  • Bray, J. D., Zekkos, D., Kavazanjian, E., Jr., Athanasopoulos, G. A., Riemer, M. F. (2009).  Closure of “Shear Strength of Municipal Solid Waste”, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 136, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 1731-1732.
  • Bray, J. D., Zekkos, D., Kavazanjian, E., Jr., Athanasopoulos, G. A., and Riemer, M. F. (2009). “Shear Strength of Municipal Solid Waste.”  Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, Va., 135 (6), 709-722.
  • Zekkos, D., Bray, J.D., and Riemer, M.F. (2008).  “Shear Modulus and Material Damping of Municipal Solid Waste Based on Large-Scale Cyclic Triaxial Testing.”  Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 45 (1), 45-58.
  • Zekkos, D., Bray, J. D., Kavazanjian, E. Jr., Matasovic, N., Rathje, E. M., Riemer, M. F., and Stokoe, K .H. (2006).  “Unit Weight of Municipal Solid Waste.”  Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 132 (10), 1250-1261.
  • Bray, J. D., Athanasopoulos, G. A., Bathurst, R., Myers Bohlke, B., Brandl, H., Christian, J., Doe, T., Duncan, M., Gue, S. S., de Mello, L. G. Hynes, M., Katzenbach, R., Kavazanjian, E., Jr., Koutsoftas, D., Lacasse, S., Marinos, P.G., Mayne, P. W., Morgenstern, N., Phoon, K. K., Poulos, H., Powderham, A., Prakash, S., Romo, M. P., Seed, R. B., Tokimatsu, K., Van Impe, W., Zekkos, D. P. (2004).  “Foreword.”  International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, 1 (1), 1-3 (Note: Inaugural editorial; not a technical paper).
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