We have all seen the scary news photos. A street looks perfectly normal one minute, and the next, there is a giant hole that has swallowed a car or a sidewalk. These sinkholes and underground voids are a nightmare for city planners. The problem is that they are almost impossible to see from the surface. You can't just walk around and know that there is a ten-foot hole hiding under the asphalt. But there is a group of researchers at the Surface Wave Hub who are finding ways to spot these
Maya Vance
"Contributor covering the practical applications of wave dispersion in infrastructure safety and health monitoring. She specializes in the non-destructive testing of bridges and tunnels using acoustic signatures."
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