Liam Toney is a research geologist with the USGS Landslide Hazards Program (LHP) in Golden, CO. Liam has a PhD in geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He studies landslides using seismic waves in the Earth and acoustic waves in the atmosphere. Liam is joined by co-mentors Kate Allstadt and Elaine Collins. Kate is a supervisory research geophysicist at the LHP and is a leader in the field of landslide seismology. Elaine is a geophysicist with the LHP with a wide skillset who works on a number of landslide characterization problems.