2011 Workshop on Tsunami Sedimentology and Its Role in Hazard
Awareness, Preparedness, Assessment and Mitigation
PARTICIPANT RESEARCH INTERESTS and PUBLICATIONS
Maria (Beth) Arcos
Sedimentary deposits and differentiating natural hazards in the geological record,
using field evidence and modeling.
Martin, M.E., Weiss, R., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., Houston, H., and Titov, V.
(2008) Combining constraints from tsunami modeling and sedimentology to
untangle the 1969 Ozernoi and 1971 Kamchatskii tsunamis. Geophysical
Research Letters, 35.
Martin, M.E., and Bourgeois, J. (in press) Vented sediments and tsunami
deposits in the Puget Lowland, Washington: differentiating sedimentary
processes. Sedimentology.
Arcos, M.E.M. (accepted) Multiple Proxies for a Seattle Fault Zone Earthquake
1,100 Years Ago, with Implications for Fault Width and Greater Uplift,
Washington State. BSSA
Arcos, M.E.M. (submitted) Shaking, uplift, and tilting about 1,100 years ago,
and subsequent submergence, at the Skokomish River delta, Washington
State. Geomorphology.
Jankaew, K., Atwater, B. F., Sawai, Y., Choowong, M., Charoentitirat, T., Martin,
M.E., and Pendergast, A. (2008) Medieval precursor to the 2004 tsunami in
Thailand. Nature, 455, 1228-1231.
Sawai, Y., Jankaew, K., Martin, M.E., Prendergast, A., Choowong, M., and
Charoentitirat, T. (2009) Diatom assemblages in tsunami deposits associated
with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Phra Thong Island, Thailand. Marine
Micropaleontology. 73:1-2, 70-79.
Polenz, M., Czajkowski, J. L., Paulin, G. L., Contreras, T. A., Miller, B. A., Martin,
M. E., Walsh, T. J., Logan, R. L., Carson, R. J., Johnson, C. N., Skov, R. H., Mahan,
S. A., and Cohan, C. R. (2010) Geologic map of the Skokomish Valley and
Union 7.5-minute quadrangles, Mason County, Washington. Washington
State Department of Natural Resources, OFR 2010-3, 21 p.
Pinegina Т.К., Kravchunovskaya Е.А., Lander А.V., Kozhurin A.I., Bourgeois
J., Martin, M. E. (2010) Holocene vertical movement of Kamchatsky Peninsula
coast (Kamchatka) based on studies of marine terraces. Bulletin of
Kamchatka regional association “Educational-scientific center”. Earth
Sciences, N 1(15), 231-247.
Jankaew, K., Martin, M.E., Sawai, Y., and Prendergast, A. (2011) Sand sheets
on a beach-ridge plain in Thailand: Identification and dating of tsunami
deposits in a far-field tropical setting. The tsunami threat-- research and
technology. InTech., 26 p.
Jody Bourgeois
I am a sedimentary geologist and stratigrapher who first became involved in
tsunami geology studies around 1986-1987 (KT boundary and Cascadia cases). I am
interested in sedimentary processes and structures, in neotectonics and
paleoseismology, and in social implications of tsunami studies. Most of my recent
field work has been in the Russian Far East. I am proud of my current and former
mentees here at the workshop. I am also interested in history of science and I love
snow and cats.
Bourgeois, J. and MacInnes, B.T., 2010. Tsunami boulder transport and other
dramatic effects of the 15 November 2006 central Kuril Islands tsunami on
the island of Matua: Z. für Geomorph., Suppl. v. 54, Suppl. Issue 3, p. 175 –
195.\
Bourgeois, J, and Weiss, R., 2009. Chevrons are not tsunami deposits, a
sedimentologic assessment: Geology, v. 37, p. 403-406.
Bourgeois, J. 2009. Geologic effects and records of tsunamis. Chapter 3 in The
Sea, volume 15, Tsunamis, Harvard University Press, p. 55-91.
Higman, B. and Bourgeois, J., 2008. Deposits of the 1992 Nicaragua tsunami,
in T. Shikiet al., eds., Tsunamiites Features and Implications, Elsevier Publ., p.
81-103.
Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T., Ponomareva, V., Zaretskaia, N., 2006. Holocene
tsunamis in the southwestern Bering Sea, Russian Far East, and their tectonic
implications: Geological Society of America Bulletin, March/April issue, v.
118, p. 449-463.
Bourgeois, J. and Johnson, S.Y., 2001. Geologic evidence of earthquakes at the
Snohomish delta, Washington, in the past 1200 yr: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.
113(4): 482-494 plus Data Repository item 2001034.
Bourgeois, J. and Koppes, S., 1998. Robert S. Dietz and the identification of
impact structures on Earth: Earth Sciences History, v. 17(2), p. 139-156.
Katie Delbecq
An emerging goal among tsunami researchers is to be able to reconstruct flow
parameters from paleotsunami deposits to better understand the geohazards of
coastal areas. These methods rely on careful grain size and thickness measurements
of tsunami deposits. In the field, tsunami deposit thickness is highly variable in the
along-shore direction, thinning from 20 cm to 1 cm over a distance of a few
meters. Grain size distribution in a suspension-dominated deposit is far less variable
in the along-shore direction but changes consistently along shore-normal transects,
fining landward. I conducted a series of flume experiments in July & Aug 2011 to
test the effects of grain size variation, flow speed and depth, and ponding time of
water on the resulting deposit. The experimental sand sheets are similar to many
recent- and paleo-tsunami deposits in that the mean grain size (D50) for the
suspended sediment component consistently fines in the transport direction while
deposit thickness can be locally variable depending on preexisting surface
topography. In addition to overall fining, trends in deposit sorting and coarse (D90)
and fine (D10) fractions show the importance of sediment source grain size
distribution on deposit attributes.
I am a PhD student at UT Austin, and my research focuses on paleotsunami
sedimentology and coastal hazards.
My Flume Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/utaustintsunami
(Publications in Preparation)
Delbecq, K., Marshall, E.W., Nishimura, Y., Moore, A.L., Gusman, A., Nakumura,
Y., and Hirakawa, K., Sedimentary Evidence for Great Tsunamis near Tokachi,
Hokkaido, Japan. In preparation, to be submitted to Nature.
Hornbach, M., Delbecq, K., P. Mann, and L. Brown, Geohazard risk of great
earthquakes and submarine landslides in Kingston, Jamaica. In preparation, to
be submitted to G3 or JGR.
Lori Dengler
My expertise is in geophysics, earthquake and tsunami hazards and hazard
reduction. I am working on a number of projects regionally and within California,
nationally, and internationally. My current projects include a pilot tsunami current
monitoring effort in Humboldt Bay and Crescent City, analysis of North Coast
tsunami amplification, an number of outreach projects including the Redwood Coast
Tsunami Work Group and electronic and print editions of “Living on Shaky Ground”,
and promoting earthquake and tsunami education efforts throughout California as
the North Coast region representative to the Earthquake Country Alliance.
L. Dengler, B. Uslu and A. Barberopoulou, S. C. Yim and A. Kelley (2009),
Tsunami damage in Crescent City, California from the November 15, 2006
Kuril event, in Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean
Tsunami, Part II: Observation and Data Analysis, Phil R. Cummins, Laura S. L.
Kong eds, Pure and Applied Geophysics (Pageoph) topical volume, 37-54.
Dengler, L., B. Uslu, A. Barberopoulou,, J. Borrero, C. Synolakis (2008), The
vulnerability of Crescent City, California to tsunamis generated by
earthquakes in the Kuril Islands region of the northwestern Pacific,
Seismological Research Letters, 79(5).
Dengler, L., T. Nicolini, D. Larkin, V. Ozaki (2008),Building Tsunami-Resilient
Communities in Humboldt County, California, in L. Wallendorf, L. Ewing, C.
Jones, B. Jaffe eds, Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008 - Tsunamis, American
Society of Civil Engineers, p.178-191.
Barberopoulou, A., B. Uslu, L. Dengler (2008), Lessons for California from the
November 2006 tsunami in Crescent City, California, in L. Wallendorf, L.
Ewing, C. Jones, B. Jaffe eds, Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008 - Tsunamis,
American Society of Civil Engineers, p.192-203.
Kendall, T.R., L. Dean, O.T. Magoon, L.A. Dengler, R.E. Flick, P.D. Bromirski
(2008), High resolution analysis of the 1960 Chilean tsunami at Crescent city,
California in L. Wallen-dorf, L. Ewing, C. Jones, B. Jaffe eds, Solutions to
Coastal Disasters 2008 - Tsunamis, American Society of Civil Engineers,
p.169-177.
Uslu, B., J.C. Borrero, L. Dengler, C. E. Synolakis, A. Barberopoulou (2008),
Tsunami inunda-tion from great earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction
zone along the northern California coast in L. Wallendorf, L. Ewing, C. Jones, B.
Jaffe eds, Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2008 - Tsunamis, American Society of
Civil Engineers, p.204 -214.
Dengler, L. (2008). The 1906 earthquake on California’s North Coast, Bulletin
of the Seismol-ogical Society of America, Vol. 98(2), p. 918-930.
Dale Dominey-Howes
My interests and expertise are in natural hazards, hazard, risk and vulnerability
assessment, disaster and emergency management. I am particularly interested in
the interconnections between biophysical systems and the socio-economic contexts
in which disasters unfold and am beginning to consider ‘natural hazards’ in terms of
coupled human-environment systems and policy. I have worked on natural hazards
such as earthquakes, river floods, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions and
bushfires in places as diverse as Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Greece,
Turkey, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Thailand, Iceland and the Maldives.
At the present time, I am involved in a variety of research projects focusing on
hazards and risk in Australasia, the Indo-Pacific region and Iceland in conjunction
with members of the Natural Hazards Research Laboratory.
Dominey-Howes, D. & Goff, J. (2011). Tsunami risk management in the
context of the Pacific Islands. Working Paper No. 25, Disaster Risk
Management in East Asia and the Pacific. EAP DRM Knowledge Note.
Published by The World Bank. Pp12. Available here.
Dominey-Howes, D., Goff, J. & Chagué-Goff, C. (2011). Lessons learned from
the 2009 South Pacific earthquake-tsunami disaster. Proceedings of the 7th
International Workshop on Coastal Disaster Prevention, Tokyo, Japan, January
26-27, 17pp.
Dominey-Howes, D. & Goff, J. (2010). Tsunami: unexpected blow foils
flawless warning. Nature, 464: 350.
Dominey-Howes, D., Dunbar, P., Verner, J & Papathoma-Köhle, M. (2010).
Estimating probable maximum loss from a Cascadia tsunami. Natural
Hazards, 53, 43-61.
Paula Dunbar
I am a physical scientist working on natural hazards. I manage the distribution and
archive of the historical tsunami event and runup, significant earthquake, and
significant volcanic eruptions databases. I am also a member of the Core Working
Group for the revision of the UNESCO/IOC Post-tsunami Survey Field Guide (IOC
Manual & Guides no.37) and co-wrote the sections “Gathering, Processing, Sharing
and Distribution of Data” and “Annex I- Past International Tsunami Survey Team
surveys, their dates and locations and associated references”.
Dunbar, Paula, H. McCullough, 2011, Global tsunami deposits database.
Natural Hazards, DOI:10.1007/s11069-011-9713-z
Dunbar, P., H. McCullough, G. Mungov, J. Varner, K. Stroker, 2011,
2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami data available from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Geophysical Data Center,
2011,Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, vol. 2, no. 4.
Dunbar, P., K. Stroker, H. McCullough, 2010, Do the 2010 Haiti and Chile
earthquakes and tsunamis indicate increasing trends? Geomatics, Natural
Hazards and Risk, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 95114. DOI:10.1080/19475705.2010.487322
Dominey-Howes, D., P. Dunbar, J. Varner, M. Papathoma-Kohle, 2009,
Estimating probable maximum loss from a Cascadia tsunami. Natural
Hazards Journal. DOI:10.1007/s11069-009-9409-9
Dunbar, P., 2009, Integrated tsunami data for better hazard assessments. EOS
Transactions, American Geophysical Union, vol. 90, no. 22, p. 189-196.
Dunbar, P., C.. Weaver, 2008, U.S. States and Territories National Tsunami
Hazard Assessment: Historic Record and Sources for Waves. Prepared for the
National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, published jointly by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological
Survey, 59 p.
P. Dunbar, K. Stroker, V. Brocko, J. Varner, S. McLean, L. Taylor, B. Eakins, K.
Carignan and R. Warnken, 2008, Long-Term tsunami data archive supports
tsunami forecast, warning, research, and mitigation. Pure and Applied
Geophysics, vol. 165, no. 11-12, p. 2275-2291.
Gonzalez, F.I., E. Bernard, P. Dunbar, E. Geist, B. Jaffe, U. Kanoglu, J. locat, H.
Mofjeld, A. Moore, C. Synolakis, V. Titov, and R Weiss (Science Review
Working Group), 2007,Scientific and technical issues in tsunami hazard
assessment of nuclear power plant sites, NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-136,
125 pp.
Lisa Ely
I am interested in the geological record of past tsunami deposits, the accumulation
and preservation of tsunami deposits in different geomorphic environments, and
the dynamics of tsunami sedimentation. I am currently conducting research on
historical and geological records of tsunamis in south-central Chile. I have also
worked on the geomorphic environments of tsunami deposits in southeastern India.
Ely, L.L., Cisternas, M., Wesson, R.L., and Lagos, M., 2010, Geological evidence of
predecessors to the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in south-central Chile.
Abstract G32A-05 American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting,San
Francisco, California, 13-17 Dec.
Ely, L.L, Cisternas, M., Lagos, M., Orem, C., and Wesson, R., 2010, Geological
evidence of past tsunamis at the boundary between the 1960 and 1835
earthquake rupture areas, south-central Chile:American Geophysical Union
Chapman Conference on Giant Earthquakes and their Tsunamis, Valparíso, Chile,
May 16-24, 2010, p. 22.
Ely, L.L., Cisternas, M., Orem, C.A., Lagos, M., and Wesson, R.L., 2009, Pursuing
Darwin’s geological observations of the 1835 earthquake and tsunami in
Concepción, Chile: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol.
41, No. 7, p. 244.
Johnston, P., Ely, L., Achyuthan, H., Srinivasalu, S., 2008, Geomorphic
Environments of Tsunami Deposits, Southeastern India: Eos Transactions,
American Geophysical Union, Vol. 89 (53), Fall Meeting Suppl., Abstract OS52A07.
Diane Foster
Diane foster is an associate professor of mechanical and ocean engineering at the
University of New Hampshire. Her scientific interests surround phenomena
involving sediment transport, turbulence, and bottom boundary layers in coastal
and nearshore regions. She, along with two colleagues at the University of Delaware
and USC, have recently been funded to examine tsunami induced turbulent coherent
structures. One of the main themes of this effort will be to examine the interactions
between near bed coherent structures and the mobile seafloor as it affects sediment
reworking and transport.
Nichols, C.S. and Foster, D.L., 2008, "Observations of Bedform Evolution with
Field-Scale Oscillatory Hydrodynamic Forcing", Journal of Geophysical Research,
submitted.
Smith, H.D. and Foster, D.L., 2007, "Three-Dimensional Vortex-Dynamics
around a Short, Bottom-Mounted Cylinder in Waves", Journal of Fluid
Mechanics, in review.
Marieu, V., Bonneton, P., Foster, D.L., and Ardhuin, F., 2007, "Modeling of Vortex
Ripple Morphodynamics", Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.
Hatton, K.A. and Foster, D.L., 2007, "Scour and Ripple Migration Offshore of a
Vertically Mounted Pile Subjected to Irregular Waves", Journal of Hydraulic
Engineering, ASCE, in review.
Nichols, C.S. and Foster, D.L., 2007. "Full-Scale Observations of Wave-Induced
Vortex Generation over a Rippled Bed",Journal of Geophysical Research, 112
(C10015, doi:10.1029/2006JC003841), 1-17.
Foster, D. L., Natoo, P., Stanton, T.S., and Fredsoe, J., 2007, "The Suspension of
Sediment from Flat and Megarippled Beds: A Pairing of Models and
Observations", Continental Shelf Research, in press.
Dusini, D., Foster, D.L., and Shore, J.A., 2007, "Effects of Lake Surface Variation
on Sediment Resuspension",Journal of Great Lakes Research, accepted.
Smith, H.D., and Foster, D.L., 2007, "Three-Dimensional Flow Around a BottomMounted Short Cylinder", Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, Volume 133,
Issue 5, pp. 534-544.
Hatton, K.A., Foster, D.L., Traykovski, P.A., and Smith, H.D., 2006, "Scour and
Burial of Submerged Mines in Wave Conditions", IEEE Journal of Oceanic
Engineering, 32 (2007): 249-259, doi:10.1109/JOE.2007.890986.
Foster, D.L., Bowen, A.J., Holman, R.A., and Natoo, P., 2006, "Field Evidence of
Pressure Gradient Induced Incipient Motion", Journal of Geophysical Research,
111(C5), C05004, 1-8.
Foster, D.L., Beach, R.A., and Holman, R.A., 2006, "Turbulence Observations of
the Nearshore Wave Bottom Boundary Layer", Journal of Geophysical Research,
111(C4), C04011, 1-11.
Hermann Fritz
Dr. Fritz started his dual-appointment in March 2003 as Assistant Professor at the
Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program in Savannah and the School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering in Atlanta. His research centers on fluid dynamic
aspects of natural hazards such as tsunamis, hurricane storm surges and landslides
as well as their mitigation and coastal protection.
http://www.ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/551/overview
Fritz, H.M., Kalligeris, N., Borrero, J.C., Broncano, P., Ortega, E. (2009). The 15 August
2007 Peru tsunami runup observations and modeling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35,
L10604, doi:10.1029/2008GL033494.
McAdoo, B.A., Fritz, H.M., Jackson, K.L., Kalligeris, N., Kruger, J., Bonte-Grapentin, M.,
Moore, A.L., Rafiau, W.B., Billy, D., Tiano, B. (2009). Solomon Islands tsunami, one
year later, Eos. Trans. AGU, 89(18):169-170, April 29 Cover Article.
Weiss, R., Fritz, H.M., Wuennemann, K. (2009). Hybrid modeling of the megatsunami runup in Lituya Bay after half a century, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09602,
doi:10.1029/2009GL037814.
Fritz, H.M., Mohammed, F., Yoo, J. (2009). Lituya Bay Landslide Impact Generated
Mega-Tsunami 50th Anniversary. Pure Appl. Geophys. 166(1-2):153-175,
doi:10.1007/s00024-008-0435-4.
Fritz, H.M., Blount, C.D., Thwin, S., Thu, M.K., Chan, N. (2009). Cyclone Nargis storm
surge in Myanmar, Nature Geoscience 2(7):448-449, doi:10.1038/ngeo558.
Fritz, H.M., E.A. Okal (2008). Socotra Island, Yemen: field survey of the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami, Natural Hazards 46(1):107-117, doi:10.1007/s11069-007-9185-3.
Guy Gelfenbaum
I am interested in characterizing tsunami hazards from the geologic evidence left
behind after a tsunami. My research involves field studies of modern tsunamis,
identifying paleo-tsunamis, and numerical modeling of tsunami inundation and
sediment transport. An ultimate goal of mine is to develop quantitative tools to be
able to characterize the size and speed of a tsunami based on characteristics of the
sedimentary deposit left behind.
Gelfenbaum, G., and Jaffe, B., 2003, Erosion and sedimentation from the 17 July
1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami. Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 160, no. 1011, p. 1969-1999
Jaffe, B., Gelfenbaum, G., Rubin, D., Peters, R., Anima, R., Swensson, M., Olcese, D.
Bernales L., Gomez, J., and Riega, P., 2003, Tsunami deposits: Identification and
interpretation of tsunami deposits from the June 23, 2001 Perú tsunami. Proc.
Coastal Sediments ‘03, 13p.
Peters, R.B., Jaffe, B., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2003 Comparing sedimentary deposits
from the 1700 and 1964 tsunamis in Cascadia. Proc. Coastal Sediments ‘03, 13p.
Moore, A., Nishimura, Y., Gelfenbaum, G., Kamataki, T., and Triyono, R., 2006,
Sedimentary deposits of the 26 December 2004 tsunami on the northwest coast
of Aceh, Indonesia: Earth, Planets, and Space, v. 58, p. 253-258.
Tsuji, Y., Matsutomi, H., Tanioka, Y., Nishimura, Y., Sakakiyama, T., Kamataki, T.,
Murakami, Y., Moore, A., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2005. Distribution of the tsunami
heights of the 2004 Sumatra tsunami in Banda Aceh measured by the tsunami
survey team. http://www.eri.utokyo.ac.jp/namegaya/sumatera/surveylog/eindex.htm
Jaffe, B.E., Borrero, J.C., Prasetya, G.S., Dengler, L., Gelfenbaum, G., Hidayat, R.,
Higman, B., Kingsley, E. Lukiyanto, McAdoo, B., Moore, A., Morton, R., Peters, R.,
Ruggiero, P., Titov, V., Kongko, W. and Yulianto, E., 2006, The December 26, 2004
Indian Ocean Tsunami in Northwest Sumatra and Offshore Islands, Earthquake
Spectra, v. 22, S3, S105Gelfenbaum, G., Vatvani, D., Jaffe, B., and Dekker, F., 2007. Tsunami inundation
and sediment transport in vicinity of coastal mangrove forest. Proceedings of
Coastal Sediments 07 May 2007, New Orleans, LA, p. 1117-1128.
Higman, B., Gelfenbaum, G., Lynett, P., Moore, A., and Jaffe, B., 2007. Predicted
sedimentary record of reflected bores. Proceedings of Coastal Sediments 07 May
2007, New Orleans, LA, p. 1103-1116.
Morton, R. A., Gelfenbaum, G., Jaffe, B. E., 2007. Physical criteria for
distinguishing sandy tsunami and storm deposits using modern examples.
Sedimentary Geology, v. 200, pp.184-207. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.01.003
Jaffe, B.E., Gelfenbaum, G , 2007. A simple model for calculating tsunami flow
speed from tsunami deposits. Sedimentary Geology,
doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.01.013
Peters, R., Jaffe, B.E., Gelfenbaum, G., 2007, Distribution and sedimentary
characteristics of tsunami deposits along the Cascadia margin of western North
America, Sedimentary Geology, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.01.015
Huntington, K., Bourgeous, J., Gelfenbaum, G., Lynett, P., Jaffe, B., Yeh, H., and
Weiss, R., 2007. Sandy signs of a tsunami’s onshore depth and speed. EOS
Transactions (Front-page cover article), V 88, No 52, p. 577-578.
Richmond, B.M., Watt, S., Buckley, M., Jaffe, B., Gelfenbaum, G., and Morton, R.,
2010. Recent storm and tsunami coarse-clast deposit characteristics, southeast
Hawaiʻi, Marine Geology, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.08.001.
Apotsos, A., Gelfenbaum, G., Jaffe, B., Watt, S., Peck, B., Buckley, M., Stevens, A.W.,
2010, Tsunami inundation and sediment transport in a sediment-limited
embayment on American Samoa, Earth-Science Reviews 107 (1-2), pp. 1-11.
doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.001.
Apotsos, A., G. Gelfenbaum, and B. Jaffe, 2011. Process-based modeling of
tsunami inundation and sediment transport, J. Geophys. Res., 116, F01006,
doi:10.1029/2010JF001797.
Borrero, J.C., McAdoo, B., Jaffe, B., Dengler, L., Gelfenbaum, G., Higman, B.,
Hidayat, R., Moore, A., Kongko, W., Lukijanto, Peters, R., Prasetya, G., Titov, V.,
Yulianto, E., 2011. Field survey of the March 28, 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake
and Tsunami. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 168 (6-7), pp. 1075-1088.
Gelfenbaum, G., Apotsos, A., Stevens, A.W., Jaffe, B.E., 2010, Effect of fringing reefs
on tsunami inundation; American Samoa. Earth Science Reviews, 107 (1-2), pp.
12-22. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.12.005
Jaffe, B.E., Buckley, M.L., Richmond, B.M., Strotz, L., Etienne, S., Clark, K., and
Gelfenbaum, G., 2011, Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy
sediment deposited by the 29 September 2009 tsunami near Satitoa, east Upolu,
Samoa, Earth-Science Reviews, v. 107 (1-2), pp. 23-37,
DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.009.
Morton, R.A., Gelfenbaum, G., Buckley, M.L and Richmond, B.M., 2011, Geological
effects and implications of the 2010 tsunami along the central coast of Chile.
Sedimentary Geology.
Apotsos, A., Jaffe, B., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2011. Wave characteristics and
morphologic effects on the onshore hydrodynamic response of tsunamis. Coastal
Engineering V. 58, Issue 11, pp. 1034-1048.
David George
I am interested in continued development of software and numerical
methods for tsunami modeling. Pursuing methods that include sediment
erosion, transport and deposition is a current interest. I would like
to stay apprised of the state of current methodologies and needs of
sedimentologist in order to help direct my research.
A Two-Phase Debris-Flow Model that Includes Coupled Evolution of
Volume Fractions, Granular Dilatency, and Pore-Fluid Pressure, D. L.
George and R. M. Iverson, Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and
Environment, in press, 2011.
Tsunami Modeling with Adaptively Refined Finite Volume Methods. R.
J. LeVeque, D. L. George and M. J. Berger. Acta Numerica 20, (2011)
pp. 211-289. Arieh Iserles, ed.
The GeoClaw Software for Depth-Averaged Flows with Adaptive
Refinement, M. J. Berger, D. L. George, R. J. LeVeque and K.T. Mandli,
Advances in Water Resources, 34: 1195-1206, Sept. 2011.
Adaptive Finite Volume Methods with Well-Balanced Riemann Solvers
for Modeling Floods in Rugged Terrain: application to the Malpasset
dam-break flood (France, 1959). D. L. George, Int. J. Numer. Methods
Fluids, 66(8): 1000-1018., July 2011.
Augmented Riemann Solvers for the Shallow Water Equations over
Variable Topography with Steady
States and Inundation. D. L. George, J. Comput. Phys.,
227(6):3089-3113, March 2008.
High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods for the Shallow Water
Equations with Topography and Dry- States. R.J. LeVeque and D. L.
George. In P. L. Liu, C. Synolakis, and H. Yeh, editors, Advanced
Numerical Models for Simulating Tsunami Waves and Runup, volume 10 of
Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering, pages 43-73. World
Scientific, 2008.
High-Resolution Methods and Adaptive Refinement for Tsunami
Propagation and Inundation. D.
L. George and R. J. LeVeque. In S. Benzoni-Gavage and D. Serre,
editors, Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, pages
541-549, Springer 2008. Proc. 11th Intl. Conf. on Hyperbolic
Problems, Lyon France, July 2006.
Finite Volume Methods and Adaptive Refinement for Global Tsunami
Propagation and Inundation.
D. L. George and R. J. LeVeque. Science of Tsunami Hazards, Vol. 24.
No. 5, 319-328, 2006.
Frank Gonzalez
I am interested in Probabilistic Tsunammi Hazard Assessment, and I am currently
conducting a PTHA of Crescent City, California. Sedimentology can provide
information on the frequency and, potentially, the size of past earthquakes and
tsunamis. This information is critical input for PTHA modeling studies, and I plan to
compare Crescent City model runs with runup patterns inferred from tsunami
sedimentology records.
González, F. I., et al. (2009), Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment at
Seaside, Oregon, for near- and far-field seismic sources, J. Geophys. Res., 114,
C11023, doi:10.1029/2008JC005132.
Synolakis, C.E., E.N. Bernard, V.V. Titov, U. Kânoğlu, and F.I. González (2008):
Validation and verification of tsunami numerical models. Pure Appl.
Geophys., 165(11–12), 2197–2228.
Mofjeld, H.O., F.I. González, V.V. Titov, A.J. Venturato, and J.C. Newman
(2007): Effects of tides on maximum tsunami wave heights: Probability
distributions. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 24(1), 117–123.
Bernard, E.N., H.O. Mofjeld, V.V. Titov, C.E. Synolakis, and F.I. González
(2006): Tsunami: Scientific frontiers, mitigation, forecasting, and policy
implications. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. A, 364(1845), doi: 10.1098/rsta.2006.18,
1989–2007.
Titov, V.V., A.B. Rabinovich, H.O. Mofjeld, R.E. Thomson, and F.I. González
(2005): The global reach of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami.
Science, 309(5743), 2045–2048.
González, F.I., E.N. Bernard, C. Meinig, M. Eble, H.O. Mofjeld, and S. Stalin
(2005): The NTHMP tsunameter network. Nat. Hazards, 35(1), Special Issue,
U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, 25–39.
Kazuhisa Goto
I am interested in tsunami sedimentology both for sand and boulder
deposits.
Goto, K., Chague-Goff, C., Fujino, S., Goff, J., Jaffe, B., Nishimura, Y.,
Richmond, B., Suguwara, D., Szczucinski, W., Tappin, D. R., Witter, R.,
Yulianto, E., New insights of tsunami hazard from the 2011 Tohoku-oki
event. Marine Geology (in press).
Goto, K., Miyagi, K., Kawana, T., Takahashi, J., Imamura, F., 2011,
Emplacement and movement of boulders by known storm waves-Field
evidence
from Okinawa Islands, Japan-. Marine Geology, Vol. 283, 66-78.
Goto, K., Takahashi, J., Oie, T., Imamura, F., 2011, Remarkable
bathymetric change in the nearshore zone by the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami: Kirinda Harbor, Sri Lanka. Geomorphology, Vol. 127, 107-116.
Goto, K., Kawana, T., Imamura, F., 2010, Historical and geological
evidences of boulders deposited by tsunamis, southern Ryukyu Islands,
Japan. Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 102, 77-99.
Goto, K., Miyagi, K., Kawamata, H., Imamura, F., 2010, Discrimination
of boulders deposited by tsunamis and storm waves at Ishigaki Island,
Japan. Marine Geology, Vol. 269, 34-45.
Goto, K., Okada, K., Imamura, F., 2010 Numerical analysis of boulder
transport by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Pakarang Cape, Thailand.
Marine Geology, Vol. 268, 97-105.
Goto, K., Okada, K., Imamura, F., 2009, Characteristics and
hydrodynamics of boulders transported by storm waves at Kudaka Island,
Japan. Marine Geology, Vol. 262, 14-24.
Goto, K., Chavanich, S. A., Imamura, F., Kunthasap, P., Matsui, T.,
Minoura, K., Sugawara, D., Yanagisawa, H., 2007, Distribution, origin
and transport process of boulders transport by the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami at Pakarang Cape, Thailand. Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 202,
821-837.
Courtney Harris
Dr. Harris’ research has been directed at improving our ability to quantify and
predict sediment transport on continental shelves over a variety of temporal and
spatial scales. She has been involved in interdisciplinary projects that considered
interactions between shelf sediment transport and small scale stratigraphy,
sediment budgets, geochemistry, coastal oceanography, and climatology.
Involvement in large experiments has involved collaboration with field
oceanographers and geologists that has benefited her research focus of numerically
modeling suspended sediment transport on shelves. Current research projects
include (1) evaluating the role that physical processes play in determining spatial
and temporal patterns of erodibility within the York River Estuary; (2) developing
and using numerical models to quantify sediment processes within the northern
Gulf of Mexico; and (3) identifying the oceanographic transport processes that
impact sediment transport off shore of the North Island, NZ. My collaborative
experiences have convinced me that we can make the best strides by building
models and tools that are available to the research community as a whole. I am
therefore active in a group of oceanographers and geologists who are working to
develop a community sediment transport model by developing and testing
numerical models that account for sediment transport and oceanographic
circulation.
More, including a full
CV: http://www.vims.edu/about/directory/faculty/harris_ck.php
Harris, C.K., P. Traykovski, and W.R. Geyer. 2005. Flood dispersal and
deposition by near-bed gravitational sediment flows and oceanographic
transport: A numerical modeling study of the Eel River shelf, northern
California. Journal of Geophysical Research. 110(C09025): d0i: 10.1029 /
2004JC002727.
Harris, C.K., P. Traykovski, and W.R. Geyer. 2004. Including a near-bed turbid
layer in a three dimensional sediment transport model with application to
the Eel River shelf, northern California. Estuarine and Coastal Modeling;
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference. M.L. Spaulding, et al.
(editors), American Society of Civil Engineers. 784—803.
Harris, C.K., P. Traykovski, and W.R. Geyer. 2005. Flood dispersal and
deposition by near-bed gravitational sediment flows and oceanographic
transport: A numerical modeling study of the Eel River shelf, northern
California. Journal of Geophysical Research. 110(C09025): d0i: 10.1029 /
2004JC002727.
Harris, C.K., P. Traykovski, and W.R. Geyer. 2004. Including a near-bed turbid
layer in a three dimensional sediment transport model with application to
the Eel River shelf, northern California. Estuarine and Coastal Modeling;
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference. M.L. Spaulding, et al.
(editors), American Society of Civil Engineers. 784—803.
Harris, C.K., B. Butman, and P. Traykovski. 2003. Winter-time circulation and
sediment transport in the Hudson Shelf Valley. Continental Shelf Research,
23: 801—820.
Harris, C.K. and P.L. Wiberg. 2002. Across-shelf sediment transport:
interactions between suspended sediment and bed sediment. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 107(C1): 10.1029/2000JC000634.
Andrea Hawkes
I am interested in developing long paleo-tsunami records on a variety of coastlines
from varying environments with the aim of more fully understanding the hazard
risk. More specifically I am interested in what characteristic within the tsunami
deposits themselves provide vital information on deposition style and even
potentially wave magnitude. Furthermore, how these characteristics withstand or
degrade during post-depositional processes and what is most likely to be preserved
in the geologic record. http://www.whoi.edu/hpb/Site.do?id=7812Hawkes et al.,
2007a; 2007b; 2010; 2011
Hawkes, A.D., Donnelly, J.P., (in prep). A regional perspective of New England
hurricanes using sedimentary, micropaleontology and modeled historic
archives.
Hawkes, A.D., Horton, B.P., (in prep). High resolution grain size and
foraminiferal analysis of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami sediment deposit
provenance at Banda Aceh and paleo-tsunami deposits at Padang, Sumatra.
Lane, P., Donnelly, J.P., Woodruff, J.D., Hawkes, A.D., (submitted). Gulf Coast
hurricane activity and climate variability during the last half of the Holocene.
Quaternary Science Reviews.
Sawai, Y., Witter, R., Hawkes, A.D., Horton, B.P., (submitted). Tsunami
deposits in Pichilemu generated by the 2010 Chile Earthquakes. Marine
Micropaleontology.
Hawkes, A.D., Horton, B.P., Nelson, A.R., Sawai, Y., Vane C.H., (accepted).
Foraminiferal reconstruction of coastal subsidence in Oregon, USA, during
the Giant Cascadia earthquake of AD 1700. Quaternary Science Reviews.
Hawkes, A.D., Horton, B.P., Nelson, A.R., Hill, D.F., 2010. The application of
Intertidal Foraminifera to reconstruct Coastal Subsidence during the Giant
Cascadia Earthquake of AD 1700 in Oregon, USA. Quaternary International, v.
221, p. 116-140.Curriculum Vitae Andrea Dawn Hawkes, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
Horton, B.P., Rossi, V., and Hawkes, A.D., 2009. The sedimentary record of the
2005 hurricane season from the Mississippi and Alabama coastline.
Quaternary International, v. 195, p. 15-30.
Horton, B. P., Bird, M., Birkland, T., Cowie, S., Grundy-Warr, C., Hawkes, A. D.,
Tan Shau Hwai, A., Law, L., Macgregor, C., Nott, J., Eong Ong, J., Rigg, J.,
Robinson, R., Tan-Mullins, M., Tiong Sa, T. and Zulfigar, Y., 2008.
Environmental and socio-economic dynamics of the Indian Ocean Tsunami.
in Penang, Malaysia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, v. 29, p. 307324.
Bird, M., Cowie, S., Hawkes, A.D., Horton, B.P., Macgregor, C., Eong Ong, J., Tan
Shau Hwai, A., Tiong Sa, T., and Yasin, Z., 2007. Indian Ocean Tsunami –
Environmental and Socio-economic Impacts in Langkawi, Malaysia. The
Geographical Journal, v. 173.
Hawkes, A.D., Bird, M., Cowie, S., Grundy-Warr, C., Horton, B.P., Tan Shau
Hwai, A., Law, L., Macgregor, C., Nott, J., Eong Ong, J., Rigg, J., Robinson, R.,
Tan-Mullins, M., Tiong Sa, T., and Zulfigar, Y., 2007a. “The Sediments
Deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami along the Malay-Thai
Peninsula”: Marine Geology Special IGCP 495 Issue 242, p. 169-190.
Hawkes, A.D., Engelhart, S., and Horton, B.P., 2007b. Tsunami: a white cobra
hits Pangandaran West Java. Geology Today, v.23, p. 12-14.
Hawkes, A.D., Scott, D.B. And Lipps, J.H., 2005a. Evidence for possible
precursor events of megathrust earthquakes on the wes
Eileen Hemphill-Haley
Eileen’s research interests include diatom micropaleontology, paleoclimatology,
paleoecology as applied to environmental studies, paleoseismology and
neotectonics.
Hemphill-Haley, E., 1992, Application of diatom paleoecology to
interpretations of Holocene relative sea-level change and coseismic
subsidence in southwestern Washington: Ph.D. dissertation, University of
California at Santa Cruz, 321 p.
Hemphill-Haley, E., 1995, Diatom evidence for earthquake-induced
subsidence and tsunami 300 years ago in southern coastal Washington:
Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 107, no. 3, p. 367-378.
Hemphill-Haley, E., 1995, Intertidal diatoms from Willapa Bay, Washington:
Application to studies of small-scale sea-level changes: Northwest Science, v.
69, no. 1, p. 29-45.
Hemphill-Haley, E., 1996, Diatoms as an aid in identifying late Holocene
tsunami deposits.: The Holocene, v. 6, no. 4, p. 439-448.
Hemphill-Haley, E., and Fourtanier, Elisabeth, 1995, A diatom record
spanning 114,000 years from Site 893, Santa Barbara Basin. Proceedings of
the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, v. 146 (Pt. 2), College Station,
TX: 233-249.
Hemphill-Haley, E., and Gardner, J.V., 1994, Revised ages for laminated
(varved) deposits and a Holocene-marker diatom from the northern
California continental slope: Quaternary Research, v. 41, p. 131-135.
Hemphill-Haley, E., and Mahood, A., 1997, Endictya hendeyisp. nov., a new
coastal diatom from North America: Diatom Research, v. 12, no. 1, p. 35-42.
Ben Horton
My research concerns sea-level and environmental change. I aim to understand and
integrate the the external (such as climate change, earthquakes and tsunamis) and
internal mechanisms (including the sediment compaction) that have determined
sea-level changes in the past, and which will shape such changes in the future.
Fundamental to this aim is bridging the gap between short-term instrumental
records and long-term geological reconstructions and geophysical predictions. To
this end, I have developed, tested and validated a new methodological approach that
uses microfossils to quantitatively reconstruct past coastal environments.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/benhorton_p.htm
Horton, B.P., Sawai, Y., Hawkes, A.D. and Witter, R.C. 2011. Sedimentology
and paleontology of a tsunami deposit accompanying the great Chilean
earthquake of February 2010. Marine Micropaleontology, 79, 132–138.
Horton, B.P., Bird, M., Birkland, T., Cowie, S., Grundy-Warr, C., Hawkes, A. D.,
Tan Shau Hwai, A., Law, L., Macgregor, C., Nott, J., Eong Ong, J., Rigg, J.,
Robinson, R., Tan-Mullins, M., Tiong Sa, T. and Zulfigar, Y., 2008.
Environmental and socio-economic dynamics of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in
Penang, Malaysia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 29, 307324.Download pdf
Nelson, A. R., Sawai, Y., Jennings, A. E., Bradley, L-A., a, Gerson, L., Sherrod, B.
L., Sabean, J. and Horton, B.P., 2008. Great-earthquake paleogeodesy and
tsunamis of the past 2000 years at Alsea Bay, central Oregon coast,
USA. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27, 747-768. Download pdf
Yasutaka Iijima
My interests are in deposition and erosion processes during tsunami inundation,
and geomorphological effects.
Jennifer Irish
Jennifer’s academic research is motivated by the societal need to improve and
protect coastal infrastructure, given the increasing relevance of global urban
development, and researches coastal hazards, to include storm surge, tsunami,
beach erosion, and sea-level rise; vegetated flow dynamics; and coastal processes.
Irish, J.L., Resio, D.T., Divoky, D., Statistical properties of hurricane surge
along a coast, J. Geophys. Res., in press.
Irish, J.L., Ewing, L.C., and Jones, C.P., Observations from the 2009 Samoa
Tsunami: Damage potential in coastal communities, J. Waterw. Port C.-ASCE,
in press.
Irish, J. L., Song*, Y. K., and Chang, K.-A., Probabilistic hurricane surge
forecasting using parameterized surge response functions, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 38, L03606, 2011. Selected as an AGU Research Spotlight and featured
in Eos [92(12), 108].
Bruce Jaffe
I am the leader of the USGS Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sediment Record
project. My tsunami research focuses on developing techniques and models to
utilize deposits in tsunami hazard assessment. I have studied tsunami deposits
around the world for 16 years. Study areas include Japan, Samoa, Indonesia, Sri
Lanka, Peru, Papua New Guinea, the Caribbean, the West Coast of the US, and Hawaii.
Jaffe, B.E. and Gelfenbaum, G., 2007, A simple model for calculating tsunami
flow speed from tsunami deposits, Sedimentary Geology, v. 200, p. 347-361,
DOI:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.01.013.
Jaffe, B.E., Buckley, M.L., Richmond, B.M., Strotz, L., Etienne, S., Clark, K., and
Gelfenbaum, G., 2011, Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy
sediment deposited by the 29 September 2009 tsunami near Satitoa, east
Upolu, Samoa, Earth- Science Reviews, v. 107, p. 23-37,
DOI:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.009.
Buckley, M., Jaffe, B.E., Wei, Y., and Watt, S., 2011, Estimated velocities and
inferred cause of overwash that emplaced inland fields of cobbles and
boulders at Anegada, British Virgin Islands, Natural Hazards,
DOI:10.1007/s11069-011-9725-8.
Apotsos, A.A., Gelfenbaum, G., and Jaffe, B.E., 2011, Wave characteristics and
morphologic effects on the onshore hydrodynamic response of tsunamis,
Coastal Engineering 58 (11), 1034-1048,
doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2011.06.002.
Goto K., Chagué-Goff, C., Fujino, S., Goff, J., Jaffe, B.E., Nishimura, Y., Richmond,
B., Sugawara, D., Szczuciński, W., Tappin, D.R., Witter, R., Yulianto, E., in press,
New insights of tsunami hazard from the 2011 Tohoku-oki event, Marine
Geology, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2011.10.004.
Goff, J., Chagué-Goff, C., Nichol, S., Jaffe, B.E., and Dominey-Howes, D.,
accepted, Progress in paleotsunami research, Sedimentary Geology (Invited
paper)
Kinuyo Kanamaru
My research interests lie in the geochemical and sedimentological
reconstruction of previous overwash events using coastal sediments as
a proxy to identify historical events. Recent research includes a
study of overwash deposits resulting from tsunami and typhoon events
preserved in sediments in the southwestern part of Japan.
Kumon, F., Kanamaru, K., Tawara, T., Noriko, K., Yamamoto, M., and Hayashi,
H., 2005. Relashionship among weather factors, biological productivity, and
TOC content of sediments in Lake Kizaki, central Japan. Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan.
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geosoc/111/10/599/_pdf
SeanPaul La Selle
I am a graduate student at the University of Washington and my research interests
are in tsunami sedimentology and modeling. My current project focuses on
reconstructing recent tsunamis in Kamchatka, Russia from their deposits and using
tsunami modeling.
Kyle Mandli
My interests lie primarily in computational methods for tsunami science. I have
recently been developing numerical methods to handle extensions to the shallow
water equations that may provide new methods for modeling tsunami sediment
deposits.
http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~kyle/
M.J. Berger, D.L. George, R.J. LeVeque, and K.T. Mandli, Advances in Water
Resources 34, 1195–1206 (2011).
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1008.0455
Bre MacInnes
My research is a combination of field-based and modeling-based studies. My longterm field research goal is to understand the effect of geologic catastrophes (such as
earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions) on short-term and long-term coastal
landscape evolution and prehistoric maritime cultures. My primary research focus
thus far has been on explaining tsunami erosion and deposition in terms of coastal
geomorphology and tsunami wave characteristics. My long-term modeling research
goal is to relate field observations of tsunamis to inversions of earthquake source. I
am particularly interested in how complexities in an earthquake rupture affect near
field tsunami runup. In the future, I hope to be able to estimate slip distributions in
paleo-earthquakes using tsunami deposits.
old website (maybe will disappear soon)
http://faculty.washington.edu/macinneb/MacInnes/Home.html
MacInnes, B.T., Weiss, R., Bourgeois, J., and Pinegina, T.K., 2010, Slip
Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field
Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records: Bulletin of the Seismological
Society of America, v. 100, no. 4, p. 1695–1709, doi: 10.1785/0120090376.
MacInnes, B.T., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., and Kravchunovskays, E., 2009.
Tsunami geomorphology: erosion and deposition from the 15 November
2006 Kuril Island tsunami: Geology, v. 37, p. 995-998.
MacInnes, B.T., Pinegina, T.K., Bourgeois, J., Razhegaeva, N.G., Kaistrenko,
V.M., and Kravchenovskaya, E.A., 2009, Field survey and geological effects of
the 15 November 2006 Kuril tsunami in the middle Kuril Islands: Pure and
Applied Geophysics, v. 166, no. 1/2, doi: 10.1007/s00024-008-0428-3.
Bourgeois, J., and MacInnes, B.T., 2010, Tsunami boulder transport and other
dramatic effects of the 15 November 2006 central Kuril Islands tsunami on
the island of Matua: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, v. 54, no. 3, p. 175-195.
Levin, B.V., Melekestsev, I.V., Rybin, A.V, Razzhigaeva, N.G., Kravchenovskaya,
E.A., Izebkov, P.E., Zharkov, R.V., Kozlov, D.N., Chibisoba, M.V., Degterev, A.V.,
Vlasova, I.I., Gur'yanov, V.B., Koroteev, I.G., Kharlamov, A.A., and MacInnes, B.,
2010, The expedition "Peak Sarychev Volcano- 2010" (Kuril Islands): Bulletin
of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, v. 6, p. 152159.
Levin, B.V., Kaistrenko, B.M., Rybin, A.V., Nosov, M.A., Pinegina, T.K.,
Razzhigaeva, N.G., Sassorova, E.V., Ganzei, K.S., Ivelskaya, T.N.,
Kravchenovskaya, E.A., Kolesov, C.V., Evdokimov, Y.V., Bourgeois, J.,
MacInnes, B., and Fitzhugh, B., 2008, Manifestations of the Tsunami on
November 15, 2006, on the Central
Kuril Islands: Results of the Modeling of Run-Up Heights: Doklady Earth
Sciences, v. 419, no. 2, p. 335–338.
Brian McAdoo
My current research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to disaster risk
assessment and reduction, with a primary focus on tsunami. Following postdisaster reconnaissance work in the Indian Ocean (2004 and 2005), the US Gulf
Coast following Hurricane Katrina (2005), central Java (2006), Solomon Islands
(2007), Samoa (2009), and Haiti (2010), it became clear that earth scientists and
engineers need to engage ecologists, social scientists, and disaster managers as well
as non-governmental and governmental organizations to affect sustainable disaster
risk reduction efforts (www.tsunamiproject.org). Presently, I am working on a
project using historical maps to document land-use change in the Tohoku region of
Japan, Aceh Province in Sumatra, and the island of Hispaniola.
McAdoo, B.G., A. Moore, and J. Baumwoll, Indigenous knowledge and the near
field population response during the 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami, Natural
Hazards 48, no. 1, p. 73-83, 2009.
McAdoo, B. G., Samuelu, J., L. Bell, P. Ifopo, J. Ward, E. Lovell, P. Skelton, Coral
reefs as buffers during the 2009 South Pacific tsunami, Upolu Island,
Samoa, Earth Science Reviews, DOI 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.11.005, 2010.
McAdoo, B.G. and L. Paravisini-Gebert, Not the Earthquake’s Fault, Nature
Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo_1116.
Monecke, K., W. Finger, D. Klarer, W. Kongko, B.G. McAdoo, A.L. Moore, and S.U.
Sudrajat, A 1,000-year sediment record of tsunami recurrence in northern
Sumatra, Nature 455, p. 1232-1234, 2008.
Comfort, L.K., L. Huggins, M. Siciliano, S. Scheinert, P. Sweeney, S. Stebbins, T.
Serrant, B. McAdoo, J. Augenstein, and N. Krenitsky, Transition from response to
recovery: The January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, in press.
Heather McCullough
I collaborate with Paula Dunbar to enter/verify data with NGDC's integrated
databases for historical tsunami events and sources (earthquakes, volcanoes, etc),
tsunami deposits, and references (literature/news/etc). I mainly compile and
analyse references (field surveys, deposit articles, etc.) to populate the tsunami
deposit and proxies reference database
(http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsudep.shtml).
Andy Moore
Like a lot of folks at this workshop, I'm a tsunami sedimentologist, and my research
revolves around trying to estimate how large ancient tsunamis were from the
deposits they leave behind. I teach at a primarily undergraduate institution, so my
current research is designed around introducing undergraduates to basic field and
laboratory skills, and introducing hazard awareness and risk management across
our curriculum.
Moore, A., Goff, J., McAdoo, B., Fritz, H., Gusman, A., Kalligeris,
N., Kalsum, K., Susanto, A., Suteja, D., Synolakis, C., 2011,
Sedimentary Deposits from the 17 July 2006 Western Java Tsunami,
Indonesia: Use of Grain Size Analyses to Assess Tsunami Flow Depth,
Speed, and Traction Carpet Characteristics, Pure and Applied
Geophysics, v. 168, p. 1951-1961.
Moore, A., McAdoo, B., and Ruffman, A., 2007, Landward fining from
multiple sources in a sand sheet deposited by the 1929 Grand Banks tsunami,
Newfoundland, Sedimentary Geology, v. 200, p. 336-346.
Moore, A., Nishimura, Y., Gelfenbaum, G., and Kamataki, T., 2006,
Sedimentary deposits of the 26 December 2004 tsunami on the northwest
coast of Aceh, Indonesia, Earth, Planets, and Space, v. 58, p. 253-258.
Yuichi Nishimura
My website on publications is here, but in Japanese only sorry. I am interested in
identification of tsunami deposit, correlation of possible tsunami layers, and
variation of material contents of the tsunami deposits.
http://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~yns/ronbun1.htm
Jason R. Patton
I study paleotsunami deposits found in coastal marshes. I have also been working
on tsunami hazards in northern California. I produced the first relative tsunami
hazard maps for northern California. These maps were widely distributed in local
newspapers and are part of curriculum for the University of Washington Certificate
Program in Tsunami Science and Preparedness. Recently I worked on the state of
California Tsunami hazard maps for Humboldt and Del Norte counties. I am also
working on tsunami geomorphology in northern California.
Patton, J. R. and Witter, R. W., 2006. Late Holocene Coseismic Subsidence and
Coincident Tsunamis, Southern Cascadia subduction zone, Hookton Slough,
Wigi (Humboldt Bay), California, in Hemphill-Haley, M.A., McPherson, R.,
Patton, J.R., Stallman, J., Leroy, T., Sutherland, D., and Williams, T., eds., 2006
Pacific Cell Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip Guidebook, The Triangle of
Doom: Signatures of Quaternary Crustal Deformation in the Mendocino
Deformation Zone (MDZ) Arcata,
CA. http://cascadiageo.org/FOP2006_guidebook.htm
Patton, J. R., Dengler, L. A. 2006. Relative Tsunami Hazard Mapping for
Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, California. Proceedings of the
8NCEE/EERI Eighth Earthquake Engineering
Conference. http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/tsu400/documents/Course_1_Day_2/
Session_11/NCEE_patton_dengler.pdf
Leroy, T. H., and Patton, J. R., 2009. Geomorphic Signatures of Tsunami in
Coastal Sand Dune Fields of Northwestern California. Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, p. 583.
Patton, J. R., Leroy, T. H., 2010. Reconciling Recurrence Interval Estimates,
Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone. Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 81,
No. 2.
The state of California tsunami hazard maps are
here: http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/Tsunami/Inun
dation_Maps/Humboldt/Pages/Humboldt.aspx
Robert Peters
My interests in tsunami science include the identification and interpretation of
tsunami deposits in the geologic record. I am interested in the suite of sedimentary
features that characterize a tsunami deposit and how these features give a tsunami
deposit a unique signature in the geologic record. I am interested in how and where
tsunami deposits are preserved, how they change over time, and differences
between the preserved sedimentary record of tsunamis and actual areas of
inundation. I am also interested in ways that information about a tsunami can be
inferred from a tsunami deposit.
Peters, R. and Jaffe, B., 2010, Identification of Tsunami Deposits in the
Geologic Record: Developing Criteria Using Recent Tsunami Deposits. U.S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1239.
[http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1239/]
Peters, Robert, and Jaffe, B.E., 2010, Database of recent tsunami
deposits: U.S.Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1172, 12 p. and
database [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1172/]
González, F.I., Geist, E. L., Jaffe, B., Kanoglu, U., Mofjeld, H.,
Synolakis, C. E., Titov, V. V., Arcas, D., Bellomo, D., Carlton, D., Horning, T.,
Johnson, J. Newman, J., Parsons, T., Peters, R., Peterson, C., Priest, G.,
Venturato, A., Weber, J., Wong, F., Yalciner, A., (2009): Probabilistic tsunami
hazard assessment at Seaside, Oregon, for near- and far-field seismic sources.
Journal of Geophysical Research, v.114, C11023, doi:10.1029/2008JC005132
Peters, R., Jaffe, B. E., Buckley, M., and Watt, S. G., 2008, Candidate
Tsunami Deposits at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, Southern California. American
Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #OS53A-1292
Peters, R., Jaffe, B., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2007, Distribution and
sedimentary characteristics of tsunami deposits along the Cascadia margin
of western North America. Sedimentary Geology, v. 200, 372-386.
Jaffe, B.E., Borrero, J.C., Prasetya, G.S., Peters, R., McAdoo, B.,
Gelfenbaum, G., Morton, R., Ruggiero, P., Higman, B., Dengler, L.,
Hidayat, R., Kingsley, E., Kongko, W., Lukijanto, Moore, A., Titov, V.,
and Yulianto, E., 2006, Northwest Sumatra and Offshore Islands Field
survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Earthquake Spectra,
v. 22, issue S3, p. S105-S135.
Tsunami Pilot Study Working Group, 2006, Seaside, Oregon Tsunami Pilot
Study - Modernization of FEMA Flood Hazard Maps, USGS open file report
2006-1234.
Peters, R.B., Jaffe, B. E., Gelfenbaum, G., Rubin, D.M., Anima, R .,
Swenson, M., Olcesse, D., Anticona, L.B., Gomez, J.C., and Riega, P.C.,
2003, Sedimentary deposits from the 2001 Peru Tsunami. Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, n. 6, p. 602.
Peters, R., Jaffe, B., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2003, Comparing sedimentary
deposits from the 1700 and 1964 tsunamis in Cascadia. Proceedings of the
International Conference on Coastal Sediments 2003. CD-ROM Published by
World Scientific Publishing Corp. and East Meets West Productions, Corpus
Christi, Texas, USA. ISBN 981-238-422-7.
Peters, R., Jaffe, B., Peterson, C., Gelfenbaum, G., 2003, Cascadia
tsunami deposit database. USGS Open File Report OF 03-13. 24 pp.
Peters, R., Jaffe, B., Peterson, C., Gelfenbaum, G., and Kelsey, H., 2001,
An overview of tsunami deposits along the Cascadia margin, International
Tsunami Symposium Proceedings, August 7-10, 2001, Seattle, Washington.
Catherine Petroff
Catherine Petroff is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Her areas
of interest are tsunamis, wave-structure interactions, hydraulic transport, and river
and coastal engineering.
H. Fritz, C. Petroff, P. Catalan, et al, “Field Survey of the February 27, 2010 Chile
Tsunami,” Pure and Applied Geophysics, (accepted for publication, 2011).
H. Arnason, C. Petroff, H. Yeh, “Tsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column,”
Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.4, No. 6, pps. 391-403, December 2009.
C. Petroff, F. Raichlen, “The Interaction of Breaking Solitary Waves with an Armored
Bottom”, Proceedings 30th Conference on Coastal Engineering, v. 5, pps. 4417 – 4429,
2007.
C. Petroff, A. Moore, H. Arnason, “Particle Advection by Turbulent Bores –
Orientation Effects”, Proceedings 2001 International Tsunami Symposium, pps. 897 –
904, 2001.
J. Bourgeois, C. Petroff, H. Yeh, V. Titov, C. Synolakis, B. Benson, J. Kuroiwa, J. Lander,
E. Norabuena, “Geologic Setting, Field Survey and Modeling of the Chimbote,
Northern Peru, Tsunami of 21 February 1996:” Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol.
154, n. ¾, 1999.
F. Raichlen, J.J. Lee, C. Petroff, P. Watts, The Generation of Waves by a Landslide:
Skagway, Alaska – a case study, Proceedings 25th Conference on Coastal Engineering,
v. 2, pps. 1293-1300, 1997.
B. Cook, C. Petroff, The Development of an On-line Interactive, Tsunami -Information
Resource Proceedings 25th International Conference on Coastal Engineering,
September 1996.
C. Petroff, Momentum Flux in Solitary Waves Breaking over a Mobile
Bed, Proceedings International Symposium on Waves – Physical and Numerical
Modeling, IAHR, pps 1589- 1598, August 1994.
Bruce Richmond
I am interested in applying studies of modern tsunami deposits to better identify
paleotsunami deposits in the geologic record and to distinguish tsunami deposits
from those of other high energy events such as coastal storms.
Richmond, B.M., Watt, S., Buckley, M., Jaffe, B.E., Gelfenbaum, G., and Morton,
R.A., 2011. Recent storm and tsunami coarse-clast deposit characteristics,
southeast Hawai`i. Marine Geology 283:79-89.
Richmond, B.M., Buckley, M., Etienne, S., Chague-Goff, C., Clark, K., Goff, J.,
Dominey-Howes, D., and Strotz, L., 2011. Deposits, flow characteristics, and
landscape change resulting from the September 2009 South Pacific tsunami
in
the
Samoan
islands,
Earth-Sci.
Rev.
107:
38-51
(doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.008).
Morton, R.A., Richmond, B.M., Jaffe, B.E., and Gelfenbaum, G., 2008. Coarseclast ridge complexes of the Caribbean: a preliminary basis for distinguishing
tsunami and storm-wave origins. Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 78, p.
624-637.
Althea Rizzo
My interests are in the intersection between tsunami and social science to create a
better prepared public. Working in emergency management, my main role is to take
the most recent scientific understanding of the hazards and risks from tsunami and
translating it into actionable messages for both the public sand policy-makers. I am
active on the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, the Cascadia Regional
Earthquake Workgroup, the Oregon State Seismic Policy Advisory Council and many
other local endeavors in public outreach and policy.
Website: http://www.oregon.gov/OMD/OEM/plans_train/earthquake.shtml
Publications:
2010. Living on Shaky Ground in Oregon
2011. NTHMP Tsunami Evacuation Mapping Guidelines
Presentations:
2011. Public Outreach - Running an effective campaign. Partners in
Preparedness Conference. Tacoma, WA.
2011. Cascadia Subduction Zone: Seismic Hazards and Risks in Oregon.
Portland, OR.
Mathew Schmidtlein
I am a social scientist, a geographer focusing on modeling vulnerability to natural
hazards. My broad research is not focused on any type of hazard in particular, but
on finding ways to model vulnerability to those hazards. My work with tsunamis
has been fairly recent. I am working with Nate Wood at the USGS to model
pedestrial evacuations from near field tsunamis on the open ocean coast of Pacific
and Grays Harbor Counties in Washington. Our work focuses on using spatial
modeling tools to estimate likely pedestrian evacuation time surfaces, and then
using these surfaces to identify locations where populations may not be able to
reach safety prior to tsunami arrival. We are currently working on using this
information to compare between communities in the study area, in order to
understand how the combination of population distribution and evacuation times
contribute to the relative vulnerabilities of the communities. We currently have one
manuscript in press (Wood and Schmidtlein, 2011, Anisotropic path modeling to
assess pedestrian-evacuation potential from Cascadia-related tsunamis in the US
Pacific Northwest. Natural Hazards. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9994-2)
Megumi Sugimoto
My interest is in tsunami disaster management for vulnerable people, through my
field experience in Indonesia after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1891991&show=html
Sugimoto.M., H.Iemura, (2010) "Tsunami height poles and disaster
awareness: Memory, education and awareness of disaster on the
reconstruction for resilient city in Banda Aceh, Indonesia", Disaster
Prevention and Management, Vol. 19 Iss: 5, pp.527 - 540
Adam Switzer
Assistant Professor Adam Switzer is a sedimentologist and geomorphologist, who
holds the positions of Singapore NRF Fellow, Nanyang Assistant
Professor and Principal Investigator at The Earth Observatory of Singapore and
Division of Earth Sciences in SPMS at Nanyang Technological University.
He and his research group are investigating the geological record of coastal hazards
(storms and tsunamis) in Southeast Asia. One of the driving aims of Dr Switzers
research group is to make the coastlines of Asia safer places to live, work and
holiday. Currently, Asia is the focus of his research program and Singapore has the
resources to enable him to effectively study the sedimentary and geomorphic effects
of tsunamis and storm surges. Dr Switzer’s 10 strong research group currently
works in 9 different countries throughout the world.
Website
Yuichiro Tanioka
Yuichiro Tanioka is the Director of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology in
Hokkaido. His primary focus is earthquake and tsunami modeling.
Yong Wei
Dr. Wei is a research scientist in tsunami modeling, coastal hazard mitigation, and
geophysical data analysis. He has nearly 10 years of research experience on tsunami
modeling, methodology, and associated geophysics. He has developed extensive
skills and proficiencies in various computer models dealing with the hydrodynamics
of long waves. He also specializes in analysis of the tsunami source mechanism from
seismic data and ocean observations. Dr. Wei is currently playing a major role in
NOAA’s tsunami modeling team in a multi-year effort to develop high-resolution
tsunami inundation models for U.S. coasts.
Wei, Y., H. Fritz, B. Uslu, V.V. Titov, and C. Chamberlin. The tsunami source of
the April 1, 2007 Solomon earthquake and its modeling analysis in the near
field. Geophysical Journal International, in review.
Wei, Y., U.S. ten Brink, and B. Atwater. Tsunami sources that might explain
the catastrophic overwash of Anegada, British Virgin Islands, between 1650
and 1800. Journal of Geophysical Research, in preparation.
Buckley, M., Y. Wei, B. Jaffe, and S. Watt (2011). Inversion modeling of
velocities and inferred cause of overwash that emplaced inland fields of
boulders at Anegada, British Virgin Islands. Natural Hazards, doi: 10.1007/s
11069-011-9725-8.
Atwater, B., U.S. ten Brink, M. Buckley, R. Halley, B. Jaffe, A. Lopez-Venegas, E.
Reinhardt, M. Tuttle, S. Watt, and Y. Wei, (2010). Geomorphic and
stratigraphic evidence for an unusual tsunami or store a few centuries ago at
Anegada, British Virgin Islands. Natural Hazards, doi:10.1007/s11069-0109622-6.
Newman, A.V., G. Hayes, Y. Wei, and J. Convers (2011). The 5 October 2010
Mentawai tsunami earthquake, from real-time discriminants, finite-fault
rupture, and tsunami excitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L05302,
Doi: 101029/2010GL046498.
Newman, A.V., L. Feng, H.M. Fritz, Z.M. Lifton, N. Kalligeris,
and Y. Wei, (2011). The energetic 2010 Mw 7.1 Solomon Islands tsunami
earthquake. Geophysical Journal International, 186(2), doi: 10.1111/j.1365246X.2011.05057.x, 775–781
Cheung, K.F., Y. Wei, S. Yim, and Y. Yamagaki (2011), Modeling of 500-year
tsunamis for probabilistic design of coastal infrastructure in the Pacific
northwest, Coastal Engineering, accepted.
Arcas, D. and Y. Wei (2011), Evaluation of velocity-related approximation in
the non-linear shallow water equations for the Kuril Islands, 2006 tsunami
event at Honolulu, Hawaii. Geophysical Research Letters, in review.
Zhou, H., C. Moore, Y. Wei, Y. and V.V. Titov, A multigrid Bousseinesq-type
approach and its application to modeling potential tsunami impact on the
U.S. east coast due to landslide on La Palma Island. Nat. Hazards Earth Sys.
Sci., 11(10), doi: 10.5194/nhess-11-2677-2011, 2677–2697.
Tang, L., V. Titov, Y. Wei, H.O. Mofjeld, M. Spillane, D. Arcas, E.N. Bernard, C.
Chamberlin, E. Gica, and J. Newman (2008). Tsunami forecast analysis for the
May 2006 Tonga tsunami. J. Geophys. Res., 113, C12015, doi:
10.1029/2008JC004922.
Wei, Y., E.N. Bernard, L. Tang, R. Weiss, V.V. Titov, C. Moore, M. Spillane, M.
Hopkins, and U. Kanaglu (2008). Real-time experimental forecast of the
Peruvian tsunami of August 2007 for U.S. coastlines. Geophysical Research
Letters, 35, L04609, doi:10.1029/2007GL032250.
Wei, Y., X.Z. Mao, and K.F. Cheung (2006). Well-balanced finite volume model
for long wave runup. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean
Engineering, 132(2), 114-124.
Yamazaki, Y., Y. Wei, K.F. Cheung, and G.D. Curtis (2006). Forecast of
tsunamis from the Japan-Kuril-Kamchatka source region. Natural Hazards,
38, 411-435.
Wei, Y., Cheung, K.F., Curtis, G.D., and McCreery, C.S., (2003). Inverse
algorithm for tsunami forecasts. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean
Engineering, 129(2), 1-10.
Cheung, K.F., A.C. Phadke, Y. Wei, R. Rojas, Y.J.-M Douyere, C.D. Martino, S.H.
Houston, P.L.-F. Liu, P.J. Lynett, N. Dodd, S. Liao, and E. Nazkazaki (2003).
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of
storm-induced
coastal
flooding
for
emergency
management.Ocean Engineering, 30(11), 1353-1386.
Robert Weiss
Robert Weiss is leading the Process Sedimentolgy Group (PSG) in the Department of
Geosciences at Virginia Tech and is the representative of Virginia Tech in the SPH
(Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics) European Research Interest Community (of
only three members from USA). In a broad context, the research in PSG focuses on
understanding of processes in different sedimentary environments and on different
length and time scales. Research methods include numerical and analytical models,
experiments and field observations, on natural hazards, i.e. tsunamis and their
deposits, landslides and oceanic meteorite impacts. RW has been conducting
research on sediment transport, tsunami propagation, and tsunami generation for
more than 10 years. He employs analytical and numerical models to explore the
physical processes behind the generation of the tsunami deposits. Furthermore, he
uses and takes part in the development of numerical models, such as the GPUSPH
code. GPUSPH uses graphic cards to solve the Navier-Stokes equations with the
Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. RW has been simulating the
generation of submarine and subaerial landslides since 2006 with iSALE.
Furthermore, RW is member of the International Tsunami Survey Team under the
umbrella of UNESCO and visited India, Kenya, Indonesia, Samoa, and Chile in the
aftermath of tsunami event. Also he is engaged in bridging the gap between
Geosciences and Engineering for hazard reduction in coastal areas by volunteering
in the Coasts, Ocean, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI) of the American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Weiss, R. (2011): The mystery of boulders moved by tsunami and storm, in
press in Marine Geology.
MacInnes*, B.T., Weiss, R., Bourgeois, J., and T.K. Pinegina, (2010): Slipdistribution of the 1952 Kamchatka great earthquake based on nearfield
tsunami deposits and historical records, Bulletin of the Seismological Society
of America, 100(4), 1695-1709.
Martin*, M.E., Weiss, R., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., Houston, H., Titov, V.V.
(2008): Com- bining constraints from tsunami modeling and sedimentology
to untangle the 1969 Ozernoi and 1971 Kamchatskii tsunamis, Geophysical
Research Letters, 35, L01610 DOI:10.1029/2007GL032349.
Weiss, R. (2008): Sediment grains moved by passing tsunami waves:
Tsunami deposits in deep water Marine Geology, 250, 251-257.
Rick Wilson
As lead scientist in the California Tsunami Hazard Mitigation and Preparation
Program, I produce tsunami hazard products and maps for emergency managers,
land-use planners, and the maritime community. To help determine tsunami
recurrence and perform a state-wide probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis, I am
working with Humboldt State University (HSU) to produce a paleotsunami deposit
database for California. I am also currently working with the USGS and HSU on a
state-wide paleotsunami deposit investigation to better understand the tsunami
hazard. I am interested in sharing the experience of my work in the California
program and better understanding the latest state-of-the-science methods being
developed by colleagues worldwide. Also, as a member of the National Tsunami
Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) Coordinating Committee and Co-Chair of the
NTHMP Mapping and Modeling Subcommittee, I am interested in helping develop
and improve policies on funding priorities for applied tsunami science.
WEBSITE: www.tsunami.ca.gov
Wilson, R.I., Dengler, L.A., Legg, M.R, Long, K., and Miller, K.M., 2010a, The
2010 Chilean Tsunami on the California Coastline: Seismological Research
Letters, 81(3), pp. 545-546.
Wilson, R.I, Barberopoulou, A., Borrero, J.C, Bryant, W.A, Dengler, L.A., Goltz,
J.D., Legg, M.R., McGuire, T., Miller, K.M., Real, C.R., and Synolakis, C.E., 2010b,
Development of new databases for tsunami hazard analysis in
California: in Lee, W.H.K., Kirby, S.H., and Diggles, M.F., compilers, 2010,
Program and abstracts of the Second Tsunami Source Workshop; July 19-20,
2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1152, 33 p.
Wilson, R.I., Barberopoulou, A., Miller, K.M., Goltz, J.D., and Synolakis, C.E.,
2010c, New maximum tsunami inundation maps for use by local emergency
planners in the State of California, USA: in Lee, W.H.K., Kirby, S.H., and
Diggles, M.F., compilers, 2010, Program and abstracts of the Second Tsunami
Source Workshop; July 19-20, 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
2010-1152, 33 p.
Wilson, R.I., Dengler, L.A., Goltz, J.D., Legg, M.R., Miller, K.M., Ritchie, A., and
Whitmore, P.M., 2011a, Emergency response and field observation activities
of geoscientists in California (USA) during the September 29, 2009, Samoa
Tsunami: Earth Science Reviews 107, pp. 193-200.
Wilson, R., Dengler, L., Borrero, J., Synolakis, C., Jaffe, B., Barberopoulou, A.,
Ewing, L., Legg, M., Ritchie, A., Lynett, P., Admire, A., McCrink, T., Falls, J.,
Rosinski, A., Treiman, J., Manson, M., Silva, M., Davenport, C., Lancaster, J.,
Olson, B., Pridmore, C., Real, C., Miller, K., and Goltz, J., 2011b, The effects of
the Tohoku Tsunami on the California Coast; 2011 Seismological Society of
America Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN; poster session.
Patricio Winckler
After the Chile earthquake, a tsunami building code is being developed (I'm in
the committee) and research needs are being identified to adapt mitigation
strategies and awareness to local conditions. In other terms, sedimentology is being
used by a small group of researchers locally but the technique is far from being
applied extensively in Chile. Both ideas, merged together, may provide a better
overview in the context of my contribution to the development of the code and for
research interests as well.
Robert Witter
The sedimentology of historical tsunami deposits aids paleotsunami research in the
following ways: (1) defines the criteria used for interpretation of paleotsunami
deposits, (2) quantifies inputs to sediment transport models that estimate
hydrodynamic properties of paleotsunamis, and (3) improves the characterizations
of tsunami sources (e.g., earthquakes, landslides, volcanic collapse). My research
evaluates data in these fields to better understand earthquake and tsunami hazards
along the Cascadia and Alaska-Aleutian subduction zones.
Nathan Wood
I am interested in understanding and communicating how communities are
vulnerable to tsunami hazards. Research focuses on improving geospatial methods
to assess the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of communities relative to
tsunami threats. Research efforts have included reports summarizing variations in
how communities use tsunami-prone land in various U.S. West Coast states, spatial
analysis of demographic sensitivity to tsunamis, and path-distance modeling to
assess pedestrian-evacuation potential from near-field tsunamis. I also recently
served on a National Research Council committee to assess the nation's tsunami
warning system and national preparedness to tsunamis.
Research website -- http://geography.wr.usgs.gov/science/vulnerability/
John Woodruff
I am interested in all aspects of tsunami sedimentology with a specific focus on
methods for delineate tsunami deposits from overwash deposition due to storms, as
well as tsunami reconstructions from southern Japan.
A list of my publications can be found on my website:
http://www.geo.umass.edu/faculty/woodruff
Woodruff, J.D., Sriver, R.L., Lund, D.C., in press, Tropical cyclone activity and
western North Atlantic stratification over the last millennia: A comparative
review with viable connections. Journal of Quaternary Science
Lane, P., Donnelly, J.P., Woodruff, J.D., Hawkes, A.D., (2011), A decadallyresolved paleohurricane record archived in the late Holocene sediments of a
Florida sinkhole. Marine Geology, v. 179, p. 105-119
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Boldt, K.V., Lane, P., Woodruff, J.D., Donnelly, J.P. (2010), Calibrating a
sedimentary record of overwash from Southeastern New England using
modeled historic hurricane surges. Marine Geology, v. 275: 127-139
PDF (2.1 MB) >>
Mann, M.E., Woodruff, J.D., Donnelly, J.P., and Z. Zhang (2009), Atlantic
hurricanes and climate over the past 1,500 years. Nature, 460 (7257): 880883 PDF (0.8 MB) >>
Woodruff, J.D. , Donnelly, J.P., and A. Okusu, (2009), Exploring typhoon
variability over the mid-to-late Holocene: evidence of extreme coastal
flooding from Kamikoshiki, Japan , Quaternary Science Reviews , v. 28, p.
1774-1785.
PDF (2.1 MB) >>
Woodruff, J.D., J.P. Donnelly, K. Emanuel, and P. Lane, (2008), Assessing
sedimentary records of paleohurricane activity using modeled hurricane
climatology. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 9, no. 9, Q09V10.
PDF (1.4MB) >>
Woodruff, J.D., J.P. Donnelly, D. Mohrig, and W.R. Geyer (2008),
Reconstructing relative flooding intensities responsible for hurricaneinduced deposits from Laguna Playa Grande, Vieques, Puerto Rico. Geology, v.
36, no. 5, p. 391-394.
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Supplement PDF (492KB) >>
Donnelly, J.P. and J. D. Woodruff (2007), Intense hurricane activity over the
past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African
monsoon. Nature, v. 447, p. 465-468. Link >>
Woodruff, J.D., Geyer, W.R., Sommerfield, C.K., and Driscoll, N.W. (2001),
Seasonal variation of sediment deposition in the Hudson River
estuary. Marine Geology, v. 179, p.105-119.
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Geyer, W.R., Woodruff, J.D., and Traykovski, P. (2001), Sediment transport
and trapping in the Hudson River estuary. Estuaries, v. 24, p. 670-679.
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Barton, D.A., Woodruff, J.D., Bousquet, T.M., Purrish, A.M. (1997). Treatment
system response to transient AOX (Adsorbable Organic Halogen)
loadings. Water Science and Technology, v. 35(2-3) 85-91 pp.
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