Research Group
Graduate Students
Jaime Delano (PhD candidate; Mason Trust Scholarship)
Project Title: Exploring earthquake expression and behaviour using remote sensing techniques with historic New Zealand earthquakes
Laura Gnesko (PhD Student; UC Accelerator Scholarship)
Project Title: Geomorphology and geotechnical characterisation of coseismic submarine slope failures
Erin McEwan (PhD student; UC Doctoral Scholarship)
Project Title: Flood hazard from fault rupture-induced river avulsions
Joshua Daglish (MSc student; QuakeCoRE Scholarship)
Project Title: Regional exposure of NZ transport network to fault displacement hazard
Past group members
Dr. Corinne Singeisen (Risk Analyst)
Project Title: Identifying controlling factors on initiation and failure mechanisms of large co-seismic landslides during the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake using numerical modelling
Dr. Colin Bloom (Postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL)
Project Title: Coseismic Landslide Interactions with Surface Fault Rupture Following the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake
Ruby Glasson (Honors student; now at Federation Mining)
Project Title: Mechanisms of coastal cliff failure in the Kaikoura earthquake
Santosh Dhakal (MSc student; now at Department of Mines and Geology Nepal)
Project Title: Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Lake Heron and Torlesse faults
Dr. Clare Wilkinson (Now at NIWA; Jim Cole Prize for Best PhD Thesis)
Project Title: Fluvial evacuation of coseismic landslide sediment from river catchments in the southern Kaikoura range
Jesse Kearse (Fulbright Fellow; now PhD Candidate at GNS Science / Victoria University of Wellington)
Project Title: 3D co-seismic displacements of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake
Ethan Walsh (MSc ’22; now at PDP Nelson): Empirical rupture simulation of multi-fault earthquakes
Tom Brough (MSc ’19; now at Golder / WSP): Tectonic geomorphology and paleoseismology of the Humps Fault Zone, North Culverden Basin
Tim van Woerden (MDRR ’19; Von Haast Prize for best masters thesis; now at Otago Regional Council)
Project title: Geomorphology and landslide dam hazards of the Shotover River catchment