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