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Professor Bill McGuire

Research Interests:
Geodetic monitoring of active volcanoes; volcano instability and collapse; volcanoes and environmental change; volcanic hazards and their mitigation; volcanic emergency protocols and procedures; low frequency-high magnitude geophysical hazards; climate forcing of geological hazards and identification and characterisation of megatsunami deposits

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w.mcguire@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 3449

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Dr Stephen Edwards

Research Interests:

Implementing effective disaster risk reduction through the application of earth and environmental science; mapping and portraying hazards, risk and vulnerability; geology and geohazards of Cyprus; effective teaching and learning methods and resources; effective research and knowledge exchange partnerships


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s.edwards@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 7880

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Dr Christopher J Kilburn

Research Interests: Forecasting (1) volcanic eruptions; (2) emplacement of lava flows; (3) emplacement of giant, catastrophic landslides (sturzstroms), Italian volcanism.
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c.kilburn@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44-(0)20-7679 7194

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Lucy Stanbrough

Research Interests: Use of online systems in disaster mitigation and management, GIS, natural hazards
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l.stanbrough@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 3637 / 07834860497

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Dr John Twigg

Research Interests: socio-economic vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods, institutional change and ‘mainstreaming’, DRR planning & evaluation, disability & disasters, disaster education & school safety, risk communications, early warnings, history of disaster management
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j.twigg@ucl.ac.uk


T: 020 7679 2436

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Wendy Austin-Giddings

Research Interests: Tsunami hazard in the Atlantic region from volcano lateral collapse events. Sedimentary signatures of tsunami and storm surge deposits. Large landslide generation and precursory activity.
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w.austin-giddings@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 2429

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Carina Jacqueline Fearnley

Research Interests:
Volcanology, science and technology studies, science communication, disaster management, and uncertainty.
 
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c.fearnley@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 2452

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Emily Wilkinson

Research Interests: Institutional roles and responsibilities in disaster risk reduction; Adaptation and coping strategies; Disaster management in Latin America; Monitoring and evaluation methodologies
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emily.wilkinson@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)207 679 2455 / 078 5213 5324

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Catherine Lowe

Research Interests:
Volcanic vulnerability analysis; hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping; GIS

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c.lowe@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 2429

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Bob Robertson

Research Interests: Short term eruption precursors and identification of volcanic unrest leading to erption campared to unrest leading to non eruption
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r.robertson@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 3740

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Tristram Burley

Research Interests: Volcanology; triggering of volcanic eruptions, Volcanic risk mitigation & emergency planning, Climate Change
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tristram.burley@uclmail.net


T: +44 (0)20 7679 2400

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Rick Wall

Research Interests:
Forecasting volcanic eruptions in extensional tectonic settings using precursory volcano-tectonic seismicity

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richard.wall.09@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 3652

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Melanie Duncan

Research Interests: Science of natural hazards; climate change and environmental degradation; multi-hazard (including climate change) assessment; humanitarian and development agencies assessment and application of science and local knowledge, with respect to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.
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melanie.duncan@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 2360

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Dr Rosanna Smith

Research Interests: Lava dome deformation, volcanic earthquakes, fracture of lava domes and volcanic edifices, volcanic eruption precursors, physical properties of volcanic rocks and magmas
E:

Rosanna.smith@ucl.ac.uk


T: 02076792435

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Visiting Professor David C Crichton

Research Interests: Social impacts in UK
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david@crichton.sol.co.uk


T: 01828 686493 (this number automatically rejects anonymous callers)

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Professor Peter Sammonds

Research Interests: Earthquake mechanics, volcano mechanics, cryosphere dynamics, planetary ices
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p.sammonds@ucl.ac.uk


T: 0207 679 2422

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Dr Andrew F Bell

Research Interests:
Tectonic and volcano-tectonic seismicity: the physics and statistics of earthquake-earthquake and earthquake-volcano interactions, triggering and forecasting

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a.bell@ed.ac.uk


T: +44 (0) 131 650 4918

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Dr Tizianna Rossetto

Research Interests:
Earthquake vulnerability of buildings, GIS applications to earthquake risk assessment, earthquake risk assessment, risk perception, tsunami vulnerability of buildings

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t.rossetto@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0) 20 7679 4488

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Dr Judith Woo

Research Interests:
Long-term ground deformation patterns in caldera systems, analytical and numerical modelling in deformation, theory development in deep magmatic feeding systems.

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judith.woo@guycarp.com


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Dr Simon Day

Research Interests:
Growth, deformation, instability and collapse of island volcanoes, environmental controls on these processes, and the consequent debris avalanches and tsunamis

E:

simonday_ucl@yahoo.co.uk


T: +44 (0)20 7679 7880

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Professor David Tappin

Research Interests:
Tsunami hazard from submarine landslides and volcanic flank collapse, discrimination of sediments deposited from tsunamis, evolution of intra-oceanic convergent margins, coastal processes on low-lying carbonate islands, tectonic evolution of the western United Kingdom, deep-time climate drivers.

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drta@bgs.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)115 936 3449

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Dr Harvey J. E. Rodda

Research Interests: Flash flooding in the SW, Historical flood event reconstruction, Flood extent modelling, Modelling surface runoff at the field scale, Extreme rainfalls, Coastal flood modelling
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h.rodda@ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 (0)1865 400675

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Dr Ioannis D Papanikolaou

Research Interests: Geological hazards including social-economic impact, Fault growth and interaction processes
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i.papanikolaou@ucl.ac.uk / ioannipap@yahoo.com


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David J Smart

Research Interests:
Numerical Weather Prediction and simulation, synoptic and mesoscale severe weather systems in the mid-latitudes.

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david.smrt@gmail.com


T: 0208 698 9304

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Dr Serge Guillas

Research Interests:

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serge@stats.ucl.ac.uk


T: +44 0207 679 1867

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Dr Adrian M Chandler

Research Interests:

Earthquake-Resistant Design, Seismic Hazard Analysis, Risk in Low to Moderate Seismic Regions


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adrian2_uk@yahoo.co.uk


T: +44 01233 638577

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Dr Gerald P Roberts

Research Interests:

Earthquake recurrence, fault growth, palaeoseismology, earthquake geology, structural geology, Quaternary/Holocene cosmogenic and radiometric dating, plate tectonics.


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gerald.roberts@ucl.ac.uk


T: 0207 679 7713

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Frank Roberts

Research Interests: Impact forecasting, parameterisation of Numerical Weather Prediction model output into key weather impact forecasts for decision makers, parameterisation and analysis of forecast uncertainty, strategies for the reduction of forecast uncertainty, modelling of severe weather events, relationships between meteorological processes and damage, weather sensitivity and impact mitigation, effective communication of weather information
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frank.roberts@eurotempest.com


T: +44 020 7554 4060

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Professor Iain S Stewart

Research Interests:
Earthquake faulting in the Eastern Mediterranean, Earthquakes and crustal movements in glaciated terrains, tsunami deposits in the geological record, earthquake archaeology

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istewart@plymouth.ac.uk


T: (+44) 01752 232457

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Dr Anne Eyre

Research Interests:
Psycho-social aspects of disasters including stress and trauma management; community approaches to disaster management and response; training of professional and volunteer responders; disaster support and action groups

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anne.eyre@traumatraining.com


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Annelies Heijmans

Research Interests:
The ‘everyday politics’ of Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction, Aid chain analysis, Interplay disasters and conflict from grassroots perspective, DRR and governance

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annelies.heijmans@wur.nl


T: 0031 317 483 514

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Dr Richard Dixon

Research Interests:
Application and verification of Numerical Weather Prediction in the estimation of damage from meteorological events; understanding the processes and flows that lead to windstorm damage; the use of high-resolution insurance loss data to corroborate and supplement existing observational data in helping to understand damage patterns in European Windstorms

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richsdixon1975@gmail.com


T: 0207 578 7018

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David Strahan

Research Interests:
Global oil depletion; the politics and geopolitics of peak oil; oil company responses to peak oil; the inter-relationship between peak oil and climate change, and joined-up policy responses to both; non-conventional oil; Iraq; coal depletion; hydrogen; biofuels; biogas; supergrid and smartgrid solutions to the intermittency of renewable generation; electrification of transport; UK energy policy.

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d.strahan@ucl.ac.uk


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