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Media Contacts

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

w.mcguire@ucl.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)20 7679 3449

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

s.edwards@ucl.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)20 7679 7880

Dr Christopher J Kilburn

Research Interests: Forecasting (1) volcanic eruptions; (2) emplacement of lava flows; (3) emplacement of giant, catastrophic landslides (sturzstroms), Italian volcanism.
E:

c.kilburn@ucl.ac.uk

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

Lucy Stanbrough

Research Interests: Use of online systems in disaster mitigation and management, GIS, natural hazards
E:

l.stanbrough@ucl.ac.uk

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

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
E:

j.twigg@ucl.ac.uk

T: 020 7679 2436

Visiting Professor David C Crichton

Research Interests: Social impacts in UK
E:

david@crichton.sol.co.uk

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

Professor Peter Sammonds

Research Interests: Earthquake mechanics, volcano mechanics, cryosphere dynamics, planetary ices
E:

p.sammonds@ucl.ac.uk

T: 0207 679 2422

Dr Tizianna Rossetto

Research Interests:

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

t.rossetto@ucl.ac.uk

T: +44 (0) 20 7679 4488

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.

drta@bgs.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)115 936 3449

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
E:

h.rodda@ucl.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)1865 400675

Dr Adrian M Chandler

Research Interests:

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

adrian2_uk@yahoo.co.uk

T: +44 01233 638577

Dr Gerald P Roberts

Research Interests:

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

gerald.roberts@ucl.ac.uk

T: 0207 679 7713

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.

d.strahan@ucl.ac.uk