NH21B:
Tsunami Hazards and the Responses of Human and Physical Environmental Systems to Tsunami Forcing I Posters

Session ID#: 5000

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Erica L E Emry, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Co-conveners:  James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia and Erica L E Emry, USGS Pacific Science Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4347 Recovery and reconstruction after disaster [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
NH21B-3835
Laboratory Experiments of Tsunami Inundation in Patchy Coastal Forest on a Steep Beach (2953)
Jennifer L Irish1, Robert Weiss2, Yongqian Yang3, Amir Zainali3 and Roberto Marivela Colmenarejo4, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Coastal Studies, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Academy of Integrated Science, Blacksburg, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
NH21B-3836
Physical Modelling of Granular Landslide-Generated Tsunamis with Large Relative Mass (18229)
Garrett Miller1, Ryan P Mulligan2 and Andy Andy Take1, (1)Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)Queen's University, Civil Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
 
NH21B-3837
Spectral Characteristics of Wave Breaking and Dissipation in Combined Tsunami - Swell Wave Conditions (7944)
James Michael Kaihatu, Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States, John Goertz, Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, College Station, United States, Alexandru Sheremet, University of Florida, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, Gainesville, FL, United States and Robert Weiss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Academy of Integrated Science, Blacksburg, United States
 
NH21B-3838
Time Evolution of Man-Made Harbour Modifications in San Diego: Effects on Tsunami Amplitudes and Currents (18392)
Aggeliki Barberopoulou1,2, Mark Legg2,3 and Edison Gica4,5, (1)National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece, (2)University of Southern California, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Legg Geophysical, Huntington Beach, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Joint Institute for the Atmosphere and the Ocean, Seattle, WA, United States
 
NH21B-3839
Waves Generated by Asteroid Impacts and Their Hazard Consequences on The Shorelines (27449)
Souheil M Ezzedine1, Paul L Miller2 and David S. Dearborn2, (1)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
NH21B-3840
Survey of Tsunamis Formed by Atmospheric Forcing on the East Coast of the United States (16982)
John Lodise1, Yang Shen2 and Christina Wertman1, (1)University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States
 
NH21B-3841
Boulder Dislodgment Reloaded: New insights from boulder transport and dislodgement by tsunamis and storms from three-dimensional numerical simulations with GPUSPH (30029)
Robert Weiss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Academy of Integrated Science, Blacksburg, United States and Amir Zainali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
NH21B-3842
On the role of energy balance for numerical modeling of tsunami sediment transport (14694)
Daisuke Sugawara, Tohoku University, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Sendai, Japan, Hajime Naruse, Kyoto University, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto, Japan and Kazuhisa Goto, Tokyo University, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan
 
NH21B-3843
Late Holocene sea level changes and tectonic movements inferred from fossil diatom assemblages in Tainohama, Tokushima prefecture, Japan (23592)
Takashi Chiba1, Shigehiro Fujino1 and Emmy Kobori2, (1)Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, (2)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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