Chairs: Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Bruce M Richmond, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia
Co-conveners: Witold Szczucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland, Bruce M Richmond, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Kazuhisa Goto, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
OSPA Liaisons: Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Elemental and Mineralogical Analysis of Tsunami Deposits from Phra Thong Island, Thailand
Dat Tien Pham1, Chris Gouramanis2, Adam Switzer1,2, Charles Martin Rubin1,2, Brian G. Jones3, Kruawun Jankaew4 and Paul F. Carr3, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, (4)Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Same Same, But Different: Sedimentological Comparison of Recent Storm and Tsunami Deposits from the South-Eastern Coastline of India
Chris Gouramanis1, Adam Switzer2, Srinivasalu Seshachalam3, Anandasabari Karthikeyan4, Dat Tien Pham1, Stephen Carson2, Jessica Pilarczyk5, Mohammed Hussain6 and Wenshu Yap2, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Anna University, Chennai, Department of Geology, Chennai, India, (4)Anna University Coimbatore Regional Center, Chennai, India, (5)Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (6)University of Madras, Department of Geology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Chennai, India
Geological records of paleotsunamis/extreme wave events in the Pacific Coast of Taiwan
Jiun-Yee Yen1, Neng-Ti Yu2, Li-Hung Lin3, Pei-Ling Wang3 and Jin Hsing Liu4, (1)National Dong Hwa University, Hualien County, Taiwan, (2)National HsinChu Univesity of Education, Department of Applied Science, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan, (3)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (4)National Donghua University, Shoufeng, Taiwan
Geochemical Characteristics of Typhoon - and Tsunami - Induced Deposits from Western Kyushu Islands
Kinuyo Kanamaru1, Jonathan D Woodruff1, Shohini Kundu2 and Timothy Cook3, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, United States
Organic Geochemistry of the Tohoku Tsunami Deposits of 2011 (Japan)
Klaus R Reicherter1, Jan Schwarzbauer1, Witold Szczucinski2 and Bruce E Jaffe3, (1)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, (2)Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, (3)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Identification of a volcaniclastic tsunami deposit at a volcanically active region in southeastern Kyushu, Japan
Masaki Yamada1, Yugo Nakamura2, Hiroshi Moriwaki3, Takashi Chiba1 and Shigehiro Fujino4, (1)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, (4)Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
A New, Continuous 5400 Yr-long Paleotsunami Record from Lake Huelde, Chiloe Island, South Central Chile.
Philipp Kempf1, Jasper Moernaut2, Willem Vandoorne1, Maarten E Van Daele1, Mario Pino2, Roberto Urrutia3 and Marc A O De Batist1, (1)Ghent University, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Universidad Austral de Chile, Escuela de Geología, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales & Evolutivas, Valdivia, Chile, (3)Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
Contribution of foraminifera to discriminate depositional events within an apparently massive tsunami deposit
Natalia Maria Hoska1,2, Francisco Fatela1,2, Pedro J. M. Costa1,2, Cesar Andrade1, Maria Conceicao Freitas1,2 and Maria Alexandra Oliveira1,2, (1)Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (2)Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Geologia, Lisboa, Portugal
Reconstructing Flow Patterns from Tsunami Deposits with No Visible Sedimentary Structure
Claire L Kain1, Catherine Chague-Goff1,2, James R Goff1, Patrick Wassmer3, Christopher A Gomez4 and Deirdre E Hart4, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, Australia, (3)University Paris 1, Laboratory of Physical Geography, Paris, France, (4)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
A Natural Laboratory for Offshore Paleotsunami Studies: The Augusta Bay (Eastern Sicily-Italy)
Alessandra Smedile1, Flavia Molisso2, Catherine Chague-Goff3,4, Paolo Marco De Martini1, Stefania Pinzi1, Marina Iorio2, Leonardo Sagnotti1 and Daniela Pantosti1, (1)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (2)CNR Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, Naples, Italy, (3)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, Australia, (4)University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Effective research method and problems of the Paleotsunami studies in Taiwan
Yuka Nishikawa1, Wen-Shan Chen1, Nobuhisa Matsuta2, Jiun-Yee Yen3 and Neng-Ti Yu4, (1)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (3)National Dong Hwa University, Hualien County, Taiwan, (4)National HsinChu Univesity of Education, Department of Applied Science, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan
When is a Tsunami a Mega-Tsunami?
Catherine Chague-Goff1,2, James R Goff2, James P Terry3 and Kazuhisa Goto4, (1)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation - ANSTO, Lucas Heights, Australia, (2)UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia, (3)Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (4)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Village Level Tsunami Threat Maps for Tamil Nadu, SE Coast of India: Numerical Modeling Technique
Jonathan MP1, Divyalakshmi Kulangara Madham Subrahmanian2 and Ram Mohan V3, (1)CIIEMAD, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico, DF, Mexico, (2)National Institute of Rock Mechanics, KGF - 563 117, Karnataka, India, (3)University of Madras, Department of Geology, Guindy Campus, Chennai - 600 025, Tamil Nadu, India
Influence of Earthquake Parameters on Tsunami Wave Height and Inundation
Divyalakshmi Kulangara Madham Subrahmanian1, Jeyagopal Sri Ganesh2, Mallavarapu Venkata Ramana Murthy2 and Ram Mohan V3, (1)National Institute of Rock Mechanics, KGF - 563 117, Karnataka, India, (2)National Institute of Ocean Technology, Offshore Structures, Chennai, India, (3)University of Madras, Department of Geology, Chennai, India
Using tsunami deposits to validate inundation modeling at Sedanka Island: Revealing clues about great earthquakes in the Unalaska seismic gap.
SeanPaul La Selle, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Guy R Gelfenbaum, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Robert Carleton Witter, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Richard W Briggs, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, Rich D Koehler III, State of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Simon E Engelhart, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States and Gary A Carver, Carver Geologic Inc., Kodiak, AK, United States
Inferring relative tsunami magnitudes from inverse and forward sediment transport modeling of tsunami deposits in the Eastern Aleutian Islands.
Guy R Gelfenbaum1, SeanPaul La Selle2, Robert Carleton Witter3, Bruce E Jaffe2, Richard W Briggs4, Rich D Koehler III5, Simon E Engelhart6 and Gary A Carver7, (1)USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (5)State of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, United States, (7)Carver Geologic Inc., Kodiak, AK, United States