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

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Bruce E Jaffe, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Co-conveners:  James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia and Bruce E Jaffe, USGS Pacific Science Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Laboratory Experiments of Tsunami Inundation in Patchy Coastal Forest on a Steep Beach
Jennifer L Irish1, Robert Weiss2, Yongqian Yang1, Amir Zainali1 and Roberto Marivela Colmenarejo2, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Physical Modelling of Granular Landslide-Generated Tsunamis with Large Relative Mass
Garrett Miller, Ryan P Mulligan and W. Andy Take, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
 
Spectral Characteristics of Wave Breaking and Dissipation in Combined Tsunami - Swell Wave Conditions
James Michael Kaihatu1, John Goertz1, Alexandru Sheremet2 and Robert Weiss3, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Florida, Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Time Evolution of Man-Made Harbour Modifications in San Diego: Effects on Tsunami Amplitudes and Currents
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
 
Waves Generated by Asteroid Impacts and Their Hazard Consequences on The Shorelines
Souheil M Ezzedine1, Paul L Miller2 and David S. Dearborn2, (1)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Survey of Tsunamis Formed by Atmospheric Forcing on the East Coast of the United States
John Lodise1, Yang Shen2 and Christina A Wertman1, (1)University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Univ Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
Boulder Dislodgment Reloaded: New insights from boulder transport and dislodgement by tsunamis and storms from three-dimensional numerical simulations with GPUSPH
Robert Weiss, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Amir Zainali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
On the role of energy balance for numerical modeling of tsunami sediment transport
Daisuke Sugawara1, Hajime Naruse2 and Kazuhisa Goto1, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
Late Holocene sea level changes and tectonic movements inferred from fossil diatom assemblages in Tainohama, Tokushima prefecture, Japan
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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