Tsunamis and severe storms (cyclones and hurricanes) are a major natural hazard to coastal regions worldwide. We study aspects related to identifying paleo-tsunami and hurricane deposits in the stratigraphic record of sediment cores and tsunami generated by submarine landsliding.
Publications (*indicates graduate student advisee or post-doc):
*Browning, T.N., Sawyer, D.E., Brooks, G.R., Larson, R.A., Ramos-Scharrón, C., and Canals-Silander, M., 2019, Widespread Deposition in a Coastal Bay Following Three Major 2017 Hurricanes (Irma, Jose, and Maria), Scientific Reports, Scientific Reports, v. 9, no. 1, p. 7101, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43062-4.
*Russell, P., 2018, Tsunami Stratigraphy in a Salt Pond on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, MS thesis, The Ohio State University.
