After specialising in fluvial hydraulics in UK I moved to New Zealand, following which my interests developed to match the sediment-based problems of managing river, erosion, landslide, earthquake and glacial hazards. Thus I specialised sequentially in braided rivers, debris flows, rainfall-induced and coseismic landslides, earthquakes and geomorphology, and in particular applied this broad range of knowledge to the recognition and assessment of hazards and risks associated with these processes.

Experience

  • –present
    Adjunct Professor of Disaster Risk and Resilience, University of Canterbury

Education

  • 1973 
    University of Southampton, UK, PhD Civil Engineering

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