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Simon Day
| Specialisation |
Geological mapping of volcanoes and landslides with application to volcano, landslide and tsunami hazards. |
| Research interests | Dr. Simon Day is currently a visiting associate researcher at University of California Santa Cruz, principally working on Prof. E. Silver and Dr. S.N. Ward on an NSF-funded project to study volcano collapses and tsunamis in the North New Guinea island arc. Prior to this he worked for a number of years as a researcher in the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre in the Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. He specialises in the areas of volcano deformation and structural geology and geological mapping, with applications in the fields of volcanic and landslide hazards, reconstruction of volcano growth histories and the mechanistic understanding of volcano behaviour. His current interests are in the growth, deformation, instability and collapse of island volcanoes, environmental controls on these processes, and the consequent debris avalanches and tsunamis. He has extensive experience of geological mapping of volcanic sequences and tsunami deposits on volcanoes in the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands and has applied the results of that work to collaborative modelling of mechanisms of volcano collapse triggering, landslide and debris avalanche motion, and the generation of tsunami waves. His work in these fields has been supported by the European Community; the Spanish Higher Research Council (CSIC); the Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon; and the Instituto de Cooperacao Portuguesa. |
| Telephone |
+1-831-459-5143 |
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+1-831-459-3074 |
| sday@es.ucsc.edu or simonday_ucl@yahoo.co.uk |
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| Short curriculum vitae |
1985 - 1989 PhD in Geology. University of Durham (United Kingdom)
2001 - 2002: Research fellow, Departamento de Fisica, Instituto
Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Recent publications |
Maslin,
M., Owen, M., Day, S.J. & Long, D. (2004). Linking continental-slope
failures and climate change: Testing the clathrate gun hypothesis.
Geology 32, 53 - 56. Ward, S.N. & Day, S.J. (2003). Ritter Island Volcano - Lateral collapse and tsunami of 1888. Geophysical Journal International 154, 891 - 902. Ward, S.N. & Day, S.J., (2001). Cumbre Vieja volcano: potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands. Geophysical Research Lett.ers 28, 3397-3400. Day, S.J., Carracedo, J.C., Guillou, H. & Gravestock, P. (1999a). Recent structural evolution of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma, Canary Islands: volcanic rift zone reconfiguration as a precursor to volcano flank instability? Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 94, 135 - 167. Day, S.J., S.I.N. Heleno da Silva, S.I.N. & Fonseca, J.F.B.D. (1999b). A past giant lateral collapse and present day flank instability of Fogo, Cape Verde Islands. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 94, 191 - 218. Elsworth, D. & Day, S.J. (1999). Flank collapse triggered by intrusion: the Canarian and Cape Verde archipelagoes. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 94, 323 - 340. |
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