NamiLinks 2.0
A workshop on ‘X-ray tomography applied to tsunami deposits’
September 12-15, 2022
Program schedule
Day 1 September 12, 2022 AM: Short visit of the laboratory - Presentation of the tomography platform.
Day 1 PM: Principles of X-ray tomography - A review of its application to geosciences - Specific application to tsunami deposits.
Day 2 September 13, 2022: Preparing a sample for tomography - Defining the objectives of the analysis - Defining the parameters of the scan - Start a preliminary low-resolution scan.
Day 3 September 14, 2022: Debriefing of the results of day 1 - An introduction to basic image analysis (theory + practice) - Defining a region of interest and start a high-resolution scan.
Day 4 September 15, 2022: Debriefing of the results of day 2 - Improved Image analysis, including machine learning (theory + practice) - Final discussion
To know more about the workshop please follow the links given below.
NamiLinks 1.0
A Virtual Workshop on Tsunamis
Date: 9, 10 December 2021
Time: 9:30 AM EST/EDT Onwards
Day 1: https://youtu.be/ER57T-J3qcQ
Day 2: https://youtu.be/kcNTjtZbwZk
Speakers
Dr. Pedro JM Costa
Lecturer (Professor Auxilar)
Department of Earth Science
Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Coimbra
Portugal
Email : ppcosta@dct.uc.pt
Title of the talk: Tsunami deposits - key future challenges
Time: 9:35 - 10:00 (Talk 1) - Day 1
Prof. Maria-Teresa-Ramirez-Herrera
Professor & Earth Scientist - Active Tectonics & Tsunami Geology-Paleoseismology, Instituto de Geografía, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Email: tramirez@igg.unam.mx
Title of the talk: Uncovering large Earthquakes and Tsunamis on the tropical Pacific coast - Mexican subduction
Time: 10:00 - 10:30 (Talk 2) - Day 1
Dr. Brian F Atwater
U.S. Geological Survey at University of Washington Seattle WA 98195-1310
Email : atwater@usgs.gov, atwater@uw.edu
Title of the talk: Tsunami or storm? Examples for Cascadia and the Caribbean
Time: 10:30 - 11:00 (Talk 3) - Day 1
Dr. Isabel Hong
NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral fellow
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Isabel.Hong@cwu.edu
Title of the talk: A 600-year-long stratigraphic record of tsunamis in south-central Chile
Time: 11:30 - 11:50 (Talk 4) - Day 1
Prof. Michaela Spiske
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstr. 13, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany, michaela.spiske@smnk.de
Universität Basel, Departement für Umweltwissenschaften, Bernoullistrasse 32, 4056 Basel, Switzerland,
Email: Michaela.Spiske@unibas.ch
Title of the talk: Tsunami deposits - what they can tell us about inundation parameters and recurrence intervals
Time: 9:30 - 10:00 (Talk 1) - Day 2
Prof. James Goff
Honorary Professor of Tsunami Research University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton in the UK.
Former Director of the Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre at UNSW
Title of the talk: In search of Holocene trans-Pacific palaeotsunamis
Time:10:00 - 10:30 (Talk 6) - Day 2
Dr. Tina Dura
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences
E-mail: tinadura@vt.edu
Title of the talk: Limits of prior megathrust rupture from stratigraphic and microfossil observations in the western Kodiak Island Region
Time: 10:30 - 11:00 (Talk 7) - Day 2
Prof. Anja Scheffers
Environmental Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia
Email: anja.scheffers@scu.edu.au
Title of the talk: A virtual field trip to enigmatic coastal boulder deposits and their relevance for tsunami risk analysis
Time: 11:00 - 11:20 (Talk 8) - Day 2
A Glance of Namilinks 1.0: A Virtual workshop on Tsunami Deposits
