Specialities

Research and consultation specialties

• Volcanic hazards assessment: mapping, probabilistic analysis (recurrence, spatial impact), GIS analysis, numerical modelling.
  
• Volcanic Risk evaluation: economic analysis, cost-benefit analysis of risk treatments, GIS modelling.
  
• Emergency management planning: warning systems, operational support plans, communications planning, scenario and training tools, public awareness plans.
  
• Community hazards education and planning: participatory methods, hazard and risk evaluation, prioritising risk treatment strategies, community emergency plans, risk perception, education materials development.
  
• Agricultural and environmental impacts of volcanism: impact assessments and management tools, animal health, pastoral agriculture, cropping.
  
• Health impacts of volcanism: acute and chronic health hazard impacts, water supply testing, ash testing, fluoride hazard assessment and survey.
  
• Education and awareness: undergraduate and postgraduate tertiary teaching in a broad range of emergency management and volcanology areas