R E S E A R C H

  • 3000 year record of cyclones and tsunamis impacting the Arabian Peninsula

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Anne Griffis (MS)

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  • Mississippi Offshore Sediment Resources Inventory: Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Inner Shelf

    SFU Investigator: Davin Wallace
    Students: Clayton Dike, Nina Schulze, Robert Hollis

  • Modern analogues and paleoenvironmental reconstructions: uncovering a late Holocene record of coastal flooding in the Bahamas

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk

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  • Hurricane and tsunami impacts on the British Virgin Islands (Anegada), 2017-2019

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Stephen Mitchell
    Collaborators: Brian Atwater, Bob Halley, Michaela Spiske, Hira Lodhi

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  • Environmental impact of Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk

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  • Paleoseismic evidence of earthquakes and tsunamis along the southern part of the Japan Trench

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Tiffany Otai (MSc)

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  • 3000 year record of cyclones and tsunamis impacting the Arabian Peninsula

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Anne Griffis (MSc)

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  • Sedimentary record of Cyclone Pam from Vanuatu: implications for long-term cyclone and tsunami records for the South Pacific

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Thomas Kosciuch (MS, now PhD), Isabel Hong (PhD)

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  • Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Lillian Pearson (MSc) and Camille Jordan (PhD)

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  • Controls on along-strike variations in locked and creeping megathrust behaviour at the Hikurangi convergent margin

    SFU Investigator: Jessica Pilarczyk
    Students: Anthony Giang (Hons BSc), Stephen Mitchell (Hons. Thesis)

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T R O P I C A L     C Y C L O N E S

Active projects

1)

Impacts of Hurricane Irma on the British Virgin Islands

2)

Africa’s most intense cyclone: impacts of Cyclone Idai on Mozambique

E A R T H Q U A K E S   &   T S U N A M I S

Active projects

1)

Controls on along-strike variations in locked and creeping megathrust behavior at the Hikurangi convergent margin

2)

Paleoseismic evidence of earthquakes and tsunamis along the southern part of the Japan Trench

3)

Tsunami deposits from Indonesia: long-term records and preservation potential

4)

A history of near-field and far-field tsunamis impacting the BVIs

P A S T     P R O J E C T S

Past Projects

1)

Sedimentary record of Cyclone Pam from Vanuatu: implications for long-term cyclone and tsunami records for the South Pacific

2)

Environmental impact of Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines

Coastal Hazards Research Lab
Department of Earth Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC Canada