Resilience: Physical Research

Research Group Summary

The physical resilience research group encompasses a wide range of relevant up-to-date research in the areas of earth sciences, engineering, land use planning in the natural and built environments, and in lifelines infrastructure in order to support a resilient, well-prepared community and infrastructure.

Key Contact

• Justin Morgenroth: Researcher; School of Forestry

Members - UC Staff

• Brendon Bradley: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Marney Anne Veronique Brosnan: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Andy Buchanan: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Tim Davies: Research Supervisor; School of Earth and Environment
• Brendan Gilbert Duffy: Researcher; Geological Sciences
• Christopher Gomez: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Deirdre Hart: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Justin Morgenroth: Researcher; School of Forestry
• Stefano Pampanin: Researcher; Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
• Jarg Rein Pettinga: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Catherine Mary Reid: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment
• Marlene Celine Villeneuve: Research Supervisor
• Patrick Wassmer: Researcher; School of Earth and Environment

• Christchurch's Coastal and Rver Quakes
• Coseismic boulder falls on the Port Hills
• Earthquakes and the Urban Forest- the role of green infrastructure during, and in the aftermath of earthquakes
• Exploring physiological response of trees to earthquakes
• Modelling the soil moisture holding capability of liquefied soil using a pedo-transfer function
• Multi-storey timber buildings
• SAFER (Significant Advances for Earthquake Resistance) Concrete Technology
• Seeing sanitation: a social scientific account of Christchurch’s post-quake sanitary infrastructure
• Statistical modelling of tectonic processes
• The Avon-Heathcote as a Recorder of Coseismic uplift
• UC Rover

• Resilience: Physical: Buildings; Environmental; Forestry and Soil; Ground Acceleration; Infrastructure; Rockfall and Slope Stability; Seismicity

• Societal Resilience - NHRP
  
• Canterbury Earthquake Techincal Reports - NHRP
  
• Rebuilding Christchurch
  
• Ground Motion and Seismic Analysis Research - Brendon Bradley
  
• Research Papers - Tectonics
  
• Geophysical Applications at UC
  
• Geological Hazards at UC
  
• Hazard and Disaster Management at UC
  
• Natural Hazards Research Centre