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David BurbidgeTsunami Team Leader
Biography
David Burbidge is a geophysicist specialising in seismic and tsunami hazard and risk assessment and tsunami forecasting. His work has included leading and conducting national, regional and local scale seismic and tsunami hazard and risk assessments in multiple countries including Australia and New Zealand. He also has a long standing interesting in real-time earthquake monitoring and tsunami forecasting. He has a BSc (Honours) in Physics and a PhD in Earth Sciences, both from the Australian National University. He currently leads the Tsunami Team at GNS Science.
Qualifications
- PhD
- BSc, Physics
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Seismic hazard models
- Geophysics: Hazard and risk assessment
- Geophysics: Earthquake hazard and loss modelling
- Business Development: Natural Hazards Research
- Geophysics: Tsunami physics modelling
- Geophysics: Seismic hazard assessment
- Geophysics: Tsunami hazard analysis
- Geophysics: Tsunami Forecasting
Major Publications
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- Regional tsunami forecasting : uncertainties due to non-uniform slip, Pure and Applied Geophysics 178(12): p. 5155-5173. DOI: 10.1007/s00024-021-02845-5.
- Source process for two enigmatic repeating vertical-T CLVD tsunami earthquakes in the Kermadec Ridge, Geophysical Research Letters 47(16): e2020GL087805. DOI: 10.1029/2020GL087805.
- Source model for the tsunami inside Palu Bay following the 2018 Palu earthquake, Indonesia, Geophysical Research Letters 46(15): p. 8271-8230. DOI: 10.1029/2019GL082717.
- Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, Science 356(6334): eaam7194. DOI: 10.1126/science.aam7194.
- The challenges of probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment in stable continental interiors : an Australian perspective, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 104(6): p. 3008-3028. DOI: 10.1785/0120130248.
- Towards spatially distributed quantitative assessment of tsunami inundation models, Ocean dynamics 60(5): p. 1115-1138. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0312-4.
- Constraints on the current rate of deformation and surface uplift of the Australian continent from a new seismic database and low-T thermochronological data, Australian journal of earth sciences 56(2): p. 99-110. DOI: 10.1080/08120090802546977.
- A probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for Western Australia, Pure and Applied Geophysics 165(11/12): p. 2059-2088. DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0421-x.
- Thin plate neotectonic models of the Australia plate, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 109(B10): article B10405. DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003156.
- Numerical models of the evolution of accretionary wedges and fold-and-thrust belts using the distinct-element method, Geophysical Journal International 148(3): p. 542-561. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.2002.01579.x.
- Analogue models of obliquely convergent continental plate boundaries, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 103(B7): p. 15221-15237. DOI: 10.1029/98JB00751.