Staff profiles
Rebecca FitzgeraldVolcanic Hazard and Risk Scientist
Biography
Becs is a volcanologist in the Volcanology Team. She has an interest in explosive eruption dynamics and the associated hazard, impacts and risk. Her research has focused on volcanic ballistic projectiles (VBP) and includes mapping impact fields, modelling particle transport and hazard through numerical and experimental methods, and assessing the hazard and risk from VBP to both people and the built environment.
Qualifications
- BSc, Geology, Geography
- PhD, Geology
- MSc, Geology
Major Publications
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- High-rate very-long-period seismicity at Yasur volcano, Vanuatu : source mechanism and decoupling from surficial explosions and infrasound, Geophysical Journal International 230(1): p. 392-426. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggab533.
- Silicic conduits as supersized tuffisites: Clastogenic influences on shifting eruption styles at Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile), Bulletin of Volcanology 83(2): article 11. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-020-01432-1.
- Correction to: Silicic conduits as supersized tuffisites: Clastogenic influences on shifting eruption styles at Cordón Caulle volcano (Chile), Bulletin of Volcanology 83(3): article 15. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-021-01441-8.
- Volcanic ballistic projectile deposition from a continuously erupting volcano : Yasur Volcano, Vanuatu, Volcanica 3(2): p. 183-204. DOI: 10.30909/vol.03.02.183204.
- Developing a suite of multi-hazard volcanic eruption scenarios using an interdisciplinary approach, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 392: article 106763. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106763.
- The communication and risk management of volcanic ballistic hazards, Observing the volcano world : volcano crisis communication : p. 121-148. DOI: 10.1007/11157_2016_35.
- Capturing the acoustic radiation pattern of Strombolian eruptions using infrasound sensors aboard a tethered aerostat, Yasur Volcano, Vanuatu, Geophysical Research Letters 44(19): p. 9672-9680. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074971.
- Investigating the consequences of urban volcanism using a scenario approach I: Development and application of a hypothetical eruption in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 336: p. 192-208. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.02.023.
- Buildings vs. ballistics : quantifying the vulnerability of buildings to volcanic ballistic impacts using field studies and pneumatic cannon experiments, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 343: p. 171-180. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2017.06.026.
- Using the spatial distribution and lithology of ballistic blocks to interpret eruption sequence and dynamics : August 6 2012 Upper Te Maari eruption, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 286: p. 373-386. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.03.006.
- The application of a calibrated 3D ballistic trajectory model to ballistic hazard assessments at Upper Te Maari, Tongariro, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 286: p. 248-262. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2014.04.006.