We are looking for a doctoral student to join our team, for a project on characterising and using liquefied lacustrine tephra layers to evaluate paleoearthquakes and seismic hazard in the Hamilton lowlands.
The PhD project will involve (1) lake coring; (2) interpreting CT and micro-CT images of liquefaction of tephra layers in lake cores; (3) developing methods to characterise the liquefied tephra layers (tephra seismites) quantitatively in 3D (geometric morphometrics); (4) analysing spatial patterns of the seismites; and (5) evaluating paleoseismicity and hazards in and beyond Hamilton.
More information is available through the University of Waikato website here.
Tephra Seismites 