Staff profile

I am a postgraduate researcher with research interests spanning a broad range of environmental hazards, with a particular focus on landslides and earthquakes, as well as a broader interest in volcanology. My experience in researching environmental hazards spans across the UK, to the Himalayas in India and Nepal, and New Zealand.

My current Masters by Research (MScR) is part of the wider NERC project ‘Dynamic Risks for Cascading Himalayan Hazards’. My thesis examines the role of sediment supply by sediment-rich flood deposits (e.g., debris flows) through the creation of a landslide dataset across the Upper Alaknanda catchment in Uttarakhand, India. Through this dataset, we can investigate the roles of the spatial extent and magnitude of the 2013 cloud burst that devastated Kedarnath, as well as the different topographic controls that may influence the development of cascading hazards (debris floods) in the region. This thesis is being supervised by Dr Fiona Clubb and Dr Erin Harvey.

• • Landslide hazard and risk
• • Sediment supply and controls in mountainous regions
• • Cascading hazards
• • Earth surface processes