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Three New Publications This Week!

1) Our edited volume “Tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: 2011 – 2012” has been published in print in the Journal Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH).

2) My most recent paper on tsunami hazards in New Zealand was also published in PAGEOPH “Far-field tsunami hazards in New Zealand ports”

3) A paper I was co-author on was published in PLOS One: Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea 

 

Banda Aceh Then and Now

Below are a few examples of what Banda Aceh looked like immediately after the tsunami compared to what it looks like today.  I had the pleasure of returning to the city in March 2013 to work on a documentary for National Geographic where we discussed the great 2004 tsunami and looked at how the city has recovered since the tsunami. Besides these images, I have uploaded all of the photos I took in Banda Aceh during my first field survey of the tsunami 1 week after the event.

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In this image I am standing on top of the mosque at Lampu’uk near Lhok Nga, located to the west of Banda Aceh. After the tsunami the mosque was the only intact structure for kilometers in every direction.

Above is the ‘boat on the house’ this was an enduring image from Banda Aceh.  One of my photos from this site even became the cover of a textbook. Since the tsunami they have made this site in to a museum as a way to remind people about tsunami disasters.

In this slide show, we are at the village of Lampisang, located about half way between Banda Aceh and the west coast where the tsunami was the largest.  The interesting thing about this site was that the tsunami attacked from two directions, the direct tsunami surge advancing from the west and the tsunami surge approaching from the north after it had wrapped around the northern tip of Sumatra and flowed through Banda Aceh. These photos were taken at the location of the ‘1.5’ in the last image of the slide show (reproduced from my article in Science Magazine – get it free with registration at the link)

My final slide show is from a bridge near the center of Banda Aceh.  The tsunami surge from the north came up the river, pushing with it all of the accumulated debris from several kilometers of the city.  The bridge acted as a barrier causing a large amount of debris to pile up.  That bridge has since been repaired and is still in use.

Photo Archives from Banda Aceh, 2004

I have recently uploaded the complete set of photographs I took during the first field survey of Banda Aceh and surrounding areas  just one week after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

See the full set of photos here.

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Lhok Nga, west of Banda Aceh, 10 days after the tsunami.

My Shoulder MRI

The imagery of my shoulder. Click on one of the links below to go to a separate web page with the series of images for each view. Each link opens in a separate window.  You will then see all of the images from that view at small size.  Click on the first image (top left) and you will see above it a ‘next’ link. Click on that and you will see the next image in the series. You can go through each of the images in each series that way.