Qualifications & Memberships
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Paris Deiderot - Paris 7)
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (Professional Organisation): Member
New Zealand Coastal Society (Professional Organisation): Board Member, New Zealand
Research Interests
My research deals with the chain of environmental-processes that act at the landscape scales, integrating hydrology, sediments, vegetation and human activities, with an emphasis on hazardous earth-processes.
- Up to present I have been working mainly on the tsunamis of Sumatra (2004), Java (2006) and Tohoku (2011); on the volcanoes Semeru, Merapi and Merbabu in Indonesia, and on the volcanoes Unzen-Fugendake, Towada and Numazawa in Japan. More recently, I have also started to develop a portfolio on tsunamis and floodplain/estuarine processes in the Canterbury area (New Zealand).
This apparently broad research scope aims at breaking free from the disciplines that we are educated in, in order to look into scientific questions from a different stand.
- Processes, hazards and risks of high energy flows (e.g. tsunamis, lahars...)
- Computer vision, remote sensing and automation (aerial photographs, videos...)
- Non-linear dynamics and applied mathematics to geosciences
- The role of subsurface characteristics in earthquake engineering
- The ethics and governance of disasters and their practitionners
Recent Publications
- Purdie H., Bealing P., Gomez C., Anderson B. and Marsh OJ. (2021) Morphological changes to the terminus of a maritime glacier during advance and retreat phases: Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe, New Zealand. Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography 103(2): 167-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2020.1840179.
- Saputra A., Gomez C., Delikostidis I., Zawar-Reza P., Hadmoko DS. and Sartohadi J. (2021) Preliminary identification of earthquake triggered multi-hazard and risk in Pleret Sub-District (Yogyakarta, Indonesia). Geo-Spatial Information Science 24(2): 256-278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2020.1801335.
- de la Higuera I., Kasun GW., Torrance EL., Pratt AA., Maluenda A., Colombet J., Bisseux M., Ravet V., Dayaram A. and Stainton D. (2020) Unveiling crucivirus diversity by mining metagenomic data. mBio 11(5): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01410-20.
- Fitzgerald RH., Kennedy BM., Gomez C., Wilson TM., Simons B., Leonard GS., Matoza RS., Jolly AD. and Garaebiti E. (2020) Volcanic ballistic projectile deposition from a continuously erupting volcano: Yasur Volcano, Vanuatu. Volcanica 3(2): 183-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.30909/vol.03.02.183204.
- Lissak C., Bartsch A., De Michele M., Gomez C., Maquaire O., Raucoules D. and Roulland T. (2020) Remote Sensing for Assessing Landslides and Associated Hazards. Surveys in Geophysics 41(6): 1391-1435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10712-020-09609-1.
