Dr Emily Lane

Principal Scientist - Natural Hazards and Hydrodynamics

+64-3-343-7856

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Biography:

Dr Emily Lane is a hydrodynamic scientist with a specific focus on natural hazards. She is actively researching tsunami, storm surge and flooding inundation. She is interested in tsunamis caused by mechanisms other than earthquakes such as submarine landslides and volcanos. She is currently leading a Marsden project to better understand volcanic tsunamis by studying their mechanisms physically and numerically. She is also leading Mā te haumaru ō te wai - an Endeavour programme focussed on understanding Aotearoa's flood inundation hazard and risk at a national level and using this to improve our resilience to flooding. She has been involved in a probabilistic hazard assessment of the submarine-landslide-generated tsunamis in Cook Strait Canyon. She is a member of the Tsunami Expert Panel who provide expert advice to Civil Defence during tsunami alerts. Her background is applied mathematics and she has a PhD in applied mathematics with a geoscience minor from the University of Arizona. She has been working at NIWA since 2006.

Articles:

Shen, Y. X., Whittaker, C. N., Lane, E. M., White, J. D. L., Power, W., Nomikou, P. 2021 Laboratory Experiments on Tsunamigenic Discrete Subaqueous Volcanic Eruptions. Part 1: Free Surface Disturbances. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 126(5):15. doi:10.1029/2020jc016588

Shen, Y. X., Whittaker, C. N., Lane, E. M., White, J. D. L., Power, W., Nomikou, P. 2021 Laboratory Experiments on Tsunamigenic Discrete Subaqueous Volcanic Eruptions. Part 2: Properties of Generated Waves. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 126(5):18. doi:10.1029/2020jc016587

Bosserelle, C., Williams, S., Cheung, K. F., Lay, T., Yamazaki, Y., Simi, T., Roeber, V., Lane, E., Paulik, R., Simanu, L. Effects of Source Faulting and Fringing Reefs on the 2009 South Pacific Tsunami Inundation in Southeast Upolu, Samoa. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 2020. 125(12): p. 18. doi:10.1029/2020jc016537

Lane, E.M., Thomas, K. L., Schoenfeld, M. R., Wilson, T. M., Hughes, M. W. The scientific response to the 14 November 2016 Kaikoura tsunami - Lessons-learnt from a moderate event. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020. 47. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101636

Paulik, R., Lane, E., Williams, S., & Power, W. (2019). Changes in Tsunami Risk to Residential Buildings at Omaha Beach, New Zealand. Geosciences, 9(3). doi:10.3390/geosciences9030113

Lane, E. M., Borrero, J., Whittaker, C. N., Bind, J., Chague-Goff, C., Goff, J., Goring, D., Hoyle, J., Mueller, C., Power, W. L., Reid, C. M., Williams J. H., and Williams, S. P. (2017). Effects of Inundation by the 14th November, 2016 Kaikōura Tsunami on Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 174(5), 1855-1874. doi:10.1007/s00024-017-1534-x

Power, W., Clark, K., King, D. N., Borrero, J., Howarth, J., Lane, E. M., Goring, D., Goff, J., Chague-Goff, C., Williams, J., Reid, C., Whittaker, C., Mueller, C., Williams, S., Hughes, M. W., Hoyle, J., Bind, J., Strong, D., Litchfield N., and Benson, A. (2017). Tsunami runup and tide-gauge observations from the 14 November 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 174(7), 2457-2473. doi:10.1007/s00024-017-1566-2

Lane, E. M., Mountjoy, J. J., Power, W. L., & Mueller, C. (2016). Probabilistic Hazard of Tsunamis Generated by Submarine Landslides in the Cook Strait Canyon (New Zealand). Pure and Applied Geophysics, 173(12), 3757-3774. doi:10.1007/s00024-016-1410-0

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