Dr Susanna Jenkins

Summary

My research interests lie in volcanic hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment for the purpose of disaster risk reduction. Recent research has  focussed on developing techniques and frameworks for probabilistic hazard and risk assessment, including quantifying and modelling the impact of volcanic eruptions on communities and infrastructure. I have recently participated in multi-disciplinary field missions to collect rare empirical eruption impact data following the Merapi 2010 and Eyjafjallajökull 2010 eruptions.

Research areas include Indonesia, Italy, Philippines, Iceland, Cape Verde and the Lesser Antilles where I contribute to collaborative research projects with international research partners and civil protection agencies. 

Keywords

• Volcanology
• Probabilistic hazard and risk assessment
• Physical vulnerability to hazards
• Socio-economic impacts of volcanic eruptions

Memberships

Organisations

School of Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences staff

• Earth Sciences academic staff including research fellows

Research themes

• Crustal Magmatism, Volcanism and Geological Risk

Interdisciplinary groups

• The Cabot Institute

Selected publications

• Jenkins, S, Phillips, J, Price, R, Feloy, K, Baxter, PJ, Hadmoko, DS & Bélizal, Ed, 2015, ‘Developing building-damage scales for lahars: application to Merapi volcano, Indonesia’. Bulletin of Volcanology, vol 77.
• Jenkins, S, Barsotti, S, Hincks, T, Neri, A, Phillips, J, Sparks, S, Sheldrake, T & Vougioukalakis, G, 2015, ‘Rapid emergency assessment of ash and gas hazard for future eruptions at Santorini Volcano, Greece’. Journal of Applied Volcanology, vol 4.
• Delgado-Granados, H & Jenkins, S, 2015, ‘Extreme Volcanic Risks 2: Mexico City’. in: P Papale, JC Eichelberger, S Nakada, SC Loughlin, H Yepes (eds) Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters. Amsterdam:Elsevier, pp. 315-354
• Jenkins, S, Wilson, T, Magill, C, Miller, V, Stewart, C, Blong, R, Marzocchi, W, Boulton, M, Bonadonna, C & Costa, A, 2015, ‘Volcanic ash fall hazard and risk’. in: Susan Loughlin, Steve Sparks, Sarah Brown, Susanna Jenkin, Charlotte Vye-Brown (eds) Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Auker, M, Sparks, S, Jenkins, S, Aspinall, W, Brown, S, Deligne, N, Jolly, G, Loughlin, S, Marzocchi, W, Newhall, C & Palma, J, 2015, ‘Development of a new global Volcanic Hazard Index (VHI)’. in: Susan Loughlin, Steve Sparks, Sarah Brown, Susanna Jenkins, Charlotte Vye-Brown (eds) Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 349-358
• Brown, S, Sparks, S & Jenkins, S, 2015, ‘Global distribution of volcanic threat’. in: Susan Loughlin, Steve Sparks, Sarah Brown, Susanna Jenkins, Charlotte Vye-Brown (eds) Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 359-370
• Loughlin, S, Sparks, S, Brown, S, Jenkins, S & Vye-Brown, C, 2015, ‘Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Granados, HD & Jenkins, S, 2014, ‘Extreme Volcanic Risks 1: Mexico City’. in: Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters. JAI-ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, pp. 315-354
• Jenkins, S, Spence, R, Fonseca, J, Solidum, R & Wilson, T, 2014, ‘Volcanic risk assessment: Quantifying physical vulnerability in the built environment’. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol 276., pp. 105

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