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Dale is a senior lecturer in the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences. He also holds an adjunct research fellowship within the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW. Dale is also Director of the new Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (web site under construction) and Co-Director of the new Australian Tsunami Research Centre (web site also under construction).

 

Dale is an expert in natural hazards, risk and vulnerability assessment, disaster and emergency management. He is particularly interested in the interconnections between biophysical systems and the socio-economic contexts in which disasters unfold. Dale has worked on natural hazard processes such as earthquakes, river floods, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions and bushfires in places as diverse as Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Greece, Turkey, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Thailand, Iceland and the Maldives.

At the present time, Dale is involved in a number of research projects focusing on tsunami hazard and risk in Australia and has been working collaboratively with the Australian Federal Government in its development and deployment of the Australian Tsunami Warning System.

If you are interested in anything listed in these pages or in conducting research leading to a PhD in any area of natural hazards, climate change, earth science and disaster management, please contact Dale for further information.

There is currently (September 2008) one fully funded PhD scholarship available to explore geological records of tsunami in the Tasman Sea region of Australia and New Zealand.