Contact Information
Email: 
s11075361(at)student.usp.ac.fj
Phone: +679 323 2734
Office: Room 20, SGESE Building, Lower Campus
Degree: PhD
Research project: Establishing a Holocene tephrochronology for Western Samoa: implications for the re-evaluation of volcanic hazard
Supervisors: Professor Stephen Gale (University of the South Pacific) and Associate Professor Brent Alloway (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Aims: The aims of this thesis are twofold:
1. To establish a reliable event chronology for Western Samoa during Holocene times based on tephra stratigraphy, and to use this chronology to understand the nature and pattern of volcanism in the islands over the last several thousand years. It is expected that this information will have significant implications for our understanding of future volcanic hazard in Western Samoa.
2. To use this chronology to provide a framework for subsequent studies of Holocene environmental change and human impact across the islands.
