My research focuses on understanding and quantifying the risks that populations and assets (buildings, infrastructure, agriculture) face from natural hazards. I develop and assess exposure and empirical impact datasets at local, regional, and global scales.

During my PhD at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, I quantified the impacts of lava flows on the built environment by conducting post-eruption damage assessments and developing impact forecasting models. As a Research Fellow, I expanded my focus to the global scale, assessing the exposure of cities to volcanic hazards. Currently, my work examines the potential impacts of high-impact, low-probability eruptions.

By supporting risk assessments, my research aims to inform disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies, ultimately enhancing community resilience to natural hazards. I am also interested in ethical approaches to disaster research.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Hazard
    • Volcanology
    • Volcanic Eruption
    • Volcano
    • Population Exposure
    • Investigation
    • Built Environment
    • Lava Flow

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Publications

2024

Lava flow impacts on the built environment: insights from a new global dataset (2024)Journal of Applied Volcanology, 13(1). Article 1 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Meredith, E. s., Jenkins, S. f., Hayes, J. l., Lallemant, D., Deligne, N. i. & Teng, N. r. x.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-023-00140-7Correction to: How well do concentric radii approximate population exposure to volcanic hazards? (2024)Bulletin Volcanologique, 86(2). Article 16. Biass, S., Jenkins, S. F., Hayes, J. L., Williams, G. T., Meredith, E. S., Tennant, E., Yang, Q., Lerner, G. A., Burgos, V., Syarifuddin, M. & Verolino, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-024-01708-wHow well do concentric radii approximate population exposure to volcanic hazards? (2024)Bulletin Volcanologique, 86(1). Article 3. Biass, S., Jenkins, S. f., Hayes, J. l., Williams, G. t., Meredith, E. s., Tennant, E., Yang, Q., Lerner, G. a., Burgos, V., Syarifuddin, M. & Verolino, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-023-01686-5

2023

How inclusive is volcanology? Insights from global bibliometric analyses (2023)Volcanica, 6(1), 77-94. Lerner, G. a., Williams, G. t., Meredith, E. s., Jenkins, S. f. & Barclay, J.https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.06.01.7794

2022

Integrating criticality concepts into road network disruption assessments for volcanic eruptions (2022)Journal of Applied Volcanology, 11(1). Hayes, J. l., Biass, S., Jenkins, S. f., Meredith, E. s. & Williams, G. t.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-022-00118-xDamage assessment for the 2018 lower East Rift Zone lava flows of Kīlauea volcano, Hawai (2022)Bulletin Volcanologique, 84(7). Meredith, E. s., Jenkins, S. f., Hayes, J. l., Deligne, N. i., Lallemant, D., Patrick, M. & Neal, C.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-022-01568-2Evaluating and ranking Southeast Asia's exposure to explosive volcanic hazards (2022)Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 22(4), 1233-1265. Jenkins, S. f., Biass, S., Williams, G. t., Hayes, J. l., Tennant, E., Yang, Q., Burgos, V., Meredith, E. s., Lerner, G. a., Syarifuddin, M. & Verolino, A.https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1233-2022From anecdotes to quantification: advances in characterizing volcanic eruption impacts on the built environment (2022)Bulletin Volcanologique, 84(1). Deligne, N. i., Jenkins, S. f., Meredith, E. s., Williams, G. t., Leonard, G. s., Stewart, C., Wilson, T. m., Biass, S., Blake, D. m., Blong, R. j., Bonadonna, C., Calderon b., R., Hayes, J. l., Johnston, D. m., Kennedy, B. m., Magill, C. r., Spence, R., Wallace, K. l., Wardman, J., … Zuccaro, G.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01506-8

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