Stuart Mead

I am a Senior Lecturer at Volcanic Risk Solutions in the School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University. I have more than a decade of experience in numerical modelling, focusing on the application of models to simulate extreme environmental flows such as tsunamis, storm surges, avalanches, dam breaks, flash floods and lahars. My research interests include mathematical modelling of environmental flows, including data generation, processing and analysis aspects in order to develop simple, easy to use systems for end-users.

My current work and projects revolve around numerical modelling of mass flows, natural hazard modelling, probabilistic volcanic hazard assessments and developing new methods of geospatial data visualisation. In my PhD, Quantifying lahar hazard and vulnerability, I developed and integrated computational models of lahar hazard to quantify both lahar hazard and vulnerability. This required the combination of statistical (probabilistic) and numerical (deterministic) techniques.