UBC researchers are available to speak about the latest earthquake to strike Nepal, two weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake.
Earthquake
Carlos Ventura
Earthquake Engineering Research Facility
Email: ventura@civil.ubc.ca
Skype: c.e.ventura
Only available by Skype or email
- Has worked on earthquake risk and response plans for Nepal
- Risk of seismic activity in Nepal
- Earthquake emergency response plan for Kathmandu airport
- Geology
- Earthquakes
Brett Gilley
Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Tel: 604.827.1572
Email: bgilley@eos.ubc.ca
- How and why earthquakes happen
- What we can expect in B.C.
- The aftermath of the earthquake
- Landslides and the Nepal earthquake
- How landslides will be a problem for the next few years (each monsoon)
Nepal
Ratna Shrestha
Vancouver School of Economics
Tel: 778-245-2103
Email: Ratna.Shrestha@ubc.ca
Website
- Current situation in Nepal
- Damage to historic monuments and temples and loss of lives
Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin have lived and worked in Nepal since the early 1990s and can speak about the social and political situation in Nepal.
Mark Turin
Anthropology
Tell: 604.827.0613
Twitter: @markturin
Email: mark.turin@ubc.ca
Website
- Media
- Telecommunications
- UN & development sector
- Indigenous communities
- Language & culture
Sara Shneiderman
Anthropology & Institute of Asian Research
Tel: 604 822 4387
Twitter: @sshneiderman
Email sara.shneiderman@ubc.ca
Website
- Politics
- Society
- Rural economy
- Inequality
- Poverty