Dr. Zamara Fuentes has 9 years of experience studying the onshore sedimentary record of tsunamis and storms for the purpose of understanding the risk posed by these natural hazards to populated coastal regions. Dr. Fuentes has conducted reconnaissance-level studies as well as coring campaigns followed by laboratory analyses of sediment cores. She has investigated modern deposits resulting from the 2010 tsunami in Chile and 2010 Hurricane Earl on Anegada, British Virgin Islands as well as paleo-overwash deposits on Anegada, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. In addition, Dr. Fuentes has cored and studied lake sediment for evidence of soft-sediment deformation related to earthquake shaking in Ontario, Canada. Currently, Dr. Fuentes is studying deposits from 2017 Hurricane Maria on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico and from 2017 Hurricane Irma on St. Thomas for the purpose of improving criteria for distinguishing between tsunami and storm deposits and testing interpretations of past overwash deposits in the northeastern Caribbean. For more details, click here for Dr. Fuentes' Curriculum Vitae.
