Newswise — A year after the devastating tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster that struck Japan’s northeastern coast, Florida State University researchers in a variety of disciplines are prepared to discuss the lasting effects of the March 11, 2011, events and offer insights into what the future may hold:
FINANCIAL REPERCUSSIONS
• Gary A. Knight, professor of marketing and international business: (850) 644-1140, [email protected]Knight is an expert in international business, especially as it relates to Japan. (In fact, he was in Japan and staying just south of Tokyo when the initial earthquake and tsunami struck.) Knight can discuss the current status and longer-term implications for Japan’s business sector.
RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON DISASTER
• Jimmy Yu, assistant professor of religion: (850) 615-1406, [email protected]Yu is a scholar of East Asian religions, with a research focus on premodern Chinese Buddhism. He can discuss long-term responses to the calamity from Japanese religious traditions, such as Buddhism and Shinto, as well as Buddhist doctrinal views on human disasters.
THE SCIENCE OF TSUNAMIS
• James J. O’Brien, emeritus Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Oceanography and former director of Florida State’s Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies: (850) 644-4581 or (850) 459-1938, [email protected]An internationally known expert on El Niño and related weather phenomena, O’Brien can discuss ocean waves, particularly long waves created by severe storms or seismic disturbances.• Dmitry Dukhovskoy, associate research scientist at FSU Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies: (850) 644-1168, [email protected]Dukhovskoy’s research focuses on numerical modeling of physical processes in the ocean, including topographically trapped waves, storm surge modeling, air-sea interaction during storms and polar oceanography. He can address the mechanics of the March 11, 2011, tsunami and how it formed.
• James F. Tull, professor of geological science; (850) 644-1448 or (850) 668-8992; [email protected]Tull has expertise in structural geology, global tectonics and fault systems.
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