Dr Vicki Moon

Senior Lecturer (Earth Sciences)

Qualifications: MSc PhD Waikato

Research Supervised

PhD

• Robertson, Thomas (in progress). Sensitive soils derived from rhyolitic tephras within the Bay of Plenty and the subsequent landslides they produce: ameliorating these landslides through manipulation of pore water cation content preventing sliding on an engineering timescale.
• Spinardi, Francescal (in progress). The geomorphic and geomechanical behavior of Qaternary volcaniclastic soft sediments during seismic events in the Hamilton Basin.
• Harris, Rachel (2015). The effects of benthic organisms on intertidal sediment erodibility. (chief supervisor Conrad Pilditch).
• Roddy, Brendan (2010). The use of the sediment fingerprinting technique to quantify the different sediment sources entering the Whangapoua Estuary, North Island, in New Zealand.

MSc (Research)

• Cave, Ashley (in progress). .
• Kitchen, Emily (in progress).
• McQuillan, George (in progress).
• McKay, Aleesha (2017). Evaluating soil and landscape models to predict liquefaction susceptibility in the Hinuera Formation, Hamilton Basin.
• Huirama, Manawa (2019). Stream sediment sources: A comparison between a native forest catchment and a mixed-used pine and pasture catchment in the Waikato Region of New Zealand.
• Mills, Philippa (2017). Initiation of landslides in sensitive soils in the Tauranga region.
• Garae, Camilla (2015). Estimating patterns and rates of coastal cliff retreat around Tauranga Harbour.
• Kleyburg, Melissa (2015). Paleoliquefaction in late Pleistocene alluvial sediments in the Hauraki and Hamilton basins.

MSc

• Kuman, Doney (2019). Determination of optimum moisture content and degradation of shear strength over time for Hamilton ash materials.
• Spinardi, Francesca (2018). Preliminary evaluation of tectonic geomorphological signals within the Hamilton Basin.
• Robertson, Thomas (2018). Is there a salty solution to sensitive soil sliding in the Bay of Plenty New Zealand?
• Campbell, Benjamin (2018). Hamilton's hidden hazard: characterisation of two fault zones in northern Hamilton.
• McKay, Aleesha (2017). Evaluating soil and landscape models to predict liquefaction susceptibility in the Hinuera Formation, Hamilton Basin.
• Daysh, Katrina (2013). An investigation into the application of international environmental Greenroads Certification standards to road construction in New Zealand.
• Cunningham, Michael (2012). Sensitive rhyolitic pyroclastic deposits in the Tauranga region: mineralogy, geomechanics and microstructure of peak and remoulded states.
• Schicker, Renee (2010). Quantitative landslide susceptibility assessment of the Waikato region using GIS.
• Wyatt, Justin (2009). Sensitivity and clay mineralogy of weathered tephra-derived soil material in the Tauranga region.

Research Interests

Geomechanics and engineering geology, particularly soft rocks; volcanic and pyroclastic materials; weathering; mass wasting of weathered and altered rocks; soil erosion from development sites.

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