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Dr. Breanyn MacInnes

Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences, Central Washington University
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7418
Tel: 509.963.2827
fax: 509.963-2821
macinnes@geology.cwu.edu

Teaching

  • Geology 108: Intro to Environmental Geology (Winter 2013)
  • Geology 504: Graduate Seminar Series (Winter 2013)
  • Geology 370: Stratigraphy (Spring 2013)

Research

  • Coastal geomorphology and stratigraphy
  • Tsunami sedimentology; paleotsunami stratigraphy; tsunami modeling
  • Active sedimentary processes
  • Subduction zone processes and neotectonics

My long-term research goal is to understand the effect of geologic catastrophes (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions) on short-term and long-term coastal landscape evolution and maritime cultures, with a focus on island coastlines.

Selected Publications

  • MacInnes, B.T., Gusman, A.R., LeVeque, R.J., and Tanioka, Y., in press 2013, Comparison of earthquake source models for the 2011 Tohoku event using tsunami simulations and near field observations: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
  • Lynett, P., Weiss, R., Renteria, W., Morales, G.D.L.T., Son, S., Arcos, M.E.M. and MacInnes, B.T., in press 2012, Coastal Impacts of the March 11th Tohoku, Japan Tsunami in the Galapagos Islands: Pure and Applied Geophysics.
  • Arcos, M.E.M., MacInnes, B.T., Arreaga, P., Rivera-Hernandez, F., and Weiss, R., in review, A meter-thick sedimentary package caused by the 2011 Tohoku tsunami in El Garrapatero, Galapagos—A record of sedimentary deposition enabled by tsunami erosion: Quaternary Research.
  • Pinegina, T.K., Bourgeois, J., Kravchenovskaya, E.A., Lander, A.V., Arcos, M.E.M., Pedoja, K., and MacInnes, B.T., in review, A nexus of plate interaction: Segmented vertical movement of Kamchatsky Peninsula (Kamchatka) based on Holocene aggradational marine terraces: GSA Bulletin.
  • MacInnes, B.T., 2010, Bridging seismology and geomorphology: investigations of the 2006 and 2007 Kuril Island tsunamis. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle. 177 pp.
  • MacInnes, B.T., Weiss, R., Bourgeois, J., and Pinegina, T.K., 2010, Slip Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 100, no. 4, p. 1695–1709, doi: 10.1785/0120090376.
  • MacInnes, B.T., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., and Kravchunovskaya, E., 2009. Tsunami geomorphology: erosion and deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island tsunami: Geology, v. 37, p. 995-998.
  • MacInnes, B.T., Pinegina, T.K., Bourgeois, J., Razhegaeva, N.G., Kaistrenko, V.M., and Kravchenovskaya, E.A., 2009, Field survey and geological effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril tsunami in the middle Kuril Islands: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 166, no. 1/2, doi: 10.1007/s00024-008-0428-3.
  • Bourgeois, J., and MacInnes, B.T., 2010, Tsunami boulder transport and other dramatic effects of the 15 November 2006 central Kuril Islands tsunami on the island of Matua: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, v. 54, no. 3, p. 175-195.