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Overview

Adam D. Switzer is a researcher affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in related subfields such as Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Ecology.

Their published work focuses on a range of topics primarily within geological and environmental sciences. These include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geophysical studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, methane hydrates and related phenomena, coastal and marine dynamics, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research.

Research published by Adam D. Switzer has appeared frequently in specialized scientific venues. These include:

  • Marine Geology
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

They have collaborated often with several researchers including Benjamin P. Horton, Chris Gouramanis, Stephen Chua, Masashi Watanabe, and Jędrzej Majewski.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Light Limitation and Depth-Variable Sedimentation Drives Vertical Reef Compression on Turbid Coral Reefs (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Interacting effects of land-use change and natural hazards on rice agriculture in the Mekong and Red River deltas in Vietnam (2021), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • A new Holocene sea-level record for Singapore (2021), published in The Holocene
  • Extent of illegal sand mining in the Mekong Delta (2024), published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • New systematically measured sand mining budget for the Mekong Delta reveals rising trends and significant volume underestimations (2022), published in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Best Publications

  • Sea-level and environmental changes since the last interglacial in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: an overview

    Allan R Chivas;Adriana Garcı́a;Sander van der Kaars;Martine J.J Couapel

  • Large-scale washover sedimentation in a freshwater lagoon from the southeast Australian coast: sea-level change, tsunami or exceptionally large storm?

    Adam D. Switzer;Brian G. Jones

  • An evolutionary model for the Holocene formation of the Pearl River delta, China

    Y. Zong;G. Huang;A.D. Switzer;F. Yu

  • Volcanic tsunami: a review of source mechanisms, past events and hazards in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea)

    Raphaël Paris;Raphaël Paris;Adam D. Switzer;Marina Belousova;Alexander Belousov

  • Earthquake-triggered 2018 Palu Valley landslides enabled by wet rice cultivation

    Kyle E Bradley;Rishav Mallick;Harisma Andikagumi;Judith Hubbard

  • Competing mechanisms for boulder deposition on the southeast Australian coast

    Adam D. Switzer;Joanna M. Burston

  • How heterogeneous coseismic slip affects regional probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment: A case study in the South China Sea

    Linlin Li;Adam D. Switzer;Chung Han Chan;Yu Wang

  • Erosion and sedimentation in Kalpakkam (N Tamil Nadu, India) from the 26th December 2004 tsunami

    S. Srinivasalu;N. Thangadurai;Adam D. Switzer;V. Ram Mohan

  • A modest 0.5-m rise in sea level will double the tsunami hazard in Macau

    Linlin Li;Adam Douglas Switzer;Yu Wang;Yu Wang;Chung-Han Chan

  • The role of sea-level rise, monsoonal discharge and the palaeo-landscape in the early Holocene evolution of the Pearl River delta, southern China

    Yongqiang Zong;Kangyou Huang;Fengling Yu;Zhuo Zheng

  • Investigation of large-scale washover of a small barrier system on the southeast Australian coast using ground penetrating radar

    Adam D. Switzer;Charles S. Bristow;Brian G. Jones

  • Sea Level, Storm, or Tsunami: Enigmatic Sand Sheet Deposits in a Sheltered Coastal Embayment from Southeastern New South Wales, Australia

    Adam D. Switzer;Kevin Pucillo;Rabea A. Haredy;Brian G. Jones

  • Coral communities of Hong Kong: long-lived corals in a marginal reef environment

    Nathalie Fairbank Goodkin;Adam D. Switzer;Denise McCorry;Lyndon DeVantier

  • Written records of historical tsunamis in the northeastern South China Sea: challenges associated with developing a new integrated database

    Annie A Y Lau;Adam D Switzer;Dale Dominey-Howes;Jonathan C Aitchison

  • Repeat Storm Surge Disasters of Typhoon Haiyan and Its 1897 Predecessor in the Philippines

    Janneli Lea Acierto Soria;Adam Douglas Switzer;Cesar L. Villanoy;Hermann M. Fritz

  • Holocene sea levels in Southeast Asia, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka: The SEAMIS database

    Thomas Mann;Maren Bender;Thomas Lorscheid;Paolo Stocchi

  • Tide Gauge Records Show That the 18.61‐Year Nodal Tidal Cycle Can Change High Water Levels by up to 30 cm

    Dongju Peng;Emma M. Hill;Aron J. Meltzner;Adam D. Switzer

  • Burial of organic carbon in Holocene sediments of the Zhujiang (Pearl River) and Changjiang (Yangtze River) estuaries

    Shouye Yang;Min Tang;Wyss W.-S. Yim;Wyss W.-S. Yim;Yongqiang Zong

  • Grain size analysis

    Adam D. Switzer;Jeremy Pile

  • Application of GNSS interferometric reflectometry for detecting storm surges

    Dongju Peng;Emma M. Hill;Linlin Li;Adam D. Switzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Charlie S. Bristow
Charlie S. Bristow Birkbeck, University of London
Danny H Natawidjaja
Danny H Natawidjaja National Research and Innovation Agency of the Republic of Indonesia
Hermann M. Fritz
Hermann M. Fritz Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian G. Jones
Brian G. Jones University of Wollongong
Patrick De Deckker
Patrick De Deckker Australian National University
Colin V. Murray-Wallace
Colin V. Murray-Wallace University of Wollongong
David M. Price
David M. Price University of Wollongong
Allan R. Chivas
Allan R. Chivas University of Wollongong
Sander van der Kaars
Sander van der Kaars Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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