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Biography I am a geomorphologist. In 2007 I completed my PhD at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). In my PhD I worked on the evaluation of lahar processes at Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico) by applying simulation programs (LaharZ and TITAN2D) and doing sediment and hydraulic analysis on lahar deposits. After concluding my PhD research I keep going working in understanding sedimentological processes in Popocatepetl lahars using a new approach of using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), different from OSL dating. So I am very interesting in testing how luminescence signals can be used for understanding geomorphological processes. Current research Currently I have a post-doctoral grant 'Marie Curie' from the European Union to study landscape disturbances in the upper Lachlan river catchment area located in Australia. I am using a combination of OSL analysis and cosmogenic dating for quantify aggradation and erosion rates in the river.
Also I am collaborating in a project dealing with the assessment of mill dams breaching in Scotland. Preliminary results suggest that the increase in the river's erosive capacity after dam breaching in settings dominated by bedrock substrates, are more probably related with less dramatically down- and up- stream impacts than in alluvial rivers.
Recently I get involved in a project dealing with the study of post-glacial debris flows and fluvio-glacial deposits in Central Spain, in association with the Complutense University of Madrid and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre.
Recent publications Bishop, P., Muñoz-Salinas,E., MacKenzie, A.B., Pulford, I., McKibbin, accepted. The character, volume and implications of sediment inpounded in mill dams in Scotland: the case of the Baldernock mill dam in east Dundartonshire. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2010)
Castillo-Rodríguez, M., López-Blanco, J., and Muñoz-Salinas, E. 2010. A geomorphologic GIS-multivariate analysis approach to delineate environmental units, a case study of La Malinche volcano (central Mexico). Applied Geography doi:doi:10.1016/ j.apgeog.2010.01.003 >> Muñoz-Salinas, E., Castillo-Rodriguez, M., Manea, V., Manea, M., Palacios, D., 2010. The geochronological method versus flow simulation software application for lahar risk mapping: a case study of Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico. Geografiska annaler Series A Physical Geography 92(3):311-328.
Muñoz-Salinas, E., Castillo-Rodriguez, M., Manea, V., Manea. M., Palacios, D.,2009. Lahar flow simulations using LAHARZ program: Application for the Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research doi:10.1016/j.jvoleores.2009.01.030 >> Haddad, B., Pastor, M., Palacios, D., Muñoz-Salinas, E., 2010. A SPH integrated model for Popocatepetl 2001 lahar (Mexico): sensitivity analysis and runout simulation. Engineering Geology. Muñoz-Salinas,E, Bishop, P., Sanderson, DCW., Zamorano, JJ., 2010. Interpreting luminescence data from a portable OSL reader: Three case studies in fluvial settings. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms . Muñoz-Salinas, E., Renschler, C., Palacios, D., 2009. A GIS-based method to determine the volume of lahars: Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico. Geomorphology doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.09.028 >> Muñoz-Salinas, E., Renschler, C.S., Palacios, D., Namikawa, L.M., 2008. Updating channel morphology in digital elevation models: lahar assessment for Tenenepanco-Huiloac Gorge, Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico. Natural Hazards.v45, 309-320. doi:10.1007/s11069-007-9162-x >> Muñoz-Salinas, E., Manea, V., Palacios, D., Castillo-Rodriguez., 2007. Estimation of lahar flow velocity on Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico). Geomorphology,v.92, 91-99. doi:doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.02.011 >> |
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