{"id":575,"date":"2011-04-12T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/?page_id=575"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:34:56","slug":"cp-short-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/?page_id=575","title":{"rendered":"Short Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><big>Catherine Petroff<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"intro\">\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-577\" href=\"http:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=577\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-577\" title=\"CP\" src=\"http:\/\/staff.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/CP-Portrait-e1302651778738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a>Affiliate Assistant Professor<br \/>\n<strong>Office<\/strong>: Off-Campus<br \/>\n<small><em> <\/em><\/small><strong>Phone<\/strong> <span class=\"skype_pnh_print_container\">206-235-8059<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>E-Mail<\/strong>: cpetroff @ uw.edu<br \/>\n<strong>Homepage<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lp4associates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lp4associates.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Tsunamis, Wave-Structure Interactions, Hydraulic Transport, River and Coastal Engineering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D., Civil Engineering (Coastal), California Institute of Technology, 1993<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>H. Fritz, C. Petroff, P. Catalan, et al, \u201cField Survey of the February 27, 2010 Chile Tsunami,\u201d <em>Pure and Applied Geophysics<\/em>, (accepted for publication, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>H. Arnason, C. Petroff, H. Yeh, \u201cTsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column,\u201d Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.4, No. 6, pps. 391-403, December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>C. Petroff, F. Raichlen, \u201cThe Interaction of Breaking Solitary Waves with an Armored Bottom\u201d, <em>Proceedings 30<sup>th<\/sup> Conference on Coastal Engineering<\/em>, v. 5, pps. 4417 &#8211; 4429, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>C. Petroff, A. Moore, H. Arnason, \u201cParticle Advection by Turbulent Bores \u2013 Orientation Effects\u201d, <em>Proceedings 2001 International Tsunami Symposium<\/em>, pps. 897 \u2013 904, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>J. Bourgeois, C. Petroff, H. Yeh, V. Titov, C. Synolakis, B. Benson, J. Kuroiwa, J. Lander, E. Norabuena, \u201cGeologic Setting, Field Survey and Modeling of the Chimbote, Northern Peru, Tsunami of 21 February 1996:\u201d <em>Pure and Applied Geophysics<\/em>, Vol. 154, n. \u00be, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>F. Raichlen, J.J. Lee, C. Petroff, P. Watts, The Generation of Waves by a Landslide: Skagway, Alaska \u2013 a case study, <em>Proceedings 25<sup>th<\/sup> Conference on Coastal Engineering<\/em>, v. 2, pps. 1293-1300, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>B. Cook, C. Petroff, The Development of an On-line Interactive, Tsunami -Information Resource <em>Proceedings 25<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference on Coastal Engineering<\/em>, September 1996.<\/p>\n<p>C. Petroff, Momentum Flux in Solitary Waves Breaking over a Mobile Bed, <em>Proceedings International Symposium on Waves &#8211; Physical and Numerical Modeling, IAHR<\/em>, pps 1589- 1598, August 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Petroff Affiliate Assistant Professor Office: Off-Campus Phone 206-235-8059 E-Mail: cpetroff @ uw.edu Homepage: http:\/\/www.lp4associates.com &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Areas of Interest: Tsunamis, Wave-Structure Interactions, Hydraulic Transport, River and Coastal Engineering Education: Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Coastal), California Institute of Technology, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/?page_id=575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/cpetroff\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}