Assistant Professor
Tel:  (409) 740 - 4465
Fax: (409) 741 - 7153
E-mail: horrillj@tamug.edu

Education and Awards

Education
Post-doctoral Fellowship Tsunami numerical modeling
University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA (April, 2006-)

Ph.D. Physical Oceanography (Tsunami)
University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA (April, 2006)

Tsunami Student Exchange
Tohoku University, Japan (June-September, 2003)

M.S. Ocean Engineering
University of Rhode Island, USA. (April, 1997)

B.S. Civil Engineering
University of Cartagena, Colombia. (1984)

Awards

• Scholarship and tuition fully supported by NRS-SSC, Naval Research Laboratory. Navy US Department, grant N00014-94-1-G607
• First place award to the best research project presented at the 5th Preventive Maintenance Symposium ECOPETROL (1988)
• Honor semester tuition awarded by the Civil Engineering faculty to the student with highest grade average. University of Cartagena (1982)

Publications

• Horrillo, J.J., A.L. Wood, C. Williams, A. Parambath, and G.-B. Kim, 2010.  Construction of tsunami inundation maps in the Gulf of Mexico, Tech. Rep, National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP), National Weather Service Program Office, NOAA.
• Horrillo, J., Knight, W., and Z. Kowalik 2007 The Kuril Islands Tsunami of November 2006. Part II: Impact at Crescent City by local amplification. Accepted  J. Geoph. Res. (Download PDF file, size: 5.24MB)
• Kowalik, Z., Horrillo, J., Knight, W., and T. Logan 2007 The Kuril Islands of November 2006. Part I: Impact at Crescent City by distant scattering. Accepted  J. Geoph. Res (Download PDF file, size: 5.28MB)
• Horrillo J., Kowalik Z. and Shigihara Y. 2006 Wave Dispersion Study in the Indian Ocean-Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Marine Geodesy, 29:, 149-166. (Download PDF file, size: 3.32MB)
• Kowalik Z., Horrillo J. and Kornkven E. 2006 Tsunami Runup onto a Plane Beach. In Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Advanced Numerical Models for Simulating Tsunami Waves and Runup.  (ed. by  F. L-F Liu, H, Yeh & C. Synolakis),  vol. 10, pp. 0-5. World Scientific. (Download PDF file, size: 118KB)
• Kowalik Z., Horrillo J. and Kornkven E. 2006  Tsunami Propagation and Runup due to a 2D Landslide. In Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering. Advanced Numerical Models for Simulating Tsunami Waves and Runup.  (ed. by P. L-F Liu, H, Yeh & C. Synolakis),  vol. 10, pp. 0-4. World Scientific. (Download PDF file, size: 432KB)
• Grilli, S.T. and Horrillo, J. 1999 “Shoaling over barred-beaches in a fully nonlinear numerical wave tank”. Intl. J. Offshore and Polar Engng., 9(4), 257-263. (Download PDF file, size: 1.04MB)
• Grilli, S.T. and Horrillo, J. 1998 “ Computation of periodic wave shoaling over barred-beaches in a fully nonlinear numerical wave tank”. In Proc. 8th Offshore and Polar Engng. Conf. (ISOPE98, Montreal, Canada, May 1998)(eds. Chung, J.S., Olagnon, M., Kim, C.H., Koterayama, W.), Vol. III, pps. 294-300. Intl. Society of Offshore and Polar Engng., Golden Colorado. (Download PDF file, size: 200KB)
• Grilli, S.T. and Horrillo, J. 1997 “ Numerical Generation and Absorption of Fully Nonlinear Periodic Waves”. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 123(10),1060-1069. (Download PDF file, size: 0.97MB)
• Grilli, S.T. and Horrillo J. 1997 “Fully Nonlinear Properties of Periodic Waves Shoaling over Mild Slopes”. In Proc.25th Intl. Conf. on Coastal Engineering (ICCE25, Orlando, USA, September 96), Vol. 1, pps. 717-730. ASCE Edition. (Download PDF file, size: 793KB)
• Horrillo, J. and V. Valdes 1999 “ Mexico Industry & Regulatory. ”In Proc. OMAE99 on Pipeline Reassessment, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. pps. 41-46.
• Lara, L., J. Horrillo and J. Matias, 1999 “ Transitory Criteria for Design and Reassessment of Submarine Pipeline in the Bay of Campeche. ”In Proc. OMAE99 on Pipeline Reassessment, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. pps. 145-162.
• Soreano, A., Marino, I., Horrillo, J. and Ramos, R. 1999. “ Condiciones Oceanograficas para el Diseno de Lineas Submarinas en la Region Norte.” En Memorias del 4o Congreso y Expo Internacional de Ductos. Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico.
• Horrillo, J. y Villalba, R. 1999. “ Estabilidad Hidrodinamica ”. Memorias del Taller de Aplicacion del Criterio Transitorio para Evaluacion de Tuberia Submarina en la Sonda de Campeche. Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo y Petroleos Mexicanos. Mexico, DF.