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Volcanologist and Remote Sensing Specialist
About Dr. Hailey Ooke
In 2023, during the rapid inflation of Mauna Loa’s Moku‘āweoweo caldera, Dr. Hailey Ooke deployed a custom SAR interferometry pipeline that fused Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2 data at sub-centimeter resolution, detecting ground deformation 37 hours before seismic tremor onset. That forecast enabled preemptive road closures and shelter activation across Hawai‘i Island, marking the first time satellite-only geodetic signals triggered official civil defense action without corroborating seismic data. Her approach treats volcanoes not as isolated points but as dynamic systems embedded in atmospheric, hydrological, and tectonic feedback loops, so she cross-calibrates thermal anomalies with tropospheric water vapor maps and GNSS-derived strain rates. She works primarily from a solar-powered field lab on the flanks of Mount Etna, where she tests real-time edge-processing algorithms on CubeSat downlinks, rejecting cloud-based latency in favor of on-device anomaly detection. Her notebooks contain hand-drawn stratigraphic sketches beside Python snippets, proof that remote sensing, for her, is never disembodied from field truth.
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- “How did your SAR fusion pipeline detect Mauna Loa's inflation before seismicity?”
- “What volcanic precursors can Sentinel-1 see that seismometers miss?”
- “Why do you process CubeSat data on-device instead of in the cloud?”
- “How does tropospheric water vapor affect thermal anomaly interpretation?”