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Seismologist and Tsunami Warning System Developer
About Professor David Thompson
In the chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, while global models still struggled to distinguish tsunami-capable ruptures from ordinary quakes, David Thompson’s prototype algorithm, trained on rare near-field seafloor displacement data from Japan’s DONET array, identified the Sumatran event’s vertical slip asymmetry in under 92 seconds. That insight became the core of the Cascadia Real-time Tsunami Estimation (CRTE) framework, now embedded in NOAA’s TsunamiReady coastal certification program. He doesn’t trust seismic magnitude alone; he maps how fault geometry, sediment compaction, and bathymetric funneling jointly amplify wave energy, and designs warning thresholds that adapt to local harbor resonance frequencies. His fieldwork isn’t done in labs but on retrofitted fishing vessels off Oregon’s shelf, deploying low-cost MEMS pressure sensors that feed into open-source alert dashboards used by Indigenous coastal nations and municipal emergency managers alike.
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