About Me
I’m Dr. Glenn Thompson, a volcano seismologist with over 25 years of experience in operational monitoring, real-time system development, and seismic data recovery. My career spans roles at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO), Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO), Anchorage Emergency Operations Center (AEC), and now the University of South Florida (USF), where I lead research in volcano seismology and infrasound, rocket seismology, and environmental geophysics.
My work combines a public safety mission with scientific innovation—particularly in the design of early warning systems for pyroclastic flows and lahars, reconstruction of legacy eruption datasets, and deployment of Python-based monitoring frameworks like FLOVOpy and VECTRA. I also mentor students, lead international collaborations (e.g. with MVO, VDAP, UWI, LAVAS, NASA), and am passionate about building open, reproducible, and robust monitoring systems for diverse geophysical applications.
In 2020, I led the independent review of monitoring for the fatal 2019 eruption of Whakaari volcano in New Zealand. My current efforts include rebuilding the MVO real-time catalog and ASL system, curating multi-parameter datasets from rocket launches at Kennedy Space Center, and advancing machine learning approaches to event classification using seismic and infrasound features.