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Leighton Watson
Principal Investigator
University of Canterbury
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6 months ago
Geophysical sensing of natural hazards: fibre-optic sensing for volcano and geyser monitoring; infrasound and seismic for landslides, avalanches, and other mass movements. Machine learning to forecast natural hazards from weather and ground observations. Parametric insurance.
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Leighton Watson integrates geophysical acoustics, seismology and data science to monitor natural hazards and subsurface systems. Work spans infrasound, array sensing, simulation/inversion and machine learning for detection and forecasting, with extensions to stochastic epidemiological modeling and policy-relevant risk analysis.
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Leighton Watson
Principal Investigator
University of Canterbury
Work experience
Assistant Professor
2022 - Present
Delta P
Founder
2020 - 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2020 - 2022
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Last updated Apr 2026
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