Glenn Thompson
Research Assistant Professor at University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolGlenn Thompson is a Research Assistant Professor and seasoned seismologist with 15 years of experience managing seismic networks, developing monitoring software, and researching volcano-seismology and infrasound. He has led operational observatories—from Montserrat to Alaska—designing real-time monitoring, alarm, and data-management systems used in crisis decision-making and evacuations. At the University of South Florida he combines teaching, mentoring and hands-on network engineering to support research-grade seismic infrastructure and early warning enhancements. His background spans applied software development (MATLAB, PHP, Fortran) and scalable data solutions, including converting legacy systems and OCR-ing large archives. Known for building practical, durable tools, he has repeatedly translated research insights into operational monitoring systems still relied upon by observatories.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Volcano Seismology, Ph.D., Volcano Seismology at University of LeedsB.Sc. (Hons.), Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, B.Sc. (Hons.), Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University of St. AndrewsM.Sc., Geophysics, M.Sc., Geophysics at University of Durham
Spanish
Github Skills (17)
toolbox10
matlab10
data-analysis9
packing6
tuple5
crossword5
seismology4
obspy4
inheritance4
astrophysics4
tiddlywiki4
datasets3
plot2
astropy2
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gthompson/kitchensinkGT
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Miscellaneous research codes, organized into projects with a common set of libraries. This is just where I actively work, before packing codes up for release when publishing papers, datasets etc.
Contributions:119 pushes, 1 branch, 12 comments in 5 years 6 months
volcano-seismologyorganizedvolcanologycrosswordastrophysics
gthompson/iceweb_uafgi
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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