Peter Webley
Dr Webley joined the Geophysical Institute in February 2009 after arriving in Alaska in Fall 2005 and spending several years as a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. His research interests lie in volcanic ash cloud and plume detection through thermal and visible remote sensing as well as volcanic ash cloud modeling using Lagrangian transport and dispersion models. Given his background in thermal and radar based remote sensing, he also has an interest in real-time detection of ground based volcanic activity through remote sensing datasets and how to sue these for hazard assessment and risk mitigation. Through his research projects and collaborations, Dr Webley works closely on with both groups across UAF as well as further afield in the USGS, NASA, NSF, State University of New York - Buffalo, Michigan Technology University.
He is also the main teacher for the Remote Sensing of Volcanic Eruptions class, GOES-676 (http://www.puff.images.alaska.edu/classes/) in the UAF Department of Geology and Geophysics (http://www.uaf.edu/geology/). In addition to his research interests, Dr Webley is heavily involved in Education and Outreach, serving as a member of the GI Education group and being involved in several research projects, including how to provide learning tools and skills on the use of GIS and Google Earth in the classrooms of Alaska (http://mapteach.org)
He is part of the UAF-Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) Remote Sensing group involved in operational use of remote sensing data for the volcanoes in Alaska. As part of this group, Dr Webley is responsible for the Puff model predictions of the volcanic ash dispersion during operationally monitoring. In addition, He is one of two scientists who take the responsibilities for the AVO Duty Remote sensing scientist. This is an on-call duty, 24 hrs a day. He is also responsible for the development and maintenance of the automated Puff model ash dispersion predictions for elevated alert volcanoes for the NOPAC and beyond. This is displayed via website (http://puff.images.alaska.edu).
Within the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Dr Webley is the UAF Faculty Senate Research Advisory Committee co-chair as well yearly he provides an instructional two-week module for the Alaska Summer Research Academy (http://www.uaf.edu/asra/asra-2012/Denali%20Rocks/). Outside Alaska, Dr Webley is the America's and Caribbean chair for the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (http://wovo.org) and on the Steering Committee of the Global Volcano model project (http://www.globalvolcanomodel.org/).
- Operational Monitoring of Volcanoes
- Puff Dispersion Model
- Eruption Source Parameters
- Google Earth Applications
- WOVO Representative, 2008 - Present
- IAVCEI Member, 2005 - Present
- AGU Member, 2005 - Present
- (2009 – Present) Assistant Research Professor, Geophysical Institute, UAF
- (2005 – 2009) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Faculty), University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
- (2003 – 2005) Postdoctoral Research Associate at Kings College London
- Webley, P. W., Dean, K., Peterson, R., Steffke, A., Harrild, M., and Groves, J., (2011). Dispersion Modelling of Volcanic Ash Clouds: North Pacific Eruptions, the past 40 years: 1970 – 2010. Natural Hazards.
- De Angelis, S., McNutt, S. R., and Webley, P. W., (2011) Evidence of atmospheric gravity waves during the 2008 eruption of Okmok volcano from seismic and remote sensing observations , Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L10303, doi:10.1029/2011GL047144, 2011.
- Rybin, A., Chibisova, M., Webley, P. W., Steensen, T., Izbekov, P., Neal, C., and Realmuto, V., (2011). The June 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak volcano, Matua Island, Central Kuriles. Bulletin of Volcanology, 73 (9), 1377 - 1392. DOI: 10.1007/s00445-011-0481-0.
- Gong, W., Meyer, F., Webley, P. W., and Lu, Z., (2011). Method of InSAR Atmosphere correction for volcano activity monitoring. IGARSS 2011.
- Liu, S., Mika, A., Gong, W., Hanssen, R., Meyer, F., Morton, D., and Webley, P. W., (2011). The role of weather models in mitigation of tropospheric delay for SAR interferometry. IGARRS 2011.
- Webley, P.W. (2011). Four Dimensional Volcanic Ash Cloud Predictions in Google Earth, with a special case of an ash-aviation encounter. Computer and Geosciences Special Issue: Virtual Globes, 37 (1), 25 – 37. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2010.02.005.
- Webley, P.W., Dean, K.G., Dehn, J., Bailey, J.E., and Peterson, R., (2010), Volcanic-ash dispersion modeling of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano Using the Puff Model, chapter 21 of Power, J.A., Coombs, M.L., and Freymueller, J.T., eds., The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 1769, 482–501 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1769/chapters/p1769_chapter21.pdf].
- Bailey, J.E., Dean, K.G., Dehn, J., and Webley, P.W., (2010), Integrated satellite observations of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, chapter 20ofPower, J.A., Coombs, M.L., and Freymueller, J.T., eds., The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1769, 481–506 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1769/chapters/p1769_chapter20.pdf].
- Cahill, C.F., Rinkleff, P.G., Dehn, J., Webley, P.W., Cahill, T.A. and Barnes, D. E., (2010). Aerosol Measurements from a Recent Volcanic Eruption: Implications for Volcanic Ash Transport Predictions. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 198, (1-2), 76-80. doi: 10.016/j.volgeores.2010.08.012.
- Vaughan, G., and Webley, P. W., (2010). Satellite Observations of the March 2009 Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption, Tonga. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 198, (1- 2), 177-186. doi: 10.016/j.volgeores.2010.08.017.
