Adjunct Associate Professor

208 Dow

7-3491

EMAIL: watson@mtu.edu

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Personal Interests

• Playing the guitar, coaching and playing football (soccer), reading contemporary literature, climbing volcanoes.

Education

• Bachelors; Leicester University, 1995, Chemistry
• Masters; Leicester University, 1996,    Physics and Astronomy
• Ph.D.; University of Cambridge, 2000, Earth Science and Geography

Research

• Using satellite data to retrieve information about the gases and particles produced by volcanoes
• The importance of volcanic gases during explosive eruptions
• MODIS thermal IR algorithm development
• Improvement of TOMS data  processing software
• Near-vent Sun photometry of volcanic aerosols
• COSPEC and FTIR

Courses Taught

• Remote Sensing of Volcanic Clouds GE4170

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