Wessex Institute of TechnologySouthampton, (UK)

Internationally recognised organisation dedicated to advanced research and training on the computational solution of engineering problems, including the supervision of PhD and MPhil theses (validated by a top UK university) and the organisation of international courses and conferencesFour Divisions: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Information and Communications Technology, Industrial Research, Damage MechanicsRelevant Expertise: Environmental Risk Assessment + CFD, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques, etcCurrently participating in 4 FP6 EC funded projectsInstitute Personnel: Staff = 47; No. students; Phd + MPhil = 45

TEWS Info Day, 31 Jan 2006, Paris

Potential Interest/Contribution Potential Interest/Contribution to TEWSto TEWS

Interested in: Early Warning System Design– Use of networks of Bottom Pressure Gauges +

Hydrophones + Seismic Stations in EWSs– Homogenization of the data and resolving the issues

of time difference in signals from different sensors

Real time signal processing from different sensors (BPRs, hydrophones, seismic stations, etc) for EWSs

Management of large scale distributed systems (BPRs, hydrophones, seismic stations, sea level, etc)

Potential Interest/Contribution Potential Interest/Contribution to TEWSto TEWS

The use of hydrophones in the EWS– Hydrophones can detect the tsunami wave like dispersive signals

between 1 and 25 mHz (Hanson & Bowman, Geoph. Res. Letters, 32, 1-5, 2005)

– Hydrophone data (acoustic T-waves) can be processed with a help of machine learning techniques (ANNs, Genetic Algorithms) for automated recognition of tsunamis

Organization of workshops, courses and conferences for dissemination of knowledge and preparation and maintenance of a web-based platform for communication and exchange of information

Contact point: [Dr Viktor Popov]Email: [viktor@wessex.ac.uk ]Tel: [+44 2380 293223]Url: [http://www.wessex.ac.uk]