Prof. John Townend

Professor Townend has been the principal investigator in five projects funded by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and an associate investigator in a further four projects. He is currently co-leading a Marsden-funded study of Alpine Fault earthquakes using data recorded by the Southern Alps Long Skinny Array (SALSA; #SALSAeqnz) and a Royal Society Te Apārangi-funded project with Australian National University seismologists and TU Dortmund computer scientists on distributed acoustic sensing using dark telecommunications cables.

Type

party

Access Privileges

Research School of Earth Sciences

Title

Prof.

Given Name

John

Surname

Townend

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7017-620X

Brief Description

Professor Townend's research focuses on earthquake mechanics, fault zone structure and hydrology, the tectonic stress field, and the detection and analysis of small earthquakes. Most of Professor Townend's current work is concentrated on the Alpine Fault, the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, and geothermal systems in the Taupō Volcanic Zone, but he has previously worked on projects in California, Iceland, Japan and South Korea.

Full Description

Email Address

john.townend@vuw.ac.nz

Postal Address

CO 525, Cotton Building (All Blocks), Gate 7, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand

Phone Number

+6444635411 (Work)

Website Address

https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/john.townend; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7017-620X

Fields of Research

370609 - Seismology and seismic exploration

Socio-Economic Objective

190403 - Geological hazards (e.g. earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity); 280107 - Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences

Keywords

distributed acoustic sensing; nodal seismic; Alpine Fault

Status: Published
Published to:

Australian National University
Australian National Data Service