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Cyrus Whitney Read

My work with the USGS consists of designing, installing and maintaining equipment that monitors volcanoes and earthquakes for the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

I have worked for the Alaska Volcano Observatory since 2004.  In the 17 years I've been working here I have lead over 50 individual field campaigns focusing on building, installing and maintaining remote power and communications systems that allow the collection of real-time volcano monitoring data.  I was trained as a geologist, then learned analog short period telemetry and seismic equipment. Now we do IP-based networking for digital data telemetry.