NASA JPL Oceanographer, Sea Level and Ice Group
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Leading NASA's sea level research and SWOT science applications
NASA's SWOT satellite caught a magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake's tsunami in unprecedented detail on July 30, 2025. The waves weren't behaving like a single stable swell—they scattered, interacted, and dispersed across the Pacific basin like nothing scientists expected from textbook models. For 50 years, researchers treated big tsunamis as 'non-dispersive,' meaning they travel as one coherent wave. That assumption just died.
Updated Jan 6
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