Dr Ken Gledhill is the GeoNet Project Director and Department Head of Geohazards Monitoring within the Natural Hazards Division at GNS Science. GeoNet is New Zealand’s geological hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, slow earth deformation, landslides and tsunami) monitor system employing state of the art equipment and telecommunications technology. He is also currently the chair of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group of the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/PTWS), having been involved in PTWS since 2005.
Ken is a technical and scientific project manager, seismologist, scientific instrumentation and telecommunications specialist with more than 30 years’ experience. His research has concentrated on geophysical instrumentation systems, the field studies of large earthquakes, and the study of the deep structure beneath New Zealand and internationally using the seismic waves generated by earthquakes. Ken has worked internationally in the Pacific, Asia and Europe.
