William Knight

William Knight is a Retired Science officer at the National Tsunami Warning Center, following a career in physics and oceanographic science applied to tsunami monitoring and warning. Knight earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California before completing his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, San Diego, where his fellowship began in 1978. His career contributed to the development and operation of the systems that detect and characterize tsunamis and disseminate warnings to at-risk populations around the Pacific.