Ben Dando is Head of Department for Test Ban Treaty Verification at NORSAR. Ben has extensive experience in seismic monitoring with application to explosions, natural seismicity, and induced seismicity. He has designed, led, and implemented novel seismic monitoring strategies for both research projects and commercial operations, including at national and international scales. His research interests include seismic location methods, array processing, and signal processing. Ben holds a PhD in earthquake seismology from the University of Leeds and a master’s degree from University College London.
Ben Dando
Head of Department for Test Ban Treaty Verification at NORSAR
Content by Ben Dando
Policy brief
Widening the ceasefire toolkit: The promise of geophysical monitoring in Ukraine and beyond
Any monitoring mission deployed to observe an end to the hostilities in Ukraine is likely to incorporate a range of remote-sensing technologies to support its verification activities. Drawing on insights from the Norwegian research institute NORSAR’s real-time monitoring of the 2022 Ukraine conflict, this policy brief by Ben D.E. Dando, Kjølv Egeland, and Sebastian Schutte, finds that scientific advances and a growing availability of relevant data have made ‘seismo-acoustic’ analysis a cost-effective means of complementing, backing up, and in some cases replacing other ceasefire monitoring technologies.