CURRICULUM VITAE

EMAIL:  tolstoy@ldeo.columbia.edu

ADDRESS:
Oceanography 108-E
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY10964-8000

TELEPHONE: (845) 365-8791 (work)

CITIZENSHIP: U.S.A.

EDUCATION:
1994 Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA.
1988 B.S. Honors,  Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

EMPLOYMENT:
1987 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
1988 - 1994 Research Assistant, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
11/94 - 9/96 Post-Graduate Researcher, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
10/96 - 6/98 Post-Doctoral Fellow, LDEO, Columbia University.
7/98 - 6/04 Doherty Associate Research Scientist, LDEO, Columbia University.
Fall '98 - Adjunct Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University.
Summer '99 - Spring '02 Visiting Scholar, UCLA
7/04 - present Doherty Research Scientist, LDEO, Columbia University

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Design, Execution and Analysis of Marine Seismic Experiments (both active and passive sources) using Ocean Bottom Seismographs (OBSs), Ocean Bottom Hydrophones and Multichannel Streamers.
Mid-Ocean Ridge structure and tectonics.
Ocean Bottom Tiltmeters.
Scientific Uses of Submarine Cables.
Applications of Hydroacoustic Data to Monitoring of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
Impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Scripps representative at the OCEANS presentation for Congress, Washington DC, May 1995.
Active member of the RIDGE and InterRIDGE program attending 4 RIDGE short course and 4 workshops since 1990.
Committee member: Best Student Paper - Tectonophysics, AGU '95, '96.
NSF - MG&G Panel Member.
NSF Young Scholars Program - Expert Panel Member (program to introduce high school students to scientific research).
Co-Chair - Organizing Committee, InterRidge Workshop on 'Long-Term Monitoring of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge', Portugal, October 1998.(MOMAR)
RIDGE Steering Committee Member, Fall '99 - Fall '01
RIDGE 2000 Steering Committee Member, Fall '01 - Fall '02
Participant in 'Aliens of the Deep' - James Cameron 3-D IMAX documentary
Senator, Columbia University, Sept. '04 - present

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Fall 1998 - Oceanography (BC3024) - Environ. Sci. Dept., Barnard College.
Volunteer Tutor - Hawks Basketball Team, NYC.
Graduate Student Advisor for D.R. Bohnenstiehl, R.C. Holmes, D. Stroup
Also worked with graduate students - J. Floyd, M. West

FIELD EXPERIENCE:
Extensive sea-going experience, (26 cruises), primarily OBS work, but including multichannel, electromagnetic, tilt, DSL-120, Argo, dredging, rock coring.  Chief or Co-chief scientist on 12 cruises.  1987-present.
Total of 10 weeks geological mapping in Scotland, 1984-88.
1 week training in geophysical field techniques (seismics, gravity, magnetics and resistivity), Wales, U.K, 1987.
2 days seismometer deployment following Northridge earthquake, 1994.
3 days GPS field work following Landers earthquake, 1992.