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Dr. Maya Tolstoy

Doherty Research Scientist

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Marine Geology and Geophysics

303A Oceanography

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

10964-8000

Phone:

(845) 365-8791

tolstoy@ldeo.columbia.edu

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Fields of interest:

Marine Geophysics

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

B.Sc. Honors Geophysics

University of Edinburgh

1988

Ph.D.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

1994

Lamont Projects:

Calibration of R/V Langseth Seismic Sources

Analysis of 9°50'N East Pacific Rise Seismicity: Insight into Hydrothermal and Magmatic Processes

Ocean Bottom Seismology

Student List

List of current and former students:

Ms. Danielle Sumy

Mr. R. Chadwick Holmes

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Selected Publications:

Seismic identification of along-axis hydrothermal flow on the East Pacific Rise, Tolstoy, M.; Waldhauser, F.; Bohnenstiehl, D. R.; Weekly, R. T.; Kim, W. Y. , Nature, Jan 10, Volume 451, Issue 7175, p.181-U7, (2008), Doi 10.1038/Nature06424

A sea-floor spreading event captured by seismometers, Tolstoy, M.; Cowen, J. P.; Baker, E. T.; Fornari, D. J.; Rubin, K. H.; Shank, T. M.; Waldhauser, F.; Bohnenstiehl, D. R.; Forsyth, D. W.; Holmes, R. C.; Love, B.; Perfit, M. R.; Weekly, R. T.; Soule, S. A.; Glazer, B. , Science, Dec 22, Volume 314, Issue 5807, p.1920-1922, (2006), DOI 10.1126/science.1133950

Hydroacoustic constraints on the rupture duration, length, and speed of the Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake, Tolstoy, M.; Bohnenstiehl, D. R. , Seismological Research Letters, Jul-Aug, Volume 76, Issue 4, p.419-425, (2005)

Broadband calibration of R/V Ewing seismic sources, Tolstoy, M.; Diebold, J. B.; Webb, S. C.; Bohnenstiehl, D. R.; Chapp, E.; Holmes, R. C.; Rawson, M. , Geophysical Research Letters, Jul 27, Volume 31, Issue 14, p.-, (2004), Doi 10.1029/2004gl020234

Breathing of the seafloor: Tidal correlations of seismicity at Axial volcano, Tolstoy, M.; Vernon, F. L.; Orcutt, J. A.; Wyatt, F. K. , Geology, Jun, Volume 30, Issue 6, p.503-506, (2002)

Seismic character of volcanic activity at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel Ridge, Tolstoy, M.; Bohnenstiehl, D. R.; Edwards, M. H.; Kurras, G. J. , Geology, Dec, Volume 29, Issue 12, p.1139-1142, (2001)

Crustal Thickness on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Bulls-Eye Gravity-Anomalies and Focused Accretion, Tolstoy, M.; Harding, A. J.; Orcutt, J. A. , Science, Oct 29, Volume 262, Issue 5134, p.726-729, (1993)