BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Maya Tolstoy
Lamont Postdoctoral Fellow

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 - present	Post-Doctoral Fellow, LDEO, Columbia University.

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Design, Execution and Analysis of Seismic Experiments (both active and passive sources)
• Instrumentation, including Ocean Bottom Seismometers, Hydrophones, and Tiltmeters.
• Volcanic and Ridge structure and tectonics.

Advisors: John Orcutt and Alister Harding
Advisees: none
Collaborators: Steven Constable, Jason Phipps-Morgan

Relevant Publications:
Tolstoy, M., A.J. Harding and J.A. Orcutt,   Crustal Thickness on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Bull's Eye Gravity Anomalies and Focused Accretion, Science, 262:726-729, 29 Oct. 1993.
Tolstoy, M.,  A Comparison of Slow and Fast Spreading Ridge Axis Structure from Seismic Data, Ph.D. Thesis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Oct. 1994.
Tolstoy, M., A.J. Harding and J.A. Orcutt, Deepening of the Axial Magma Chamber toward the Garret Fracture Zone from multichannel data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102:3097-3108, 1997.
Tolstoy, M., S. Constable, J.A. Orcutt, H. Staudigel, and F.K. Wyatt, Short and Long Baseline Tiltmeter Measurements on Axial Seamount, Juan De Fuca Ridge, submitted, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 1996.
Michael, P.J., D.W. Forsyth, D.K. Blackman, P.J. Fox, B.B. Hanan, A.J. Harding, K.C. MacDonald, G.A. Neumann, J.A. Orcutt, M. Tolstoy, C.M. Weiland,  Mantle Control of a Dynamically Evolving Spreading Center, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 121:451-468, 1994.

Other:
Tolstoy, M., A.J. Harding and J.A. Orcutt,  Seismic Evidence for a Reduction in Mantle Upwelling Toward the Garrett Fracture Zone, EOS Trans. AGU. 77:653, 1996.
Tolstoy, M., A.J. Harding, J.A. Orcutt, and J. Phipps-Morgan,   Crustal Thickness at the Australian-Antarctic Discordance Zone and neighboring South East Indian Ridge, EOS Trans. AGU  76:570, 1995.