William Menke
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professional Preparation
| Massachusetts Inst. of Technology | Earth and Planetary Science | BS, MS 1976 |
| Columbia University | Geological Sciences | M.Phil 1978, PhD 1982 |
Appointments
| Professor | Columbia University | 1992- |
| Chair | Dept. Earth & Env. Sci. | 2002-2004 |
| Assoc. Chair | Dept. Earth & Env. Sci. | 2000-2002 |
| Associate Director | Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. | 1989-1992 |
| Associate Professor | Columbia University | 1986-1992 |
| Assistant Professor | Oregon St. University | 1982-1986 |
Relevant Publications
Menke, W. and V. Levin, Anomalous seaward dip of the lithosphere-asthenosphere
boundary beneath northeastern US detected using differential-array measurements of
Rayleigh waves, Geophys. J. Int. 149, 413-421, 2002.
Levin, V., W. Menke, J. Park,
No regional anisotropic domains in the northerneastern U.S. Appalachians
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 105 , No. B8 , p. 19,029, 2000.
Levin, V., W. Menke and J. Park, 1999. Shear wave splitting in the
Appalachians and the Urals: A case for multilayered anisotropy J.
Geophys. Res. Vol. 104 , No. B8 , p. 17,975-17,987.
Hu., G., W. Menke and C. Powell, Polarization tomography for P wave structure in southern
California, J. Geophys. Res. 99, 15245-15256, 1994.
Menke, W. L. Shengold and B. Busby, Precison of broadband velocity measurements made with
IRIS/PASSCAL instrumentation, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 82, 2256-2262, 1992.
Other Publications
West, M., W. Menke. M. Tolstoy, S. Webb and R. Sohn, Magma storage
beneath Axial volcano on the Juan de Fuca mid-ocean ridge, Nature 25, 833-837, 2001.
Menke, W., Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory, Revised Edition (textbook),
Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1989.
Menke, W., M. West, B. Brandsdottir and D. Sparks, Compressional and
shear velocity of the lithosphere in northern Iceland, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 88,
1561-1571, 1998.
Menke, W. and D. Abbott, Geophysical Theory (Textbook), Columbia
University Press, 458p, 1989.
Gudmundsson, O., B. Brandsdottir, W. Menke and H. Olafsson, The magma chamber
of Katla volcano in the propagating volcanic zone of south Iceland revealed by
seismic undershooting, Geophys. J. Int. 119, 227-296, 1994.
Synergistic Activities
Seismological Field Experiments: SIST (Iceland), ONYNEX (NY-New England), Katla Undershooting (Iceland), FIRE (Iceland), Baradalur '96 (Iceland), Axial Volcano (Juan de
Fuca Ridge).
IRIS/PASSCAL Standing Committee, 1996-1997
Development of 3-semester "The Earth System" undergraduate
course at Columbia University, 1994-1996.
Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Project and associated database, 1995.
Collaborators M. Brandon (Yale), B. Brandsdottir (U. Iceland), Evgeney Chesnokov (U Oklahoma), P. Einarsson (U. Iceland), V. Levin (Yale), J. Park (Yale), R. White (Cambridge), M. West (Alaska).
Graduate Advisors A. Brecher (Undergraduate), P. Molnar (Masters), P. Richards (PhD)
Advisor and Sponsor V. Levin (Yale), M. West (LDEO), C. Rodriguez (LDEO), C. Holmes (LDEO). Danielle Stroup (LDEO) Total: 10.