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
Chair | Dept of Earth & Env. Sci. | 2002-2004 |
Assoc. Chair | Dept of Earth & Env. Sci. | 2000-2002 |
Professor | Columbia University | 1992- |
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., Case studies of seismic tomography and earthquake location in a re
gional context, in
Seismic Data Analysis and Imaging With Global and Local Arrays, Alan Levander
and Guust Nolet, Eds., American Geophysical Union, in press 2004.
Menke, W. and V. Levin, The Cross-Convolution Method for Interpreting SKS Spl
itting
Observations, with Application to One and Two Layer Anisotropic Earth Models,
in Geophys. J. Int 15, 379-392, 2003.
Levin, Vadim, William Menke,Jeffrey 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.
Other Publications
Sohn, R.A. and W. Menke, Application of maximum liklihood and bootstrap metho
ds
to nonlinear cure-fit problems in geochemistry, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosys
tems -
G3 3; 7(253), 2002.
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.
Assistant Coach, US Canoe and Kayak Team, Pan American Games, 2004.
Collaborators M. Brandon (Yale), B. Brandsdottir (U. Iceland), P. Einarsson (U. Iceland), V. Levin (Yale), J. Park (Yale), D. Sparks (TAMU), R. White (Cambridge)
Graduate Advisors A. Brecher (Undergraduate), P. Molnar (Masters), P. Richards (PhD)
Advisor and Sponsor V. Levin (Yale), M. West (LDEO), C. Rodriguez (LDEO). Total: 8.