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
| Chairman | Dept. Earth & Env. Sci., Columbia U. | 2002-2004 |
| Associate Chairman | Dept. Earth & Env. Sci., Columbia U. | 2000-2002 |
| Professor | Columbia University | 1992- |
| Associate Director | Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. | 1989-1992 |
| Associate >rofessor | 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 regional context,
in Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms, Alan Levander
and Guust Nolet, Eds., Geophysical Monograph Series 157. American Geophysical Union, 7-36, 2005.
Menke, W. and D. Schaff, Absolute earthquake locations with differential data,
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 94, 2254-2264, 2004.
Menke, W., Using waveform similarity to constrain earthquake location,
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 89, 1143-1146, 1999.
Menke, W. and V. Levin: A strategy to rapidly determine the magnitude
of great earthquakes, EOS Trans. AGU 86, 185-189, 2005.
Menke, W., A. Lerner-Lam and R. Mithal, Spatial coherence of 5-25 Hz seismic wavefields at a hard rock site, Structural Safety 10, 163-179, 1991.
Other Publications
Menke, W., M. West and M. Tolstoy, Shallow crustal magma chamber beneath the
axial high of the Coaxial Segment of Juan de Fuca Ridge at the
"Source Site" of the 1993 eruption, Geology 30, 359-362, 2002.
Menke, W. and V. Levin, The Cross-Convolution Method for Interpreting
SKS Splitting Observations, with Application to One and Two Layer Anisotropic
Earth Models, in Geophys. J. Int 15,
379-392, 2003.
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, 2
001.
Menke, W., Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory, Revised Edition (textbook),
Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1989.
Menke, W. and D. Abbott, Geophysical Theory (Textbook), Columbia
University Press, 458p, 1989.
Synergistic Activities
Seismological Field Experiments: SIST (Iceland), ONYNEX (NY-New England), Katla Volcano (Iceland), Krafla Volcano (Iceland), Baradalur '96 (Iceland), Grinsfjall Volcano (Iceland) '98, Axial Volcano (Juan de Fuca Ridge, 1999).
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 B. Brandsdottir (U. Iceland), P. Einarsson (U. Iceland), V. Levin (Rutgers), J. Park (Yale),
Graduate Advisors A. Brecher (Undergraduate), P. Molnar (Masters), P. Richards (PhD)
Advisor and Sponsor V. Levin (Rutgers U.), M. West (U. Alaska, Fairbanks), C. Rodriguez (Columbia U.). Total: 8.