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 |
| 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
Hong, T-K and W. Menke, Constituent energy of regional seismic coda,
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 98, 454-462, 2008.
Menke, W., V. Levin and R. Sethi, Seismic attenuation in the crust at the mid-Atlantic plate
boundary in south-west Iceland, Geophys. J. Int. 122, 175-182, 1995.
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.
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.
Menke, W., A. Lerner-Lam, B. Dubendorff, and J. Pacheco, Polarization and
coherence of 5-30
Hz seismic wavefields at a hard rock site and their relevance to velocity heterogenities
in
the crust, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 80, 430-449, 1990.
Other 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., 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 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.
Team Leader, United States Womens Sprint Canoe Team, Pan American Games, 2005.
Collaborators: B. Brandsdottir (U. Iceland),
Evgeni Chesnokov (U. Oklahoma), P. Einarsson (U. Iceland), V. Levin (Rutgers U.), J. Park (Yale U.),
W. Wilcox (U. Washington)
Graduate Advisors A. Brecher (Undergraduate),
P. Molnar (Masters), P. Richards (PhD)
Advisor and Sponsor V. Levin (Yale), M. West (LDEO),
K. Rodriguez Czuchlewski (LDEO). Total: 8.