Seminars and Presentations
General Audience
- Reeking of the Ice Age: Harriman State Park (2024)
- New Yorker Article (2022)
- Some Thoughts on Hiking Gear (2020)
- Consensus Statement on Piermont Marsh Plan (2018)
- The Rocks of Harriman State Park (2016)
- When the sea rose 400 feet (2016)
- Buying Your First Kayak (2015)
- When Maine was California (DownEast Lakes Land Trust, June 23, 2014)
- My 91st Day of Kayaking (Westchester Guardian, Oct 13, 2011)
- Earthquiake in Harriman State Park, NY (ACA, May 2011) (PowerPoint)
- Bill Menke discusses Mt Merapi volcanic eruption (DBKP, November 2010)
- Bill Menke discusses the Iceland volcanic eruption (April 27, 2010)
- Bill Menke answers questions about Mt Vesuvius (February 20, 2009)
- Controversy about Women in Science: A Sober look (February 9, 2007)
- CNN: South Asian Earthquake (October 11, 2005)
- Ask the Expert, Richter Scale (April 2005)
- Rapid magnitude determiantion of the Bay of Bengal Earthquake (April 9, 2004)
- Mt. St. Helens Update (October 20, 2004)
- Navigating with GPS (March 25, 2004)
- The Richter Scale, (October 5, 2002)
- Using Web-Based Databases (June, 2002)
- Volcanoes, Talk to Swarthmore Seniors, April, 2001
- The Most Dangerous Volcano in the World (October, 1998)
- Falling Through Snow (May 13, 1998)
Fieldtrip Guides
Mainly for Columbia Personnel
2015 Solar Farm Controversy
Technical Presentations
- Small Scale Asthenospheric Upwelling (2019)
- Will Volcanoes erupt in New England? (2018)
- Will Volcanoes erupt in New England? (2017)
- The Barn Paradox, Retold (2014)
- On Calculationg Weighted Means (2013)
- Teaching Students to Look at Their Data - a Tutorial (2012)
- Representation of Global Earth Models (LLNL Seismic Symposium)
- Multiscale Seismology: the future of inversion
- A quick tutorial on the basics of earthquake location
- A quick tutorial on adjoint methods of calculating data kernels
- Earthquake location and tomography (October 5, 2006)
- Earthquake location and tomography (September 29, 2006)
- North America Earthquake Location (September 28, 2004)
- Earthquake location and tomography with differential data (September20, 2004)
- Advances in 3D Raytracing and Tomography, LDEO Seismology Seminar (April 29, 2002)
- P Velocity Model for Iceland, RIDGE Iceland Plume Meeting, Iceland (September, 2001)
- Northeastern US Mantle, Spring AGU (June, 2001)
- Northeastern US Mantle, LDEO MGG Seminar (May 2001)
- Structural Seismology in Iceland, LDEO MGG Seminar (April 2001)
- Axial Volcano, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (April, 2001)
- Iceland Crustal Structure, Nordic Volcanological Institute (February 2001)
- Axial Volcano, U. Iceland (February, 2001)
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