William Menke
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professional Preparation
BS, MS 1976, Dept of Earth and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
M.Phil, 1978, Ph.D, 1882, Dept of Geological Sciences, Columbia University
Appointments
Professor, Columbia University, 1992-
Chairman, Earth & Env. Sci., Columbia U., 2002-2004
Associate Chairman, Dept. Earth & Env. Sci., Columbia U., 2000-2002
Associate Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., 1989-1992
Relevant Publications
Menke, W., R.C.Holmes and J. Xie, On the nonuniqueness of the coupled origin time - velocity
tomography problem, in press in Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 2006.
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.
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 V.Levin, The Cross-Convolution Method for Interpreting SKS Splitting
Observations, with Application to One and Two Layer Anisotropic Earth Models,
Geophys.J.Int. 154, 379-392, 2003.
Other Publications
Hong, T.-K. and W. Menke, Tomographic investigation of the wear along the San
Jacinto fault, southern California, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors,
in press, 2005.
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. 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).
Development of 3-semester "The Earth System" undergraduate
course at Columbia U., 1994-1996.
Collaborators B. Brandsdottir (U.
Iceland), P. Einarsson (U. Iceland), V. Levin (Rutgers)
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.