Vadim Levin

Assistant Research Professor
Room 239C Wright Geological Laboratory
(732) 445-5415
vlevin@rci.rutgers.edu

Education

• 1996 Ph.D., Seismology, Columbia University
• 1988 Diploma with honors (M.E. equivalent), Exploration Geophysics, Gubkin University of Oil and Gas, Moscow, Russia

Teaching

• Geodynamics
• Seminar in Seismology
• Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Research Interests

• Seismological structure of the lithosphere and the upper mantle, and what it tells us about past and present processes inside the Earth;
• seismic wave propagation in anisotropic materials.
• more about my research, including photo-tours of my field work, may be found here

Recent Publications

• Look HERE for a full list
  • W. Menke and V. Levin, A Strategy to Rapidly Determine the Magnitude of Great Earthquakes, EOS, 86, 19, 10 May 2005
  • Vadim Levin, Nikolai M. Shapiro, Jeffrey Park, Michael H. Ritzwoller The Slab Portal Beneath the Western Aleutians, Geology; April 2005; v. 33; no. 4; p. 253_256; doi: 10.1130/G20863.1.
  • Shapiro, N. M., M. H. Ritzwoller, P. Molnar and V. Levin, Thinning and Flow in Tibetan Crust Constrained by Seismic Anisotropy, Science, 305, 233-236, 2004.
  • Michael Studinger, Garry D. Karner, Robin E. Bell, Vadim Levin, Carol A. Raymond, Anahita A. Tikku, Geophysical Models for the Tectonic Framework of the Lake Vostok Region, East Antarctica,  EPSL,  216   663-677, 2003
  • W. Menke and V. Levin, A Waveform-based method for interpreting SKS splitting observations, with application to one and two layer anisotropic Earth models, GJI 154, 1–14, 2003
  • Levin, V., N. Shapiro, J. Park and M. Ritzwoller, Seismic Evidence for Catastrophic Slab Loss Beneath Kamchatka,  Nature, v418, 763-767, 2002.
  • Park, J., and V. Levin, Seismic anisotropy: Tracing plate dynamics in the mantle, Science, 296, 485-489, 2002.
  • Valerie Peyton, Vadim Levin, Jeffrey Park, Mark Brandon, Jonathan Lees Evgenii Gordeev, Alexei Ozerov,  Mantle Flow at a Slab Edge: Seismic Anisotropy in the Kamchatka Region, GRL, 28, pp 379-382, 2001.
  • V.Levin, J. Park, M. Brandon and W. Menke, Thinning of the upper mantle during the late Paleozoic Appalachian orogenesisGeology,v 28, pp 239-242, 2000 .
  • Levin, V. and J. Park, "quasi-Love phases between Tonga and Hawaii: Observations, simulations and explanations", JGR v. 103, pp 24321-24331, 1998.
  • Levin, V. and J. Park, "P-SH Conversions in Layered Media with Hexagonally Symmetric Anisotropy. A Cookbook". PAGEOPH, 151, 669-697, 1998.
  
      Full list of publications and online reprints may be found here