Maya Tolstoy
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

My Contact Info

303B Oceanography, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades NY 10964, United States

845-365-8791
[email protected]
https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~tolstoy/

Maya Tolstoy

Research Interest

Geophysics
Ecophysiology
Marine Geophysics
Marine Seismology
Seismology
Tectonophysics
Volcanology

Biography

Maya Tolstoy is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York. She is a marine geophysicist specializing in seafloor earthquakes and volcanoes. Dr. Tolstoy has led 18 research expeditions at sea as Chief or co-Chief Scientist and has 66 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including 6 in Science and 4 in Nature. She has led or co-led over $22 million worth of federally funded research, including co-PI for an Ocean Bottom Seismology National Facility for more than a decade, and was part of the leadership team that implemented the largest community marine seismology experiment to date – The Cascadia Initiative. Professor Tolstoy has been teaching in her area of expertise for more than 20 years, including courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in geophysics.

Education

B.Sc. Honors Geophysics, University of Edinburgh
Ph.D. Earth Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD