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Maya Tolstoy
Columbia University
Member, Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee
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Columbia University
2025 - Present
University of Washington Seattle
Dean
2022 - 2025
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Professor
2009 - 2022
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Education
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Doctorate
1994
University of Edinburgh
Bachelors
1988
Maya's AGU Research
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P-wave First-Motion Polarity Classification for Seafloor Microearthquakes Using Transfer Learning at Axial Seamount
ADVANCES IN MACHINE LEARNING FOR SOLID EARTH GEOSCIENCE II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 18 december 2025
Relative seismic velocity changes at Axial Seamount
RECENT ADVANCES IN VOLCANIC GEOPHYSICS: THEORY, METHODOLOGY, AND APPLICATIONS III POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 17 december 2025
Insights into Caldera-Ridge Interactions and Eruption Preparation at Axial Seamount from Machine-Learning Analysis of Cabled and Temporary OBS data
UNDERSTANDING GEOPHYSICAL PROCESSES THAT SHAPE EARTH’S MID-OCEAN RIDGES: INSIGHTS INTO CRUSTAL DEFORMATION, MAGMATIC-TECTONIC CONSTRUCTION, AND GEODYNAMICS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 17 december 2025
Migrating tremors indicate the activation of satellite magma reservoirs preceding the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption
RECENT ADVANCES IN VOLCANIC GEOPHYSICS: THEORY, METHODOLOGY, AND APPLICATIONS III POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 17 december 2025
Higher education institutions can accelerate societal climate action
CLIMATE CROSSROADS: HIGHER EDUCATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF CLIMATE ACTION AND INNOVATION I ORAL
education | 10 december 2024
Volcanic Precursor Revealed by Machine Learning Offers New Eruption Forecasting Capability
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
30 september 2024
Relative Seismic Velocity Variations at Axial Seamount Observed With Ambient Seismic Noise Capture Transition Point in Volcanic Inflation
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
18 may 2024
Source mechanism of impulsive events during the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption
MODERN SUBMARINE VOLCANISM AND ITS IMPACTS II ORAL
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 14 december 2023
Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2027
Member
Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Seismology Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award Committee
2017 - 2019
Member
Taira Prize Committee
Honors & Awards
Francis Birch Lecture
Received December 2016