Curriculum Vitae

Anatoli L.
Levshin

Professional interests

Theory of excitation and propagation of seismic waves, inverse problems of seismology, analysis and interpretation of seismic surface waves observations, surface-wave tomography on global, regional and local scales.

Education

1954

A.B.

Moscow State University (Honors Geology and Geophysics)

1957

M.Sc.

Moscow State University (Geophysics)

1962

Ph.D.

Institute of Physics of the Earth, Acad.of Sci. USSR (IPE) (Geophysics)

1971

D.Sc.

IPE, Moscow

Positions held

1992–2012

Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Colorado (CU), Boulder

1996–2010

Lecturer, Department of Physics, CU, Boulder

1990–1992

Chief, Laboratory of Wave Fields Interpretation, International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

1969–1989

Chief, Laboratory of Wave Fields Interpretation, Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE), Academy of Science of USSR, Moscow

1962–1968

Senior Researcher, IPE, Moscow

1957–1962

Senior Engineer, Institute of Hydrogeology and Civil Engineering, Ministry of Geology of the USSR, Moscow

Teaching Activity

1985–

Professor of Geophysics

1962–1989

Supervisor of 11 Ph.D thesis at IPE

International Activity

1966 (Mar–Sep)

Visiting Researcher, International Seismological Centre, Edinburgh, UK

1969

Visiting Researcher, Department of Geophysics, University of Bologna, Italy

1974 (Mar–Apr)

Visiting Researcher, Departments of Geophysics, Bologna and Bari Universités, Italy

1975 (Sep–Nov)

Visiting Researcher, NORSAR, Keeler, Norway

1976 (May)

Visiting Researcher, Dept.of Geophysics, University Karlovy, Prague, Czechoslovakia

1977 (Jun–Jul)

Visiting Researcher, Dept.of Geophysics, University of Cambridge, UK

1978 (May–Jun)

Visiting Researcher, Dept.of Geophysics, University Marie and Pier Curie, Paris, France

1988 (Oct–Nov)

Visiting Professor, Dept. of Geophysics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1990 (Jan–Apr)

Cecil Green Scholar, IEPG, Scripps Inst., University of California, San Diego, USA

1990, 1994, 1996, 1998 (Nov–Dec)

Co-Director of the Workshop on Seismic Waves Excitation, Propagation, and inversion,Intl.Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

1995 (Jan–Mar)

Visiting Professor, Intl. Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 (Nov–Dec)

Lector, Workshop on Seismic Waves Excitation, Propagation, and inversion, Intl. Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

2004 (Nov–Dec)

Visiting Professor, Intl. Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

2005 (Mar–May)

Visiting Professor, NORSAR, Keeler, Norway

2006 (Jul–Aug)

Visiting Professor, Dept. of Geophysics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Professional Societies

Fellow, American Geophysical Union since 1998.

Editorial Activity

Co-Editor, Monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Surface Waves, 2001, PAGEOPH, 158, n.8, Springer.

Co-Editor, Vychislitelnaya Seysmologiya,1980-1992, issues 11-23, in Russian, Moscow, Nauka.

Partly translated in English as “Computational Seismology”, issues 1-9, 1980-1989, Allerton Press, NY, and as “Computational Seismology and Geodynamics”, v. 1-8, 1994-2008, AGU,NY.

Publications

Books

Andrianova Z.S., Keilis-Borok, V.I., Levshin, A.L., Neigauz, M.G., 1967. Seismic Love waves, New York, Consultants Bureau, 1967 | original in Russian, Moscow, Nauka, 1965.

Levshin, A.L., 1973. Surface and channel seismic waves. Moscow, Nauka, in Russian.

Levshin, A.L., Yanovskaya, T.B., Lander, A.V., Bukchin B.G., Barmin M.P., Ratnikova L.I., Its E.N., 1989. Seismic Surface Waves in Laterally Inhomogeneous Earth. (Ed. V.I.Keilis-Borok), Kluwer Publ. House, Dordrecht/ Boston/ London. Russian Edition (Nauka), 1988.

Kaufman,A.A. and A.L. Levshin, 2000. Acoustic and elastic wave fields in geophysics. I. Elsevier, Amsterdam. Russian translation: Moscow, Nedra, 2001.

Kaufman, A.A., A.L. Levshin, and K. Larner, 2002. Acoustic and elastic wave fields in geophysics, II, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2002. Russian translation: Moscow, Nedra, 2003.

Kaufman, A.A., and A.L. Levshin, Acoustic and elastic wave fields in geophysics, III, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005. Russian translation: Moscow, Nedra, 2006.

Peer-reviewed recent papers (from 140)

Levshin, A.L., M. H. Ritzwoller, and N. M. Shapiro, 2005. The Use of Crustal Higher Modes to Constrain Crustal Structure Across Central Asia. Geoph. J. Int., v.160, n. 3, p. 961-, doi: 10.1111./j.1365-246X2005.02535.X

Levshin, A.L. and G.F. Panza, 2006. Caveats in modal inversion of seismic surface wavefields, Pure and Appl. Geoph., v.163, N.7, 1215-1233.

Yang, Y., M.H. Ritzwoller, A.L. Levshin, and N.M. Shapiro, 2007, Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography across Europe, Geophys. J. Int., 168(1), 259-274.

Bensen, G.D, M.H. Ritzwoller, M.P. Barmin, A.L. Levshin, F. Lin, M.P. Moschetti, N.M. Shapiro, and Y. Yang, 2007. Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 169, 1239-1260, doi: 10.1111/j.1365- 246X.2007.03374.x.

Levshin, A.L., J. Schweitzer, C. Weidle, N.M. Shapiro, and M.H. Ritzwoller, 2007, Surface wave tomography of the Barents Sea and surrounding regions, Geophys. J. Int., 170, p. 441-459, doi:10.1111/j.1365- 246X.2006.03285.x.

Panza, J.F., C. Doglioni, and A.L. Levshin, 2010. Asymetric oceanic basins, Geology, 38, n. 1, 59-62, doi: 10.1130/G30570.1.

Levshin A.L., X. Yang, M.P. Barmin. and M.H. Ritzwoller, 2010. Midperiod Rayleigh wave attenuation model for Asia, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 11(8), Q08017, doi 0.1029/2010G003164

Barmin M.P., A.L. Levshin, Y. Yang, and M.H. Ritzwoller, 2011. Epicentral location based on Rayleigh wave empirical Green's functions from ambient seismic noise, Geophys. J. Int., 184, 869-884, doi: 10.1111/ j.1365-246X.2010.04879.x.

Yang,Y., M.H. Ritzwoller, Y. Zheng, A.L. Levshin, and Z. Xie, 2012. A synoptic view of the distribution and connectivity of the mid-crustal low velocity zone beneath Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04303, doi:10.1029/ 2011JB008810.

Levshin, A.L., M.P. Barmin, M.P. Moschetti, C. Mendoza, and M.H. Ritzwoller, 2012. Refinements to the method of epicentral location based on surface waves from ambient seismic noise: Introducing Love waves, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365- 246X.2012. 05631.x

Contact

levshin@colorado.edu

Fax

1.303.492.7935