Goran Ekstrom

Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Affiliated with: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
Seismology 108 61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964 USA

BIOGRAPHY:

Ekström was born and grew up outside Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981 with a degree in physics and did post baccalaureate work in seismology at Moscow State University, USSR. He graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a Ph.D. in geophysics. After postdoctoral work at Columbia University, he joined the faculty at Harvard in 1990 as professor of geology and geophysics. In 2006 Ekström moved to Columbia University where he is professor of Earth and environmental sciences. His teaching includes environmental hazards and risk assessment. Ekström has served as chair of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, the EarthScope Steering Committee, the International Federation of Digital Seismographic Networks, and the International Seismological Centre executive committee. In 2015 he was awarded the Beno Gutenberg Medal by the European Geophysical Union for his outstanding contributions to seismology.

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below

Name	Start Date	End Date
Collaborative Research: Investigating the Limits of Ray-Based Global Surface-Wave Tomography	10/1/09	9/30/12
Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of Transient Deformation Following Great 2006-2007 Kuril Earthquakes: Frictional Afterslip or Viscoelastic Relaxation?	8/1/10	7/31/12
Collaborative Research: Strain Accumulation and release at the Kuril Subduction Zone from Postseismic Observations on the Kuril GPS Array in 2007-2014	2/1/12	5/31/16
EAGER: Catastrophic Landslide Dynamics from Seismic Wave Inversion and Satellite Remote Sensing	9/1/11	8/31/12
Facility Support: The Global CMT Project	1/1/13	5/31/17
Facility Support: The Global CMT Project	8/1/16	7/31/20
Improved locations for global seismic events using surface waves	7/1/15	6/30/19
IPA between Columbia University and USGS - Ekstrom	8/15/12	8/14/15
Landslide dynamics from seismic wave inversion, satellite remote sensing, and numerical modeling	9/1/12	8/31/16
New constraints on and models of global and plate-scale anisotropic mantle structure	7/1/13	6/30/17
Studies of Unusual Earthquakes: Volcanos and Landslides	7/1/10	6/30/13
Surface-Wave Data Profucts from USArray	4/1/15	3/31/17
Surface-wave Propagation Across North America: New Methods, Observations and Models	5/1/10	4/30/14
The Seismic Wave Background: Monitoring Earthquakes, Volcanic Tremors and Atmospheric Phenomena	1/1/16	12/31/16
Community Facility Support: The Global CMT Project	3/1/20	2/28/23
Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV)	5/1/19	9/19/21
CSEDI Collaborative Research: Understanding what we see in the lower mantle - mineral physics interpretation of seismic tomographic images	7/15/20	6/30/23
Collaborative Research: Incorporating SPECFEM3D Numerical Seismograms in the Global CMT Project	9/1/22	8/31/24
EarthCube Building Blocks: Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Data Discovery Hub	9/1/16	8/31/20

11 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
The persistent signature of tropical cyclones in ambient seismic noise	2018
A comparison of approaches to the prediction of surface wave amplitude	2014
Arrival-angle anomalies across the USArray Transportable Array	2014
Local amplification of Rayleigh waves in the continental United States observed on the USArray	2014
Global observation of vertical-CLVD earthquakes at active volcanoes	2013
Love and Rayleigh phase-velocity maps, 5–40 s, of the western and central USA from USArray data	2013
Physical Mechanisms for Vertical-CLVD Earthquakes at Active Volcanoes	2013
Simple scaling of catastrophic landslide dynamics	2013
Surface wave phase velocities of the Western United States from a two-station method	2013
Earthquakes along Eltanin transform system, SE Pacific Ocean: fault segments characterized by strong and poor seismic coupling and implications for long-term earthquake prediction	2012
On measuring surface wave phase velocity from station–station cross-correlation of ambient signal	2012

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Goran Ekstrom

PROJECTS

11 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS