Curriculum Vitae: Alan Levander Carey Croneis Professor of ...

Curriculum Vitae: Alan Levander
Carey Croneis Professor of Geology
Department of Earth Science MS-126
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
713-348-6064
alan@rice.edu
Professional Experience
7/11-present Director, Rice DAVinCI Project
4/98-present Co-Director, Rice Center for Computational Geophysics.
7/96-present Carey Croneis Professor, Department of Earth Science, Rice Univ., Houston, TX.
7/98-6/11 Chair, Department of Earth Science, Rice University.
7/94-6/96 Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Rice Univ., Houston, TX.
7/88-6/94 Associate Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Rice Univ., Houston, TX.
7/84-7/92 Consultant for: Chevron Oil Field Research Company (84-92), ARCO Oil and Gas
(87), Exxon (92), and Western Geophysical Research (85 & 89)
7/84-7/88 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Rice Univ., Houston, TX.
4/83-6/84 Research Geophysicist, Gulf R&D Company Pittsburgh, PA, and Houston, TX.
1/82-1/83 Consultant: Gulf Research & Development Company, Pittsburgh, PA.
7/81-12/81 Geophysical Aid: Gulf Research & Development Company, Pittsburgh, PA.
6/80-9/80 Research Geophysicist: Shell Development Co., Bellaire Research Center, TX.
6/77-3/79 Geophysicist: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, CA. Exchange Scientist to the U.S.S.R.
11/73-5/76 Research Assistant: Geology Dept., University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Education
Ph.D. Geophysics, 1984, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Thesis title: Shear wave velocity
structure of the lithosphere in northern California.
M.S. Geophysics, 1978, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
B.S. Geology, 1976, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Awards & Honors
George P. Woollard Award, 2007, Geophysics Division, Geological Society of America.
Dorr Lecture, University of Michigan, February 2007.
Humboldt Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at GFZ-Potsdam, Germany, 2006-2007.
W.S. Jardetsky Lecture, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, September, 2003.
Distinguished Lecturer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, August, 2002.
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2001
Fellow, Geological Society of America, 1997
NERC BIRPS Visiting Fellowship, Bullard Laboratory, Cambridge University, 1992
Green Fellowship, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1992, and 1999
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1989-1992.
National Science Foundation Energy Traineeships, at Stanford University, 1976-1977, 1979.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists Scholarship, 1977-1978, at Stanford University.
University of South Carolina Magna Cum Laude graduate, 1976.
University of South Carolina Geology Department Outstanding Student, 1976.
University of South Carolina School Funds Scholarship, 1971-1973.

Professional Memberships
American Geophysical Union, Seismological Society of America, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Professional Offices & Community Service
External Advisory Committee, Geophysics Department, Colorado School of Mines, 2011
Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER), Executive Committee, 2011
Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER), Summer Program Organizer, 2011
Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER), Proposal Writing Committee, 2009, 2010
NSF Cooperative Math-Geosciences Panel, 2010
Editorial Board, Solid Earth, 2010-present
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Seismology Working Group, Chair 2009- present
IRIS PASSCAL Active Source Seismology Committee, co-Chair, 2009.
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Proposal Writing Committee, 2009
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Executive Committee, 2007 – 2010
German Science Foundation South Atlantic Special Research Project Panel, 2008-present
Cooperative Institute for Deep Earth Research (CIDER) Workshop, Lecturer, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011
IRIS-PASSCAL Standing Committee Chair, 2006-2008.
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), Seismology Working Group, 2005- present
Scientific Program Committee, Backbone of the Americas, Geological Society of America, 2004-2006
OBSIP Oversight Committee, 2004-2007
IRIS Planning Committee, 2003-2005.
NRC Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, Vice-Chairman, 2001-2006.
USArray Steering Committee, 1997-2003.
Ocean Bottom Seismology Steering Committee, 1997-1999.
Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1998-2001
IRIS Data Management System Steering Committee, Chairman, 1998-2002
Seismology Advisory Panel, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 1994-95.
Geological Society of America, Geophysics Division Management Board, 94-97, Chair 96.
IRIS Executive Committee, Vice-Chairman, 1993-1996.
Executive Committee, Acoustic Reverberation Special Research Program, U.S. Office of Naval Research,
1989-94.
IRIS Data Management Center Steering Committee, 1987-1989.
Associate Editor, Geophysics, 1986-1989.
Theses Directed
N.E. Putzig, 1988, M.A., Wide-angle Seismic Data in the Central California Margin, Rice University.
A.S. Meltzer, 1988, Ph.D., Crustal Structure and Tectonic Evolution of Central California, Rice University.
B.S. Gibson, 1988, Ph.D., Seismic Imaging of Random Heterogeneous Zones, Rice University.
R.-C. Shih, 1990, Ph.D., Layer-Stripping Reverse-Time Migration, Rice University.
C.F. Lafond, 1991, Ph.D., A Unified Approach to Complex Seismic Imaging Problems , Rice University.
N. Chemingui, 1994, M.A., Three-Dimensional Finite-Difference Methods for Seafloor Scattering, Rice
University.
J.O.A. Robertsson, 1995, Ph.D., Scattering of acoustic energy from rough deep ocean seafloor: A
numerical modeling approach, Rice University.
E.S. Wissinger, 1995, Ph.D., Seismic profiling constraints on the evolution of the Brooks Range, Arctic
Alaska, from an integrated reflection/refraction survey, Rice University.
S.P. Larkin, 1996, Ph.D., Combining Deterministic and Stochastic Velocity Fields in the Analysis of Deep
Crustal Seismic Data, Rice University.
P. Akerberg, 1999, Ph.D. A Study of Seismic Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Crust, Rice University.

L.M. LaFlame, 1999, M.A., Estimating crustal heterogeneity in the Northern Basin and Range from
COCORP and PASSCAL seismic data, Rice University.
D. Dana, 2001, M.A., 2004, Ph.D. Near surface seismic reflection investigations at a groundwater
contamination site, Rice University.
D. Dana, 2003, Ph.D., Near-Surface Reflection Investigations at a Groundwater Contamination Site, Rice
University, Rice University
F. Gao, 2004, Ph.D., Waveform Tomography and its Application at a Groundwater Contamination Site,
Rice University.
A. Arogunmati, 2006, M.Sc., 3-D Seismic Structure of the Leeward Antilles Arc from seismic refraction
and reflection tomography, Rice University.
G.L. Fradelizio, 2007, Ph.D., Using Elastic Wave Seismic Data to Image an Ultra-Shallow Buried Paleo-channel
M.C. Guédez Parra, 2007, M.Sc. Crustal Structure Across the Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary at
70W- Results from Seismic Refraction and Reflection Data, Rice University.
S.A. Clark, 2007, Ph.D., Characterizing the Southeast Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary at 64°W
Y. He, 2009, M.Sc., Localized waveform inversion applied to the D” region in teleseismic imaging, Rice
University.
G. Chambers, 2009, M.Sc., Seismic Waveform Tomography With Multicomponent Data at a Groundwater
Contamination Site, Rice University.
Y. Zhai, 2010, M.Sc., The Crust, the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary and the Slab Window in the
Mendocino Triple Junction Region.
M. Bezada, 2010, Ph.D., Geophysical Investigations of the Caribbean-South American Plate Boundary,
Rice University.
K. Liu, 2012, Ph.D., Teleseismic Imaging of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Western United States,
Rice University.
Current Post-Doctoral Researchers
Imma Palomeras Torres, Ph.D., University of Barcelona, 2010.
Min Chen, Ph.D. Caltech, 2009.
Former Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Arielle Tomassino, 1988, TOTAL, Paris.
Professor Anne S. Meltzer, 1988-1989, Professor at Lehigh University
Professor Klaus Holliger, 1991-1994, Professor and Associate Dean at Univ. Lausanne.
Dr. S. Pullammanappillil, 1995-1996, Research Scientist, University of Nevada, Reno.
Professor. T. Henstock, 1994-1999, Professor at Southampton Marine Science Centre, UK.
Dr. Igor Morozov, 1999-2001, Professor at University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Kidane Araya, 1999-2000. (with C.A. Zelt and W.W. Symes), petroleum industry.
Professor Christian Poppeliers, 2002-2004, Professor at Augusta State University, Georgia.
Dr. Fuchun Gao, 2004-2005, now at TOTAL, Houston.
Professor Maria Beatrice Magnani, 2000-2006, Research Professor at CIRES, University of Memphis.
Professor Meghan S. Miller, Ph.D. ANU, 2007-2009. Assistant Professor, University of Southern California.
Aimin Cao, Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 2008-2010. Now at GX Technology.
Externally Funded Research
Research Awards to Rice: $13,215,352.
Visualization and Decision Laboratory, Chevron Corporation, 2011-2015, $500,000, with Jan Odegard and
Katherine Cervenka.

Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction, Part II-
Supplement. NSF Earthscope Program, 2010-2011, $27,583 to Rice. I am the lead PI on a
collaborative project with E.D. Humphreys (U. Oregon), and R. Allen, (U.C. Berkeley).
MRI-R 2 : Acquisition of Data Analysis and Visualization Cyber-Infrastructure for Computational Science
and Engineering Applications (DAVinCI), NSF Office of Integrative Activities, 2010-2013,
$2,928,889. Lead PI with 4 Rice co-PIs.
Collaborative Research: Examining the Evolution of the Colorado Plateau and Its Relation to the
Surrounding Tectonic Provinces Using USArray Data, 2009-2011, $144,465, to Rice. Collaborative
project with M.S. Miller, USC.
Upgrade of Computational Equipment for the Rice Earth Science Department, 2009-2012, NSF EAR
Instruments & Facilities, $75,000, A. Levander, J. Morgan, A. Lenardic, R. Gordon, F. Niu.
Collaborative Research: Program to Investigate Convective Alboran Sea System Overturn (PICASSO),
NSF Continental Dynamics, 2008-2013, $721,797 to Rice. Lead-PI on a $3.72M collaborative project
with C-T. Lee (Rice), E.D. Humphreys (U. Oregon), R. Evans and A. Chave (WHOI), J. Platt, T.
Becker and M.S. Miller (USC). This project is being done in collaboration with a number of Spanish,
German, and French institutions funded by the European national governments and the E.U.
Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction, Part II. NSF
Earthscope Program, 2008-2010, $137,915 to Rice. Lead PI on a collaborative project with E.D.
Humphreys (U. Oregon), and R. Allen, (U.C. Berkeley).
Collaborative Research: Making the San Andreas Fault at the Mendocino Triple Junction, NSF Earthscope,
2007-2008, $74,236. Lead PI on a collaborative project with E.D. Humphreys (U. Oregon), and R.
Allen (U.C. Berkeley).
Collaborative Research: Crust-Mantle Interactions During Continental Growth and High-pressure Rock
Exhumation at an Oblique Arc-Continent collision Zone: SE Caribbean Margin, NSF Continental
Dynamics, 2006-2008, $22,315 to Rice.
Renewal: Collaborative Research: Crust-Mantle Interactions at an Oblique Arc-Continent Collision Zone:
The SE Caribbean Plate Boundary, NSF Continental Dynamics, 2006-2008. $319,474. I am lead PI on
an $800,000 renewal involving 10 PI’s from 5 institutions.
CMG Research: Adjoint, Migration, and Velocity Analysis Methods for Imaging the Upper Mantle: Theory
and Application, NSF Geophysics and Math Programs, 2006-2009, $499,994 to Rice. A. Levander and
W.W. Symes.
Collaborative Research: Imaging Science Workshops for USArray, Earthscope Program, 2005-2009,
$99,892 to Rice. A. Levander, G. Pavlis (Indiana), R. Aster (NM Tech), and S. Rondenay (MIT).
Collaborative Research: The Cenozoic history of the western U.S. – A data integration strategy for
Earthscope, NSF Earthscope, 2004-2005, $59,049 to Rice. Collaborative project with G. Nolet
(Princeton), E.D. Humphreys (U. Oregon), and S. van der Lee (Northwestern).
3D Seismic Experimentation and Advanced Processing/Inversion Development for Investigations of the
Shallow Subsurface, DOE, Environmental Science and Management Program, 2003-2006, $599,561 to
Rice. A. Levander and C.A. Zelt.
Collaborative Research: CMG Research: Statistical Seismic Imaging, NSF Geophysics and Math
Programs, 2002-2005. $356,000 to Rice. A. Levander and W.W. Symes at Rice, with an additional
award to S. Minkoff at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Collaborative Research: ITR Research: GEON- A Research Project to Create Cyberinfrastructure for the
Geosciences, NSF ITR/Earth Sciences programs, 2002-2005, $136,469 to Rice. This award was a
subcontract from UT El Paso, as part of collaborative project with numerous other institutions.
Advanced high resolution seismic imaging, material properties estimation, and full wavefield inversion for
the shallow subsurface, Department of Energy, 2002-2003, $36,482 to Rice. A. Levander, C.A. Zelt,
and W.W. Symes
Collaborative Research: Lithospheric structure and evolution of the Rocky Mountains: Phase II: NSF
Continental Dynamics, 2002-2003, $62,000, to Rice. (Collaborative project involving 20 PIs from 12
institutions).
Collaborative Research: Crust-mantle interactions during continental growth and high temperature rock
exhumation at an oblique arc-continent collision zone: SE Caribbean Margin, NSF Continental
Dynamics, 2001-2005, $1,513,500. (Lead PI on a $3.5M collaborative NSF project involving 11 PI’s
from 6 institutions. The project is also in collaboration with FUNVISIS, the Venezuelan national
earthquake hazard program, which has received substantial funding from the Venezuelan government
and PDVSA, the national oil company).

Collaborative Research: Lithospheric structure and evolution of the Rocky Mountains: Phase II:
Geodynamic Processes, NSF Continental Dynamics, 2001-2002. $65,000 to Rice. I was a team
member of a collaborative project involving 20 PIs from 12 institutions.
Advanced high resolution seismic imaging, material properties estimation, and full wavefield inversion for
the shallow subsurface, Department of Energy, 2000-2001, $215,645 to Rice. A. Levander, C.A. Zelt,
and W.W. Symes.
Major Research Instrumentation: Acquisition of a High-Performance Computer System for the Center for
Computational Geophysics, NSF Earth Sciences, NSF Mathematics, and NSF Engineering and
corporate partnership with Sun Microsystems, 1999-2001, $280,143, 1999-2001, (A. Levander, W.W.
Symes, and R.G. Baraniuk).
Advanced High Resolution Seismic Imaging, Material Properties Estimation, and Full Wavefield Inversion
for the Shallow Subsurface, Department of Energy, 1997-2000, $550,100, (A. Levander, C. Zelt, W.W.
Symes).
Collaborative Research: Lithospheric structure and evolution of the western U.S.: CDROM: An integrated
geological and geophysical investigation, NSF Continental Dynamics Program, 1997-2000, $535,000
Rice budget including REU. (I was a team member of a $2.7M collaborative project involving 20 PIs
from 12 institutions).
Renewal: The U.S. Deep Probe Experiment: Contrasting Cenozoic and Archean Mantle in Western North
America, NSF Continental Dynamics, 1997-1998, $57,000.
Upgrade of Department Computer System, NSF Earth Sciences Instrumentation & Facilities Program,
R.G. Gordon, A. Levander, D.S. Sawyer, C.A. Zelt, J.B. Anderson, 1996-1998, $91,581.
Supplement to: An Asthenosphere-Lithosphere Probe in North America, NSF Continental Dynamics, A.
Levander, lead U.S. PI, 1996-1997, $52,913.
Renewal of "Collaborative Research: Lithospheric evolution in response to triple junction migration:
Seismic images of the Mendocino Triple Junction Region", NSF Continental Dynamics, 1996,
$50,407.
Supplement to: An Asthenosphere-Lithosphere Probe in North America, NSF Continental Dynamics, A.
Levander, lead U.S. PI, 1996-1997, $52,913.
Estimation of Crust-Mantle Heterogeneity in an Extended Phanerozoic Terrane: Combined Analysis of
Seismic Reflection and Refraction Data from the Basin and Range, Western United States, Air Force
Office of Scientific Research, 1996, $97,518.
An Asthenosphere-Lithosphere Probe in North America, NSF Continental Dynamics, A. Levander, 1995-
1997, $499,248 to Rice University. I was lead U.S. PI on an $850,000 collaborative project involving 3
PIs from 3 U.S. institutions. This was a cooperative project with the Canadian Lithoprobe Program.
Seismic Processing and Acquisition Equipment for the Rice Geophysics Program, NSF Earth Sciences
Instrumentation, A. Levander & J.B. Anderson, 1994, $61,000.
A Proposal for a Workshop on Investigations of Lithosphere Architecture and Development, NSF
Geophysics, NSF Continental Dynamics, AFOSR Environmental and Mathematical Directorate, A.
Levander, W. Mooney, L. Brown, and E. Humphreys, 1994, $44,962 to Rice.
Collaborative Research: Lithospheric Evolution in Response to Triple Junction Migration: Seismic Images
of the Mendocino Triple Junction Region, NSF Continental Dynamics, 1993-1996, $353,915 ($1.5M
Collaborative project involving 5 PIs from 4 institutions).
Quantitative Characterization of Crustal Heterogeneity: Implications for Seismic Wave Propagation, Air
Force Office of Scientific Research, A. Levander, and J. Goff (UTIG), 1993-1996, $478,733 ($66,643
to UTIG, $412,090 to Rice)
A High Resolution Piggyback Experiment for PACE 1992: Imaging Enigmatic Crustal Features in
Southeastern California, NSF Seismology Program, 1992, $116,718 to Rice. This was a collaborative
project with D.A. Okaya (USC).
Acoustic-Elastic Wave Scattering from Realistic Seafloor Models: Three Dimensional and Visco-Elastic
Modeling, Office of Naval Research, 1991-1992, $294,596.
Characterization of Acoustic-Elastic Wave Scattering from Models of Heterogeneous Upper Oceanic Crust,
Office of Naval Research, 1990-1992, A.R. Levander and S.A. Henrys, $213,445.
Seismic Processing Equipment for the Rice Geophysical Computing Center, NSF Earth Sciences, 1990-92,
A.R. Levander, D.S. Sawyer and S.A. Henrys, $80,005.
Processing and Interpreting Data from the Brooks Range 1990 Seismic Experiment, NSF Seismology
Program, 1991-1993, $130,895.

Young Investigator Award: Acoustic-Elastic Wave Scattering at an Irregular Seafloor and in a
Heterogeneous Subbottom, Office of Naval Research, 1989-1992, $151,760.
Young Investigator Equipment Award: A Vector-Processing Work-Station for Acoustic-Elastic Wave
Calculations, Office of Naval Research, 1989-1990, $56,842.50.
A Wide-Angle Roll-Along Seismic Investigation in the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, PASSCAL (NSF
Continental Lithosphere), 1989-1990, $75,000.
A Wide-Angle Roll-Along Seismic Investigation in the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, NSF Seismology
Program, 1989-1990, $110,000.
Imaging Continuous Offset Seismic Data, 1989, Houston Area Research Center Super-Computer
Development Grant, $30,000.
Imaging Continuous Offset Seismic Data, 1988, NSF Continental Lithosphere, $50,000.
Pilot Seismic Investigation of the Central Brooks Range, Alaska, 1988, PASSCAL (NSF Continental
Lithosphere, $55,000.
Crustal Structure of the Santa Maria Basin, 1988, NSF Marine Geology and Geophysics, A.S. Meltzer and
A.R. Levander, $55,000.
Crustal Structure of Central California, 1987, NSF Seismology, $57,000.
Scattered Waves and the Resolving Power of Deep Seismic Surveys, 1986, NSF Seismology, $35,000.
Finite-Difference Forward Modeling, 1986, Houston Area Research Center, $10,000.
Finite-Difference Forward Modeling, 1985, Western Geophysical Research, $3,000.
Geophysical Surveys and Scientific Cruises
1974-1975: Gravity and magnetic mapping in northwestern South Carolina: USC
1975-1976: Microearthquake measurements in South Carolina: USC
1976: Surface wave measurements in Yellowstone Caldera: Stanford University
1977: Microearthquake measurements in Garm, Tadjikistan, USSR: USGS
1979-1981: Surface wave measurements in northern California: Stanford University
1985: Seismic refraction measurements in south-central Alaska: USGS
1986: Onshore-offshore wide-angle and marine reflection experiment in central California: EDGE / PG&E
experiment: PI, Rice with HARC, Stanford, PG&E, OSU, and the USGS
1988: Pilot reflection/refraction experiment in the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska: PI, Rice with the USGS
1990: Brooks Range reflection/refraction experiment: PI, Rice with the USGS.
1991: ARSRP Acoustics Reconnaissance Cruise, Rota Spain to Port Everglades, FL: ONR
1992: RISC multi-component crustal imaging and scattering experiment in southeastern CA: PI, Rice, with D.
Okaya (USC) and the USGS.
1993: Mendocino Triple Junction Seismic Refraction Experiment, Northern California: PI, Rice with Lehigh,
Stanford, OSU, and USGS.
1994: Mendocino Triple Junction Onshore-Offshore Experiment, Northern California: PI, Rice with
Lehigh, Stanford, OSU, and USGS.
1995: Deep Probe Controlled Source and Pilot Earthquake Experiments, Western U.S.: Lead PI for U.S., with
UT El Paso, Oregon, Purdue), and University of British Columbia, NSF.
1996: High-resolution reflection and transmission experiment at the Phelps-Dodge open pit copper mine,
Tyrone New Mexico. AFOSR.
1998: High-resolution Vibroseis reflection experiment, Cheyenne Belt, Wyoming. NSF.
1998: High-resolution reflection experiment at Hill AFB, Utah, for environmental site characterization. DoE.
1999: CDROM refraction experiment, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, NSF.
1999: CDROM reflection experiment, New Mexico, NSF.
2000: 3-D high resolution seismic experiment, Hill AFB, Utah, for environmental site characterization DoE.
2004: SE Caribbean Continental Dynamics Project Active Source experiment: Lead PI; with Rice, UTIG, and
Venezuelan PIs, NSF.
2005: Shear wave investigations at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
2009: PICASSO Passive Experiment, Spain and Morocco.
2010: PICASSO/SIMA Active Source Experiment, Morocco.

Books
Levander, A., and G. Nolet, 2005, Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms,
Geophysical Monograph Series, 157. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 280 pages.
Peer Reviewed Publications
1. Levander, A.R., and R.L. Kovach, 1981, S-wave observations in the Franciscan terrane, central California,
Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 71, 1863-1874.
2. Levander, A.R., H. Quin and R.L. Kovach, 1983, Shear wave observations in the region north of San
Francisco Bay, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 72, 1031-1039.
3. Hill, N.R., and A.R. Levander, 1984, Resonances of low velocity layers with lateral variations, Bull. Seism.
Soc. Am., 74, 521-537.
4. Wiggins, J.W., and A.R. Levander, 1984, Migration of multiple offset synthetic VSP data in complex
structure, Advances in Geophysical Data Processing, JAI Press, M. Simaan, editor, 269-289.
5. Levander, A.R., 1985, Finite difference calculations of dispersive Rayleigh wave propagation,
Tectonophysics, 113, 1-30.
6. Levander, A.R., and N.R. Hill, 1985, P-SV resonances in irregular low velocity surface layers, Bull. Seism.
Soc. Am., 75, 847-864.
7. Levander, A.R., 1985, Use of the telegraphy equation to improve absorbing boundary efficiency for fourth
order acoustic wave finite difference schemes, letter to the editor, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 75, 1847-1852.
8. Meltzer, A.S., A.R. Levander and W.D. Mooney, 1987, Upper crustal structure; Livermore Valley and
vicinity, California Coast Ranges, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 77, 1655-1673.
9. Gibson, B.S., and A.R. Levander, 1988, Modeling and processing of scattered waves in seismic reflection
surveys, Geophysics, 53, 466-478.
10. Gibson, B.S., and A.R. Levander, 1988, Lower crustal reflectivity patterns in wide-angle seismic recordings,
Geophysical Research Letters, 15, 617-620.
11. Levander, A.R., 1988, Fourth-order finite-difference P-SV seismograms, Geophysics, 53, 1425-1436.
Reprinted in Numerical Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation, K.R. Kelly, K.J. Marfurt, editors, S.E.G.
Reprint Series, No. 13.
12. Wolf, L.W., and A.R. Levander, 1989, Upper crustal structure of the accreted Chugach terrane, Alaska, J.
Geophys. Res., 94, 4457-4466.
13. Levander, A.R., 1989, Finite-difference forward modeling in seismology, Encyclopedia of Solid Earth
Geophysics, D.E. James, editor, Van Nostrand Rheinhold, New York, 410-431.
14. Levander, A.R., 1990, Seismic waves scattered near the surface of the Earth, Pure and Applied Geophysics,
132, invited for the special issue on Scattering and Attenuation, K. Aki and R. Wu, editors, 21-47.
15. Lafond, C.F., and A.R. Levander, 1990, Fast and accurate dynamic ray-tracing in heterogeneous media, Bull.
Seism. Soc. Am., 80, 1284-1296.
16. Levander, A.R., and R.L. Kovach, 1990, Shear velocity structure of the northern California lithosphere, J.
Geophys. Res., 95, 19773-19784.
17. Gibson, B.S., and A.R. Levander, 1990, Apparent layering in CMP stacked images of two-dimensionally
heterogeneous targets, Geophysics, 55, 1466-1477.
18. Meltzer, A.S., and A.R. Levander, 1991, Deep crustal reflection profiling offshore southern central
California, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 6475-6491.
19. Levander, A.R., and B.S. Gibson, 1991, Wide-angle seismic reflections from two-dimensionally random
target zones, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,251-10,260.
20. Levander, A.R., and K. Holliger, 1992, Small scale heterogeneity and large scale velocity structure of the
continental crust, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 8792-8804.
21. Holliger, K., and A.R. Levander, 1992, A stochastic view of the lower crust based on the Ivrea Zone,
Geophys. Res. Letters, 19, 11, 1153-1156.
22. Holliger, K., R. Carbonell, and A. Levander, 1992, Sensitivity of the Lateral Correlation Function in Deep
Seismic Reflection Data, Geophys. Res. Letters, 19, 2263-2266.
23. Lafond, C.F., and A.R. Levander, 1993, Migration moveout analysis and depth focusing, Geophysics, 58, 91-
100.

24. Henrys, S.A., A.R. Levander, and A.S. Meltzer, 1993, Crustal structure of the offshore Santa Maria basin and
Transverse Ranges, CA, from deep seismic reflection data, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8335-8348.
25. Levander, A., A. Harding, and J . Orcutt, 1993, Numerical scattering results for a rough unsedimented
seafloor, in Natural Physical Sources of Underwater Sound, D.D. Ellis, J.R. Preston, and H.G. Urban,
editors, Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holland, 215-220.
26. Orcutt, J., A. Harding, and A. Levander, 1993, The effects of seafloor roughness on reverberation: finitedifference
and Kirchhoff simulations, in Natural Physical Sources of Underwater Sound, D.D. Ellis, J.R.
Preston, and H.G. Urban, editors, Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holland, 221-226.
27. Holliger, K., A. Levander, and J.A. Goff, 1993, Stochastic modeling of the reflective lower crust:
petrophysical and geological evidence from the Ivrea Zone (northern Italy), J. Geophys. Res., 98, 11,967-
11,980.
28. Levander, A., G.S. Fuis, E.S. Wissinger, W.J. Lutter, J.S. Oldow, and T.E. Moore, 1994, Seismic images of
the Brooks Range fold and thrust belt, Arctic Alaska, from an integrated seismic reflection/refraction
experiment, Tectonophysics, 232, 13-30.
29. Levander, A., S.K. Smith, R.W. Hobbs, R.W. England, D.B. Snyder, and K. Holliger, 1994, The Crust as a
Heterogeneous "Optical" Medium, or "Crocodiles in the Mist", Tectonophysics, 232, 281-297.
30. Holliger, K., A. Levander, R. Carbonell, and R.W. Hobbs, 1994, Some attributes of wavefields scattered from
Ivrea-type lower crust, Tectonophysics, 232, 267-279.
31. Shih, R-C., and A.R. Levander, 1994, Layer-stripping reverse time migration, Geophysical Prospecting, 42,
211-227.
32. Holliger, K., and A. Levander, 1994, Fine-scale structure and seismic response of extended continental crust:
Stochastic analysis of the Ivrea and Strona-Ceneri Zones, Geology, 22, 79-82.
33. Levander, A., R.W. England, S.K. Smith, R.W. Hobbs, J.A. Goff, and K. Holliger, 1994, Stochastic
characterization and seismic response of upper and middle crustal rocks based on the Lewisian Gneiss
Complex, Scotland, Geophys. J. Intl, 119, 243-259.
34. Holliger, K., and A. Levander, 1994, Reflectivity of postorogenic extended lithosphere: Rheology and
basaltic magmatism, Geology, 22, 367-370.
35. Holliger, K., and A. Levander, 1994, Seismic structure of gneissic/granitic upper crust: geological and
petrophysical evidence from the Strona-Ceneri zone (northern Italy) and implications for crustal
seismic exploration, Geophysical Journal International, 119, 497-510.
36. Goff, J.A., K. Holliger, and A. Levander, 1994, Modal fields: A new method for characterization of random
seismic velocity heterogeneity, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, 493-496.
37. Robertsson, J.O.A., and A. Levander, 1995, A numerical study of seafloor scattering J. Acoustical Soc. Am.,
97, 3532-3546.
38. Fuis, G.S., A. Levander, W.J. Lutter, E.S. Wissinger, T.E. Moore, and N. Christensen, 1995, Seismic images
of the Brooks Range fold and thrust belt, Arctic Alaska, Geology, 23, 65-68.
39. Lafond , C.F., and A. Levander, 1995, Migration of wide-aperture onshore-offshore seismic data: Seismic
images of late stage subduction, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 22,231-22,243.
40. Trehu, A.M., and the Mendocino Working Group, 1995, Pulling the rug out from under California: Seismic
images of the Mendocino triple junction region, EOS, 76, 369, 380-381.
41. Robertsson, J.O.A., A. Levander, and K. Holliger, 1996, Modeling of the Acoustic Reverberation Special
Research Program deep ocean seafloor scattering experiments using a hybrid wave propagation simulation
technique, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 3085-3101.
42. Goff, J.A., and A. Levander, 1996, Incorporating "sinuous connectivity" into stochastic models of crustal
heterogeneity: Examples from the Lewisian gneiss complex, Scotland, the Franciscan formation, California,
and the Hafafit gneiss complex, Egypt, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 8489-8502.
43. Beaudoin, B.C., N. Godfrey, S.L. Klemperer, C. Lendl, A.M. Trehu, T.J. Henstock, A. Levander, J.E. Holl,
A.S. Meltzer, J.H. Luetgert, and W.D. Mooney, 1996, The transition from slab to slabless: Results from the
1993 Mendocino Triple Junction seismic experiment, Geology, 24, 195-199.
44. Robertsson, J.O.A., A. Levander and K. Holliger, 1996, A hybrid wave propagation simulation technique for
ocean acoustic problems, J. Geophys. Res. 101, 11,225-11,242.
45. Larkin, S.P., and A. Levander, 1996, Wave equation datuming for improving deep crustal seismic images,
Tectonophysics, 264, 371-379.

46. Larkin, S.P., A. Levander, D. Okaya, and J.A. Goff, 1996, The RISC seismic experiment: A deterministic
and stochastic velocity model for the Salton Trough/Basin and Range transition zone and constraints on
magmatism during rifting, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,833-27,898.
47. Wissinger, E.S., A. Levander, and N.I. Christensen, 1997, Seismic imaging of crustal duplexing and
continental subduction in the Brooks Range, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 20,847-20,872.
48. Larkin, S.P., A. Levander, T. Henstock, and S. Pullammanappallil, 1997, Is the Moho flat? Seismic
evidence for a rough crust-mantle interface beneath the northern Basin and Range, Geology, 25, 451-
454.
49. Pullammanappallil, S., A. Levander, and S.P. Larkin, 1997, Estimation of stochastic crustal parameters
from seismic exploration data, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 15,269-15,286.
50. Lendl, C., A.M. Trehu. J.A. Goff, A. Levander, B.C. Beaudoin, 1997, Synthetic seismograms through
synthetic Franciscan: Insights into factors affecting real data, Geophys. Res. Letters, 24, 3317-3320.
51. Godfrey, N J, Beaudoin, B C, Klemperer, S L; Levander, A ., Luetgert, J H, Meltzer, A S, Mooney, W
D, Trehu, A M., 1997, Ophiolitic basement to the Great Valley forearc basin, California, from seismic
and gravity data; implications for crustal growth at the North American continental margin. Geol. Soc.
Am. Bull., 109, 1536-1562.
52. Henstock, T.J., A. Levander, and J.A. Hole, 1997, Deformation in the lower crust of the San Andreas
Fault system, northern California, Science, 278, 650-653.
53. Levander, A., T.J. Henstock, A.S. Meltzer, B.C. Beaudoin, A.M. Trehu, and S.L. Klemperer, 1998,
Fluids in the lower crust following Mendocino Triple Junction migration: Active basaltic intrusion?
Geology, 26, 171-174.
54. Wissinger, E.S., A.R. Levander, J.S. Oldow, G.S. Fuis, and W.J. Lutter, 1998, Seismic profiling
constraints on the evolution of the central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, in Architecture of the Central
Brooks Range Fold and Thrust Belt, GSA Special Paper 324, J.S. Oldow and H.G. Ave Lallemant
editors, 269-292.
55. Henstock, T.J., A. Levander, and the Deep Probe Working Group, 1998, Probing the Archean and
Proterozoic lithosphere of western North America, GSA Today, 8, 1-5 & 16-17.
56. Snelson, C.M., T.J. Henstock, G.R. Keller, K.M. Miller, and A. Levander, 1998, Crust and uppermost
mantle structure along the DeepProbe seismic profile, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 181-198
57. Levander, A., E.D. Humphreys, G. Ekstrom, A.S. Meltzer, P.M. Shearer, 1999, Proposed project would
give unprecendented look under North America, EOS, 80, 245-249.
58. Henstock T.J., and A. Levander, 2000, Lithospheric evolution in the wake of the Mendocino Triple
Junction: Structure of the San Andreas Fault system at 2 Ma, Geophysical Journal International,
140, 233-247.
59. Henstock, T.J., and A. Levander, 2000, Impact of a complex overburden on analysis of bright
reflections: A case study from the Mendocino Triple Junction, J. Geophys. Res, 105, 21,711-21726.
60. Gulick, S.P.S., A.S. Meltzer, T.J. Henstock, and A. Levander, 2001, Internal deformation of the
southern Gorda plate: Fragmentation of a weak plate at the Mendocino triple junction, Geology, 29,
691-694.
61. Karlstrom, K.E., and CDROM Working Group, 2002, Structure and evolution of the lithosphere
beneath the Rocky Mountains, GSA Today, 12, no. 3, 4-10.
62. Gorman, A.R., R.M. Clowes, R. M. Ellis, T. J. Henstock, G.D. Spence, G. R. Keller, A. R. Levander, C.
M. Snelson, M. J. A. Burianyk, E. R. Kanasewich, I. Asudeh, Z. Hajnal and K. C. Miller, 2002, Deep
Probe – Imaging the roots of western North America, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, 375-
398.
63. Morozov I.B., and A. Levander, 2002, Depth image focusing in travel-time map based wide-angle
migration, Geophysics 67, 1903-1912.
64. Levander, A., 2003, USArray design implications for wavefield imaging in the lithosphere and upper
mantle, The Leading Edge, 22, 250-255.
65. Nielsen, L., H. Thybo, A. Levander, and A.V. Egorkin, 2003, Origin of Upper Mantle Seismic
Scattering - Evidence From Russian PNE Data, Geophys. J. Intl., 154, 196-204.
66. Henstock, T., and A. Levander, 2003, Structure and Seismotectonics of the Mendocino Triple Junction,
California, J. Geophys. Res., 108, ESE12-1-17, DOI10.1029.
67. Niu, F., A. Levander, C.M. Cooper, C-T.A. Lee, A. Lenardic, and D.E. James, 2004, Seismic
Constraints on the Depth and Composition of the Mantle Keel beneath the Kaapvaal Craton, EPSL,
224, 337-346.
68. Poppeliers, C., and A. Levander, 2004, Estimation of vertical stochastic scale parameters in the Earth's
crystalline crust from seismic reflection data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L13607
10.1029/2004GL019538.

69. Magnani, M.B., K.M., Miller, A. Levander, and K. Karlstrom, 2004 The Yavapai-Mazatzal boundary:
A long-lived tectonic element in the lithosphere of southwestern North America, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull.,
116, 1137-1142.
70. Lee, C-T.A. , A. Lenardic, C.M. Cooper, F. Niu, and A. Levander, 2005, The role of chemical boundary
layers in regulating the thickness of continental and oceanic thermal boundary layers, EPSL, 230, 379-
395.
71. Magnani, M.B., A. Levander, K.M. Miller, T. Eshete, and K.E. Karlstrom, 2005, Investigation of the
Yavapai-Mazatzal Transition Zone and the Jemez Lineament in Northeastern New Mexico, in K.
Karlstrom and G.R. Keller, eds., The Rocky Mountains: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical
Monograph Series 154, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 227-238.
72. Magnani, M.B., A. Levander, E.A. Erslev, N. Bolay-Koenig, and K. Karlstrom, 2005. Listric thrust
faulting in the Laramide Front of north-central New Mexico guided by Precambiran basement
structures, in K. Karlstrom and G.R. Keller, eds., The Rocky Mountains: An Evolving Lithosphere,
Geophysical Monograph Series 154, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 239-251.
73. Levander, A., C.A. Zelt, and M.B. Magnani, 2005. Crust and upper mantle velocity structure of the
Southern Rocky Mountains from the Jemez Lineament to the Cheyenne Belt, in K. Karlstrom and G.R.
Keller, eds., The Rocky Mountains: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154,
American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 293-308.
74. Karlstrom, K.E., S.J. Whitmeyer, K. Dueker, S.A. Bowring, M.L. Williams, A. Levander, E.D.
Humphreys, G.R. Keller, and the CD-ROM Working Group, 2005, Synthesis of results from the CD-
ROM experiment: 4-D image of the lithosphere beneath the Rocky Mountains and implications for
understanding the evolution of continental lithosphere, in K. Karlstrom and G.R. Keller, eds., The
Rocky Mountains: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154, American
Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 293-308.
75. Keller, G.R., K.E. Karlstrom, M.L. Williams, K.C. Miller, C. Andronicos, A. Levander, C.M. Snelson, and C.
Prodehl, 2005, The Dynamic Nature of the Continental Crust-Mantle Boundary: Crustal Evolution in the
Southern Rocky Mountain Region as an Example, in K. Karlstrom and G.R. Keller, eds., The Rocky
Mountains: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154, American Geophysical Union,
Washington, D.C., 403-420.
76. Niu, F., A. Levander, S. Ham, M. Obayashi, 2005, Mapping the subducting Pacific slab beneath
southwestern Japan with Hi-net receiver functions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 239, 9-17,
10.1016/j.epsl.2005.08.009
77. Levander A., F. Niu, and W.W. Symes, 2005, Imaging teleseismic P to S scattered waves using the Kirchhoff
integral, in, A. Levander and G. Nolet, editors, Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms,
Geophysical Monograph Series 157, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 149-169,
doi10.1029/156GM10.
78. Cooper, C.M., A. Lenardic, A. Levander, and L. Moresi, 2006, Creation and preservation of cratonic
lithosphere: Seismic constraints and geodynamic models, in K. Benn, J.-C. Mareschal, and K.C. Condie,
editors, Archean Geodynamics and Environments, Geophysical Monograph 164, American Geophysical
Union, Washington, D.C., 75-88, Doi10.1029/164GM07.
79. Gao, F., A. Levander, G. Pratt, C.A. Zelt, and G. Fradelizio, 2006, Waveform tomography at a
groundwater contamination site: VSP surface datset, Geophysics, 71, H1-H11.
80. Levander, A., A. Lenardic, and K. Karlstrom, 2006, Structure of the continental lithosphere, in M.
Brown and T. Rushmer, editors, Evolution and Differentiation of the Continental Crust, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, UK, 21-66.
81. Levander, A., and 10 others, 2006, Evolution of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary, EOS, Trans.
AGU, 87, Cover story, 97 and 100-101.
82. Levander, A., F. Niu, C.-T.A. Lee, and X. Cheng, 2006, Imag(in)ing the Continental Lithosphere,
Tectonophysics, 416, 167-185.
83. Zelt, C.A., A. Azaria, and A. Levander, 2006, 3-D seismic refraction tomography at a groundwater
contamination site, Geophysics, 71, H67-H78.
84. Levander, A., C.A. Zelt, and W.W. Symes, 2007, Active Source Seismology: A Primer, invited for the
Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 1: Seismology and Structure of the Earth, B. Romanowicz and A.
Dziewonski, editors, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 247-288.
85. Gao, F., A. Levander, R.G. Pratt, C.A. Zelt, and G-L. Fradelizio, 2007, Waveform tomography at a
groundwater contamination site: Surface reflection data, Geophysics, 72, G45-G55.
86. Niu, F., T. Bravo, G. Pavlis, F. Vernon, H. Rendon, M. Bezada, and A. Levander, 2007, Receiver
function study of the crustal structure of the southeastern Caribbean plate boundary and Venezuela, J.
Geophys. Res., 112, doi:10.1029/2006JB004802.

87. Gorney, D., A. Escalona, P. Mann, M.B. Magnani, A. Levander, G. Christeson, C.A. Zelt, M. Schmitz,
S.A. Clark, M.C. Guedez, M. Bezada, Y. Arogunmati, T. Aitken, and A. Beardsley, 2007, Chronology
of Cenozoic tectonic events in western Venezuela and the Leeward Antilles based on integration of
offshore seismic reflection data and on-land geology, Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 91, 653-684.
88. G.S. Fuis, T.E. Moore, G. Plafker, T.M. Brocher, M.A. Fisher, W.D. Mooney, W.J. Nokleberg, R.A.
Page, B.C. Beaudoin, N.I. Christensen, A. Levander, W.J. Lutter, R.W. Saltus, and N.A. Ruppert,
2008, The Trans-Alaska crustal transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating
and synchronous foreland thrusting, Geology, 36, 267-270, doi:10.1130/G24257A.1.
89. Fradelizio, G.L., A. Levander, and C.A. Zelt, 2008, Three-dimensional seismic-reflection imaging of a
shallow buried paleochannel, Geophysics, 73, B85-B98, DOI:10.1190/1.2969775
90. Schmitz, M., Bezada, M., Avila, J., Vieira, E., Yánez, M., Levander, A., Zelt, C.A., Magnani, M.B.,
Jácome, M.I. and the BOLIVAR active seismic working group, 2008. Crustal thickness variations in
Venezuela from deep seismic observations. Tectonophysics, 459, 14-26,
doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.072.
91. S.A. Clark, C.A. Zelt, A. Levander, and M.B. Magnani, 2008, Characterizing the Caribbean-South
American plate boundary at 64 o W using wide-angle velocity modelling, J. Geophys. Res., 113,
doi:10.1029/2007JB005329
92. S.A. Clark, M. Sobiesiak, C. A. Zelt, M. B. Magnani, M. S. Miller, M. J. Bezada, and A. Levander,
2008, Identification and tectonic implications of a tear in the South American plate at the southern end
of the Lesser Antilles, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q11004, doi:10.1029/2008GC002084.
93. S.A. Clark, A. Levander, M. B. Magnani, and C. A. Zelt, 2008, Integrating a Regional Wide-Angle
Velocity Model with Seismic Reflection Data and Structural Interpretations of the Caribbean-South
American Plate Boundary at 64 o W, Tectonics, 27, TC6013, doi:10.1029/2008TC002328.
94. M.S. Miller, A. Levander, F. Niu, and A. Li, 2009, Upper mantle structure beneath the Caribbean-South
American plate boundary from surface wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B01312,
doi:10.1029/2007JB005507.
95. M.B. Magnani, C.A. Zelt, A. Levander, and M. Schmitz, 2009, Crustal Structure of the South America-
Caribbean Plate Boundary at 67°W from controlled-source seismic data, J. Geophys. Res, 114,
B02312, doi:10.1029/2008JB005817.
96. J.P. Huang, E. Vanacore, F. Niu, and A. Levander, 2009, Mantle transition zone beneath the Caribbean-
South American plate boundary and its tectonic implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
289, 105-111.
97. Y. He, A. Levander, and F. Niu, 2010, A localized waveform inversion at teleseismic distances: An
application to the D” region beneath the Cocos plate, Geophys. J. Intl., 180, 1344-1352, doi:10.1111/j.1365-
246X.2009.04489.x
98. A. Cao and A. Levander, 2010, High Resolution Transition Zone Structures of the Gorda Slab Beneath the
Western US: Implication for Deep Water subduction, J. Geophys. Res. 115, B07301,
doi:10.1029/2009JB006876.
99. M.J. Bezada, M.B. Magnani, C.A. Zelt, M. Schmitz, and A. Levander, 2010, The Caribbean-South American
plate boundary at 65 o W: Results from wide-angle seismic data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B08402,
doi:10.1029/2009JB007070, 2010.
100. M.J. Bezada, A. Levander, and B. Schmandt, 2010, Subduction in the Southern Caribbean: Images from
finite-frequency P-wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B12333, doi:10.1029/2010JB007682.
101. Y. Zhai and A. Levander, 2011. Receiver function imaging in strongly laterally heterogeneous crust:
Synthetic modeling of BOLIVAR data, Earthquake Research, 24, 45-54.
102. J. Masy, F. Niu, A. Levander, and M. Schmitz, 2011, Mantle flow beneath northwestern Venezuela: Seismic
evidence for a deep origin of the Mérida Andes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 305, 396-404,
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.024.
103. A Levander, B. Schmandt, M.S. Miller, K. Liu, K.E. Karlstrom, R.S. Crow, C.-T.A. Lee, E.D. Humphreys,
2011, Continuing Colorado plateau uplift by delamination-style convective lithospheric downwelling,
Nature, 472, 461-465, 10.1038/nature10001.
104. K. Liu, A. Levander, F. Niu, M. Miller, 2011, Imaging crustal and upper mantle structure beneath the
Colorado Plateau using finite-frequency Rayleigh wave tomography, Geochemistry, Geophysics,
Geosystems, 12, Q07001, doi:10.1029/2011GC003611.
105. Liu, K., A. Levander, Y. Zhai, R. Poritt, and R. Allen, 2012, Asthenospheric flow and lithospheric
evolution near the Mendocino triple junction, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 323-324, 60-71,
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.020.

106. Reid, M.R., R.A. Bouchet, J. Blitchert-Toft, A. Levander, K. Liu, M.S. Miller, and F.C. Ramos, 2012,
Melting under the Colorado plateau, USA, Geology, doi:10.1130/G32619.1.
107. Bailey I.W., M.S. Miller, K. Liu, A. Levander, 2012, VS and density structure beneath the Colorado
Plateau constrained by gravity anomalies and joint inversions of receiver function and phase velocity
data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, B02313, doi:10.1029/2011JB008522.
Submitted Manuscripts
1. Levander, A. and M.S. Miller, Evolutionary aspects of lithospheric discontinuity structure in the western U.S.,
submitted to Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, January 2012.
2. Martinsen, O., Talwani, M., Dengo, C., Barkhouse, B., Dunn. J.F., Levander, A., Link, C., Mosher, S., Orcutt,
J., Paul, D., Talley, R., Tahtan, T, 2012, A U.S. Human Resource Challenge for Earth Science Education
and Energy Exploration and Exploitation, submitted to the Leading Edge, January, 2012.
3. Liu, K, and A. Levander, 2012, Three-dimensional Kirchhoff-approximate Generalized Radon Transform
Imaging using Teleseismic P-to-S Scattered Waves, submitted to Geophysical Journal International, March
2012.
Other Papers and Technical Reports
1. Levander, A.R., 1980, Technical Progress Report, Shell Development Company (confidential).
2. Levander, A.R., E.S. Wissinger, and C.F. Lafond, 1992, Data report for the 1988 PASSCAL Brooks Range
seismic survey, IRIS PASSCAL Data set 92-001.
3. Baggeroer, A.J. Orcutt, et al, 1992, ARSRP Acoustic Reconnaissance Cruise Report, Office of Naval
Research.
4. Murphy, J.M., G.S. Fuis, A.R. Levander, W.J. Lutter, E.C. Criley, S.A. Henrys, I. Asudeh, and J.C. Fowler,
1993, Data Report for the 1990 seismic reflection/refraction experiment in the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska,
USGS Open-File Report 93-265 and IRIS PASSCAL Data set 93-004.
5. Okaya, D., and A. Levander, 1993, RISC high resolution crustal images of the southern Basin and Range-
Salton Trough, IRIS Newsletter, 12, 1-3.
6. Okaya, D., and A. Levander, 1994, The 1992 RISC experiment in the southern Basin and Range, IRIS
PASSCAL Data set 94-003.
7. Levander, A., S.P. Larkin, L.M. LaFlame, S. Pullammanappallil, G.A. Goff, 1995, Crustal Heterogeneity in
the Basin and Range, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Seismic Research Symposium on Monitoring a CTBT,
J.F. Lewkowicz, J.M. McPhetres, D.T. Reiter editors, 647-656.
8. Goff, J.A., and A. Levander, 1995, Incorporating "sinuous connectivity" into stochastic models of crustal
heterogeneity: Examples from the Lewisian gneiss complex, Scotland, the Franciscan formation, California,
and the Hafafit gneiss complex, Egypt, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Seismic Research Symposium on
Monitoring a CTBT, J.F. Lewkowicz, J.M. McPhetres, D.T. Reiter editors, 626-635.
9. Levander, A, S. Pullammanappallil, S.P. Larkin, L.M. LaFlame, and J.A. Goff, 1996, Estimation of fine-scale
crustal heterogeneity from seismic exploration data with applications to the Basin and Range, Proceedings of
the 18th Annual Seismic Research Symposium on Monitoring a CTBT, J.F. Lewkowicz, J.M. McPhetres,
D.T. Reiter editors, 380-389.
10. Goff, J.A., and A. Levander, 1996, Simulating crustal heterogeneity fields from stochastic models: A
performance evaluation, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Seismic Research Symposium on Monitoring a
CTBT, J.F. Lewkowicz, J.M. McPhetres, D.T. Reiter editors, 319-327.
11. Levander, A., 1996, PASSCAL High Resolution Equipment, IRIS Newsletter, v. 15, n.2, p. 11. (News
Article).
12. Henstock, T.J., A.R. Gorman, C.M. Snelson, A. Levander, R.M. Clowes, G.R. Keller, K.C. Miller, S.H.
Harder, The 1995 Deep Probe Active Source Experiment, IRIS PASSCAL Data set 98-00X.
13. Ekstrom, G., E.D. Humphreys, and A. Levander, 1999, USArray - a tool for probing the continent, IRIS
Newsletter, v.16, n.2, 2 & 4-6.

14. Orcutt, J.A., R. Detrick, F. Duennebier, A. Levander, P. Stoffa, A. Trehu, 1999, The future of ocean
bottom seismology, National Science Foundation Report published by the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, Series 99-3, 55 pages.
15. USArray Steering Committee, 1999, The USArray Initiative, GSA Today, 9, 8-10.
16. Levander, A., 2003, Forward to Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper Mantle, J.A. Goff and K
Holliger, editors, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 349 pages.
17. Levander, A., and G. Nolet, 2005. Perspectives on Array Seismology and USArray, in A. Levander and G.
Nolet, editors, Seismic Earth: Array Analysis of Broadband Seismograms, Geophysical Monograph Series
157, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 1-6, doi10.1029/156GM10.
18. M.S. Miller and A. Levander, 2009, Receiver function images of the Western US Lithosphere, InSite
Magazine, Summer, 2009, p2, EarthScope National Office.
Expanded Abstracts
B.S. Gibson and A. Levander, 1986, Modeling and processing of scattered noise in seismic reflection surveys,
SEG Expanded Abstracts, 5, 626, DOI:10.1.1190/1.1892923.
S.A. Henrys, A.R. Levander, N.R. Hill, B.S. Gibson, Seismic response of the surface layer at the Ohaaki
geothermal field, New Zealand, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 5, 110, DOI:10.1190/1.1893197.
A.R. Levander, 1987, Fourth-order velocity stress finite-difference scheme, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 6, 531,
DOI:10.1190/1.1892060.
R.-C. Shih and A.R. Levander, 1988, Multi-grid reverse-time migration, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 7, 988-990,
DOI:10.1190/1.1892458.
B.S. Gibson and A.R. Levander, 1988, CMP stacked images of randomly heterogeneous targets, SEG Expanded
Abstracts, 7, 1159-1161, DOI:10.1190/1.1982478
C.F. Lafond and A.R. Levander, 1991, A unified approach to complex seismic imaging problems, SEG
Expanded Abstracts, 60th Annual Meeting, 1234-1236.
J.O.A. Robertsson, J.O.Blanch, A.Levander, and W.W. Symes, 1993, 3-D viscoelastic finite difference modeling,
SEG Expanded Abstracts, 63rd Annual Meeting, 994-997.
J.O.A. Robertsson, A.Levander, W.W. Symes, and K. Holliger, 1995, A comparative study of free-surface
boundary conditions for finite-difference simulation of elastic/viscoelastic wave propagation, SEG Expanded
Abstracts, 14, 1277, DOI:10.1190/1.1887600.
A. Levander, 1998, The stochastic crust and its seismic response, Society of Exploration Geophysicists of
Japan.1998
D. Dana, P. Akerberg, C. Zelt, A. Levander, and T.J. Henstock, 1998, High resolution seismic imaging at a
porphyry copper mine, SEG Expanded Abstracts, I., 68th Annual Meeting, 829-831.
A. Levander, 1998, The stochastic crust and its reflection response, Proceedings of the 4 th SEGJ International
Symposium, December 10-12, 1998, Tokyo, 11-14.
D. Dana, C. Zelt, A. Levander, 1999, High-resolution seismic survey over a near-surface contamination site,
SEG Expanded Abstracts, 69th Annual Meeting.
D. Dana, A. Azaria, A. Levander, I. Morozov, C. Zelt, M.B. Magnani, 2001, High-resolution 3-D seismic
investigations at a groundwater contamination site: initial results, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 71st Annual
Meeting.
R. G. Pratt, Fuchun Gao, Colin Zelt and Alan Levander, 2002, The limits and complementary nature of
traveltime and waveform tomography (expanded abstract). International Conference of Sub-basalt imaging:
Exploiting the full wavefield, Cambridge, England.
F. Gao, A. Levander, R.G. Pratt, and S. Morton, 2004, Velocity analysis by waveform tomography: a few
examples, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Expanded Abstracts, 74 th Annual Meeting, Denver
CO.
F. Gao, G.-L. Fradelizio, A. Levander, G. Pratt, C.A. Zelt, 2005, Seismic Velocity, Q, Geological Structure and
Lithology Estimation at a Ground Water Contamination Site, Society of Exploration Geophysicists 75 th
Annual Meeting, Expanded Abstract, Houston, TX.
G.L. Fradelizio, C.A. Zelt, and A. Levander, 2006, Using elastic wave seismic data to image an ultrashallow
buried paleo-channel, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting, Expanded
abstracts, New Orleans, LA.

F. Gao, A. Levander, and C.A. Zelt, 2006, An iterative approach for geophysical diffraction tomography:
Implications for true amplitude migration, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting, Expanded
abstracts, New Orleans, LA.
G. Chambers, A. Levander, C.A. Zelt, and B. Dugan, 2009, Seismic Waveform Tomography With
Multicomponent Data at a Groundwater Contamination Site, Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual
Meeting, Expanded Abstracts, Houston, TX.
Invited Department Colloquia, Lectures, and Workshop Presentations
Crustal Structure and Tectonics of the Central California Transform Margin, Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences, MIT, October 1989. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, February 1990.
Department of Geological Sciences, Princeton University, November 1990. US Geological Survey,
Marine Division, Deer Creek, California, April 1991.
The Brooks Range 1990 Seismic Reflection/Refraction Experiment, Chevron USA, Houston, Texas,
January 1991. Exxon Production Research, Houston, Texas, January 1991.
Acoustic-Elastic Wave Scattering from a Rough Seafloor, Second Annual Meeting of the
Bottom/Subbottom Acoustic Reverberation Special Research Program, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, La Jolla, California, March 1991, (with S.A. Henrys).
Finite-Difference Modeling, Shell Development Company, Houston, TX, November 1991.
Seismic Scattering, Interpretation of Crustal Seismic Data, and RISC, Institute for Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, February 1992.
The 1990 Seismic Survey of the Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska, Incorporated Research Institutions for
Seismology (IRIS) Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1992.
A Stochastic Model for the Earth's Crust and Its Seismic Response Based on the Ivrea Zone, Italy,
University of Karlsruhe, Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 1992.
Stochastic Models for the Earth's Crust and Their Seismic Responses, Bullard Labs, University of
Cambridge, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, England, August 1992.
Crustal heterogeneity, scattering and imaging. Invited for IRIS Annual Meeting, Hawaii, June 1993.
Stochastic models for the Earth's crust and their implications for seismic exploration data, Department of
Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyoming, April 1994, Laramie, WY. Invited for European
Geophysical Society Annual Meeting, April 1994, Grenoble, France. Invited for Society of Industrial
and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting, July 1994, San Diego, CA. Computational and Applied
Mathematics Department, Rice University, October, 1994, Houston, TX. University of British
Columbia, October, 1994, Vancouver, Canada. University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics,
March, 1995, Austin, Texas.
Simulation of seismic response for realistic crustal models, National Academy of Science Workshop on
High Performance Computing in Seismology, October, 1994, San Diego, CA.
Seismic exploration, National Research Council "Seeing into the Earth" Workshop, Committee on Non-
Invasive Characterization of the Shallow Subsurface for Environmental and Engineering Applications,
October, 1995, Houston, Texas.
The crystalline crust as a stochastic medium: Geologic/seismic models, Department of Geology and
Geophysics, Yale University, November, 1995, New Haven, CT. Department of Geophysics, Stanford
University, December, 1995, Stanford, CA. Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences,
Princeton University, March, 1997, Princeton, NJ.
The Mendocino Triple Junction Seismic Experiment: Whole Crustal Strike-slip Faults and Magmatic
Additions to the Crust, Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
March, 1997, Princeton, NJ. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, 1997, Austin, TX.
University of Texas, Department of Geological Sciences, 1997, Austin, TX
The Stochastic Crust and its Seismic Response. Invited for the 8th International Symposium on Deep
Crustal Reflection Profiling of the Continents and their Margins, September, 1998, Barcelona, Spain.
Invited for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, December 1998.
Department of Geological Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara, November, 1999.
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, February, 2000.
Continental Assembly, Stability, and Disassembly, Invited for the NRC-NSF Symposium on Research
opportunities in the Earth Sciences: A 10 year vision, Geol. Soc. Am. annual meeting, 1998, Toronto,
Canada.
The 1995 Deep Probe Experiment: A Continental-Scale Seismic Experiment, Geological Survey of Japan,
Tsukuba, Japan, December, 1998.

The San Andreas fault at 0-2 Ma, GSA Penrose Conference on Subduction to Strike-Slip Transitions on
Plate Boundaries, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, January 1999.
USArray: An Earth Sciences Initiative to Investigate the North American Continent, USArray Workshop,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 1999. 2 nd USArray Workshop, Houston, TX, September, 1999.
Continental Assembly of the Southwestern U.S., Department of Geological Sciences, Princeton University,
March 2002. Marine Geology and Geophysics Seminar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, March
2002. ExxonMobil, Houston, TX, February 2002. USGS, Menlo Park, CA, May 2002. Los Alamos
National Lab, Frontiers of Geophysics Series, August 2002.
Earthscope and USArray, Canadian Geophysical Society Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada, 2003. Invited for
The German Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March 2004.
High resolution seismic investigations at a groundwater contamination site, Lamont Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University, September 2003. Schlumberger Research Lab, Ridgefield CT,
September 2003. CSIC Institute of Earth Sciences “Jaume Almera”, Barcelona, Spain, June 2004.
Wavefield extrapolation and imaging with scattered waves, NSF Summer School on Mathematical
Geophysics and Uncertainty in Earth Models, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, June,
2004.
Paleo-subduction and modern basalt extraction structures in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Multi-band
images from the CD-ROM experiment. Invited for the 11 th International Symposium on Deep Seismic
Profiling of the Continents and their Margins, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada, September 2004.
Invited for IRIS Annual Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, June 2004.
Deformation and Mass Transfer at the Mendocino Triple Junction, IGPP, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, October, 1999. Seismology Laboratory Seminar, Caltech, October, 1999. Department
of Geological Sciences, University of California at Santa Barbara, November, 1999. Department of
Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, January, 2000. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory,
January, 2000. University of Oregon, Geology Department, October 2004.
Paleo-subduction and modern basalt extraction structures in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Multi-band
images from the CD-ROM experiment, 2004. A. Levander, C.A. Zelt, M.B. Magnani, and K. Dueker,
invited for Deep Seismix Meeting, Quebec, Canada, Sept 26 - Oct 1, 2004.
Imag(in)ing the Continental Lithosphere, 10 th Annual Jardetzky Lecture, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory/Columbia University, September, 2003. Invited for The German Geophysical Union
Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, March 2004. Invited for Seismic Heterogeneity in the Earth’s
Mantle, Thermo-Petrologic and Tectonic Implications, Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen,
Denmark, February 2004. University of California at Davis, Geology Department, October 2004.
University of Oregon, Geology Department, October 2004. CSIC Institute of Earth Sciences “Jaume
Almera”, Barcelona, Spain, June 2004, University of California at Berkeley Seismological Laboratory,
September 2005. GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, June 2006. Dorr Lecture, University of Michigan,
February, 2007.
The Seismic Structure of the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau, Backbone of the Americas
Conference, GSA, Mendoza, Argentina, March 2006.
Investigations of the Southern Caribbean Plate Boundary, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, June
2007.
Lithospheric deformation along a subduction to transform plate boundary, Earth and Space Sciences
Department, University of Washington, April 2008.
Lithospheric Deformation and Orogenesis along the Southeastern Caribbean Plate Boundary with a few
comments on North America, Europe and Africa, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, June 2008.
Subduction in the southern Caribbean, invited for Geophysical Hazards and Plate Boundary Processes in
Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, San Jose, Costa Rica, October, 2010.
Subduction at the edges in the southern Caribbean, University of California at Davis, November 2010.
Evolutionary aspects of lithospheric discontinuity structure in the Western U.S. Heiland Distinguished
Lecture, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, October, 2011.
Presentations in 2011
Kaijian Liu; Jennifer Gabler; Colin A. Zelt; Alan Levander, 2011, 3-D Teleseismic Imaging of Scattered
Wavefields Using Both Kirchhoff and Born Approximations, American Geophysical Union Meeting,
S41A-2165, San Francisco, CA, December 2011.
Mohammad Youssof; Hans Thybo; Alan Levander; Xiaohui Yuan; Maximiliano J. Bezada, 2011,
Combined teleseismic imaging of the structure of southern African cratons using P-receiver functions

and P- and S- finite-frequency tomography, American Geophysical Union Meeting, T32A-06, San
Francisco, CA, December 2011.
Alan Levander and Meghan S. Miller, 2011, Evolutionary Aspects of Lithosphere Discontinuity Structure
in the Western U.S., European Geosciences Union, EGU2011-8723, Vienna, Austria, April 2011.
Alan Levander, 2011, Evolutionary aspects of lithospheric discontinuity structure in the Western U.S.
Heiland Distinguished Lecture, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, October, 2011.
Imma Palomeras; Kaijian Liu; Sally Thurner; Alan Levander, 2011, PICASSO Rayleigh wave tomography
of the western Mediterranean, American Geophysical Union Meeting, T52D-07, San Francisco CA,
December 2011.
Sally Thurner; Imma Palomeras; Alan Levander, 2011, PICASSSO Ps Receiver Function Analysis of the
Lithospheric Structure Beneath the Western Mediterranean, American Geophysical Union Meeting,
T43E-2406, San Francisco, CA, December 2011.
Jeniffer Masy; Alan Levander; Fenglin Niu, 2011, Receiver Functions Imaging of the Moho and LAB in
the Southern Caribbean plate boundary and Venezuela, American Geophysical Union Meeting, T11B-
2320, San Francisco, CA, December 2011.
Ramon Carbonell; Puy Ayarza; Mimoun Harnafi; Antonio Teixell; Azzous Kchikah; David Martí;
Immaculada Palomeras; Alan Levander; Josep Gallart; Maria Luisa Arboleya; Mohamed Charroud;
Mustafa Amrhar, 2011, Seismic Imaging across the Moroccan Atlas (SIMA): An effort to constrain the
crustal thickness of the Atlas Mountains, American Geophysical Union Meeting, T53D-05. San
Francisco, CA, December 2011.
Alan Levander, and the BOLIVAR Working Group, 2011, Subduction at the Edges in the Southern
Caribbean, Penrose Conference, Geological Society of America, Manizalles, Colombia, February,
2011.
Alan Levander, Michael Schmitz, Maximiliano Bezada, Meghan S. Miller, Jeniffer Masy, Fenglin Niu,
James Pindell, 2011, Subduction in the Southern Caribbean, 14th Latin American Geological
Congress, Medellin, Colombia, September 2011.
Alan Levander, Yongbo Zhai, Kaijian Liu, Jennifer Mackenzie, Robert Poritt, and Richard Allen, 2011,
The Lithosphere and the Asthenosphere in the Mendocino Triple Junction Region, European
Geosciences Meeting, EGU2011-9365, Vienna Austria, April 2011.
Alan Levander; Kaijian Liu; Robert W. Porritt; Richard M. Allen, 2011, The Seismic Structure of the
Mantle Wedge under Cascade Volcanoes, American Geophysical Union Meeting, T53A-2494. San
Francisco, CA, December 2011.
Alan Levander, 2011, Waves and Scattering, CIDER Summer Program: The Dynamics of Mountain
Building, U.C. Berkeley, July 2011.
Alan Levander, 2011, Scattering and Imaging, CIDER Summer Program: The Dynamics of Mountain
Building, U.C. Berkeley, July 2011.
Alan Levander, 2011, The Colorado Plateau, CIDER Summer Program, The Dynamics of Mountain
Building, U.C. Berkeley, July 2011.