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Vadim Levin is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Geophysics. Additional subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, and Ocean Engineering.

Their work covers several main topics, including earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Recent publications by Vadim Levin include:

  • Systematic Mapping of Upper Mantle Seismic Discontinuities Beneath Northeastern North America (2021) in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Evidence for Caribbean plate subduction in southern Costa Rica (2023) in Geology
  • Small Shear Wave Splitting Delays Suggest Weak Anisotropy in Cratonic Mantle Lithosphere (2021) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Seismic Anisotropic Layering in the Yilgarn and Superior Cratonic Lithosphere (2021) in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • A Recent Tear in Subducting Plate Explains Seismicity and Upper Mantle Structure of Southern Costa Rica (2020) in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geophysical Research Letters, Geological Society London Special Publications, Geology, and Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.

Frequent collaborators include Xiaoran Chen, Huaiyu Yuan, Maureen D. Long, Yiran Li, and Roberto Masis Arce. These collaborations have resulted in multiple coauthored publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Thinning and flow of Tibetan crust constrained by seismic anisotropy.

    Nikolai M. Shapiro;Michael H. Ritzwoller;Peter Molnar;Vadim Levin

  • Receiver Functions from Multiple-Taper Spectral Correlation Estimates

    Jeffrey Park;Vadim Levin

  • Seismic Anisotropy: Tracing Plate Dynamics in the Mantle

    Jeffrey Park;Vadim Levin

  • P-SH conversions in a flat-layered medium with anisotropy of arbitrary orientation

    Vadim Levin;Jeffrey Park

  • Seismic evidence for catastrophic slab loss beneath Kamchatka

    Vadim Levin;Nikolai Shapiro;Nikolai Shapiro;Jeffrey Park;Michael Ritzwoller;Michael Ritzwoller

  • Mantle flow at a slab edge: Seismic anisotropy in the Kamchatka region

    Valerie Peyton;Vadim Levin;Jeffrey Park;Mark Brandon

  • P-SH Conversions in Layered Media with Hexagonally Symmetric Anisotropy: A CookBook

    Vadim Levin;Jeffrey Park

  • Shear wave splitting in the Appalachians and the Urals: A case for multilayered anisotropy

    Vadim Levin;William Menke;Jeffrey Park

  • Mapping seismic anisotropy using harmonic decomposition of receiver functions: An application to Northern Apennines, Italy

    I. Bianchi;J. Park;N. Piana Agostinetti;Vadim Levin

  • Crustal anisotropy in the Ural Mountains Foredeep from teleseismic receiver functions

    Vadim Levin;Jeffrey Park

  • Crust and upper mantle of Kamchatka from teleseismic receiver functions

    Vadim Levin;Jeffrey Park;Mark Brandon;Jonathan Lees

  • The cross-convolution method for interpreting SKS splitting observations, with application to one and two-layer anisotropic earth models

    William Menke;Vadim Levin

  • Shear zones in the Proterozoic lithosphere of the Arabian shield and the nature of the Hales discontinuity

    Vadim Levin;Jeffrey Park

  • Geophysical models for the tectonic framework of the Lake Vostok region, East Antarctica

    Michael Studinger;Garry D Karner;Robin E Bell;Vadim Levin

  • Detailed mapping of seismic anisotropy with local shear waves in southeastern Kamchatka

    Vadim Levin;D. Droznin;J. Park;E. Gordeev

  • Anisotropic shear zones revealed by backazimuthal harmonics of teleseismic receiver functions

    J. Park;Vadim Levin

  • Subduction zone anisotropy beneath Corvallis, Oregon: A serpentinite skid mark of trench-parallel terrane migration?

    Jeffrey Park;Huaiyu Yuan;Huaiyu Yuan;Vadim Levin;Vadim Levin

  • Cold crust in a hot spot

    William Menke;Vadim Levin

  • Seismic attenuation in the crust at the mid-Atlantic plate boundary in south-west Iceland

    William Menke;Vadim Levin;Ravi Sethi

  • A dangling slab, amplified arc volcanism, mantle flow, and seismic anisotropy in the Kamchatka plate corner

    Jeffrey Park;Vadim Levin;Mark Brandon;Jonathan Lees

  • Seismic Evidence for Catastrophic Slab Loss Beneath Kamchatka

    J. Park;V. Levin;N. Shapiro;M. Ritzwoller

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Park
Jeffrey Park Yale University
William Menke
William Menke Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Steven W. Roecker
Steven W. Roecker Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nikolai M. Shapiro
Nikolai M. Shapiro Grenoble Alpes University
Michael H. Ritzwoller
Michael H. Ritzwoller University of Colorado Boulder
Ian D. Bastow
Ian D. Bastow Imperial College London
Jaroslava Plomerová
Jaroslava Plomerová Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark T. Brandon
Mark T. Brandon Yale University
Jonathan Lees
Jonathan Lees Cardiff University
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder

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