Dr Eylon Shalev

Position:          Associate Director

Qualification:  Phd (Yale University)

Email:              e.shalev@auckland.ac.nz

Phone:            +64 9 373 7599 extension 84671


Eylon specialises in seismic tomography, signal processing and borehole instrumentation. Most recently, Eylon has worked on interpreting seismic data from volcanoes in the Caribbean and geothermal fields in USA, Australia and New Zealand.

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Research Interests

  • Joint Geophysical Imaging
  • 3-D inversion
  • Deep borehole instrumentation

Student Supervision

A. Lucas. Fracture Mapping Through geophysical Methods (PhD)

C. L. Kenedi. Fractured earth at Puna Hawaii, and Montserrat Lesser Antilles (PhD)
D. Kahn. Basel Hot Dry Rock Experiment: Seismology in the Rheine Graben (PhD)
S. Onacha. Joint Geophysical Inversions in Geothermal Exploration (PhD)

Selected Publications

Shalev, E., Kenedi, C. L., Malin, P., Voight, B., Miller, V., Hidayat, D., Sparks, R. S. J., Minshull, T., Paulatto, M., Brown, L., and Mattioli, G., 2010. Three‐dimensional seismic velocity tomography of Montserrat from the SEA‐CALIPSO offshore/onshore experiment.  Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol.  37, L00E17. doi: 10.1029/2010GL042498

Linde, A. T., Sacks, S., Hidayat, D., Voight, B., Clarke, A., Elsworth, D., Mattioli, G., Malin, P., Shalev, E., Sparks, S., and Widiwijayanti, C., 2010.  Vulcanian explosion at Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat on March 2004 as revealed by strain data. Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 37, L00E07. doi: 10.1029/2009GL041988
 
Shalev, E., Kenedi, C.L., and Malin, P., 2008. Results From a Borehole Seismometer Array II: 3-D Mapping of an Active Geothermal Field at the Kilauea Lower Rift Zone. EOS Trans. AGU 89(53) Fall Meet. Supppl., Abstract V23A-2133
 
Mattioli, G.S., Linde, A.T. , Sacks, I. S., Watts, P., Widiwijayanti, C., Young, S.R., Voight, B., Hidayat, D., Elsworth, D., Malin, P., Shalev, E., Van Boskirk, E., Johnston, W., Sparks, R.S.J., Neuberg, J., Bass, V., Dunkley, P., Herd, R., Syers, T., Williams, P., and Williams, D.,  2007. Unique and remarkable strainmeter measurements of pyroclastic flow-generated tsunami. Geology, Vol. 35(1), 25-28. doi: 10.1130/G22931A.1
 
Malin, P., Shalev, E., Balven, H., and C.L.Kenedi., 2006. Structure of the San Andreas Fault at SAFOD from P-wave tomography and fault –guided wave mapping. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, L13314, doi:10.1029/2006GL025973