About me

Milena Marjanović

I am a Marine Geophysicist, interested in exploring Plate Tectonics, in particular mid-ocean ridges using geophysical methods. My work has involved acquisition, processing and interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic reflection data. I am especially interested in looking at the processes that control past and present melt distribution along the ridges (e.g. the phenomenon of ridge propagation; hotspot-ridge interaction; relationship between melt distribution and morphological ridge characteristics). My current work is focused on providing high resolution velocity models of the oceanic crust formed at the East Pacific Rise using waveform modeling.

Languages: Serbian (mother tongue), English (native), Spanish (native), French (advanced), Italian (intermediate), Russian (writing skills), Japanese (basic – level N5-N4 in Japanese system of evaluation).

1. •EDUCATION
   

22/05/2013        Doctorate dgeree (PhD)

Columbia University in the City of New York/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Marine Geology and Geophysics, NY, USA

Title: “Signatures of present and past melt distribution on fast and intermediate spreading centers”

18/05/2011 Master of Philosophy

Columbia University in the City of New York/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Marine Geology and Geophysics, NY, USA

21/05/2008 Master of Arts

Columbia University in the City of New York/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Marine Geology and Geophysics, NY, USA

31/10/2005        Bachelor of Science

Faculty of Mining and Geology/Department of Applied Geophysics/ Belgrade University, Serbia.

1. •CURRENT POSITION
   

01/09/2015 - present     Post-doctorate researcher in Marine Geophysics under EU Marie S. Curie Actions (MSCA-IF-EF, Proposal No: 655283 3DWISE)

Institution: Intsitute de Physique du Globe de Paris/Secondment at Shell

Research topic: Application of waveform inversion techniques to active multichannel seismic dataset collected at the East Pacific Rise to look at the hydrothermal processes and characteristics of upper oceanic crust.

1. •PREVIOUS POSITIONS
   

16/09/2014 – 31/08/2015Post-doctorate researcher at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France where I was developing and implementing novel techniques to extract quantitative information on the properties of oceanic crust. I have also been working on the project funded by European Research Council ILAB Trans Atlantic awarded to Professor Satish Singh at IPGP.

1. •FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
   

2017                      EAGE PACE Support for organizing EAGE/IPGP Women in Geoscience   event at IPGP

2015-2017          Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) within the call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 to conduct 3D Full-Waveform Inversion on 3D seismic dataset at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France, for two years with the starting date 01/09/2015. 

2006-2013         Columbia University Fellowship, Columbia University in the City of NewYork/Department of  Earth and Environmental Sciences/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, NY, USA

03/2011        Grant from Chevron Student Initiative Fund for the project “Illumination study  from two azimuth seismic surveys at the East Pacific Rise 9ºN”

09/2011        SEG Scholarship Award “Richard and Rolande Lockhart”

06/2010            Travel grant for the 72nd EAGE Conference in Barcelona, Spain

2008 - 2010       SEG Scholarship Award “Rodney Cottrell”

09/2007            SEG Scholarship Award “WesternGeco Scholarship”

2007                  “Award for the Student of Generation 2005”, Belgrade University, Serbia

09/2006              SEG Scholarship Award, “SEG Foundation General Scholarship”

06/2005              Travel grant for the 67th EAGE Conference in Madrid, Spain

2005                   “Award for the Best Student Paper in 2004/05”, Belgrade, Serbia

2004                   The Royal Norwegian Scholarship

2001; 2003    “The Charter of Professor Branislav A. Milovanović, Faculty of Mining and    Geology/ Department of Applied Geophysics/ Belgrade University, Serbia.

2000; 2002; 2004 Award for the best undergraduate student Faculty of Mining and Geology/Department of Applied Geophysics/ Belgrade University, Serbia.

        

• TEACHING ACTIVITY

04/11/2016    Lecture on Active seismic data acquisition (master level), IPGP, France

17/10-20/10/2016     Field work with Master GPX-IPGP students, Chartre, France

28/10/2015    Lecture on Active seismic data acquisition (master level), IPGP, France

20/01-07/05/2009  Teaching Assistant – Science for Sustainable Development (undergraduate level)/Columbia University in the City of New York/ School of International Public Affairs (SIPA), NY, USA

02/09-11/12/2008    Teaching Assistant – Solid Earth (undergraduate level)/ Columbia University in the City of New York/ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, NY, USA

05/10/2000 – 22/08/2006 Teaching Assistant – Geology (high-school level), Petnica Science center, Serbia.

1. •RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS
   

March-April, 2015 Iso-Metrix 2D survey across the Atlantic Ocean aboard M/V Western Trident; post-doc participant on a project Trans-Atlantic ILAB, project funted by ERC and lead by Satish Singh

July-August, 2013 3D multichannel seismic survey at the East pacific Rise/ aboard R/V M. Langseth, Rice University, Texas, The United States of America.

January, 2013       Geochemistry - Petrology field trip in Oman, Columbia University in the City of New York, NY, USA.

June-July, 2012  “From ridge to trench”, Multichannel seismic and Ocean Bottom Seismometers active survey across the Juan de Fuca plate/ aboard R/V M. Langseth, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA.

November-December, 2009 Ocean Bottom Seismometers survey at the Eastern Lau Spreading Center, aboard R/V R. Revelle, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA.

June-August, 2008 3D multichannel seismic survey at the East pacific Rise/ aboard R/V M. Langseth, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA.

1. •WORKING WITH INDUSTRY
   

27/02/2011 – 18/08/2017 Secondment for Marie S. Curie Fellowship at Shell working n acoustic and elastic 3D Full Waveform Inversion in The Netherlands.

01/06/2011 – 02/09/2011 Internship at ConocoPhillips within Subsurface Technology Group – Processing Team. The goal of the internship was to develop and test flows in different data domains (x-t, f-k and tau-p) for successful wave field separation using four components ocean bottom nodes (OBN) data. Houston, TX, The United States of America.

01/06/2011 – 31/08/2010 Internship at ExxonMobil within Exploration Group with Gravity and Magnetics Team. The goal of the internship was to create a database of rock properties (e.g. density, susceptibility, etc.) and use them in gravity/magnetics modeling.

1. •TALKS
   

December 2016, “Seismic signatures of up- and down-going hydrothermal pathways along the East Pacific  Rise between 9º15’ and 10ºN”, IPGP, France

November, 2016, “Magmatic and hydrothermal processes operating beneath a fast-spreading center: Insights from multi channel seismic dataset collected along the East Pacific Rise”, Ifremer, France

March, 2016,    “Signatures of melt distribution along the East Pacific Rise”, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

March, 2016,  “Signatures of melt distribution along the East Pacific Rise”, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan

March, 2016,    “Signatures of melt distribution along the East Pacific Rise”, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

May, 2014,     “Signatures of present melt distribution at fast spreading centers”, GEOMAR seminar, Kiel, Germany.

February, 2014,  “Signatures of present melt distribution at fast spreading centers”, Seismology Geoscience seminar at IPGP, Paris, France (invited).

November, 2013, “Signatures of melt distribution at fast spreading centers”, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France (invited).

October, 2013, “Signatures of present melt distribution at fast spreading centers”, Marine Geoscience seminar at IPGP, Paris, France (invited).

November, 2012, “Distribution of melt at the East Pacific Rise 9°50’N from an amplitude variation with angle of incidence (AVA) technique”, Geophysics seminar at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (invited).

August, 2010, “Gravity and seismic study of crustal structure along the Juan de Fuca Ridge axis and across pseudofaults on the ridge flanks”, ExxonMobil Exploration Group in Houston, Texas, USA.

August, 2010, “Gravity and seismic study of crustal structure along the Juan de Fuca Ridge axis and across pseudofaults on the ridge flanks”, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Group in Houston, Texas, USA.

April, 2010, “Gravity and seismic study of crustal structure along the Juan de Fuca Ridge axis and across pseudofaults on the ridge flanks”, Marine Geology and Geophysics Seminar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, USA.

1. •MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
   

01/01/2005 – present Member, EAGE

01/01/2008 – present  Member, AGU

01/01/2004 – 31/12/2013 Student Member, “Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)”

1. •CONTRIBUTIONS
   

2017   Organization of the first EAGE/IPGP Women in Geoscience workshop at IPGP

2015 - present    Discussion Moderator Co-Chair for Women in Geoscience and Engineering under EAGE

2016                     Fête de la science - designing a project and demonstration in French

2016                     Fête des idées  - exposition of photos taken during field work

2016                    Talk at the French Marie Curie Alumni meeting on gender equality in science

2016                 Reviewer for the 2016 BelPD-COFUND

2016       Reviewer for the 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, Vienna 2016

2015 - present Discussion Moderator Co-Chair for Women in Geoscience and Engineering under EAGE

2015 - present    Co-organizer of Marine Geosciences seminars at IPGP

1. •HOBBY
   

Photography - foremost macro and infrared.

1. •PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
   

Marjanović, M., H. D. Carton, M. R. Nedimović, S. M. Carbotte, J. Mutter, J. P. Canales,(2015), Distribution of melt along the East Pacific Rise from 9º30′ to 10ºN from an amplitude variation with angle of incidence (AVA) technique, Geophysical Journal International, 203, 1-21.

Marjanović, M., S. M. Carbotte, H. D. Carton, M. R. Nedimović, J. Mutter, J. P. Canales (2014), A multi-sill magma plumbing system beneath the axis of the East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience, vol.7, 825-829. 

Carbotte S. M., M. Marjanović, Carton, H. D., J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, S. Han, M. Perfit (2013), Fine-scale segmentation of the crustal magma reservoir beneath the modern eruptive zone of the East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1933.

Canales J. P., H. Carton, S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, M. Xu, O. Aghaei, M. Marjanović and K. Newman (2012) “Network of off-axis melt bodies at the East Pacific Rise”, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1377.

Marjanović, M., S. M. Carbotte, M. R. Nedimović, and J. P. Canales (2011), Gravity and      seismic study of crustal structure along the Juan de Fuca Ridge axis and across pseudofaults on the ridge flanks, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q05008, doi: 10.1029/2010GC003439.

Carbotte S. M., Nedimović M. R., Canales J. P., Kent G. M., Harding A., and Marjanović M., (2008), “Variable crustal structure along the Juan de Fuca Ridge; influence of on axis hotspots and absolute plate motions”, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., vol. 9, Q08001, doi:10.1029/2007GC001922.

1. •CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
   

Marjanović M., N. Fuji, S. Singh, Seismic signatures of up- and down-going hydrothermal pathways along the East Pacific Rise 9ºN, Abstract T22C-05, 2016 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Marjanović M., Singh, S.C., Audhkhasi, P., Mehouachi, F., Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Lithosphere-asthenosphere Boundary Across the Atlantic Ocean, Abstract T41D-2926, 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Marjanović M., Carton, H. D., S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, (2013), Seismic images of multiple magma sills beneath the East Pacific Rise, Abstract OS42A-05, Presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Marjanović M., Carton, H. D., S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, (2012), Distribution of melt at the East Pacific Rise 9°50’N from an amplitude variation with angle of incidence (AVA) technique, Abstract OS13D-1760, Presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Carbotte S.M., J. P. Canales, H. D. Carton, M. R. Nedimovic, S. Han, M. Marjanović, James C. Gibson, Helen A. Janiszewski, Greg Horning, Matthias Delescluse, Louise Watremez, Aaron Farkas, Berta Biescas Gorriz, Guillermo Bornstein, Laurel B. Childress, Beatrice Parker, (2012), Evolution and hydration of the Juan de Fuca crust and uppermost mantle: a plate-scale seismic investigation from ridge to trench, Abstract T13H-01, Presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Carbotte S. M., Marjanović M., Carton, H. D., J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, Xu M., Aghaei O., (2011), The ups and downs of magma in the crust beneath the East Pacific Rise axis 8°20-10°10’N, Abstract OS22A-01, Presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Marjanović, M., S. M. Carbotte, H. D. Carton, J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, (2010), Axial magma chamber segmentation along the East Pacific Rise from Clipperton to Siqieros Fracture Zone, Abstract OS21C-1511, Presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Carbotte S. M., Marjanović M., M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, (2010), Melt anomalies and propagating ridge offsets: Insights from the East Pacific Rise and Juan de Fuca Ridge, Abstract OS21C-1515, Presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Carton, H. D., S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, J. P. Canales, M. R. Nedimović, O. Aghaei, M. Marjanović, and K. R. Newman, (2010), Three-dimensional seismic reflection images of axial melt lens and seismic layer 2A between 9°42’N and 9°57′N on the East Pacific Rise, Abstract OS21C-1514, Presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Mutter, J.C., H. Carton, M. Marjanović, S. Carbotte, J.P. Canales, and M.R. Nedimović, (2010), Eruption-related changes in magma chamber structure at 9°50'N on the EPR from coincident reflection images, 1985 and 2008. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Abstract OS24A-01.

Carton, H. D., S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, J. P. Canales, M. R. Nedimović, M. Marjanović, O. Aghaei, M. Xu, and S. Han and L. Stowe, Characteristics of the crustal body in the 2005- 2006 eruption area at 9º50’N on the East Pacific Rise from 3D multi-channel seismic data, (2009), Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Abstract OS11B-02, Presented at 2009 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Marjanović, M., S. M. Carbotte, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, (2008), Variations of the Crustal Structure Along the Juan de Fuca Ridge From Analysis of Gravity and Seismic Data, Eos Trans. AGU 89(53), Abstract V41B-2087, Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Carbotte S. M., J. C. Mutter, J. P. Canales, M. R. Nedimović, H. D. Carton, M. Xu, K. Newman, M. Marjanović, O. Aghaei, L. Stowe, (2008), New observations of the magmatic segmentation of the East Pacific Rise from Siquieros to Clipperton from a multi-streamer seismic reflection imaging study, Eos Trans., AGU, 89 (53), Abstract B21A-0320, Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Canales J. P., S. M. Carbotte, J. C. Mutter, M. R. Nedimović, H. Carton, M. Xu, O. Aghaei, K. Newman, M. Marjanović and K., Newman, (2008) “Discovery of off-axis melt lenses at the RIDGE2000 East Pacific Rise Integrated Study Site”, Eos Trans., AGU, abstract #B21A-0319, Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Carton H. D., Carbotte S. M., J. C. Mutter, J. P. Canales, M. R. Nedimović, K. Newman, M. Marjanović, M. Xu, O. Aghaei, L. Stowe, (2008), Characteristics of the crustal magma body in the 2005-06 eruption area at 9°50'N on the East Pacific Rise from a 3D multi-channel seismic investigation, Eos Trans., AGU, 89 (53), Abstract B23F-03, Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Mutter J. C., Carton H. D., Carbotte S. M., J. P. Canales, M. R. Nedimović, K. Newman, M. Marjanović, M. Xu, O. Aghaei, L. Stowe, (2008), Searching for Changes in AMC Characteristics on the EPR Using Comparisons of Reflection Images Obtained in 1985 and 2008, Eos Trans., AGU, 89 (53), Abstract B21A-0321, Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

Purdy G. M., Mutter J. C., Carton H. D., Carbotte S. M., J. P. Canales, M. R. Nedimović, K. Newman, M. Marjanović, M. Xu, O. Aghaei, L. Stowe, (2008), 3D Seismic Reflection Imaging of Crustal Formation Processes on the East Pacific Rise, 9°57-42'N, Eos Trans., AGU, 89 (53), Abstract B21A-0322, Presented at 2008 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, California.

1. •CONFERENCE PAPERS
   

Marjanović M., N. Fuji, S. Singh (2016), Imaging Hydrothermal Circulation Paths along the East Pacific Rise using Elastic Wave-equation based Inversin Techniques, Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, Vienna 2016, Abstract doi: 10.3997/2214-4609.201601183 (EarthDoc).

Marjanović M., N. Fuji, S.C. Singh and T. Belahi (2016), Imaging Hydrothermal Circulation Paths Along the East Pacific Rise Using Ealstic Wave Equation based Inversion Technique, 78th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, Vienna 2016

Marjanović M., H. Carton, S. Carbotte (2015), Seismic images of multiple magma sills beneath the East Pacific Rise, 77th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, Madrid 2015, Abstract doi. 10.3997/2214-4609.201413286 (EarthDoc).

Marjanović M., H. Carton, S. Carbotte (2013), AVA analysis applied to a molten rock, 75th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC, London 2013, Abstract doi. 10.3997/2214-4609.20130577 (EarthDoc).

Marjanović M., H. D. Carton, S. M., Carbotte, (2011), Investigation of axial magma chamber and its segmentation beneath the East Pacific Rise 9°N from seismic data, 73rd EAGE Conference and Exhibition, Vienna, Austria (EarthDoc).

Marjanović M., S. M. Carbotte, M. R. Nedimović, J. P. Canales, (2010), Variation of the crustal structure along the Juan de Fuca Ridge from analysis of gravity and seismic data, 72nd EAGE Conference and Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain (EarthDoc).

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