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
   

22/08/2006 – 22/05/2013 PhD

Columbia University in the City of New York/Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, The United States of America.

18/05/2011 Master of Philosophy

Columbia University in the City of New York/Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, The United States of America.

21/05/2008 Master of Arts

Columbia University in the City of New York/Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, The United States of America.

05/10/2000 – 31/10/2005 Bachelor of Science

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

1. •CURRENT POSITION
   

01/09/2014 - present                Marie S. Curie IEF Fellow at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris on a 3DWISE project.

1. •PREVIOUS POSITIONS
   

16/09/2014 – 01/09/2015Post-doctorate at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

22/05/2013 – 15/09/2014 Self-employed - detailed explanation is provided at the end of the section.

  

22/08/2006 – 22/05/2013 Graduate student

Columbia University in the City of New York/Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences/ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, The United States of America.

21/11/2005 – 22/08/2006 Self-employed

Preparing and taking required exams: General Record Examinations (GRE) and Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

31/10/2000 – 21/11/2005Internship

Roman archeological site – Viminacium, Serbia.

05/10/2000 – 31/10/2005Undergraduate student

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

1. •FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
   

2015-2017          Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Individual Fellowships (IF)

                         H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

2006-2013   Columbia University Fellowship, Columbia University in the City of NewYork/     Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences/ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, The United States of America.

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

20/01/2009 – 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)/New York, The United States of America.

02/09/2008 – 11/12/2008 Teaching Assistant – Solid Earth (undergraduate level)/ Columbia University in the City of New York/ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences/ New York, The United States of America.

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 funded 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. Position: Co-PI.

January, 2013       Geochemistry - Petrology field trip in Oman, Columbia University in the City of New York/New York, The United States of America. Position: Graduate student participant.

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, The United States of America. Position: Graduate student participant.

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, The United States of America. Position: Graduate student participant.

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, The United States of America. Position: Graduate student participant (the most of my thesis work has been concentrated on the data collected during this cruise).

1. •WORKING WITH INDUSTRY
   

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. •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., 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.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).

1. •TALKS
   

April, 2016, “Signatures of melt distribution along the EPR and connection with the hydrothermal circulation”, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.

March, 2016, “Signatures of melt distribution along the EPR and connection with the hydrothermal circulation”, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan.

March, 2016, “Signatures of melt distribution along the EPR and connection with the hydrothermal circulation”, Seoul National University, South Korea (invited).

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
   

European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)

America Geophysical Union (AGU)

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

1. •CONTRIBUTIONS
   

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 IR.

* 22/05/2013 – 11/09/2014

For proper balance between my personal and professional life, after finishing PhD I decided to return to Europe (my close family members reside in Serbia and my partner is currently living and working in France). To create opportunities for continuing the path of a researcher in Marine Geophysics and during the period between 22/05/2013 – 11/09/2014 I worked on the following aspects:

a)Extending academic network: I have established contacts with researchers in Europe: e.g. Anne Briais at the Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse; Satish Singh, Nobuaki Fuji, Mathilde Cannat at IPGP; Heidrun Kopp at GEOMAR, who invited me to give talks at their institutions (see the list of talks).

b)Participation in a research cruise. I participated in the international (Europe-USA) Galicia 3D survey as a Co-PI. The cruise was led by Dale Sawyer from Rice University – USA, César Ranero from Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging - Spain and Tim Reston from Birmingham University – UK. 

c)Dissemination of PhD work:

-Conferences: I have participated in two conferences - EAGE conference in London (Europe) and AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco (USA).

-Publications: I have been preparing articles for publication (the articles are result of my PhD work):

1. “A multi-sill magma plumbing system beneath the axis of the East Pacific Rise” has been accepted by Nature Geoscience and is expected to be in press shortly;

2. “Distribution of melt along the East Pacific Rise from 9º30′ to 10ºN from an amplitude variation with angle of incidence (AVA) technique” is going to be submitted to Geophysical Journal International by the end of September.

d)Language skills: I significantly improved speaking and writing skills in French (foremost professional – Geology/Geophysics) and have started studying Japanese.

e)Improving photography and design skills: I took advanced online courses for Adobe Illustrator (in English) and I have been taking online Photography Expert courses (in French).   

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