From Fall 2018 through December 2019 she was the Interim Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
Tolstoy was interested in both science and theater while growing up,[1] but a fascination with earthquakes led her to a career in geoscience.
[3] In January 2022 she started her position as the Maggie Walker Dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.
[6] While many of her instruments were trapped in lava, enough could be recovered to track the sequence of events that led to the eruption.
[17] She was a 2012 invited speaker at the Nobel Conference,[18] and delivered the 2016 Francis Birch Lecture at the American Geophysical Union meeting.