Alumni Graduate Students
Megan Avants
Geophysicist
Research Interests: Effects of 3D near source heterogeneity on teleseismic P wave signals and deep water exploration.
Email: mavants@chevron.com
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2014
Grace Barcheck
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Website: gracebarchek
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2018
Jos Beckers
Senior Manager, Groundwater; Associate Partner
Hatfield Consulatants, Limited
Research Interests: Physical groundwater and watershed hydrology problems for the oil sands, coal seam gas, mining and forestry sectors.
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1992
Susan L. Bilek
Professor of Geophysics
New Mexico Tech
Research Interests: Earthquake rupture processes; stresses and structure of fault zones; shallow subduction zone processes; tsunami generation; fault zone material properties; Central America tectonics.
Email: sbilek@nmt.edu
Ph.D. Earth Sciences/Geophysics UCSC 2001
Ornella Bonamassa
Adjunct Faculty
University of San Francisco
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1995
Jun Cao
Senior Research Geophysicist
Research Interests: Seismic imaging based on one-way and full-wave wave equations (including true-reflection imaging; Wave equation based directional illumination analysis; Seismic wave propagation and imaging in beamlet domain; Seismic waves modeling in complex media (finite difference, one-way and one-return propagator, etc.); Seismic inversion (full-waveform inversion, diffraction tomography, and travel time tomography etc.); Velocity model building and updating.
Email: jcaogeo@gmail.com
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2008
Debra Carlo
Researcher
Imperial Oil & Gas
M.S. Geophysics UCSC 1998
Esteban Chaves Sibaja
Researcher/Associated Professor
Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional (OVSICORI-UNA)
Email: esteban.j.chaves@una.cr
Research Interests: Understanding the seismic coupling between the Cocos and Caribbean plates in the subduction zone beneath the Nicoya and Osa Peninsulas of Costa Rica. Both regions have the potential for very large earthquakes.
Ling Chen
Professor of Geophysics
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Seismic imaging of the Earth’s deep structure using advanced techniques developed in exploration seismology; properties of the lithosphere and upper mantle; continental evolution.
Emails: lchen@mail.igcas.ac.cn
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC/China Seismological Bureau 2002
Kelian Dascher-Cousineau
Milller Felllow, UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Earthquake physics, fracture mechanics, faulting.
Heather DeShon
Professor of Geophysics
Southern Methodist University Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests: Subduction seismogenic zone processes; Earthquake generation in intraplate settings: Local earthquake tomography and waveform cross-correlation; Volcano seismology.
Email: hdeshon@smu.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2004
Jessica Faust Larsen
Associate Professor
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Research Interests: Experimental determination of vesiculation processes in silicate melts. Crystallization kinetics and phase equilibria studies of Aleutian basaltic-andesites and phonolite and tephriphonolite magmas from the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius. Okmok volcano geology. Western Aleutians geological studies.
Email: jflarsen@alaska.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1996
Saskia Goes
Professor in Geophysics
Imperial College London
Research Interests: Studying the geodynamics of the Earth’s lithosphere and mantle by using a combination of numerical, dynamic modeling, conversion of thermo-chemical structure into geophysical parameters such as seismic velocity and density, and comparison with various observables.
Email: sgoes@imperial.ac.uk
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1995
Yu Geng
Researcher
Senior Geophysicist
Nanometrics
Research Interests: Curvelet transform and its application to signal processing, wave propagation and imaging, the Method of Wave Propagation in Local Angle Domain, and the Method of Attenuation Estimation for VSP Data.
Email: yu.geng@ucalgary.ca
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC/Xi’an Jiaotong University 2014
Stephen Hernandez
Volcano Seismologist
Instituto Geofisico at the Escuela Politecnica Nacional
Email: hernandez.stephen@gmail.com
stephen-hernandez.com
M.S. Earth Sciences UCSC 2014
Alex Hutko
Research Scientist
University of Washington
Research Interests: Develop/implement data products and research tools that facilitate seismology research.
Email: alex@iris.washington.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2008
Lia Lajoie
Engineer
Network of the Americas
PhD Geophysics Colorado School of Mines 2019
M.S. Earth Sciences UCSC 2012
B.Sc.Summa Cum Laude Earth Sciences UCSC 2010
Jian Mao
Geophysicist
Email: Jian.Mao@tgs.com
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC/Xi’an Jiaotong University 2012
Qingjun Meng
Postdoctoral Scholar
UCLA
Email: guichen.mqj@gmail.com
M.S. UCSC 2015
Darcy Ogden
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2008
Kristine Pankow
Research Professor of Geology & Geophysics and Associate Director of
University of Utah Seismograph Stations
Research Interests: Analyzing the vast amount of data collected by UUSS in order to understand shallow-crustal structure, strong ground motion, and physical processes of wave propagation. Recently I have also become interested in infrasound wave propagation.
Email: pankow@seis.utah.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1999
Marino Protti
Researcher
The Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional (OVSICORI-UNA)
Research Interests: His studies have focused on Nicoya Peninsula subduction.
Email: marino.protti@gmail.com
Ph.D Geophysics UCSC 1994
Haoran Ren
Lecturer
Zhejiang University
Email: rhr@zju.edu.cn
Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University
ZheDa Rd.38, Xihu District,
Hangzhou City
Zhejiang 310027, P.R. China
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC/Tongji University 2011
Andrea Rhode
Assistant Project Manager
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
M.S. Geophysics UCSC 2019
Jeroen Ritsema
Professor
University of Michigan
Research Interests: Seismic tomography, waveform analysis, and 3D simulations of wave amplitudes.
Email: jritsema@umich.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1995
Christie Rowe
Professor
Research Interests: How do variables in lithology, strain rate, fluid chemistry and fluid pressure affect deformation mechanisms and fluid transport in faults? How is seismic slip preserved in the rock record? How does fluid-rock interaction affect rock behavior and permeability and pressure transients?
Email: christie.rowe@mcgill.ca
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2007
MARGINS Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSC from 2009-2010
Sara Russell Gonzalez
Product Evangelist
Readcube Papers
Email: saragonz@ufl.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2001
Erin Todd
Seismologist
Research Interests: Investigating instances of tectonic tremor and microseismicity associated with slow slip events in New Zealand. Also investigating the degree of seismic coupling in subduction zones around the world.
PhD Geophysics UCSC 2017
Nicholas Van der Elst
Geophysicist
Earthquake Science Center, USGS
Research Interests: Earthquake nucleation and triggering. Rock and granular mechanics.
Email: nvanderelst@usgs.gov
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2012
Aaron A. Velasco
Professor
University of Texas at El Paso
Research Interests: Earthquake source modeling, seismotectonics, earthquake hazards, and nuclear treaty monitoring research (seismic event detection, location, and discrimination).
Email: velasco@geo.utep.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1993
Jake Walter
Oklahoma State Seismologist
Research Interests: include ice sheet and glacier dynamics, tectonic tremor and slow slip, earthquakes, seismic triggering of earthquakes and other phenomena. He conducts research in Antarctica, Costa Rica, Greenland, and Alaska.
Email: jwalter at ou.edu
Ph.D. Earth Sciences UCSC 2012
Alex Watson
Email: allowats@ucsc.edu
Research Interests: Seismology and Earthquake Geophysics
M.S. Geophysics 2022
Bangyu Wu
Geophysicist, Seismic Imaging R&D
Statoil Technology Service Co., Ltd
Research Interests: Dreamlet and beamlet transform and its application to wave propagation and imaging.
Email: bwu@statoil.com
Office Phone: +86 10 5963 2588 EXT: 515
Visitor address: 28th floor, West tower, Twin Towers, B-12, Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang District, 100022, Beijing, PRC
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC/Xi’an Jiaotong University 2011
Zhongmou Xia
Postdoctoral Scholar
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Email: xzm990591@163.com
Scholarship Graduate Student at UCSC 2010/2012
Wenjun Xu
Researcher
Tongji University
Email: xuweejee@gmail.com
Scholarship Graduate Student at UCSC 2008/2011
Lian Xue
Assistant Professor
University of Peking
Email: xuelian.icy@gmail.com
Research Interests: Earthquake physics using hydrology, and geodesy
PhD Geophysics UCSC 2015
Rui Yan
Senior Research Geophysicist, Deceased
TGS
Email: yanrui.pku@gmail.com
Research Interests: RTM angle gathers; RTM angle-domain illumination; True-amplitude RTM; Elastic wave modeling and migration.
Lingling Ye
Associate Professor
Southern University of Science and Technology
Research Interests: Earthquake seismology, using seismic waves recorded globally from large earthquakes to study faulting processes, seismic radiation energy, stress changes, and tectonic processes.
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2015
Yueming Ye
Geophysical Engineer
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)
Research Interests: True amplitude prestack depth migration
Emails: yeym_hz@petrochina.com.cn yeyuem82@yahoo.com.cn
Ph.D. Geophysics from UCSC/China University of Petroleum 2010
Han Yue
Assistant Professor
Peking University
Email: johnyuehan2003@gmail.com
Research Interests: Rupture process inversion of large earthquakes and imaging crustal and upper-mantle structures.
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2014
Zhi Zhang
Researcher
Guilin University of Technology
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 1994
Yingcai Zheng
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Seismic wave propagation and imaging.
Email: yzheng24@central.uh.edu
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC 2007
Yi Zhou
Principal Scientist
Halliburton
M.S. Geophysics UCSC 1992
Xiaosan Zhu
Researcher
Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
Research Interests: Processing and interpretation of deep reflection seismic data, which is focusing on the earth’s lithosphere.
Email: zhuxiaosan129@gmail.com
Ph.D. Geophysics UCSC/Peking University 2009
Lei Zhuo
Geophysicist
Chevron
Research Interests: Seismic imaging
Email: lei.zhuo@chevron.com
Office Phone Number: 832-854-7919
MS Geophysics UCSC 2005
Alumni Post-Doc researchers & Visiting Scholars
Vincent Allègre
Maître de conférences
Université de Bordeaux
Email: vince.al@hotmail.fr; vallegre@ucsc.edu
My research interests have been related to hydrogeophysical characterization of the near surface, using low frequency electrical methods such as self-potentials. I’ve been studying the electrokinetic response of unsaturated media, using streaming-potentials and seismoelectric measurements, both at the laboratory and in the field. I’m currently working on permeability changes over time in groundwater reservoir using tidal responses.
Education 2010 – PhD in Earth Sciences, Universite de Strasbourg, France. 2007 – MSc degree in Earth Sciences, Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. 2003 – BSc in Geophysics, Universite Rennes 1, France.
Charles Ammon
Professor
Penn State
Research Interests: Earthquake processes, evolution of the lithosphere, seismic wave propagation, and signal processing.
Email: charlesammon@psu.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC 1991-1993
Qianzong Bao
Researcher
Chang’an University
Research Interests: Multi-scale geometry analysis applying to seismic data, compressive sensing in acquisition design and seismic data interpolation, and near-surface seismic exploration.
Thibault Candela
Geomechanics Scientist
TNO
Research Interests: The key questions for my research are: how are the geometrical irregularities of faults affected by the slip during an earthquake? (ii) Can we use the roughness of faults as the fingerprint of processes activated during past earthquakes? (iii) How does the shaking of the earth during earthquakes re-distribute the fluids of the subsurface?
Email: thibault.g.candela@gmail.com; thibault.candela@tno.nl
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2011-2012
Jingjie Cao
Visiting Scholar from Shijiazhuang University
Research Interests: Seismic inversion problems and optimization methods, such as seismic interpolation, deconvolution and denoising. Curvelet transform applications.
Bo Chen
Research Interests: Hybrid acoustic one-way, one-return propagator.
Guo-Xin Chen
Visiting Graduate Student from Zhejiang University, China
Email: 21106263@zju.edu.cn
Research Interests: Reverse time migration and full waveform inversion.
Shengchang Chen
Professor
Zhejiang University
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC 2002 – 2005
Xueliang Chen
Visiting Associate Professor of Geophysics, Institute of Geophysics/Seismological Bureau of China
Email: sureringchen@gmail.com
Research Interests: Three-dimensional modeling of Earth’s shallow surface structure; Numerical simulation and synthetics on seismic wave propagation in complex, open systems; Linear and nonlinear seismic response analysis of complex site; Soil dynamic properties and constitutive relations; Explicit numerical integral formula in time domain; etc.
Gu Cheng
Visiting Associate Professor of Geophysics, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Email: chenggu@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Research Interests: Seismic data processing, FWI and RTM.
Mai-Linh Doan
Professor
Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Universite Grenoble Alpes
Research Interests: In-situ study of the mechanical properties and hydrological vulnerabilities and laboratory study of high speed mechanical deformation.
Email: Mai-Linh.Doan@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2006-2007
Jean Elkhoury
Research Scientist
Schlumberger – Doll Research Center
Research Interests: Understanding the influence of dynamic stressing on fluid flow in porous media as well as the influence of mechanical and chemical alterations on hydrological and thermal properties of fractures and fractured media.
Email: elkhoury@slb.com
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2008-2009
Bo Feng
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Tongji University, Shanghai
Email: ancd111@163.com; ancd111@gmail.com
Research Interests: Seismic velocity inversion and imaging, sparse representation of seismic signal
Liyun Fu
Researcher
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Theoretical seismology and exploration seismology research
Email: lfu@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 1997-2002
Patrick Fulton
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
My research focuses on hydrologic and thermal processes within fault zones and their role in controlling fault slip behavior or in providing insightful signatures within fault rocks and borehole observations. Some of my research also has applications associated with understanding fluxes of heat, solutes, and hydrocarbons through seafloor vents and hydrothermal basins. In general, these efforts involve a combination of hydrogeology, thermal geophysics, and geomechanics and utilize field and laboratory data in combination with modeling to test hypotheses.
Assistant Researcher, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012 – 2015
Jinghuai Gao
Professor
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Research Interests: Array signal processing, wave propagation and seismic imaging in complex media, and theory and application of inverse problem.
Email: jhgao@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 1998-1999
Ed Garnero
Professor
Arizona State University
Research Interests: Understanding structures inside our planet and the Moon that relate to dynamical motions and hence evolution of the planetary body itself.
Email: garnero@asu.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC 1994-1997
Zengxi Ge
Associate Professor
Department of Geophysics, Peking University
Research Interests: seismic imaging, seismic wave propagation modelling, seismic rupture process imaging using back-projection method.
Email: zge@pku.edu.cn
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2001 – 2004 and Visiting Researcher 2010 – 2011
Abhijit Ghosh
Associate Professor
University of California, Riverside
Research Interests: Understanding the underlying physics and mechanics of earthquakes and faults, and the critical role they play in governing the tectonics of a region.
Email: aghosh@ucr.edu; aghosh.earth@gmail.com
Geoprisms Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSC 2012
Thomas Göebel
CERI, University of Memphis
Research Interests: My research focuses on the investigation of fault structures, seismicity distributions and earthquake source processes. I integrate rock mechanics experiments, statistical seismology, and fault structural observations to advance understanding of the complex interaction between tectonic loading and fault heterogeneity as well as respective implications for rupture dynamics. My research aims to improve the documentation of fault structure and stress, based on micro-seismicity analysis at seismogenic depth where other observational methods are not feasible. My investigation of micro-seismicity is also important to monitor fluid-flow and the activation potential of faults due to fluid injection and waste water disposal.
Postdoc and Lecturer UCSC 2015-2019
Xiangbo Gong
Visiting Associate Professor from Jilin University
Email: gongxb@jlu.edu.cn
Research Interests: Seismic imaging and illumination analysis, seismic signal processing, and seismic data processing for mineral exploration.
Huimin Guan
Geophysicist
Total S.A.
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC 1997 – 2000
Qiyu Han
Founder & President
Geophysical Clarity Technologies, LLC
Geophysics Research Scientist at UCSC from 2002-2005
Baoqing He
Researcher and Engineer
BGP CNPC
Email: hebaoqing@cnpc.com.cn
Research Interests: Seismic illumination and imaging on seismic survey design.
Yongqing He
Geophysicist
BGP Acquisition Technique Supports, CNPC
Research Interests: 2D and 3D seismic data acquisition
Emails: hyqzxh0515@sina.com heyongqing2010@gmail.com
Visiting Researcher at UCSC from 2011 – 2012
Tae-Kyung Hong
Professor of Geophysics and Associate Dean of Science
Yonsei University
Research Interests: Investigation of crustal heterogeneity from scattered waves and seismic properties of fault zones.
Email: tkhong@yonsei.ac.kr
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2003-2004
Christine Houser
Assistant Professor
Earth Life Science Institute, Tokyo Tech
Research Interests: The collection and analysis of long-period seismic waves that travel through the Earth’s deepest interior to map anomalous regions of the Earth’s mantle.
Email: chouser@elsi.jp
Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSC 2005-2009
Lianjie Huang
Scientist 5 (Senior Scientist)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research Interests: 1. Seismic imaging, waveform inversion, and microseismic imaging for oil/gas exploration, geothermal energy exploration, monitoring for enhanced geothermal systems, and monitoring for geological carbon sequestration; 2. Ultrasound imaging and tomography for cancer detection and diagnosis.
Email: ljh@lanl.gov
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 1995-1996
Xingguo Huang
Post Graduate Scholar
Email: Xingguo.Huang@uib.no
Research Interests: Computational geophysics and acoustics, wave propagation, scattering theory, 4-D full waveform inversion and seismic imaging.
Weilin Huang
Visiting Graduate Student from China University of Petroleum-Beijing
Email: cup_hwl@126.com
Research Interests: Seismic signal processing and inversion.
Morten Jakobsen
Visiting Scholar from University of Bergen
Email: Morten.Jakobsen@geo.uib.no; morten.jakobsen@uib.no
Research Interests: The development of rock physics models for characterization of fractured and conventional reservoirs, and the development of (volume integral equation and finite difference) methods for seismic waveform modelling and inversion. Also in 4D seismics, electromagnetic methods and the development of novel workflows for quantiative integration of gophysical and production data.
Xiaofeng Jia
Associate Professor
School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology China
Research Interests: Seismic migration; seismic wave propagators; numerical methods of seismic modeling.
Email: xjia@ustc.edu.cn
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2005-2009
Yuge Jia
Visiting Scholar from China University of Mining and Technology
Email: gegecumt@126.com
Research Interests: Numerical simulation of channel waves; Optimization algorithms such as particle swarm optimization; Seismic inversion.
Shengwen Jin
Principal Advisor
Landmark Software & Services, Halliburton
Research Interests: Prestack depth imaging, migration velocity updating, illumination and visibility analysis, forward modeling and multi-component data processing
Email: Shengwen.Jin@halliburton.com
Postdoctoral at UCSC from 1996 – 2000
Hao Jing
Visiting Graduate Student from Tsinghua University
Email: jinghao0320@gmail.com
Research Interests: Full waveform inversion and numerical solution of wave equations, such as the nearly analytical discretized method.
James Kirkpatrick
Associate Professor
McGill University
Research Interests: Fault mechanics, seismic slip processes, fault rock rheology and the interdependence of fluids and faulting.
Email: james.kirkpatrick@mcgill.ca
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC 2009 – 2012
Chao Li
Post Graduate Researcher
Email: lichaocup@163.com
Research Interests: Seismic data processing, seismic data interpolation and reconstruction, Machine Learning
Guihua Li
Professor
Shandong University of Science and Technology
Email: lghxa@163.com
Research Interests: Seismic wave propagation, modeling and synthetics in elastic and viscoelastic media, croswell seismic processing technology, other signal processing technology.
Jigang Li
Associate Professor
Beihang University
Research Interests: Complex geological structure modeling
Email: lijigang@buaa.edu.cn
Visiting Researcher at UCSC 2012
Qingqing Li
Visiting Scholar, China University of Petroleum, East China
Research Interests: Seismic imaging and inversion.
Shu Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Email: lidawning@outlook.com
Research Interests: Seismic inversion, seismic signal processing.
Wenquan Liang
Visiting Lecturer from Longyan University/Fujian, China
Email: onethink2002@foxmail.com
Research Interests: Finite difference modeling and reverse time migration.
Jicheng Liu
Professor
School of Electronic and Information Engineeering at Northeast Petroleum University
Research Interests: Non-stationary Signal analysis and Processing.
Email: jliu62@ucsc.edu
Visiting Scholar at UCSC from 2013 – 2014
Yangting Liu
Visiting Graduate Student
China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Email: yangting.lau@gmail.com
Research Interests: Seismic inversion and global optimization methods.
Jingrui Luo
Lecturer
Xi’an University of Technology, School of Automation and Information Engineering
Email: jingrui1025@stu.xjtu.edu.cn, bluebirdjr@foxmail.com
Mingqiu Luo
Chief Geophysicist
Research Interests: seismic imaging and inversion
Emails: luo_mingqiu@yahoo.com; mqluo.sthc@sinopec.com
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2001-2004
Tengfei Ma
Graduate Student
Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Authority
Research Interests: Statistical seismology, seismophysics, continuous waveform analysis, computational geodynamics and earthquake early warning (EEW).
Email: tengfeima.vip@gmail.com
Visiting Graduate Student at UCSC 2014
Andrew Newman
Professor
The Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Interests:Kinematic activity at Santorini Caldera, GreeceThe Nicoya MegathrustDeformation modeling at the Long Valley calderaEarthquake recurrence and seismoc hazard at the New Madrid seismic zoneReal-time determination of “tsunami earthquakes”Real-time Earthquake Energy and Duration
Email: anewman@gatech.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2000 – 2002
Kyosuke Okamoto
Researcher
Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan
Research Interests: Earthquake engineering, e.g., early warning system for earthquake and tsunami.
Email: okamoto.kyousuke.33w@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Visiting Researcher at UCSC 2012 – 2013
Arthur Rodgers
Seismologist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Research Interests: Computational seismology, earthquake ground motion simulation, underground explosion simulation, seismic discrimination, crustal and lithospheric structure, seismic waveform modeling.
Email: rodgers7@llnl.gov
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC 1995-1998
Amir Sagy
Researcher
Geological Survey of Israel
Research Interests: Structural geology, brittle rock failure and earthquake mechanics
Email: asagy@gsi.gov.il
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2006-2007
Heather Savage
Associate Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Earthquake and fault mechanics with special interests in earthquake triggering and fault damage zones.
Email: hsavage@ldeo.columbia.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2007-2010
Hongmei Shan
Graduate student
Shanghai University of Electrical Power
Research Interests: Developing theory and techniques on advanced data signal analysis for both seismic data processing and communication technology.
Ashley Shuler
Geophysicist
Chevron Energy Technology Company
Email: ashley.shuler@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2012-2013
Shalev Siman-Tov
Researcher
Email: shalevst@gmail.com
Research Interests: Integrating field and experimental observations of the fault core and aiming to understand the basic questions in the physics of faulting and earthquakes.
Chris Thom
Research and Development Manager
Rhenium Alloys, Inc.
Email: cthom11@gmail.com
Research Interests: My research interests lie at the intersection of geology, geophysics, materials science, and engineering. I utilize a suite of both traditional and non-traditional experimental techniques to measure the friction and rheology of rocks and minerals at a variety of physical conditions and length scales. These experiments seek to provide laboratory constraints and to test hypotheses about large-scale geophysical and geodynamic questions related to the strength of the lithosphere and the origin of plate tectonics.
Postdoc at UCSC 2021-2022
Martin Vallée
Researcher
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)
Research Interests: Study of the seismic source: fundamental (rupture velocity, scaling laws…) and applied (near real-time earthquake modeling) research.
Email: vallee@ipgp.fr
Visiting Researcher at UCSC from 2001
Benfeng Wang
Research Interests: Seismic data processing and parameter inversion, such as seismic data convolution and interpolation based on sparse constraint, attenuation compensation based on inversion. As for parameter inversion, my interest is full waveform inversion which use both time and amplitude information.
Jun Wang
Associate Professor
China University of Petroleum
Research Interests: 3D VSP imaging with beam migration based on optimum atom decompisition..
Email: slwangjun@upc.edu.cn
Visiting Researcher at UCSC 2013 – 2014
Shoudong Wang
Associate Professor from China University of Petroleum
Email: wangshoudong@163.com
Research Interests: The simulation and inversion of seismic wave. Time-lapse seismic inversion. Attenuation compensation. Cross-hole seismic imaging.
Visiting Associate Professor at UCSC from 2015-2016.
Yongzhong Wang
Principal Research Geophysicist
DownUnder GeoSolutions
Research Interests: Seismic depth migration (Optimized FFD and Beamlet imaging, prismatic/turning waves imaging, anisotropic RTM with primaries/multiples, and RTM angle gathers), full waveform inversion, wave equation modeling for complex media, seismic wave scattering analysis, Q estimation and compensation, and demultiples.
Emails: yzwang_houston@yahoo.com
Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSC from 1997 – 2002
Yuqing Wang
Visiting Graduate Student from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu
Email: wangyuqing@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Seismic signal processing, seismic time-frequency analysis, seismic spectral decomposition and seismic attribute extraction.
Wei Guan
Associate Proferssor
Harbin Institute of Technology
Email: guanw@hit.edu.cn
Research Interests: Seismic and electrokinetic waves propagation in porous media and its applications to geoscience.
Nadav Wetzler
Geophysicist
Email: nadavw@gsi.gov.il
Research Interests: My research focuses on earthquakes and seimotectonics. I’m trying to understand how earthquakes associate with the 3D tectonic architecture of fault systems and as well as earthquake triggering. I also work on geophysical problems that involve 3D numerical modeling and CFD.
Postdoc at UCSC 2015-2017
Xianyun Wu
Geophysicist
ExxonMobil
Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSC from 2000-2003
Yinting Wu
Lecturer
Chang’an University, Xi’an
Email: wuyinting0215@163.com
Research Interests: Seismic multiples elimination~attenuation inversion for VSP data; position inversion for microseismic data.
Lili Xiao
Graduate Student
China University of Geosciences
Research Interests: Landslide stability assessment, landslide movement simulation, landslide generated waves prediction in reservoir area, and individual and regional landslide risk prediction based on GIS.
Email: lena749@gmail.com
Visiting Graduate Student at UCSC 2014
Zhe Yan
Associate Professor
China University of Geosciences
Hui Yang
Senior Geophysicist
Statoil (beijing) Technology Service Co., Ltd
Research Interests: Beam migration, FWI, MVA, deghost.
Email: yanghuee@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSC from 2005 – 2010
Kai Yang
Professor
Tongji University
Email: yang_kai@tongji.edu.cn
Research Interests: Specific seismic inversion and imaging techniques for land seismic data processing such as stereo-tomography, CRS and multi-focusing stack, wave-equation datuming, stochastic near-surface velocity construction methods.
Kazuo Yoshimoto
Professor
Research Interests: Seismological investigation of the lithospheric structure and the regional tectonics of the island arc; tectonic evolution of subduction zones; developing new methods that utilize high-frequency seismic signals of regional earthquakes to reveal the short-wavelength heterogeneity in the earth.
Email: k_yoshi@yokohama-cu.ac.jp
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at UCSC 1999
Jiachun You
Visiting Graduate Student from China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB)
Email: youjiachun@cugb.edu.cn; youjiachun2009@163.com
Research Interests: seismic migration and inversion and forward modeling using GPU accelerating technique
Liqin Zhang
Visiting Associate Professor from Wuhan University
Email: lqzhang@sgg.whu.edu.cn
Research Interests: Geophysical Inversion and Seismic Wave Equation Simulation
Pan Zhang
Visiting Graduate Student from Jilin University
Email: : zhangpan2309@163.com
Research Interests: Full waveform inversion, joint imaging, passive seismic interferometry and microseismic location.
Lian-Feng Zhao
Associate Professor of Geophysics
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests: Seismology: Seismic Source Mechanism, Wave Propagation, Seismic Tomography, Receiver Function, Reflection Seismology, Seismic Data Processing.
Emails: zhaolf@mail.igcas.ac.cn zhao_lianfeng@hotmail.com
Visiting Assistant Researcher 2010-2011
Huamin Zhou
Graduate Student
Zhejiang University
Email: zhouhuamin0926@163.com
Research Interests: Least squares migration, and seismic modeling and imaging.
Alumni Undergraduate Students
Joe Cherayil
Email: jcherayi@ucsc.edu
Research Interests: Seismology. My research focuses on the variability of b-values in locked and creeping faults.
Paul Colosi
Research Interests: Seismology and Volcanology. My current research uses machine learning algorithms to predict the size of volcanic eruptions.
Marshall Danese
Senior Data Scientist
Research interests include: granular rheology & mineralogy of shear zones
Jacqui Gilchrist
Data Science Fellow
Research Interest: I’m interested in earthquake occurence and interaction. I use physics based earthquake simulators to study fault interactions and long-term earthquake statistics, as well as rupture dynamics. My work primarily involves studying the effects of different frictional properties and fault geometries on the probabilities of large earthquakes using the multi-cycle earthquake simulator RSQSim and a California fault model.
Email: jacquig@gmail.com
Ph.D. Geophysics UC Riverside 2015
B.Sc. Earth Sciences UCSC 2008
Monica Aquino Guerra
internship program: Water Injection induced earthquakes in California
Brenton Hirao
Graduate Student
University of Oregon
Research Interests: Granular flow rheology, creep along the San Andreas Fault
Jonas Kintner
Geophysicist
Los Alamos National Lab
Research Interests: Conducting seismic analysis on the Nicoya Peninsula Megathrust. Ultimately doing a comparative spatial/temporal analysis between foreshock and aftershock sequences of large earthquakes that happen in the region.
B.Sc. Earth Sciences, UCSC 2015
Paul Morgan
Graduate Student
University of Washington
Research Interest: Working with high-frequency GPS data from the Sumatra GPS Array (SuGAr).
Email: pmorgan@ntu.edu.sg
B.Sc. Earth Sciences UCSC 2014
Stephanie Nale
Geophysicist
US Navy
Research Interests: include borhole pressure research and marine geophysics.
Email: smn85@cornell.edu; nale.stephanie@gmail.com
B.Sc. Cum Laude, Earth Sciences UCSC 2012
John Ohman
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Primarily forensic seismology, namely using seismology as a tool to decipher useful source information about underground nuclear detonations. I also am interested in earthquake rupture dynamics, as well as anthropogenic seismicity, such as injection triggered seismicity
Tyler Paladino
Graduate Student
Idaho State University
Research Interests: Currently researching the boundary of the Whillans Ice Stream and the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, a very seismically active region. Investigating how tidal fluctuations can flex these ice sheets and potentially cause seismic events to occur
Diana Rattanasith
Field Geologist
Environmental Investigation Services, Inc.
B.Sc. Earth Sciences UCSC 2014
David Small
Graduate Student
University of Oregon
Research Interests: Seismic application to understand the Earth’s interior. Currently researching the Mendocino Triple Junction using obs and land seismometers to better understand the regions seismicity and possible slow slip events in the plate interface.
Clay Sorensen
Senior Hydrogeologist
Research Interest: Fluvial processes and morphology including sediment transport.
Email: sorensen.clayton.s@gmail.com
M.Sc. Geological Sciences, Univeristy of Idaho 2015
B.Sc. Earth Sciences with a concentration in Environmental Geology, UCSC 2011, with honors
Aviel Stern
Data Scientist
Sharpest Minds
Research Interests: Geomechanics.
B.Sc. Earth Sciences UCSC 2010
Dimitri Voytan
Senior Data Scientist
SparkCognition