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EDUCATION

  • PhD, Geophysics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2016

Dissertation: Seismic Studies of the Tonga Subduction Zone and the Lau Back-arc Basin (Advisor: Douglas A. Wiens)

  • MA, Geophysics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2012
  • MSc, Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2010

Thesis: Seismic evidence for lithospheric strength in northern Tibet and the Hainan mantle plume (Advisor: Y. John Chen)

  • BSc, Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2007


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Green Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, 2016 - present
  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sci., Washington University, 2010 - 2016
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sci., Washington University, 2012 - 2013
  • Research Assistant, School of Earth & Space Sci., Peking University, 2007 - 2010
  • Teaching Assistant, School of Earth & Space Sci., Peking University, 2009 - 2010


AWARDS & HONORS

  • Green Scholar, IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, 2016
  • Postdoctoral fellowship, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC, 2015 (Declined for Green Scholar)
  • Commencement Speaker, School of Earth & Space Sci., Peking University, 2015
  • Antarctica Service Medal, National Science Foundation, 2012
  • McDonnell Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis, 2010 - 2015
  • May Fourth Scholarship, Peking University, 2008
  • Geology Fellowship, Peking University, 2003 - 2007


PUBLICATIONS

  1. Wei, S. S., D. A. Wiens, Y. Zha, T. Plank, S. C. Webb, D. K. Blackman, R. A. Dunn, and J. A. Conder (2015), Seismic Evidence of Effects of Water on Melt Transport in the Lau Back-arc Mantle, Nature, 518(7539), 395-398, doi: 10.1038/nature14113.
  2. Fan, W., Y. J. Chen, Y. Tang, S. Zhou, Y. Feng, H. Yue, H. Wang, G. Jin, S. Wei, Y. Wang, Z. Ge, and J. Ning, (2015), Crust and upper mantle velocity structure of the eastern Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions from ambient noise tomography, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 58(5), 1568-1583, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.08.008.
  3. Zha, Y., S. C. Webb, S. S. Wei, D. A. Wiens, D. K. Blackman, W. Menke, R. A. Dunn, and J. A. Conder (2014), Seismological imaging of Ridge-arc Interaction beneath the Eastern Lau Spreading Center from OBS Ambient Noise Tomography, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 408(0), 194-206, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.019.
  4. Yue, H., Y. J. Chen, E. Sandvol, J. Ni, T. Hearn, S. Zhou, Y. Feng, Z. Ge, A. Trujillo, Y. Wang, G. Jin, M. Jiang, Y. Tang, X. Liang, S. Wei, H. Wang, W. Fan, and Z. Liu (2012). Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. J. Geophys. Res., 117, B05307, doi: 10.1029/2011jb008545.
  5. Tang, Y. C., Y. S. Chen, Y. J. Yang, Z. F. Ding, R. F. Liu, Y. G. Feng, P. Li, C. Q. Yu, S. Q. Wei, W. Y. Fan, H. Y. Wang, S. Y. Zhou, and J. Y. Ning (2011), Ambient noise tomography in north China craton, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 54(8), 2011-2022, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2011.08.008.
  6. Wei, S., Y. J. Chen, E. Sandvol, S. Zhou, H. Yue, G. Jin, T. M. Hearn, M. Jiang, H. Wang, W. Fan, Z. Liu, Z. Ge, Y. Wang, Y. Feng, and J. Ni (2010), Regional earthquakes in northern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for lithospheric strength in Tibet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37(19), L19307, doi:10.1029/2010gl044800.
  7. Tang, Y. C., Y. G. Feng, Y. S. J. Chen, S. Y. Zhou, J. Y. Ning, S. Q. Wei, P. Li, C. Q. Yu, W. Y. Fan, and H. Y. Wang (2010), Receiver function analysis at Shanxi Rift, Chinese J. Geophys. (in Chinese), 53(9), 2102-2109, doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.09.010.
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

December 2015: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  • The intermediate-depth Tonga double-seismic zone and relationship to slab thermal structure
October 2015: 2015 OBS Symposium, Vancouver, WA (Invited talk)
  • Seismic Velocity and Attenuation Tomography of the Tonga Arc and Lau Back-arc Basin
July 2015: Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China (Invited talk)
  • Effects of Dehydration of the Tonga Subduction Zone on Back-arc Mantle Melting
February 2015: Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC (Invited talk)
  • Imaging Mantle Melting beneath the Lau Back-arc Basin
June 2014: McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada (Invited talk)
  • Imaging Partial Melt beneath the Lau Back-arc Basin
March 2014: LDEO Seismology Student Workshop, Columbia University, Palisade, NY (Invited talk)
  • Seismic Attenuation beneath the Lau Back-arc Basin
December 2013: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  • 3-D Distribution of Partial Melt beneath the Lau Backarc Basin from Seismic Attenuation Tomography
December 2012: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  • Shear Velocity Structure of the Tonga Arc and Lau Backarc Basin from Rayleigh Wave Tomography


FIELD EXPERIENCE

Cruise R/V Melville at Mariana Islands, 2013
POLENET (The Polar Earth Observing Network), 2011 - 2012
SPREE (SuPerior Rifting Earthscope Experiment), 2011 - 2012
LE-MUSE (Leizhou pEninsula Mantle plUme Seismic Exploration), 2008 - 2009
INDEPTH (InterNational DEep Proling of Tibet and the Himalayas) IV, 2009
RISE (Research of Tibetan Rift), 2008
COLT (Cirum-Ordos Lithospheric Transfer), 2007 - 2009


MEMBERSHIPS

American Geophysical Union
Chinese Geophysical Society
Seismological Society of America