Yang Shen’s GSO research group student, Xiaozhuo Wei, defended his PhD thesis this week and published 4 papers in high-end Seismology journals:

1. X. Wei, Y. Shen, and J. K. Morgan, Shallow volcano-tectonic structures on the Island of Hawai‘i imaged by multimode Rayleigh wave ambient noise tomography, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, accepted.
2. X. Wei, Y. Shen (2022), P waves emerged from ambient noise cross-correlation post the 2018 K ̄ılauea eruption revealing middle crust velocity discontinuities beneath the Island of Hawai‘i, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49(16): e2022GL098470, doi: 10.1029/2022GL098470.
3. X. Wei, Y. Shen, J. Caplan-Auerbach, and J. K. Morgan (2022), An improved earthquake catalog during the 2018 K ̄ılauea eruption from combined onshore and offshore seismic arrays, Earth Space Sci., 9(6): e2021EA001979, doi: 10.1029/2021EA001979.
4. X. Wei, Y. Shen, J. Caplan-Auerbach, and J. K. Morgan (2021), An OBS array to Investigate the Offshore Seismicity during the 2018 K ̄ılauea Eruption, Seismol. Res. Lett., 92(1): 603-612, doi:10.1785/0220200206.

This research was enabled through URI HPC and additional support from Kevin Bryan. Congratulations, Dr. Xiaozhuo Wei!