Yang Shen
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Educational Background
Ph.D., Geophysics
M.S., Geophysics
M.S., Geophysics
Tectonics and Geophysics
Brown University
Brown University
Inst. of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences
Nanjing UniversityTectonics and Geophysics
1995
1991
1987
1984
Areas of Specialization
Research
Yang Shen's research interests include the structures of the oceanic crust and upper mantle, hotspots and mantle plumes, and continental dynamics. His current & recent projects include (1) mantle discontinuities beneath Iceland, Hawaii, and southern Africa, (2) earthquake activities at mid-ocean ridges, (3) finite-frequency tomography (4) simulations of seismic wave propagation using a Beowulf PC cluster, and (5) seismic calibration for nuclear explosion monitoring.Teaching
Yang Shen co-teaches the graduate course Marine Geophysics (OCG552). He also teaches graduate courses on Geophysical Inverse Methods and other special topics.Students
Ting Yang
Ph.D.
M.S.
Candidate
Candidate
Publications:
Hung, S.-H., Y. Shen, and L.-Y. Chiao, Imaging seismic velocity structure beneath the Iceland hotspot - A finite-frequency approach, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B08305, doi:10.1029/2003JB002889, 2004.
Blum, J., and Y. Shen, Thermal, hydrous, and mechanical states of the mantle transition zone beneath Southern Africa, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 217, 367-378, 2004.
Y. Shen, and J. Blum, Seismic evidence for accumulated oceanic crust above the 660-km discontinuity beneath southern Africa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(18), 1925, doi:10.1029/2003GL017991, 2003.
Shen, Y., Seismicity at the Southern East Pacific Rise from Recordings of an Ocean-Bottom Seismometer Array, J. Geophys. Res., 107, B12, 2002.
Shen, Y., S. C. Solomon, I. Th. Bjarnason, G. Nolet, W. J. Morgan, R. M. Allen, K. Vogfjord, S. Jakobsdottir, R. Stefansson, B. R. Julian, and G. R. Foulger, Seismic evidence for a tilted mantle plume and north-south mantle flow beneath Iceland, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 197, 261-272, 2002.
