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Yang Shen
Professor of Oceanography
Room 203, Horn Lab
Phone: 401-874-6848

Educational Background

Ph.D. Geophysics
M.Sc. Geophysics
B.Sc. Geophysics
Brown University
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanjing University
1995
1987
1984

Areas of Specialization

Research

Yang Shen's research interests include earthquake hazards and structure of the crust and upper mantle. 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 in 3D heterogeneous earth, 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

Jennifer Georgen
Ting Yang
Elizabeth Kusel
Xiaofeng Liang
Wei Zhang
Yong Ren
Meng Gong
Zhigang Zhang
Haiying Gao
Ashton Flinders
Christina King
Jiahang Li
Liping Fan
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Associate
Visiting Ph.D Student
Postdoctoral Associate
Postdoctoral Associate
Visiting M.Sc Student
Ph.D
Postdoctoral Associate
Ph.D Candidate
Ph.D Candidate
Ph.D Candidate
Visiting Ph.D student
2001-2003
2005
2005-2007
2008
2007-2010
2007-2009
2010-2011
2010
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Publications:

Shi, D., Y. Shen, W. Zhao, A. Li, Seismic evidence for a Moho offset and south-directed thrust at the easternmost Qaidam-Kunlun boundary in the Northeast Tibetan plateau, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 288, 329-334, 2009.

Zhang, W., Y. Shen, X. Chen, Numerical simulation of strong ground motion for the Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Science in China Series D: Earth Sciences, vol.51, no. 12, 1673-1682, 2008.

Zhang, Z., Y. Shen, Cross-dependence of finite-frequency compressional waveforms to shear seismic wave-speeds, Geophys. J. Int., 174, 941-948, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03840.x, 2008.

Ren, Y., Y. Shen, Finite-frequency tomography in southeastern Tibet: Evidence for the causal relation between mantle lithopshere delamination and the north-south-trending rifts, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10316, doi:10.1029/2008JB005615, 2008.

Shen, Y., Z. Zhang, L. Zhao, Component-dependent Frechet sensitivity kernels and utility of three-component seismic records, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98 (5), 2517-2525, doi: 10.1785/0120070283, 2008.

Zhang, Z., Y. Shen, L. Zhao, Finite-frequency sensitivity kernels for head waves, Geophys. J. Int., 171, 847-856, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03575.x, 2007.

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.

Shen, Y., S.C. Solomon, I. Th. Bjarnason, and C. J. Wolfe, Seismic evidence for a lower mantle origin of the Iceland mantle plume, Nature, 395, 62-65, 1998a.

Shen, Y., A.F. Sheehan, K.G. Dueker, C. de Groot-Hedlin, and H. Gilbert, Upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath the southern East Pacific Rise from P-to-S converted phases, Science, 280, 1232-1234,1998b.

Shen, Y., D.S. Scheirer, D.W. Forsyth, and K.C. Macdonald, Trade-off in production between adjacent seamount chains near the southern East Pacific Rise (17-19S), Nature, 373, 140-143, 1995.

Shen, Y., and D.W. Forsyth, Geochemical constraints on initial and final depths of melting beneath mid-ocean ridges, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 2211-2237, 1995.

See http://seismolab.gso.uri.edu/ for a more up-to-date list of publications.


History

Member for
5 years 27 weeks