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- Bachelors Geology University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Global teleseismic earthquake relocation with improved travel times and procedures for depth determination (1998) (1989)
- Evidence for deep mantle circulation from global tomography (1997) (1240)
- Surface-wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis: I - Phase velocity maps (2006) (731)
- A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People's Republic of China (2008) (599)
- Surface wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis - II. Crustal and upper-mantle structure (2008) (594)
- Subduction of the Indian lithosphere beneath the Tibetan Plateau and Burma (2008) (536)
- Travel-time tomography of the European-Mediterranean mantle down to 1400 km (1993) (527)
- Eastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau by crustal flow and strain partitioning across faults (2014) (265)
- Structure of the upper mantle and transition zone beneath Southeast Asia from traveltime tomography (2010) (257)
- 4-D evolution of SE Asia’s mantle from geological reconstructions and seismic tomography (2004) (246)
- Heterogeneity and anisotropy of the lithosphere of SE Tibet from surface wave array tomography (2010) (246)
- Structure of the crust beneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from teleseismic receiver functions (2007) (236)
- Effects of relative plate motion on the deep structure and penetration depth of slabs below the Izu-Bonin and Mariana island arcs (1993) (235)
- Geodynamics of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau from seismic anisotropy and geodesy (2007) (227)
- Joint seismic tomography for bulk sound and shear wave speed in the Earth's mantle (1998) (223)
- Global upper-mantle tomography with the automated multimode inversion of surface and S-wave forms (2006) (221)
- The deep structure of the Australian continent from surface wave tomography (1999) (215)
- Analysis of ambient noise energy distribution and phase velocity bias in ambient noise tomography, with application to SE Tibet (2009) (207)
- Multimode Rayleigh wave inversion for heterogeneity and azimuthal anisotropy of the Australian upper mantle (2002) (191)
- Tomographic imaging of the lowermost mantle with differential times of refracted and diffracted core phases (PKP, Pdiff) (2001) (190)
- Tectonic implications of tomographic images of subducted lithosphere beneath northwestern South America (1993) (185)
- Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Travel Time Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (2008) (182)
- Mantle structure beneath Indonesia inferred from high-resolution tomographic imaging (1997) (180)
- The Poisson ratio of the Australian crust: geological and geophysical implications (2000) (178)
- Epeirogenic uplift above a detached slab in northern Central America (2002) (175)
- Constraining P-wave velocity variations in the upper mantle beneath Southeast Asia (2006) (173)
- Seismic anisotropy in Eastern Tibet from shear wave splitting reveals changes in lithospheric deformation (2006) (166)
- A laboratory investigation of effects of trench migration on the descent of subducted slabs (1995) (161)
- Shear wave splitting from local events beneath the Ryukyu arc : Trench-parallel anisotropy in the mantle wedge (2006) (142)
- Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Japan from shear wave splitting (2005) (133)
- Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for three-dimensional shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing: methodology and application (2015) (132)
- Understanding seismic heterogeneities in the lower mantle beneath the Americas from seismic tomography and plate tectonic history (2007) (130)
- Upper-mantle shear velocity beneath eastern Australia from inversion of waveforms from SKIPPY portable arrays (1996) (119)
- Seismic tomography with P and S data reveals lateral variations in the rigidity of deep slabs (1999) (113)
- Structure of young East Pacific Rise lithosphere from ambient noise correlation analysis of fundamental- and higher-mode Scholte-Rayleigh waves (2011) (110)
- Asthenospheric flow and origin of volcanism in the Baikal Rift area (2006) (107)
- Tomographic inversion of P and pP data for aspherical mantle structure below the northwest Pacific region (1993) (107)
- Buckling instabilities of subducted lithosphere beneath the transition zone (2007) (104)
- High resolution global tomography : a snapshot of convection in the Earth (1997) (103)
- Comparing P and S wave heterogeneity in the mantle (2001) (101)
- Banana-doughnut kernels and mantle tomography (2005) (95)
- A unified map of Moho depth and Vp/Vs ratio of continental China by receiver function analysis (2014) (92)
- Model Update March 2011: Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Traveltime Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (2012) (91)
- Constraints on mantle convection from seismic tomography (2013) (89)
- Imaging of subducted lithosphere beneath South America (1995) (82)
- On sensitivity kernels for ‘wave-equation’ transmission tomography (2005) (81)
- Tomography with P, PP, and pP delay-time data and the three-dimensional mantle structure below the Caribbean region (1990) (81)
- Automated multimode inversion of surface and S waveforms (2005) (80)
- Low wave speed zones in the crust beneath SE Tibet revealed by ambient noise adjoint tomography (2014) (80)
- Seismic and mechanical anisotropy and the past and present deformation of the Australian lithosphere (2003) (78)
- Spatiospectral localization of isostatic coherence anisotropy in Australia and its relation to seismic anisotropy: Implications for lithospheric deformation (2003) (78)
- Project Skippy explores lithosphere and mantle beneath Australia (1994) (78)
- Core mantle boundary topography from short period PcP, PKP, and PKKP data (2003) (75)
- Searching for seismic scattering off mantle interfaces between 800 km and 2000 km depth (2003) (73)
- Searching for seismic scattering off mantle interfaces between 800 km and 2000 km depth (2003) (73)
- Crust and lithosphere structure of the northwestern U.S. with ambient noise tomography: Terrane accretion and Cascade arc development (2011) (72)
- Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Australia from Portable Array Deployments (1998) (71)
- Variations in earthquake rupture properties along the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise (2012) (69)
- New mantle convection model may reconcile conflicting evidence (1999) (66)
- Earth's deep mantle : structure, composition, and evolution (2005) (65)
- Crustal thickness, discontinuity depth, and upper mantle structure beneath southern Africa: constraints from body wave conversions (2002) (63)
- The core^mantle boundary under the Gulf of Alaska: No ULVZ for shear waves (2000) (60)
- Importance of the reference model in linearized tomography and images of subduction below the Caribbean Plate (1989) (60)
- Towards a quantitative interpretation of global seismic tomography (2005) (57)
- Slab temperature and thickness from seismic tomography: 1. Method and application to Tonga (1999) (56)
- Beyond receiver functions: Passive source reverse time migration and inverse scattering of converted waves (2012) (54)
- Wave-equation reflection tomography: annihilators and sensitivity kernels (2006) (53)
- Imaging along‐strike variations in mechanical properties of the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise (2014) (53)
- Error bars for the global seismic Q profile (2005) (53)
- Resolution experiments for NW Pacific subduction zone tomography (1989) (51)
- Phase Velocity Variation at Periods of 0.5-3 Seconds in the Taipei Basin of Taiwan from Correlation of Ambient Seismic Noise (2010) (50)
- Model Update May 2016: Upper‐Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Travel‐Time Tomography with Global and USArray Data (2017) (49)
- Shear wave speeds at the base of the mantle (2000) (49)
- Estimation of surface wave Green's functions from correlation of direct waves, coda waves, and ambient noise in SE Tibet (2009) (47)
- Complex anisotropy in the Australian lithosphere from shear-wave splitting in broad-band SKS records (1998) (47)
- Thick crust beneath the Ordos plateau: Implications for instability of the North China craton (2012) (46)
- Estimating shear-wave splitting parameters from broadband recordings in Japan : A comparison of three methods (2005) (44)
- On ISC PP and pP data and their use in delay-time tomography of the Caribbean region (1991) (44)
- High Temporal Resolution Monitoring of Small Variations in Crustal Strain by Dense Seismic Arrays (2019) (42)
- On the effects of a dipping axis of symmetry on shear wave splitting measurements in a transversely isotropic medium (2003) (42)
- Imaging of structure at and near the core mantle boundary using a generalized radon transform: 1. Construction of image gathers (2006) (42)
- Wave-equation shear wave splitting tomography (2008) (41)
- Model Update December 2008: Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from P-wave Travel Time Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data (2009) (39)
- Correlation between the shear-speed structure and thickness of the mantle transition zone (2003) (36)
- Surface wave eikonal tomography in heterogeneous media using exploration data (2012) (35)
- Imaging of structure at and near the core-mantle boundary using a generalized radon transform: 2. Statistical inference of singularities (2007) (34)
- Toward quantifying uncertainty in travel time tomography using the null-space shuttle (2012) (34)
- Correction of Ocean‐Bottom Seismometer Instrumental Clock Errors Using Ambient Seismic Noise (2014) (33)
- The USArray Initiative (1999) (33)
- The signal of mantle anisotropy in the coupling of normal modes (2008) (32)
- Two‐dimensional modelling of subduction zone anisotropy with application to southwestern Japan (2007) (31)
- High‐frequency precursors to P wave arrivals in New Zealand: Implications for slab structure (1996) (30)
- Step-wise relocation of ISC earthquake hypocenters for linearized tomographic imaging of slab structure (1992) (30)
- Poisson's ratio in the lower mantle beneath Alaska: Evidence for compositional heterogeneity (2004) (26)
- Removing source-side scattering for virtual deep seismic sounding (VDSS) (2013) (26)
- Imaging the lowermost mantle (D?) and the core–mantle boundary with SKKS coda waves (2008) (24)
- Changing Views on Earth's Deep Mantle (2004) (23)
- The 660-km discontinuity within the subducting NW-Pacific lithospheric slab (2002) (23)
- Extending shear-wave tomography for the lower mantle using S and SKS arrival-time data (1998) (21)
- Slab temperature and thickness from seismic tomography (1999) (20)
- Upwellings from a deep mantle reservoir filtered at the 660 km phase transition in thermo-chemical convection models and implications for intra-plate volcanism (2009) (20)
- Reverse-time migration-based reflection tomography using teleseismic free surface multiples (2014) (20)
- Rayleigh‐Wave Phase Velocity Distribution in China Continent and its Adjacent Regions (2008) (19)
- Imaging the upper mantle transition zone with a generalized Radon transform of SS precursors (2010) (19)
- Structure and evolution of subducted lithosphere beneath the Sunda arc, Indonesia (1996) (19)
- Reply to comment by F.A. Dahlen and G. Nolet on (2005) (18)
- Numerical Study of the Origin and Stability of Chemically Distinct Reservoirs Deep in Earth's Mantle (2005) (16)
- Lithospheric Deformation of Continental China from Rayleigh Wave Azimuthal Anisotropy (2010) (16)
- Seismic structure of the mantle ; from subduction zone to craton (1998) (16)
- Reply to comment by R. Montelli, G. Nolet and F. A. Dahlen on ‘Banana—doughnut kernels and mantle tomography’ (2006) (16)
- Constraints on residual topography and crustal properties in the western United States from virtual deep seismic sounding (2016) (15)
- Common conversion point stacking of receiver functions versus passive-source reverse time migration and wavefield regularization (2017) (15)
- Mapping Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities Beneath the Central Pacific With Array Processing of SS Precursors (2017) (14)
- Systematic Detection of Clustered Seismicity Beneath the Southwestern Alps (2019) (13)
- Processes and consequences of deep subduction: introduction (2001) (13)
- Geodynamical modeling and multiscale seismic expression of thermo-chemical heterogeneity and phase transitions in the lowermost mantle (2010) (13)
- Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Ambient Noise Based on Bayesian Theory (2010) (13)
- A Seismic Look Under the Continents (1999) (13)
- Deformation of the Aegean Slab in the Mantle Transition Zone (2003) (13)
- On Sensitivity Kernels for 'Wave-Equation' Tomography (2002) (12)
- Multimode Rayleigh wave inversion for shear wave speed heterogeneity andazimuthal anisotropy of the Australian upper mantle (2002) (11)
- The deep structure of the Australian continent inferred from surface wave tomography (1999) (10)
- Surface wave tomography to retrieve near surface velocity models (2014) (9)
- Source depopulation potential and surface-wave tomography using a crosscorrelation method in a scattering medium (2011) (8)
- Seismic Tomography of the Arabian-Eurasian Collision Zone and Surrounding Areas (2010) (8)
- From Relative to Absolute Teleseismic Travel Times: The Absolute Arrival‐Time Recovery Method (AARM) (2017) (8)
- Variations in Seismic Wave Speed and VP/VS Ratio in the North American Lithosphere (2020) (8)
- Using a Synthetic Continental Array to Study the Earth's Interior. (1996) (7)
- Surface‐wave eikonal tomography in a scattering environment (2010) (6)
- Deep subduction and aspherical variations in P‐wavespeed at the base of Earth's mantle (2013) (5)
- Earthquake Depth Phase Extraction With P Wave Autocorrelation Provides Insight Into Mechanisms of Intermediate‐Depth Earthquakes (2019) (5)
- Clockwise rotation of the Tarim basin driven by the Indian plate impact (2019) (5)
- Composition, deep structure and evolution continents (1999) (4)
- Poisson's Ratio beneath Alaska from the Surface to the core mantle boundary (2001) (4)
- Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for 3-D shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing : methodology and application (2015) (3)
- Complex plume dynamics in the transition zone underneath the Hawaii hotspot: seismic imaging results (2010) (3)
- Surface-wave eikonal tomography for dense geophysical arrays (2012) (3)
- High‐resolution lithospheric velocity structure of continental China and its geodynamic implications (2019) (3)
- Preface: Composition, deep structure and evolution of continents (1999) (3)
- On The Measurement Of Seismic Travel-Time Changes In The Time-Frequency Domain With Wavelet Cross-Spectral Analysis (2019) (2)
- ELASTIC-WAVE INVERSE SCATTERING WITH ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SOURCE REFLECTION DATA (2011) (2)
- Global wave-equation reflection tomography (2003) (2)
- Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Sichuan/Yunnan Provinces, SW China: Preliminary Results of a Joint MIT-CIGMR Broad-Band Seismometry Project (2005) (2)
- Analysis of Bias in Surface Wave Phase Velocities from Ambient Noise Interferometry and an Iterative Approach for Azimuthal Anisotropy (2008) (2)
- Imaging the Lowermost Mantle Beneath East Asia With (Joint) Inverse Scattering (Generalized Radon Transform) of ScS and SKKS Data (2009) (1)
- Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities with SS precursors: A Comparative Study of the Generalized Radon Transform method and the Common Middle Point Stacking method (2013) (1)
- A High-Resolution, Shear-Speed Model of the Upper Mantle (2004) (1)
- One-Way Wave Propagators For Velocity Analysis On Curvilinear Coordinates (2008) (1)
- Earth's Deep Mantle: Structure, Composition, and Evolution—An Introduction (2013) (1)
- Analysis of fundamental and higher mode surface waves from noise correlation near Eastern Pacific Rise (2010) (1)
- TELESEISMIC WAVE-EQUATION REFLECTION TOMOGRAPHY USING FREE SURFACE REFLECTED PHASES (2012) (1)
- P-wave velocity variation in the upper mantle beneath Tibetan Plateau (2005) (1)
- Seismic Tomography Of The Arabian-Eurasian Collision Zone And Tectonic Implications (2008) (1)
- Tomographic evidence for compositional heterogeneity deep in earth’s mantle (2002) (1)
- Shear wave splitting intensity tomography beneath southwestern Japan and coupling with numerical flow models (2007) (1)
- Shear wave splitting and upper mantle anisotropy beneath Japan (2003) (1)
- Semiclassical inverse spectral problem for elastic Love waves in isotropic media (2019) (0)
- Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Southeastern Tibet from Ambient Seismic Noise Tomography and Surface Wave Two-Station Analysis (2006) (0)
- Direct ambient noise tomography for 3-D near surface shear velocity structure: methodology and applications (2014) (0)
- Fine Scale Imaging of Structure at and Near the Mantle Transition Zone Using a Generalized Randon Transform (2007) (0)
- Source-Indexed Migration Velocity Analysis with Global Passive Data (2012) (0)
- Seismic Tomography Beneath the Western United States Using a Joint Body Wave-Surface Wave Inversion Algorithm (2014) (0)
- Reflection tomography with teleseismic free-surface multiples (2009) (0)
- Constraints on Crustal Structures, Residual Topography, and Isostasy in the Western US from Virtual Deep Seismic Sounding (VDSS) (2015) (0)
- The SKIPPY seismic array: Exploring the Seismic Structure in 3D beneath Australia (1996) (0)
- A Neighbourhood Algorithm Analysis of the Constraints Provided by Surface Wave Dispersion Data on Upper Mantle Structure (2005) (0)
- Large scale imaging of the lower mantle (2009) (0)
- Ambient Noise Interferometry and Surface Wave Array Tomography: Promises and Problems (2008) (0)
- Multimode Surface Wave Tomography Of Asia And Surroundings (2002) (0)
- Teleseismic Wave-Equation Reflection Tomography with an Image Correlation Power Criterium (2012) (0)
- Imaging Structure at and Near Upper Mantle Discontinuities using a Generalized Radon Transform (2005) (0)
- Lithospheric deformation of SE Tibet from azimuthal and radial anisotropy using surface wave and ambient noise array data (2009) (0)
- The Upper Mantle Velocity Structure Beneath the Sea of Okhotsk (2001) (0)
- Statistical Analysis of Common Image Point Gathers at and near the Core-Mantle Boundary (2007) (0)
- New Insight Into the Seismicity of the Western Alps from Automated Analysis of Dense Linear Array Data (2018) (0)
- Evidence From Seismology for Water in the Upper Mantle Transition Zone (2008) (0)
- A new approach to measure time- and frequency-dependent seismic velocity evolution (2019) (0)
- Seismic images of the transition zone: is Hawaiian volcanism produced by a secondary plume from the top of the lower mantle? (2011) (0)
- Transition Zone Structures beneath Hawaii Imaged with SS precursors (2014) (0)
- The Mantle Structure beneath SE Asia from P-wave Tomograpy (2006) (0)
- Inversion of Surface and S Wave Forms for Seismic-Velocity Perturbations Relative to a Three-Dimensional Reference Model (2003) (0)
- Density and Vs contrasts across mantle transition zone discontinuities beneath the Central Pacific (2016) (0)
- Crust and Upper Mantle Structures Across the Western United States Imaged with Array Receiver Functions (2011) (0)
- Joint Inversion of Body-Wave Arrival Times and Surface-Wave Dispersion Data in the Wavelet Domain Constrained by Sparsity Regularization (2014) (0)
- Shear Velocity Structure and Anisotropy in the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath SE Tibet From Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Surface Wave Array Tomography (2007) (0)
- Quantifying uncertainties in travel time tomography using the null space shuttle (2010) (0)
- Seismic velocities and composition in the deep mantle along a Japan-Aleoutian-America transect (2003) (0)
- Automatic Earthquake Detection in the Western Alps Using a Matched-Filtering Based Method. (2017) (0)
- High Resolution Seismic Imaging of Transition Zone Beneath the Hawaii Volcano Chain: Evidence for Deep-rooted Mantle Plume (2008) (0)
- A new P-wave mantle tomographic model for Africa and a receiver function study of the Ethiopian plateau (2019) (0)
- High Resolution Seismic Images of Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain (2009) (0)
- Imaging Structure at and Near the Core Mantle Boundary With a Generalized Radon Transform of Broad Band ScS and SKKS Coda Waves (2004) (0)
- Solid Earth A new algorithm for three-dimensional joint inversion of bodywave and surface wave data and its application to the Southern California plate boundary region (2016) (0)
- Refining the global P- and S-wavespeed models with Poisson Voronoi cells based parsimonious inversion (2019) (0)
- Seismic Tomography of the Continental United States from a Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Body Waves (2015) (0)
- Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean (2002) (0)
- 3D Variations in Seismic Wavespeed and Mass Density in the Crust and Upper Mantle of SE Asia from Joint Inversion of Seismic and Gravity Data (2014) (0)
- Core Mantle Boundary Topography and Lowermost Mantle Heterogeneity (2001) (0)
- Ambient seismic noise tomography and radial anisotropy from a dense array in SW China (2009) (0)
- Dehydration in intermediate-depth earthquakes? Insight from earthquake depth phases extracted using P-wave coda auto-correlation (2019) (0)
- Heterogeneity and Azimuthal Anisotropy of the Crust in SE Tibet and Sichuan Province from Surface Wave Array Tomography (2008) (0)
- Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath Tibet and SW China From Seismic Tomography and Array Analysis (2006) (0)
- Multimode Surface Wave Tomography of Asia and Western Pacific. (2001) (0)
- Multi-scale Aspects of Wave-equation Reflection Tomography (2006) (0)
- Multi-scale imaging of the Earth's interior (2006) (0)
- Passive monitoring of temporal, coseismic, velocity variations at the ocean floor (2010) (0)
- Constraints on the Dip of the Anisotropic Symmetry Axis Beneath Japan From Shear Wave Splitting (2001) (0)
- Slab identification in the lower mantle beneath the Americas from seismic tomography and plate history reconstruction (2005) (0)
- Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth Shear Wave Tomography Beneath the United States Using a Joint Inversion of Surface and BodyWaves (2018) (0)
- Random Voronoi Cells Based Parsimonious Inversion: Methodology and Application to Global S wave Arrival Time Data (2018) (0)
- Multi-Scale Imaging of Earth's Deep Interior: New Constraints on Structure and Thermo- chemical Evolution of Earth's Mantle (2008) (0)
- The Modern Gorda-Juan de Fuca Subduction System and the Inherited Stratification of the Transition Zone below Western US (2012) (0)
- Efficient ray tracing in complex 3D velocity structures using perturbation theory (1997) (0)
- High resolution mantle discontinuity imaging with SS precursors: the transition zone beneath Hawaii. (Invited) (2009) (0)
- ngeo2130-Liu QY (2015) (0)
- Topography of Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain (2009) (0)
- Small-scale thermal and thermal-chemical convection in the Deep Mantle and Seismic Expression of Post-Perovskite Transition from Multiscale Analysis (2010) (0)
- Three-Dimensional Vp and Vs Models of Continental China From Joint Inversion of Body Wave, Surface Wave, and Gravity Data (2015) (0)
- Structure and Evolution of The Australian Lithosphere (2002) (0)
- Inverse scattering with SKKS code waves: imaging the D" from the core side (2007) (0)
- Semiclassical inverse spectral problem for elastic Rayleigh waves in isotropic media (2019) (0)
- Large Scale Exploration of the Core Mantle Boundary Region (D (2008) (0)
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