Zhongwen Zhan
Professor of Geophysics; Clarence R. Allen Leadership Chair, Seismological Laboratory; Director, Seismological Laboratory
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 2006; M.S., 2008; Ph.D., Caltech, 2013. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2015-22; Professor, 2022-; Allen Leadership Chair, 2025-; Director, 2025-.
Research Overview
My research interests lie in the broad area of seismology and emphasize two geophysical research topics, ambient seismic noise and subduction zone processes. I am mostly interested in seismic imaging of Earth structure using dense arrays, rupture processes and controlling factors of shallow and deep earthquakes, and ambient noise imaging of glacier structures.
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Publications
- Atterholt, James;Zhan, Zhongwen (2024) Fine-scale Southern California Moho structure uncovered with distributed acoustic sensingScience Advances
- Yang, Yan;Zhan, Zhongwen et al. (2024) Characterizing South Pole Firn Structure With Fiber Optic SensingGeophysical Research Letters
- Zhai, Qiushi;Husker, Allen et al. (2024) Assessing the feasibility of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for moonquake detectionEarth and Planetary Science Letters
- Wang, Xin;Chen, Ling et al. (2024) Seismic evidence for melt-rich lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary beneath young slab at CascadiaNature Communications
- Zhai, Qiushi;Zhan, Zhongwen et al. (2024) Thousand‐Kilometer DAS Array Reveals an Uncatalogued Magnitude‐5 Dynamically Triggered Event After the 2023 Turkey EarthquakeJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
- Wu, Wenbo;Zhan, Zhongwen et al. (2024) Fiber Seismic Network on the MoonSeismological Research Letters
- Peng, Shirui;Callies, Jörn et al. (2024) Seismic Ocean Thermometry of the Kuroshio Extension RegionJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
- Xiao, Han;Spica, Zack J. et al. (2024) Detection of Earthquake Infragravity and Tsunami Waves With Underwater Distributed Acoustic SensingGeophysical Research Letters
- Zhu, Weiqiang;Biondi, Ettore et al. (2023) Seismic arrival-time picking on distributed acoustic sensing data using semi-supervised learningNature Communications
- Costa, Luis;Varughese, Siddharth et al. (2023) Localization of seismic waves with submarine fiber optics using polarization-only measurementsCommunications Engineering
Related Courses
2023-24
Ge 162 – Seismology
Ge 261 – Advanced Seismology