About us

ABOUT US – We are an interdisciplinary multi-institution team, consisting of seismologists, geochemists, geodynamicists from Michigan State University (MSU), Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Principal investigators

• S. Shawn Wei (seismology), Michigan State University (MSU)

• Douglas A. Wiens (seismology), Washington University in St. Louis (WashU)

• Matthew Jackson (geochemistry), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

• Dave Stegman (geodynamics), University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Team members

• Ruixia Bai (UCSB, Graduate Student)

• Alec Baudry (UCSB, Graduate Student)

• Cody Brown (Oregon State U, Undergraduate Student)

• Yifan Du (UCSB, Graduate Student)

• Madeleine Kerr (UCSD, Graduate Student)

• Yuqi Liu (WashU, Graduate Student)

• Lucy Lu (UC Davis, Graduate Student, Apply-to-Sail)

• Diandian Peng (UCSD, Postdoc)

• Debosmita Roy (UCSB, Graduate Student)

• Jing-Hui Tong (MSU, Graduate Student)

• Joe Martin (UCSB, Undergraduate Student)

• Fan Wang (MSU, Graduate Student)

• Dilini M. Walakulu Arachchige (Southern Illinois University, Graduate Student, Apply-to-Sail)

• Grace Ward (Northern Arizona University, Graduate Student, Apply-to-Sail)

• Adrea Williams (WashU, Graduate Student)

• Judy Zhang (WashU, Graduate Student)

• Yurong Zhang (MSU, Graduate Student) 

• Zhuoran Zhang (MSU, Graduate Student)