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Professor in Seismology

Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics

Professor of Physics, UH (Joint appointment)

Director of Rock Physics Lab, UH

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204-5007

Office: 129b, Science and Research Building 1

UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON

Mailing address: 3507 Cullen Blvd, Rm 312, Houston, Texas 77204-5007 | Telephone: 1A96CA361 (hex code) | Email: y(lastname)12@uh.edu 

Education

• B.S., Geophysics, Peking University, 2001

• Ph.D., Geophysics (Seismology), University of California Santa Cruz, 2007; [Imaging upper mantle discontinuities and Earth's small-scale heterogeneities, advisers: Thorne Lay, Ru-shan Wu]

Professional experiences

• Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professorship in Applied Geophysics, (9/2020-)

• Professor (9/1/2024-), UH

• Associate Professor (9/2019-2024), UH

• Assistant Professor at UH (9/2014 - 2019)

• Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  (2011-2014) 

• Postdocs at UCSC and MIT Earth Resources Lab (2007-2010)

• Postdoc + Assistant Researcher UCSC (concurrent in 2010)

• Consultant on seismic imaging, ConocoPhillips, 2008; Inte geos 2019; 

Awards and Honors

• Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award from UH Provost Office, 2021 (two per year at Associate Professor level, UH wide)

• Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professorship in Applied Geophysics, (9/2020-)

• J. Clarence Karcher Award, 2015, from Society of Exploration Geophysicists: “In recognition of exceptional research contributions to the science and technology of exploration geophysics” See related news. 

• University of Houston Provost Faculty Travel Award, 2014

• Earth Resources Lab Fellowship, MIT, 2010-2011

• ConocoPhillips SPIRIT Scholar, 2006

• Waters Award 2005 UCSC for outstanding PhD thesis proposal

• University of California, Regents Fellowship 2003

Education and Outreach  

• • K-12, high-school education at Geological Society of Houston (GSH)

Research Interests 

• CO2 geological storage

• geothermal 

• Seismic imaging and waveform inversion

• Reservoir geophysics: seismic characterization of fractures and fluid flow

• Machine learning geothermal

• Earthquake seismology and Earth's structures

• Planetary seismology

Funding

PI for 12 funded projects since 2016, including NSF, DOE, and industry.  As of today (9/2021), the number of active projects is 4. 

Patents 

(*** UH has a good process for licensing if you plan to use some of the technologies commercially here***)

1. Zheng, Y. and H.Hu (2016). "Nonlinear signal comparison and high-resolution measurement of seismic or acoustic wave dispersion", PCT/US2017/038325

2.    Zheng, Y. and Hao Hu (2019). “Surface Wave Prediction and Removal from Seismic Data”, PCT PCT/US2019/45391.

3.  Jin, Yuesu, Nikolay Dyaur, and Yingcai Zheng (2019). Systems and methods for generating low-frequency mechanical waves. Provisional patent filed on 12/17/2019.   

Opensource Softwares 

• 1. AstroSeis: modeling seismic waves in irregular asteroids; MATLAB; available in GitHub 

  2. CougarSeismic: more powerful version of Crazyseismic; email me to get a copy. 

  3. Crazyseismic A MATLAB GUI‐Based Software Package for Seismic Data Preprocessing

Accepted/submitted peer-reviewed journal papers 

* student author; ** postdoc author

2025

• 1. Appini*, S., J. Li, H. Hu, N. Creasy, L. Thomsen, J. McNease*, and Y. Zheng (2025), Prediction of Complex Observed Shear Wave Splitting Patterns at Ryukyu Subduction Zone Using a Strong Intra-Slab Anisotropy Model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 52(3), e2024GL111131. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111131 

2024

• 2. Zhonghan Liu, Yingcai Zheng, Hua‐Wei Zhou, Hao Hu (2024). Direct Waveform Inversion for Irregularly Layered Media. Seismological Research Letters; doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220240349

  3. Calvelage, C. M., J. Wu, L. Colli, Y. A. Lin, and Y. C. Zheng (2024), Linking deep-time subduction history to modern day expressions of dynamic topography, P Roy Soc a-Math Phy, 480(2301). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0254 

  4. Long, Teng; Chen, Feng; Han, de-hua; Sun, Min; McNease, Joseph; Zheng, Yingcai (2024). "Experimental Study Of Anisotropic And Dispersion Signature Of Shale Reservoirs: Implications For Synthetic Seismic Well Tie", Interpretation, accepted. 

• 5. Carrasquilla*, M. D. L., M. Sun, T. Long, V. Sisson, T. Lapen, C. Jones, J. Moore, L. Huang, and Y. Zheng (2024), Seismic anisotropy of granitic rocks from a fracture stimulation well at Utah FORGE using ultrasonic measurements, Geothermics, 123, 103129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2024.103129 

• 6. Li, Y., Li, D., Huang, L., & Zheng, Y., (2024), Three-component DAS Arrays with Three-dimensional Fiber Cable Deployment, Chapter 5 in AGU Geophysical Monograph “Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics”, edited by Y. Li, R. Mellors,  & G. Zhan, ISBN: 978-1-394-17924-4, pp576.

• 7. Li, D., Huang, L., Zheng, Y.,  & Li, Y., (2024), Automatic Picking of DAS-VSP First-Arrival Traveltimes Using a Differential-Phase-Spectral Slope Method, Chapter 15 in AGU Monograph “Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics”, edited by Y. Li, R. Mellors,  & G. Zhan, ISBN: 978-1-394-17924-4, pp576.

• 8. Li, D., Huang, L., Zheng, Y.,  & Li, Y., (2024), Monitoring Granitic and Sedimentary Rocks at the Utah FORGE Site Using Borehole DAS Ambient Noise, Chapter 25 in AGU Geophysical Monograph “Distributed Acoustic Sensing in Borehole Geophysics”, edited by Y. Li, R. Mellors,  & G. Zhan, ISBN: 978-1-394-17924-4, pp576.

• 9. Long*, T., Qin, X., Wang, Y., Wei, Q., Zhao, L., Chen, F., Myers, M., Zheng, Y., Sun, M., Han, D. (2024). Quantifying the influence of clay-bound water on wave dispersion and attenuation signatures of shale: An experimental study. Geophysics, 89 (2), MR77-90. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2022-0646.1 

• 10. Li*, D., L. Huang, Y. Li, Y. Zheng, and J. Moore (2024), Seismic monitoring of EGS fracture stimulations at Utah FORGE (Part 1): Time-lapse variations of b-values and Shear-wave Splitting Rates of induced microearthquakes, Geothermics, 120, 103005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2024.103005 

• 11. Li*, David, Lianjie Huang, Yingcai Zheng, Yingping Li, Martin Schoenball, Verónica Rodriguez-Tribaldos, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Chet Hopp, Tim Johnson, Hunter Knox, Doug Blankenship, Patrick Dobson, Tim Kneafsey, Michelle Robertson (2023). Detecting fractures and monitoring hydraulic fracturing processes at the first EGS Collab Testbed using borehole DAS ambient noise, Geophysics, 89(2), D131-D138, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2023-0078.1 

2023

• 12. Souri*, Zohreh, R.Stewart, Y.Zheng (2023). Field evaluation of two impulsive downhole seismic sources in crosswell and reverse VSP geometries and high-resolution characterization of near-surface Texas Gulf Coast sediments, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, doi: 10.32389/JEEG22-048

  13. Qin, Y., J. Li, L. Huang, K. Gao, D. Li, T. Chen, T. Bratton, G. El-kaseeh, W. Ampomah, T. Ispirescu, M. Cather, R. Balch, Y. Zheng, S. Tang*, K. L. McCormack, and B. McPherson (2023), Microseismic Monitoring at the Farnsworth CO2-EOR Field, Energies, 16(10), https://doi.org/10.3390/en16104177 

  14. Zheng, Y., H. Hu**, F. J. Spera, M. Scruggs, G. Thompson, Y. Jin*, T. Lapen, S. R. McNutt, K. Mandli, Z. Peng, and D. A. Yuen (2023), Episodic Magma Hammers for the 15 January 2022 Cataclysmic Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50(8), e2023GL102763. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102763  

  15. Kwon, Junhyeon, Yingcai Zheng, and Mikyoung Jun (2022). Flexible Spatio-Temporal Hawkes Process Models for Earthquake Occurrences, Spatial Statistics, Kwon, J., Y. Zheng, and M. Jun (2023), Flexible spatio-temporal Hawkes process models for earthquake occurrences, Spatial Statistics, 54, 100728, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spasta.2023.100728.

  16. H. Hu**, Y. Zheng, L. Huang and K. Gao, "Imaging Steeply Dipping Faults Using Angle-Controlled Decoupled Elastic Reverse-Time Migration of Multicomponent Seismic Data," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-8, 2023, Art no. 4500908, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3253046.

  17. Zheng, Y., H. Hu, M. N. Bugti, J. Parsons, L. Huang, K. Gao, and T. Cladouhos (2023), Characterizing Steam-Filled Fracture Zones at the Soda Lake Geothermal Field Using Seismic Double-Beam Neural Network (DBNN), PROCEEDINGS, 48th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, pp.9, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 6-8, 2023. 

  18. Cormier, V. F., Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Stixrude, L., & Zheng, Y. (2023). Mantle Phase Changes Detected from Stochastic Tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025035. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025035

  19. Tang*, Shuhang, Y. Zheng, H.W. Zhou, and H. Hu (2023). Earthquake stress drop for a circular crack in an anisotropic medium, BSSA, 113 (1): 297–311. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220075

2022

• 20. Li, D., Huang, L., Zheng, Y., Y. Li, P. Wannamaker, J. Moore (2022). Feasibility of source-free DAS logging for next-generation borehole imaging. Sci Rep 12, 11910 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16027-3

  21. Jin*, Yuesu; Yingcai Zheng, Lianjie Huang, and Christine Ehlig-Economides (2022).  "Characterizing hydraulic fractures using the transient pressure surge effect"  Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC). DOI:10.15530/urtec-2022-3718981 

  22. Yuen, D. A., M. A. Scruggs, F. J. Spera, Y. Zheng, H. Hu, S. R. McNutt, G. Thompson, K. Mandli, B. R. Keller, S. S. Wei, Z. Peng, Z. Zhou, F. Mulargia, and Y. Tanioka (2022), Under the Surface: Pressure-Induced Planetary-Scale Waves, Volcanic Lightning, and Gaseous Clouds Caused by the Submarine Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano, Earthquake Research Advances, 100134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eqrea.2022.100134 

  23. Gao, Kai, Lianjie Huang, Yingcai Zheng (2021).  Fault Detection on Seismic Structural Images Using A Nested Residual U-Net, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3073840. 

2021

• 24. Neese, J. W., D. R. Jackson, Y. Zheng, and L. A. Thomsen (2021), Underground Tunnel Detection using EM Waves, 2021 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (WMCS), 1-5. 

  25. Zheng, Y., J. Li, R. Lin, H. Hu, K. Gao, and L. Huang (2021), Physics-Guided Machine Learning Approach to Characterizing Small-Scale Fractures in Geothermal Fields PROCEEDINGS, 46th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 15-17, 2021. SGP-TR-218. pp.9. https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/GeoConf/papers/SGW/2021/Zheng.pdf

  26. Liu, Zhonghan*, Yingcai Zheng, Hua-wei Zhou (2021). Simultaneous inversion of layered velocity and density profiles using Direct Waveform Inversion (DWI): 1D case, Frontiers in Earth Science, section Solid Earth Geophysics, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.800312. 

  27. Liu, Y.K., Yanbo Zhang, Yingcai Zheng (2021). Reverse time migration of phase encoded all-order multiples, Geophysics, accepted.

  28. Gao, Kai; Lianjie Huang; Yingcai Zheng; Rongrong Lin, Hao Hu; Trenton Cladouhos (2021). Automatic fault detection on seismic images using a multiscale attention convolutional neural network, Geophysics, https://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/geo2020-0945.1 

  29. Hu**, Hao, AlAli, Abdulmohsen; Almomin, Ali; Zheng, Yingcai (2021). 3D Seismic Characterization of Fractures Using Elastic P-to-S Double-Beams, Geophysics, accpeted. 

  30. Ding*, Yinshuai; Hu, Hao; Malallah, Adel; Fehler, Michael; Huang, Lianjie; Malehmir, Alireza; Zheng, Yingcai (2021). Mapping subsurface karsts and voids using directional elastic wave packets, Geophysics, S405-S416. 

  31. Jin*, Yuesu, Nikolay Dyaur, Yingcai Zheng (2021). Laboratory Evidence of Transient Pressure Surge in a Fluid-Filled Fracture as a Potential Driver of Remote Dynamic Earthquake Triggering, The Seismic Record, 1 (2), 66-74. 

  32. Li*, David, Lianjie Huang, Benxi Chi, Kai Gao, Clay Jones, Joseph Moore, Yingcai Zheng (2021). Elastic-waveform inversion and imaging of 2010 Walkaway VSP data from the Raft River Geothermal Field,  Geothermics, 94, 102095, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2021.102095.

  33. Lin*, R., H. Hu**, Y. Ding, L. Huang, K. Gao, and Y. Zheng (2021), Improving the Image Quality of High-Angle Interfaces and Subsalt Sediments Using High-Order Scattered Seismic Waves, Pure Appl. Geophys., doi:10.1007/s00024-021-02741-y. 

  34. Neese, John; Jackson, David; Zheng, Yingcai; Thomsen, Leon (2021).  Numerical Study of Crosshole Electromagnetic Tunnel Detection, Geophysics, 86(3), WA109-WA122, doi:10.1190/geo2020-0376.1. 

2020

• 35. Hao Hu**, Zheng, Y. (2020). Stochastic inversion of Gaussian random media using transverse coherence functions for reflected waves: theory and method, JGR Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020385. 

  36. Zheng, Y. and Y. Tian* (2020). Seismic wavefields in a planet and their influence on the satellite orbit, Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, doi:10.16738/j.dqyxx.2020-014. 中文 with English abstract and figure captions. 

  37. Tian*,  Yuan, Y. Zheng (2020). AstroSeis – A 3-D Boundary element modeling code for seismic wavefields in irregular asteroids and bodies, Seismological Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200145. Computer codes available at Github. 

  38. Zheng, Y. and Z. Liu (2020). Concepts in the Direct Waveform Inversion (DWI)Using Explicit Time-Space Causality, Commun. Comput. Phys.,  28 (1), 342-355. 

  39. Huang, L.J., M.C. Fehler, Y. Zheng, X.B. Xie (2020). Seismic-Wave Scattering, Imaging, and Inversion, Commun. Comput. Phys., 28 (1), 1-40.

  40. Li, David, Xiao Tian, Hao Hu, Xiao-Ming Tang, Xinding Fang, and Y.Zheng (2020). Gaussian beam imaging of fractures near the wellbore using sonic logging tools after removing dispersive borehole waves, Geophysics, 85 (4),  https://doi.org/10.1190/geo-2019-0104.1 

  41. Cormier, V.F., Y.T. Tian, and Y. Zheng (2018). Heterogeneity spectrum of Earth’s upper mantle obtained from the coherence of teleseismic P waves: Evidence for pervasive chemical and phase heterogeneity, Communications in Computational Physics, 28(1), 74-97. 

  42. Liu, Y.K., Bin He, Y.Zheng (2020). Controlled-order multiple waveform inversion, Geophysics, 85 (3), R243-R250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/geo2019-0658.1

  43. Liu, Y.K., B.He, Z.Zhang, Y.Zheng, P. Li (2020). Reflection intensity waveform inversion, Geophysics,  85 (3), R263-R273, doi: https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2019-0590.1 

2019

• 44. Tian*, Yuan, Y.Zheng (2019). Rapid falling of an orbiting moon to its parent planet due to tidal-seismic resonance, Planetary and Space Science, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2019.104796 

  45. Li, Luchen*, Y.W. Chen, Y.Zheng, H. Hu, Jonny Wu (2019). Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga, Geophysical Research Letters, accepted. doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084164

  46. Hu, Hao** and Y. Zheng (2019). Data-driven dispersive surface-wave prediction and mode separation using high-resolution dispersion estimation, Journal of Applied Geophysics, accepted. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.103867 

  47. Ding*, Y.S., H.W. Zhou, Y.Zheng, and Y.K.Wo (2019). Synthesis of directional wave packets from shot records, Pure and Applied Geophysics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02208-1 

  48. Martin van Driel, Savas Ceylan, John Francis Clinton, Domenico Giardini, Hector Alemany, Amir Allam, David Ambrois, Julien Balestra, Bruce Banerdt, Dirk Becker, Maren Böse, Marc S. Boxberg, Nienke Brinkman, Titus Casademont, Jérôme Chèze, Ingrid Daubar, Anne Deschamps, Fabian Dethof, Manuel Ditz, Melanie Drilleau, David Essing, Fabian Euchner, Benjamin Fernando, Raphael Garcia, Thomas Garth, Harriet Godwin, Matthew P. Golombek, Katharina Grunert, Celine Hadziioannou, Claudia Haindl, Conny Hammer, Isabell Hochfeld, Kasra Hosseini, Hao Hu, Sharon Kedar, Balthasar Kenda, Amir Khan, Tabea Kilchling, Brigitte Knapmeyer‐Endrun, Andre Lamert, Jiaxuan Li, Philippe Lognonné, Sarah Mader, Lorenz Marten, Franziska Mehrkens, Diego Mercerat, David Mimoun, Thomas Möller, Naomi Murdoch, Paul Neumann, Robert Neurath, Marcel Paffrath, Mark P. Panning, Fabrice Peix, Ludovic Perrin, Lucie Rolland, Martin Schimmel, Christoph Schröer, Aymeric Spiga, Simon Christian Stähler, René Steinmann, Eleonore Stutzmann, Alexandre Szenicer, Noah Trumpik, Maria Tsekhmistrenko, Cédric Twardzik, Renee Weber, Philipp Werdenbach‐Jarklowski, Shane Zhang, Yingcai Zheng (2019). Preparing for InSight: Evaluation of the Blind Test for Martian Seismicity. Seismological Research Letters doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180379

  49. Lin*, R., X. Fang, Y.Gan, and Y.Zheng (2019). A damped dynamic finite difference approach for modeling static stress-strain fields, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Volume 176, Issue 9, pp 3851–3865, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02207-2 

  50. Li*, J., and Y. Zheng (2019), Generation of a stochastic binary field that fits a given heterogeneity power spectrum, Geophys. J. Int., 217(1), 294-300, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz024. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz024

  51. Hu, H**, M.Senkaya, Y.Zheng (2019). A Novel Measurement of the Surface Wave Dispersion with High and Adjustable Resolution: Multi-Channel Nonlinear Signal Comparison, J. Applied Geophysics, 160, 236-241, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2018.11.015 

2018

• 52. Li*, J., Y. Zheng, L. Thomsen, T.J.Lapen, and X.Fang (2018). Deep earthquakes in subducting slabs hosted in highly anisotropic rock fabric, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0188-3. See fulltext.  Also see News&Views: Romanowicz, B. (2018), A deep-earthquake puzzle resolved, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0197-2.

  53. Liu, Y.K. , B.He, H.Y.Lu , Z.Zhang , X.B.Xie, and Y. Zheng (2018). Full intensity waveform inversion. GEOPHYSICS, 83(6), R649-R658. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0682.1

  54. Hu**, H., Y. Zheng,  X.Fang, and M.C. Fehler (2018). 3D Seismic Characterization of Fractures with Random Spacing Using the Double Beams, Geophysics, 83(5), M63-M74. https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0739.1  pdf

  55. Eftekhar*, R, H.Hu** and Y.Zheng (2018). Convergence acceleration in scattering series and seismic waveform inversion using nonlinear Shanks transformation,  Geophysical Journal International, ggy228, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy228   pdf

  56. Neese*, J.W., D.R. Jackson, Y. Zheng, and L.A. Thomsen (2018). "TEz/TMz scalar potentials due to an arbitrarily-oriented dipole in 3D space in the presence of an infinite dielectric cylinder", Radio Science, 53, 509–524. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017RS006483    pdf

  57. Zheng, Y. (2018). Transient Pressure Surge In a Fluid-Filled Fracture, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 108 (3A): 1481–1488. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170230   pdf

  58. Hu**, H. and Y. Zheng (2018). 3D seismic characterization of fractures in a dipping layer using the double-beam method, Geophysics, V123-V134.    pdf

  59. DeSilva, S., V. F. Cormier, and Y. Zheng (2018), Inner core boundary topography explored with reflected and diffracted P waves, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 276, 202-214. pdf 

2017

• 60. Yu, C., Y. Zheng, and X. Shang (2017), Crazyseismic: A MATLAB GUI-Based Software Package for Passive Seismic Data Preprocessing, Seismological Research Letters (2017) 88 (2A): 410-415. pdf

  61. Zheng, Y. and H.Hu** (2017). Nonlinear signal comparison and high-resolution measurement of surface wave dispersion, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 107, no.3, 1551-1556. pdf

  62. Fang, X., Y. Zheng, and M.C. Fehler (2017). ”Fracture clustering effect on amplitude variation with offset and azimuth analyses.” Geophysics, 82(1), N13-N25. pdf

  63. Ding*, Y., Y.Zheng, H.W. Zhou, M.Howell, H.Hu**, and Y.Zhang (2017). "Propagation of Gaussian Wave Packets in complex media and the application to fracture characterization", Geophys. J. Intern., Volume 210, Issue 2, 1 August 2017, Pages 1244–1251. pdf

2016

• 64.  Liu, Y, X. Liu, A. Osen, Y. Shao, H. Hu**, Y. Zheng (2016). Least-squares reverse time migration using controlled-order multiple reflections, Geophysics, 81(5), S347-S357. pdf    

  65.  Kang, P. K., Y. Zheng, X. Fang, R. Wojcik, D. McLaughlin, S. Brown, M. C. Fehler, D. R. Burns, and R. Juanes (2016), Sequential approach to joint flow-seismic inversion for improved characterization of fractured media, Water Resour. Res., 52, 903–919, doi:10.1002/2015WR017412.  pdf

  66. Hu**,H., Y.K. Liu, Y. Zheng, X.J. Liu, H.Y. Lu (2016). Least-squares Gaussian beam migration, Geophysics, 81(3), S87-S100. doi: 10.1190/geo2015-0328.1  pdf

  67.  Zheng, Y., A.H. Malallah, M.C. Fehler, and H.Hu** (2016). ”2D full-waveform modeling of seismic waves in layered karstic media.” Geophysics, 81(2), T25-T34.  pdf  

2015 

• 68. Hu**, H., Y. Liu, A. Osen, and Y. Zheng (2015), Compression of local slant stacks by the estimation of multiple local slopes and the matching pursuit decomposition, Geophysics, 80(6), WD175-WD187.  pdf

  69.  Liu, Y., H. Hu**, X.-B. Xie, Y. Zheng, and P. Li (2015), Reverse time migration of internal multiples for subsalt imaging, Geophysics, 80(5), S175-S185.  pdf

  70. Zheng, Y., F. Nimmo, and T. Lay (2015). Seismological implications of a lithospheric low seismic velocity zone in Mars, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 240, 132-141, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2014.10.004.   pdf  

  71.  Wu, R.S. and Y. Zheng (2014). Nonlinear partial derivative and its De Wolf approximation for nonlinear seismic inversion, Geophysical Journal International doi:10.1093/gji/ggt496.  pdf  

  72. Fang, X.D., M.C.Fehler, Z.Y.Zhu, Y.Zheng and D.R. Burns (2013). Reservoir fracture characterization from seismic scattered waves, Geophysical Journal International, ggt381.  pdf

  73. Zheng, Y., X.D. Fang, M.C.Fehler and D.R.Burns (2013). Seismic characterization of fractured reservoirs by focusing Gaussian beams, Geophysics, 78 (4), p1-6.  pdf

  74. Zheng, Y. (2013). Scale lengths of heterogeneities under Tibet, Earthq. Sci., 26, 1-6.  pdf  

  75.  Ge, C., Y. Sun, M. N. Toksöz, Y. Zheng, Y. Zheng, X. Xiong, and D. Yu (2012), Crustal structure of the central Tibetan plateau and geological interpretation, Earthquake Science, 25(5-6), 363-370. pdf  

  76. Lü, J., Y. Sun, M. Nafi Toksöz, Y. Zheng, and M. T. Zuber (2011), Seismic effects of the Caloris basin impact, Mercury, Planetary and Space Science, 59(15), 1981-1991. Authors are in a-z order.   pdf

  77.  Liu, Y., X. Chang, D. Jin, R. He, H. Sun, and Y. Zheng (2011), Reverse time migration of multiples for subsalt imaging, Geophysics, 76(5), WB209-WB216.   pdf

  78. Zheng, Y., Y. He, and M. C. Fehler (2011), Crosscorrelation kernels in acoustic Green's function retrieval by wavefield correlation for point sources on a plane and a sphere, Geophys. J. Int., Volume 184 (2), 853–859. pdf

  79.  Zheng, Y., R.-S. Wu, Y. Liu, and M. C. Fehler (2011), Seismic interferometry using non-far-field sources and removing the spurious arrival, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 101(2). doi: 10.1785/0120100218. pdf  

  80.  Zheng, Y. (2010). Retrieving the exact Green's function by wavefield crosscorrelation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Express Letters, 127 (3), EL93-EL98, doi: 10.1121/1.3298452. pdf 

  81.  Zheng, Y. and R.S. Wu (2008). Theory of transmission fluctuations in random media with a depth-dependent background velocity structure, chapter 2 in: Earth Heterogeneity and Scattering Effects on Seismic Waves, eds. H. Sato and M. Fehler, pp. 21-41.  pdf  

  82. Zheng, Y., T. Lay, M.P. Flanagan, and Q. Williams (2007). Pervasive Seismic Wave Reflectivity and Metasomatism of the Tonga Mantle Wedge, Science, Vol. 316. no. 5826, pp. 855–859, DOI: 10.1126/science.1138074. pdf

  83.  Zheng, Y. (2007), Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities and Earth's Small-scale Heterogeneities, Ph.D. thesis. University of California, Santa Cruz, pp. 240.

  84. Zheng, Y., R.S.Wu and T.Lay (2007), Inverting the power spectrum for a heterogeneous medium, Geophysical Journal International 168 (3), 1005–1010. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03241.x    pdf  

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Recently Submitted AGU/SEG Abstracts

1. Li*, D., X. Tian, H.Hu, X.M.Tang, and Y.Zheng (2018). "Removal of dispersive borehole waves and beam imaging of fractures around the wellbore using sonic logging data", submitted to the SEG Annual Meeting 2018, Anaheim, CA. [upcoming]

   1. Hu**,H., Y.Zheng, X.Fang, and M.C.Fehler (2018). "3D Seismic Characterization of Irregularly Distributed Fractures in Unconventional Reservoirs",  submitted to the SEG Annual Meeting 2018, Anaheim, CA. [upcoming]

2. Lin*, R., X.Fang, Y.Zheng (2018). "A quasi-static finite difference method for calculating the effective elastic moduli of digital rock models",  submitted to the SEG Annual Meeting 2018, Anaheim, CA. [upcoming]

3. Zheng, Y. (2018). Novel 3D field-scale characterization of reservoir fractures using surface seismic data by the double-beam method and field applications, Theme 06: The Use of Geophysical Technologies in Unconventional Plays, July 24, 2018, URTeC (Unconventional Resources Technology Conference & Exhibition)  

4. Li*, D. et al. (2018). "High-Resolution Reflection Imaging of Fractures Using Cross-Dipole Shear Source in a Wellbore", Session: Recent Advances in Dense Array Seismology, 2018 SSA-LACSC Conference, Miami, FL, May 15, 2018.  

5. Zheng, Y. (2018)."Examination of the Reference-Phase Concept in Seismology in the Presence of Small-Scale Heterogeneities" in Session: Development and Validation of Statistical Models of Small-scale Heterogeneities, 2018 SSA-LACSC Conference, May 15, 2018.  

• 1. Zheng, Y., H.Hu, X.Fang, M.C.Fehler (2018). "Seismic characterization of reservoir fractures by double beams and inference of reservoir transport properties", The CPS/SEG Beijing 2018 International Geophysical Conference and Exposition, Beijing, China, 24-27 April 2018. 

6. Zheng, Y. (2018). "Seismic imaging of fractures in reservoirs", Industry-Rice Earth Science symposia, IRESS-2018, Whole Earth carbon cycling-Bridging academia and industry. 

7. Zheng, Y. (2017). "A physical mechanism for dynamic earthquake triggering in fluid regions", a 45-min lecture given at the Workshop: Frontiers in Studies of Earthquakes and Faults (Nov 27-Dec 1, 2017, SUSTech, China)

8. Zheng, Y. DWI: a new direct waveform inversion approach beyond FWI,  “2017 SEG Full-waveform Inversion and Beyond Workshop: November 20-22 2017 in Beijing, China.” [Keynote talk]

9. Ding, Y. and Y.Zheng (2017). Modeling of high-frequency wave propagation in the heterogenous Earth using screen method, Abstract S21C-0742 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec.

10. Yuan, T. and Y.Zheng (2017). Effect of the tidal-seismic resonance, Abstract P51A-2571 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec. 

11. Hu, H. and Y.Zheng (2017). High-resolution measurement of surface wave dispersion by nonlinear signal comparison, Abstract S21C-0738 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec. 

12. Li, J., Y.Zheng, L.A. Thomsen (2017). In situ seismic anisotropy around deep earthquakes in Japan subduction slabs using Japan Meteorological Agency moment tensors, Abstract DI43B-0360 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec.

13. Chew, J., H.Hu., and Y.Zheng (2017). Earth Inner Core Anisotropy using PKiKP and PKIIKP Reflection Pairs, Abstract DI31B-06 presented at 2017 Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec.

14. Hu, H. and Y. Zheng (2017). 3D seismic characterization of fractures in a dipping reservoir layer by double beams, SEG.

15. Liu, Z. and Y. Zheng (2017). Applications of the direct waveform inversion (DWI) on 2d models, SEG.

16. Zheng, Y., L. Li, X. Li, and H. Hu (2017). High-Resolution 3D Seismic Imaging of Reflectors above the Subducting Slabs and Slab-Mantle Interaction, SSA 2017, Denver.

17. Zheng, Y. (2017). A Physical Mechanism for Earthquake Dynamic Triggering in Fluid Regions, SSA 2017, Denver.

18. Zheng, Y. (2016). Small-scale heterogeneity spectra in the Earth mantle resolved by PKP-ab,-bc and –df waves, Fall AGU. 

19. de Silva, S., V.F. Cormier, Y. Zheng (2016). Modeling of Inner Core Boundary Topography with PKiKP and PKPCdiff, Fall AGU. 

20. Li,L., H. Hu, X. Li and Y. Zheng (2016). Understanding slab-mantle interaction by 3D seismic imaging of reflectivity in the mantle wedge, Fall AGU.

21. Ding,Y., Y. Zheng, H.W. Zhou, M. Howell, and H. Hu (2016). Propagation of Gaussian Wave Packets in heterogeneous media and the application to fracture characterization, Fall AGU. 

22. Li,J., Y. Zheng, and L. Thomsen (2016). New observation on Seismic anisotropy in subducting slabs inferred by non-double-couple earthquake radiation patterns, Fall AGU. 

23. Tian, Y. and Y. Zheng (2016). Topography-coupled resonance between Mars normal-modes and the tidal force of the Phobos, Fall AGU.

24. Neese, J. D. Jackson,and Y. Zheng (2016). Electromagnetic tunnel detection using a magnetic dipole source in three-dimensional space, SEG expanded abstract (4 pages), 2016 Dallas. 

25. Ding, Y., Y. Zheng, H.W. Zhou, Y. Zhang, H. Hu (2016). Seismic characterization of fractures using exact localized waves: Gaussian wave packet, SEG expanded abstract (4 pages), 2016 Dallas.

26. Y. Liu, X. Liu, Y.Shao, A. Osen, Y. Zheng, H. Hu (2016). Least-squares reverse time migration of controlled order multiples, SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2016, 4240-4244

27. Wei,Z.L., H. Hu, A. Lau, Y. Zheng, H.W. Zhou (2016). Joint inversion for microseismic event positions and velocity structures by combining multi-scale deformable-layer tomography and master station earthquake location method (pp. 4), SEG, Dallas.