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Associate Professor in Seismology
Robert and Margaret Sheriff Professor in Applied Geophysics
(Joint appointment: Professor of Physics, 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-)
Associate Professor (9/2019), 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***)
Zheng, Y. and H.Hu (2016). "Nonlinear signal comparison and high-resolution measurement of seismic or acoustic wave dispersion", PCT/US2017/038325
Zheng, Y. and Hao Hu (2019). “Surface Wave Prediction and Removal from Seismic Data”, PCT PCT/US2019/45391.
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
AstroSeis: modeling seismic waves in irregular asteroids; MATLAB; available in GitHub
CougarSeismic: more powerful version of Crazyseismic; email me to get a copy.
Crazyseismic A MATLAB GUI‐Based Software Package for Seismic Data Preprocessing
Accepted/submitted peer-reviewed journal papers
* student author; ** postdoc author
2024
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
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
David Li, 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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
Liu, Y.K., Yanbo Zhang, Yingcai Zheng (2021). Reverse time migration of phase encoded all-order multiples, Geophysics, accepted.
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
Hu**, Hao, AlAli, Abdulmohsen; Almomin, Ali; Zheng, Yingcai (2021). 3D Seismic Characterization of Fractures Using Elastic P-to-S Double-Beams, Geophysics, accpeted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Hu**, H. and Y. Zheng (2018). 3D seismic characterization of fractures in a dipping layer using the double-beam method, Geophysics, V123-V134. pdf
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zheng, Y. (2013). Scale lengths of heterogeneities under Tibet, Earthq. Sci., 26, 1-6. pdf
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zheng, Y. (2007), Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities and Earth's Small-scale Heterogeneities, Ph.D. thesis. University of California, Santa Cruz, pp. 240.
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
Zheng, Y., and T. Lay (2006). Low Vp/Vs ratios in the crust and upper mantle beneath the Sea of Okhotsk inferred from teleseismic pMP, sMP, and sMS underside reflections from the Moho, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B01305, doi:10.1029/2005JB003724. pdf
Zheng, Y., and R. Wu (2005), Measurement of phase fluctuations for transmitted waves in random media, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 , L14314, doi:10.1029/2005GL023179. pdf
Recently Submitted AGU/SEG Abstracts
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]
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]
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]
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)
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.
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.
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.
Zheng, Y. (2018). "Seismic imaging of fractures in reservoirs", Industry-Rice Earth Science symposia, IRESS-2018, Whole Earth carbon cycling-Bridging academia and industry.
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)
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hu, H. and Y. Zheng (2017). 3D seismic characterization of fractures in a dipping reservoir layer by double beams, SEG.
Liu, Z. and Y. Zheng (2017). Applications of the direct waveform inversion (DWI) on 2d models, SEG.
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.
Zheng, Y. (2017). A Physical Mechanism for Earthquake Dynamic Triggering in Fluid Regions, SSA 2017, Denver.
Zheng, Y. (2016). Small-scale heterogeneity spectra in the Earth mantle resolved by PKP-ab,-bc and –df waves, Fall AGU.
de Silva, S., V.F. Cormier, Y. Zheng (2016). Modeling of Inner Core Boundary Topography with PKiKP and PKPCdiff, Fall AGU.
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.
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.
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.
Tian, Y. and Y. Zheng (2016). Topography-coupled resonance between Mars normal-modes and the tidal force of the Phobos, Fall AGU.
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.
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.
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
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.