NEWS & EVENTS
News
Our paper on Alaska subduction zone has been published on JGR. See the news report here: https://www.eaps.purdue.edu/news/articles/2020/111220_Yang_VolcanoSubduction.html
Our article on crustal modification during continental rifting has been published on GRL. Gao, H., X. Yang, M. Long, and J. Aragon (2020). Seismic Evidence for Crustal Modification Beneath the Hartford Rift Basin in the Northeastern United States, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089316
Joined Boilermaker team! August 17, 2020
Starting June 2019, I will be working as a Research Associate at Harvard University in Dr. Marine Denolle's group. That is so exciting!
Our paper on OBS data quality analysis has been published in SRL - January 03, 2019
Our Adirondacks story was selected by UMass Magazine Fall 2018 - November 28, 2018
Check here: https://www.umass.edu/magazine/fall-2018/inquiring-minds
Adirondacks paper made GRL cover story - Jul 17, 2018
Our Adirondack Mountains paper published in GRL last month was selected as the cover story of GRL's latest issue on July 13, 2018 (Volume 45, Issue 12).
Link for the issue: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19448007/2018/45/12
Link for the article: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018GL078438
Press release on our Adirondacks paper — Jun 26, 2018
Thanks to Jan Lathrop at UMass for writing the press release on our recent Adirondack Mountains paper published on GRL. Here is the link to the press release on UMass News (http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-geoscientists-offer-new), EurekAlert (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uoma-uag062618.php), on Phys.org (https://phys.org/news/2018-06-geoscientists-evidence-adirondack-mountains.html), and AGU GeoSpace blog (https://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2018/06/26/new-study-offers-new-evidence-for-how-the-adirondack-mountains-formed).
OIINK P2S imaging paper is highlighted by JGR editor — Aug 7, 2017
Events
Invited talk at UIUC - October 1, 2020
Invited talk at MIT EAPS - February 21, 2020
The talk is available online throug Youtube (a few minites missing at the beginning due to some technical issues): https://youtu.be/1ASM8XxCtsg
Invited talk at SSA Annual Meeting - April 25, 2019
Session: Central and Eastern North America and Intraplate Regions Worldwide
Title: Imaging the Cratonic Lithosphere beneath the Illinois Basin and the Adirondack Mountains
Time & location: 11:45 am in room Pike.
Invited talk at SSA Annual Meeting - April 25, 2019
Session: Imaging Subduction Zones
Title: Seismic Evidence of Mantle Wedge Controls on Volcano Distribution along Aleutian-Alaska
Time & location: 2:30 pm in room Cascade II
Invited talk at the University of Texas Insitute for Geophysics - February 25, 2019
Title: Seismic imaging of slab segmentation and its correlation with volcano distribution along the Aleutian-Alaska subduction zone
Time: 11 am
Talk at AGU Fall meeting 2018 - December, 2018
Title (S33A-06): The Cause and Effect of Slab Segmentation in the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction System
Time: Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 14:55 - 15:10
Location: Marriott Marquis; Independence D
Invited talk at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology - March, 2018
Title: Study the Structure and Evolution of the Lithosphere using Large Seismic Arrays
IRIS Workshop — June, 2018
Getting ready for the IRIS workshop in June 11-14, 2018. I will be presenting our new, exciting high-resolution seismic tomographic results in Alaska.
NEGSA — March, 2018
NEGSA is the next on my list! Getting ready for two talks. * NEGSA: Northeastern section of Geological Society of America annual meeting.
[Photo] Pre-AGU 2017 GeoPRISMS ENAM workshop — Dec 23, 2017
See you at AGU 2017 in New Orleans — Dec 7, 2017
2017 OBS Symposium — Sep 16, 2017