2024/5/8

• Congratulations to Yen-Hsin on receiving the scholarship of Chinese Taipei Geophysical Society👏

2024/4/26

• I am honored to be invited to deliver a talk on urban disaster reduction with distributed fiber-optic sensing technique in the 5th Asian Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction (ACUDR) ✨

2024/4/23

• I was invited to share new DAS and rotational observations for the 0403 Hualien earthquakes in the Central Weather Administration 0403 Hualien Earthquake Symposium

2024/3/22

• Our work on probing the seismic anisotropy on the mantle transition zone boundaries beneath the Nazca slab with the harmonic decomposition method was published on Phys. Earth Planet. Int.. We constrained the 3-D anisotropic parameters near the 410 km which may be induced by the LPO of wadsleyite.

2024/3/14

• I was invited to give a talk on the fiber-optic seismology at Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University

2024/2/19

• We welcome Prof. Hiroki Sone to the ESLab for his visit from February to May. Please take this opportunity to interact with him! 😀

2024/1/31

• Welcome Yi-Sheng Huang joining the ESLab! 😀

2024/1/25

• I was invited to give a talk about incorporating rupture directivity into earthquake early warning system in Earthquake Early Warning Workshop

2024/1/22

• Congratulations to Vinh Long Ha  on receiving the AS-TIGP Research Performance Fellowship 👏

2024/1/12

• I was invited to give a talk about DAS data properties and applications on dark fibers in DAS Technical Exchange Workshop [video]

2023/11/22

• Welcome Yen-Hsin Lee joining the ESLab! 😀

2023/11/16

• I was invited to give a talk about geothermal exploration at the Royal Society-Academia Sinica bilateral international meeting

2023/10/21

• Academia Sinica Open House is coming! Welcome to visit and stop by my public lecture about fiber-optic seismology. 👋

2023/10/11

• Interesting work of a global initiative, the Global DAS Month of February 2023, that has collected and shown preliminary analysis of 32 individual DAS experiments worldwide including our LAMDA and MiDAS projects was just accepted by Seismol. Res. Lett.! A brilliant attempt toward next-generation global seismic monitoring network.

2023/10/10

• Our invited submission to AGU books about the Milun, Taiwan fault zone deep drilling project (MiDAS) was accepted, where we show fascinating observations from downhole distributed fiber-optic sensing for detailed spatial amplification and temporal monitoring of the Milun fault zone!

2023/9/22

• Welcome Chi-Hsuan Wang joining the ESLab! 😀

2023/9/13

• Congratulations to my summer program interns, Yen-Hsin Lee, on winning the second place in the National Earth Science System Research Project Competition 2023 👏

2023/8/31

• Congratulations to my summer program interns, Yen-Hsin Lee and Chi-Hsuan Wang, on receiving the Honorable Mention of Poster Competition! 👏

2023/8/15

• Welcome Hsiang-Yu Yang joining the ESLab! 😀

2023/8/2

• I am honored to give a invited oral presentation about fault zone fiber-optic monitoring at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2023 Annual Meeting ✨

2023/7/20

• I was invited to give a IES x RCEC x ISS Flash talk at Academia Sinica

2023/6/10

• Our Ta-You Wu Memorial Award Project for the DAS applications on dark fibers beneath the city was funded by NSTC! ✨

2023/5/23

• Our work on high-resolution anisotropic imaging of the shallow Yellowstone magma reservoir using one-step ambient noise tomography inversion with a dense nodal array was just accepted by Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.. We find a shallow accumulation of magmatic sills with up to 28% of melt fraction in the uppermost portion of the modern Yellowstone reservoir.

2023/5/18

• Congratulations to Ding-Jyun on winning the outstanding student poster award at the Geophysical and Geological Annual Meeting 2023 👏

2023/5/11

• I was invited to give a talk about the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technique at the Department of Civil Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

2023/4/19

• Our two DAS projects (MiDAS and LAMDA) about the fault zone and landslide monitoring are participating a global DAS campaign of Global DAS monitoring month February 2023!

2023/3/22

• Congratulations to Kuan-Fu Feng on receiving 地質學會112年阮維周教授紀念基金博士論文獎 👏

2023/2/1

• Welcome Chin-Yao back to the ESLab from military service! 😀

2023/1/18

• The ESLab is now on Instagram! Go check what we are doing everyday~ 🎉

2022/11/22

• I am honored to be invited to serve as the Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (IF: 4.39)!

2022/10/18

• I am honored to be invited to serve as the Editorial board of Geoscience Letters (IF: 4.375)!

2022/9/27

• I was invited to give a talk about the fiber-optic seismology for MiDAS project at ITRI fiber optic webinar

2022/9/20

• An in-depth coverage of our Milun fault deep drilling project (MiDAS) with the first borehole fiber-optic sensing experiment in Taiwan was reported by The Reporter!

2022/9/20

• An invited review on the recent 09/18 ML6.8 Chihshang earthquakes was published by Science Media Center Taiwan

2022/9/14

• Welcome I-Yun Kang joining the ESLab! 😃

2022/9/7

• Welcome Chaninthon Rattanavechasit joining the ESLab! 😀

2022/8/29

• Welcome Hung-Yu Yen joining the ESLab! 😀

2022/8/2

• Our MOST project on "Monitoring spatiotemporal variations of crustal stress and fault activity in Taiwan based on a real-time seismic velocity change detection system" was featured by Science Impact and published on Ingenta

2022/7/26

• Congratulations to Jen Chu on successful defense of her master thesis "Microearthquake monitoring of slow-moving deep-seated Chulin landslide in Baolai, Kaohsiung"! 🎉

2022/7/25

• Welcome Hong-Mao Huang joining the ESLab! 😀

2022/7/22

• Congratulations to Chin-Yao on successful defense of his master thesis "Constraining Chulin deep-seated landslide velocity structure with Rayleigh wave ellipticity"! 🎉

2022/6/3

• Our work on detailed mapping of the seismogenic structure beneath the northern Longitudinal Valley using high-precision earthquake relocation and 3-D velocity models was published on Terre. Atmos. Oceanic Sci.. We found that a major west-dipping structure that may cut through the Longitudinal Valey fault was revealed by the recent 2018-2021 Hualien earthquake sequences.

2022/6/2

• I was invited to give a talk about the potential of seismic tomography for geothermal exploration at CGS Geothermal exploration technique forum [Video]

2022/6/1

• Congratulations to Kuan-Fu on receiving the Distinguished Dissertation Award in Science, National Taiwan University 👏

2022/5/26

• Welcome Ding-Jyun Lin joining the ESLab! 😀

2022/5/13

• An invited review on a new Nature paper "Instantaneous tracking of earthquake growth with elastogravity signals" was published by Science Media Center Taiwan

2022/5/12

• Kyle was invited to give a seminar talk at IES with a title "Finding tiny landslide movements by grouping seismic noise data" 💪

2022/4/27

• Congratulations to En-Shih Wu on receiving 地質學會111年阮維周教授紀念基金碩士論文獎 👏

2022/4/26

• I was invited to give a talk on the Hualien earthquake and new tech DAS at the Seismolab, Department of Earth and Life Science, University of Taipei (Online)

2022/4/13

• I was invited to give a talk on the Hualien earthquake and new tech DAS at Institute of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University (Online)

2022/3/30

• Our work for the Tatun volcano hidden magma reservoir was selected as important research achievements of Academia Sinica 2021 ✨

2022/3/21

• Our work for the Tatun volcano hidden magma reservoir was selected in the 2021 review of the Government's scientific research and development ✨

2022/2/19

• Our Milun fault deep drilling project (MiDAS) with the first borehole fiber-optic sensing experiment in Taiwan was reported by 東森新聞 [台灣NEXT]!

2022/1/14

• Congratulations to Kuan-Fu on successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis "Noise-based monitoring on crustal seismic velocity variations" and officially being a Doctor! 🎉

2022/1/11

• I am honored to be invited as a keynote speaker at the Taiwan Earthquake Research Center 5th Annual Meeting ✨

2022/1/11

• Kuan-Fu is invited to give a talk on the development of a real-time seismic velocity monitoring system in Taiwan at the Taiwan Earthquake Research Center 5th Annual Meeting 💪

2021/12/13

• Congratulations to En-Shih Wu on receiving the Pilot Program for Elite Doctoral Scholarship from National Taiwan University 👏

2021/12/8

• Congratulations to Kuan-Fu Feng on receiving Postdoc research aboard fellowship from Ministry of Science and Technology 👏

2021/12/1

• I am honored to be invited as a keynote speaker at the Symposium of onshore and offshore volcanic hazards in northern Taiwan [Video] ✨

2021/11/16

• The popular science article about our finding of Tatun Volcano magma reservoir "大屯山偷偷藏了一個岩漿牛奶罐？用震波破解大屯火山身下的秘密！" was published on 研之有物 [轉載於國家地理雜誌、風傳媒、泛科學]

2021/10/28

• I am honored to receive the Career Development Award, Academia Sinica for a five-year grant for high-resolution fault zone monitoring with fiber-optic sensing ✨

2021/10/26

• Our popular science article about the fiber seismology and its experiment in Taiwan "地震學的光世代與花蓮米崙斷層深鑽計畫" was published on 物理雙月刊十月號

2021/10/21

• Our work applying the single-station ambient noise interferometry to studying temporal crustal seismic velocity changes over 20 years in Taiwan was accepted by  J. Geophys. Res.. We observe both strong annual dv/v variations and co-seismic velocity drops associated with regional earthquakes. Systematic analyses with the weather data suggest that the rainfall-induced pore-pressure change plays a predominant role in driving the dv/v seasonality, reflecting a diffusion process from meteoric water into shallow crust.

2021/8/5

• I am honored to be awarded the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award by Ministry of Science and Technology ✨

2021/7/21

• I was invited to give a talk at the TEC Hualien earthquake swarm online workshop

2021/7/5

• Welcome Yun-Ze Cheng joining the ESLab! 😀

2021/5/24

• I was officially promoted as a tenured Associate Research Fellow at Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica 🎉 

2021/5/17

• Congratulations to Kuan-Fu Feng on receiving 地物學會110年蔡義本教授研究生獎學金 👏

2021/5/1

• An interesting collaborative work using coherent velocity model to probe the depth origin of the gravity anomalies in Taiwan was accepted by Terre. Atmos. Oceanic Sci.. We showed that the long-puzzling Puli gravity low in central west Taiwan could possibly be an artifact feature arising from the mismatch of the shallow and deep gravity effects due to the N-S trending undulation of crustal thickness beneath the western plain/foothill.

2021/4/23

• Congratulations to Yu-Fang Hsu on receiving 地質學會110年阮維周教授紀念基金碩士論文獎 👏

2021/4/22

• POP radio《POP最正點》: 線上廣播訪談活火山與大屯火山岩漿庫

2021/4/14

• Our recent collaborative work investigating the effect of hydrological loading on seismicity in Taiwan was accepted by Sci. Adv.. The results reveal an evident correlation between the seismicity rate and annual variations of groundwater level, with distinct depth-dependent patterns in the western and eastern Taiwan.

2021/4/7

• 蘋果新聞採訪：大屯火山岩漿庫比你想的更接近

2021/4/6

• Our work about building a new high-resolution 3-D shear wave velocity model of northern Taiwan by combining both Rayleigh wave H/V ratios and phase velocities derived from Formosa Array was accepted by J. Geophys. Res.. The resolved fine crustal structures provide new geometrical constraints on basin formation and orogeny dynamics.

2021/3/6

• Our work about unveiling the Tatun volcanic plumbing system by combining teleseismic data recorded by Formosa Array was published on Sci. Rep.. We found a pronounced low Vp anomaly beneath the Tatun volcano at the depths of 8-20 km, which may indicate a magma reservoir with relative high melt fraction.

2021/1/6

• I am honored to be invited to serve as the Editorial board member of Geology (Rank #1 in geology, IF: 4.768)!

2020/11/20

• Welcome Ratnamani Gupta joining the ESLab! 😀

2020/11/17-19

• The institute of Earth Sciences is the host this year to organize the Geo2020 annual conference, the biggest geosciences event in Taiwan! Thanks for everyone's support. For whom did not register, the invited talks on two days will be on live stream with links posted on the website. Please feel free to participate with us! 

2020/10/24

• Congratulations to Jen Chu on receiving 科技部108年度地球科學學門最佳大專生專題計畫成果報告獎! 👏

2020/10/21

• I was invited to give a talk on the dense array imaging at the at the Taiwan Earthquake Research Center 4th Annual Meeting

2020/10/1

• Our popular science article for TEC Newsletter volume 29 was just released - 以地震噪訊干涉法探測2018年夏威夷Kilauea火山噴發前的地下岩漿活動

2020/9/24

• Welcome Kyle Smith joining the ESLab! 😀

2020/9/23

• I was invited to give a talk on the environmental seismology at Department of Geological Sciences, Chiang Mai University (Online)

2020/8/27

• Our work about mid-crustal fluid migration processes driven by 2016 Mw6.4 Meinong earthquake was accepted by J. Geophys. Res., in which the temporal Vp/Vs changes and aftershock analyses show transient enhancement of crustal permeability and seismic hazards in southwestern Taiwan.

2020/8/14

• Congratulations to Yu-Fang Hsu on receiving 地質學會109年阮維周教授紀念基金學士論文獎! 👏

2020/7/27

• Congratulations to Huan-Chun on successful defense of his master thesis "Fault zone imaging of the Longitudinal Valley fault system in eastern Taiwan using double difference tomography"! 🎉

2020/7/22

• Congratulations to En-Shih on successful defense of his master thesis "Investigating 3D structure beneath the northern Taiwan using joint inverison of local and teleseismic P- and S-wave data"! 🎉

2020/7/1

• Welcome Chin-Yao Huang joining the ESLab! 😀

2020/6/18

• Congratulations to Yu-Fang on successful defense of her master thesis "Earthquake Cluster Analysis with Nearest Neighbor Approach in Taiwan"! 🎉

2020/5/18

• Our work about detecting precursory seismic velocity changes (dv/v) prior to the 2018 May 2 Kilauea Hawaii volcano was accepted by Earth, Planets and Space, in which a spatiotemporal dv/v evolution in relation to multi-stage magma intrusion processes between the summit reservoirs and East Rift Zone dike system is illuminated and discussed.

2020/5/15

• Welcome Po-Li Su joining the ESLab! 😀

2020/3/3

• Yu-Fang made her first invited talk on earthquake declustering and crustal fluid processes at Seismolab seminar, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University 💪

2020/1/13

• Congratulations to Willy on successful defense of his master thesis "Analysis and improvement of tremor location error in southern Central Range, Taiwan"! 🎉

2020/1/1

• Welcome Cheng-Nan Liu joining the ESLab! 😀

2019/12/4

• Congratulations to Kuan-Fu Feng on receiving the Outstanding Student Paper Awards in International Conferences by Earth Science Research Promotion Center (ESPRC)! 👏

2019/11/28

• I was invited to give a talk on the environmental seismology at Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University

2019/10/22

• I was invited to give a talk on the real-time shaking alerts at Central Weather Bureau

2019/9/27

• We are organizing a workshop on Frontiers in Seismic Interferometry on Sep. 27 and pleasant to have renowned experts from worldwide to join us! Please click and register if you are interested. We welcome everyone who'd like to learn or know more about this fast-growing research area in seismology. 

2019/8/1

• Welcome prof. Fan-Chi Lin's sabbatical visit based at Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica for upcoming one year 😀

2019/7/22

• I was Invited by IRDR ICoE-Taipei to deliver a lecture in Advanced Institute Training Course on Landslide Investigations and Hazards Mitigation at Hanoi, Vietnam

2019/6/19

• Congratulations to Jen Chu on receiving the grant of College Student Research Program from MOST! 👏

2019/6/4

• I was invited to give a talk on the isostasy of Taiwan mountain belt at Seismolab, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University

2019/4/19

• I was invited to give a talk on the landslide monitoring at Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University

2018/12/21

• I was invited to give a talk on the enviornmental seismology at Department of Earth Sciences, National Cheng Kung University

2018/12/5

• Our work using seismic and geodetic data to jointly constrain the multi-fault geometry and coseismic slips of the Hualien earthquake is just coming out on Geophys. Res. Lett.. 5-month postseismic data is also processed and shows significant displacement occurred at the Milun fault.

2018/9/13

• Our popular science article for 中研院訊第1674期漫步科研 was released - 地動山搖的前一秒

2018/8/31

• Congratulations to my summer program interns, Jue-Ying Chen and Jen Chu, on winning the Merit Award of Poster Competition! 👏

2018/8/28

• I was invited to give a talk on the earthquake rupture directivity at the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering 

2018/7/31

• Congratulations to Yu-Fang Hsu on receiving the MOST College Student Research Award! 👏

2018/7/14

• Our work about using near-field ground motion data to constrain earthquake rupture directivity in near real time has been accepted by Geophys. Res. Lett., which demonstrates a possibility of incorporating directivity information into EEW system for more accurate shaking alerts.

2018/6/7

• I was invited to deliver an invited talk about deep-seated landslide monitoring at Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2018 Annual Meeting

2018/5/3

• Congratulations to Yu-Fang Hsu on winning the outstanding student poster award in Geological and Geophysical Annual Meeting 2018! 👏

2018/3/22

• I was invited to give a seminar talk on the landslide monitoring at the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo

2018/3/20

• Based at Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo as a visiting researcher for one month

2017/12/13

• I was invited to deliver an invited talk about deep-seated landslide monitoring at American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Meeting

2017/10/18

• Our three series papers about planetary seismology has been accepted in journal Astrobiology and JGR this year, and in the one of JGR papers, we demonstrate the usefulness of seismic interferometry to obtaining discontinuity structure beneath single station in Europa.

2017/10/17

• I was invited to give a talk on imaging seismogenic structure at Central Weather Bureau

2017/8/31

• Congratulations to my summer program interns, Yu-Fang Hsu, Huan-Chun Chen, and Chao-Yi Chen, on receiving the Honorable Mention of Poster Competition! 👏

2017/8/20

• We have recently developed a method to estimate primary rupture directivity in earthquake moment tensor inversion that has the potential to be automated in real time. The paper is just coming out in journal GJI.

2017/6/9

• Congratulations to En-Shih Wu on receiving the grant of College Student Research Program from MOST! 👏

2017/4/12

• I was invited to give a talk on body-wave seismic interferometry at Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, National Chung Cheng University

2017/4/7

• I was invited to give a talk on body-wave seismic interferometry at Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University

2017/3/17

• Seismology Forum 2017: Natural Hazards and Surface Processes is held this year on Mar 17 at IES, with a theme aiming to cover a wide range of topics such as landslide and volcanic hazards which recently gain much attention in Taiwan. Welcome to join us! [agenda]

2016/12/22

• I was invited to give a talk on the Taiwan community velocity model at the Taiwan Earthquake Research Center 1st Annual Meeting 

2016/12/1

• Our popular science article for TEC Newsletter volume 14 was just released - 黃石超級火山下的雙岩漿庫系統

2016/11/29

• I was invited to give a talk on body-wave seismic interferometry at Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University

2016/10/08

• Two new papers about Mw 6.4 Meinong earthquake in southern Taiwan has been online! We discuss its triggered aseismic slips at a shallow fault [GRL], and the possible effects on anomalously large S-wave pulses striking Tainan area [TAO].

2016/10/6

• I was invited to give a talk on the Yellowstone volcanic imaging at the 33rd Youth Forum of Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University

2016/10/01

• Officially move back to Taiwan and start a faculty position as assistant research fellow at Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica. Prospective students and postdocs enthusiastic about exploring Earth structure and seismotectonics are wanted! 👋

2016/5/16

• I am honored to be awarded the Journal TAO 2011-2015 Most Cited Article Award! ✨

2015/12/23

• Our new work using earthquake coda interferometry to probing inner core structure is published in journal GRL.

2015/12/16

• I was invited to deliver an invited talk about Yellowstone magma reservoir imaging at American Geophysical Union 2015 Fall Meeting

2015/05/15

• Employing joint inversion of local earthquake and teleseismic data, we unveiled the second larger magma reservoir in the lower crust beneath the Yellowstone. The works has been published in journal Science. (click the link for a 3-D demonstration of Yellowstone magmatic system)