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I am a seismologist. I study the earth's interior.

I am an assistant professor that teaches at the Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, New York.

2018. Sep

The manuscript "Water input into the Mariana subduction zone determined from broadband ocean bottom seismic data" drafted by collaborator Dr. Chen Cai at Washington University in St Louis and submitted to Nature has been accepted - another lithosphere imaging work made by the MCMC inversion algorithm!

2018. July

The manuscript "The crust and upper mantle structure of central and West Antarctica from Bayesian inversion of Rayleigh wave and receiver functions" submitted to JGR-solid earth has been accepted!

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2018. Jan

Our most recent images of the Southern Transantarctic Mountains are published by the journal Geology! link

LITHOSPHERIC FOUNDERING OF THE TRANSANTARCTICs

Left: we recently find that the lithosphere (the hard, outer shell of the earth) beneath the southern Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs) is foundering (moving downward) into the asthenosphere. The upwelling asthenosphere provides support to the high elevation of southern TAM.

2017. Dec. 26. 1pm, (New Zealand time)

We, a group of 6, finish decommissioning a POLENET-ANET seismic site (ALYS). ALYS is located near the northern Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica, and is the last site we are scheduled to visit from the South Pole in this field season. The KBA (Kenn Borek Airline) twin-otter was flown by pilot Phillip and co-pilot Tyson.

Below: Weisen, Patrick (Wash. U.), John Roberts (NZ Mountaineer), and Narendra (PASSCAL engineer). (Zhengyang and Annie are not in the picture)

2017. Dec

Weisen was named one of the Outstanding Reviewers of 2017 by the journal Geophysical Journal International.

2017. Nov

Weisen Left for Antarctica to perform field work for POLENET. He will spend 6-8 weeks in Mcmurdo and the South Pole to collect more seismic data from the remote and chilly continent.

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