Curriculum Vitae
Xiaofeng Meng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Southern California Earthquake Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Education
2009-2015 Ph.D. in Geophysics, minor in Computer Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
2004-2008 B.Sc. in Physics
Beijing Normal University
Research Interests
Earthquake triggering Earthquake ground motion
Seismic data mining Volcanic seismicity
Earthquake nucleation process Foreshock activity
Research experience
Nov 2017 - present Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California
Advisor: John Vidale/Christine Goulet
Nov 2015-present Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Advisor: John Vidale
Aug 2015-Oct 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
Advisor: Zhigang Peng
Aug 2009-Aug 2015 Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology
Advisor: Zhigang Peng
Teaching experience
Spring 2015 Earthquake Physics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Guest lecturer
Spring 2015 Exploration Seismology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Teaching assistant
Fall 2011, Summer 2012 Earth processes
Georgia Institute of Technology
Teaching assistant
Spring 2010, Fall 2010 Habitable Planet
Georgia Institute of Technology
Teaching assistant
Mentoring experience (*co-authors of publications, abstracts, or manuscripts)
05/2015 – 08/2015 Sizhuang Deng*
USTC Undergraduate Summer Intern
06/2015 – 08/2015 Bridget Casey*
SCEC Undergraduate Summer Intern
06/2015 – 08/2015 Eva Smith*
SCEC Undergraduate Summer Intern
06/2015 – 08/2015 Clara Daniels*
SCEC Undergraduate Summer Intern
05/2013 – 08/2013 Gavin Rinaldo*
SCEC Undergraduate Summer Intern
05/2013 – 07/2013 Allante Harrison*
IRIS Undergraduate Summer Intern
05/2012 – 08/2012 Stephen Allman*
Undergraduate Summer Intern
Field experience
March 2015 Seismic Survey at Red Arrow Ranch
Atlanta, GA
March 2014 SUGAR: Suwanee Suture and GA Rift basin experiment
Suwanee, GA
Services
Reviewer Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth
Geological Society of America
Geophysical Journal International
Seismological Research Letters
Computer and Geosciences
Acta Geophysica
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Science China Earth Sciences
USGS internal review
Session Convener "The Static vs. Dynamic Earthquake Triggering Debate"
American Geophysical Union 2013 Fall Meeting
President Society Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) student chapter
Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-2014
Duty Seismologist Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
Oct 2016-present
Awards and Honors
2014 Outstanding Student Paper Award
AGU Fall meeting
2014 Excellent Research Award
Georgia Institute of Technology
2012 Student Travel Grant Award
Seismological Society of America
2008 Excellent Bachelor Degree Dissertation
Beijing Normal University
2008 Most Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Beijing
Beijing Municipal Education Commission
Publications
Peer-reviewed:
1. Meng, X., R. Hartog, B. Schmandt, A. Hotovec-Ellis, S. Hansen, J. Vidale and J. Vanderplas (2018), Systematic detection of seismic events under Mount St. Helens using an ultra-dense array, in preparation.
2. Meng, X., C. Goulet, K. Milner and S. Callaghan (2018), Fully nonergodic ground motion models in Central California using NGA-West2 and SCEC CyberShake datasets, in preparation.
3. Meng, X., C. Aiken and J. Vidale (2018), Dynamic triggering phenomenon at Cascade volcanoes and California geothermal fields, in preparation.
4. Yin, X., J. Chen, Z. Peng, X. Meng, Q. Liu, B. Guo and S. Li (2018), Detailed spatio-temporal evolution of early aftershocks following the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, J. Geophys. Res., 123, doi:10.1029/2018JB015575.
5. Meng, X., H. Yang and Z. Peng (2018), Foreshock, b value map, and aftershock triggering for the 2011 Mw5.7 Virginia earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 5082-5098, doi:10.1029/2017JB015136.
6. Peng, Z., B. Fry, K. Chao, D. Yao, X. Meng and A. Jolly (2018), Remote triggering of microearthquakes and tremor in New Zealand following the 2016 M7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 108(3B), 1784-1793, doi:10.1785/0120170327.
7. Chen, X., T. Geobel, X. Meng, Z. Peng and J. Chang (2017), Temporal correlation between seismic moment and injection volume for an induced earthquake sequence in central Oklahoma, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2017JB014694.
8. Ruan X., X. Meng, Z. Peng, F. Long, R. Xie (2016), Microseismic activity around the epicentral region of the Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 107(4), 1582-1592, doi:10.1785/0120160032.
9. Yao, D., J. Walter, X. Meng, T. Hobbs, Z. Peng, A. Newman, S. Schwartz and M. Protti (2016), Detailed Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Microseismicity and Repeating Earthquakes following the 2012 Mw7.6 Nicoya Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 122, doi:10.1002/2016JB013632.
10. Wu, J., D. Yao, X. Meng, Z. Peng, J. Su, and F. Long (2016), Spatial-temporal evolutions of early aftershocks following the 2013 Mw6.6 Lushan earthquake in Sichuan, China, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 2873-2889, doi:10.1002/2016JB013919.
11. Li, L., D. Yao, X. Meng, Z. Peng and B. Wang (2016), Increasing Normal-Faulting Earthquakes in Southern Tibet following the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake, Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.08.008.
12. Meng, X and Z. Peng (2016), Improved understanding of moderate-size earthquake sequences on the San Jacinto Fault and their relationship with deep creep, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv445.
13. Walter, J., X. Meng, Z. Peng, A. Newman, S. Schwartz and M. Protti (2015), Far-field triggering of foreshocks near the nucleation zone of the 5 September 2012 (Mw 7.6) Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica earthquake, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., doi: 10.1016/j.epsl/2015.09.017.
14. Wang, W., X. Meng, Z. Peng, Q. Chen and N. Liu (2015), Background seismic activities and dynamic triggering behaviors around Fangshan Pluton near Beijing, China, J. Geophys. Res, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012235.
15. Yao, D., Z. Peng and X. Meng (2015), Remotely triggered earthquakes in South-Central Tibet
following the 2004 Mw9.1 Sumatra and 2005 Mw8.6 Nias earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv037.
16. Meng, X. and Z. Peng (2014), Seismicity rate changes in the San Jacinto Fault Zone and the Salton Sea Geothermal Field following the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu085.
17. Wu, C., X. Meng, Z. Peng and Y. Ben-Zion (2014), Lack of spatio-temporal localization of foreshocks before the 1999 Mw7.1 Duzce, Turkey earthquake, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 104(1), 560-566, doi:10.1785/0120130140.
18. Meng, X., Z. Peng, and J. Hardebeck (2013), Seismicity around Parkfield correlates with static shear stress changes following the 2003 Mw6.5 San Simeon earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 118(7), 3576-3591, doi:10.1002/jgrb.50271.
19. Meng, X., X. Yu, Z. Peng and B. Hong (2012), Detecting earthquakes around Salton Sea following the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake using GPU parallel computing, Procedia Computer Science, 9, 937-946, doi:10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.100.
20. Meng, X., Y. Chen, J. Zhou and Y. Meng (2010), Microwave propagation in air drilling, Petroleum Science, 7(3), 390-396, doi: 10.1007/s12182-010-0083-z.
Non peer-reviewed:
1. Meng, X. (2015), Systematic study of earthquake triggering using microearthquakes detected by the matched filter technique, Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.
2. Ruan, X., Z. Peng, X. Meng, R. Xie (2013), Temporal Changes of Seismicity before the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake, Acta Geologica Sinica, 87(z1), 287-288.
Talks
1. Meng, X., C. Goulet and K. Milner (2018), CyberShake Validation, Ground Motion Simulations and Engineering Applications Workshop, 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA (Invited).
2. Meng, X., Z. Peng and H. Yang (2016), Systematic Investigation of the Aftershock Sequence of the 2011 Mw5.8 Virginia Earthquake, 2016 Eastern Section of SSA Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
3. Meng, X., Z. Peng, S. Deng and R. Castro (2015), Systematic Study of Foreshocks and Triggered Earthquakes During the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake Sequence, 2015 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA (Invited).
4. Meng, X., Z. Peng, C. Aiken and D. Kilb (2014), Dynamically Triggered Earthquakes in the Geysers Region following the 2014 M6.0 South Napa Earthquake, 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
5. Meng, X. and Z. Peng (2014), Study on earthquake triggering based on the matched filter technique, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China (Invited).
6. Meng, X. and Z. Peng (2014), Study on earthquake triggering based on the matched filter technique, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Invited).
7. Meng, X., Z. Peng, J. L. Hardebeck, X. Yu, and B. Hong (2013), Testing static vs dynamic triggering following large earthquakes in California, Workshop of Statistics and Triggering of Earthquakes, Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Canada.
8. Meng, X. (2013), Detection of missing earthquakes with the matched filter technique and seismic velocity changes with the ambient noise cross-correlation, Center for Energy & Geo Processing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (Invited).
9. Meng, X., Z. Peng, J. L. Hardebeck, X. Yu, and B. Hong (2012), Systematic search for missing earthquakes in Central California around the 2003 Mw6.5 San Simeon and the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield earthquakes, Abstract S54A-01 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
10. Meng, X., Z. Peng, and J. Hardebeck (2012), Triggered microearthquakes on the Parkfield section of the San Andreas fault by the 2003 Mw6.5 San Simeon earthquake, 2012 SSA meeting, San Diego, CA.
11. Meng, X., Z. Peng and P. Zhao (2011), Differentiating static and dynamic stress triggering near Salton Sea following the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayer-Cucapah earthquake, Abstract S21D-02 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
12. Meng, X., Z. Peng, and J. L. Hardebeck (2010), Detecting missing earthquakes on the Parkfield section of the San Andreas Fault following the 2003 Mw6.5 San Simeon earthquake, Abstract S43D-08 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
Posters presentation
1. Meng, X., C. Goulet, K. Milner and S. Callaghan (2018), Preliminary Results on Fully Nonergodic Ground Motion Models in Central California Using NGA-West2 and CyberShake Dataset, 2018 AGU Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
2. Meng, X., C. Goulet, K. Milner and S. Callaghan (2018), Preliminary Results on Fully Nonergodic Ground Motion Models in Central California Using NGA-West2 and CyberShake Dataset, 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
3. Meng, X., R. Hartog, B. Schmandt, A. Hotovec-Ellis, S. Hansen, J. Vidale, J. Vanderplas (2016), Systematic detection of seismic events around the Mount St. Helens using an ultra-dense array, 2016 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
4. Meng, X., R. Hartog, B. Schmandt, A. Hotovec-Ellis, S. Hansen, J. Vidale, J. Vanderplas (2016), Systematic detection of seismic events around the Mount St. Helens using an ultra-dense array, 2016 Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments Data Summit, New York, NY.
5. Meng, X., R. Hartog, B. Schmandt, A. Hotovec-Ellis, S. Hansen, J. Vidale, J. Vanderplas (2016), Systematic detection of seismic events around the Mount St. Helens using an ultra-dense array, 2016 IRIS Workshop, Vancouver, OR.
6. Meng, X., and Z. Peng (2014), Statistical discrimination of induced and tectonic earthquake sequences in Central and Eastern US based on waveform detected catalogs, 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
7. Meng, X. and Z. Peng (2014), Improved understanding of moderate-size earthquake sequences on the San Jacinto Fault and their relationship with deep creep, 2014 SCEC Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
8. Meng, X., X. Yu, Z. Peng and B. Hong (2014), Massive scale detection of missing earthquakes in California, XSEDE14 Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
9. Meng, X., H. Yang, Z. Peng and S. Allman (2014), Hurricane Irene’s impacts on the aftershock sequence of the 2011 Mw5.7 Virginia earthquake, 2014 IRIS Workshop, Sunriver, OR.
10. Meng, X., H. Yang, S. Allman and Z. Peng (2013), Hurricane Irene’s Impacts on the Aftershock Sequence of the 2011 Mw5.8 Virginia Earthquake, Abstract S51B-2369 presented at 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA.
11. Meng, X., H. Yang, Z. Peng and S. Allman (2013), Hurricane Irene’s Impacts on the Aftershock Sequence of the 2011 Mw5.8 Virginia Earthquake, Workshop of Statistics and Triggering of Earthquakes, Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Canada.
12. Meng, X., S. Allman, Z. Peng and T. Gilstrap (2013), Hurricane Irene’s Impacts on the Aftershock Sequence of the 2011 Mw5.8 Virginia Earthquake, 2013 SSA meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
13. Meng, X., Z. Peng, K. Withers, K. Olsen, X. Yu and B. Hong (2013), Systematic Search of Missing Earthquakes Near the Salton Sea Geothermal Field and San Jacinto Fault Around the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake, 2013 SSA meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
14. Meng, X., Z. Peng, X. Yu and B. Hong (2012), Systematic search for missing earthquakes in Southern California around the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, 2012 SCEC Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
15. Meng, X., Z. Peng and P. Zhao (2011), Differentiating static and dynamic triggering near Salton Sea following the 2010 Mw7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, 2011 SCEC Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.