Yipeng Zhang, Ph.D.

The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete.

It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal. - Lao Tzu (6th Century BC)

上善若水，水善利万物而不争，处众人之所恶，故几于道。- 老子 （公元前6世纪） 


Media Coverage

Oct-11-2023

Dr. Yipeng Zhang is the Co-PI of the $ 2 million grant awarded by Environment Protection Agency to investigate the enhanced aquifer recharge for Southern Oklahoma. 

https://news.okstate.edu/articles/arts-sciences/2023/osu-geology-receives-2-million-dollar-epa-grant-to-research-enhanced-aquifer-recharge.html

March-9-2023

Newly published study comparing the runoff between Barton Spring/Onion Creek and Pedernales River highlights importance of Barton Spring/Onion Creek Watershed to Colorado River

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/new-research-highlights-importance-of-barton-springs-onion-creek-watersheds-to-colorado-river.html

Oct-21-2021

NSF-funded Research Work on Freshwater of Tropical Islands is Featured in the News of Geological Society of America

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211012154744.htm



Research Interest

from Zhang et al. (2022) in preparation (surrogate model for seawater intrusion process of Biscayne Aquifer, Miami, Florida)

from Zhang et al. (2021) (Impact of Rising Sea Level on Tropical Island Aquifers, the Bahamas, Southeast Florida)

from Zhang et al. (2018) (Hydromechanical Impact of Continental Glaciation Loading on the Pore Pressure Evolution, Brine Migration, and Earthquake Triggering across North America)

from Zhang et al. (2016) (Relation between Waste Fluid Reinjection and Induced Seismicity in Permian Basin, Southeast New Mexico)

from Zhang et al. (2013) (Generic Study of Waste Fluid Reinjection on Induced Seismicity of Midcontinent US)

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor in Hydrogeology (2023/8~present), B. P. School of Geology, Oklahoma State University

Hydrogeologist (2022/6~2023/8), Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University

Postdoc Associate (2020/8~2022/6), Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso

Short-term Researcher (2019/10~2020/1), Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant (2014/7~2019/5), Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant (2010/7~2012/8), Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech


Education

Dissertation: Impact of Oil-Field Brine Reinjection and Continental Glaciations on Pore Pressure Evolution, Rock Failure, Brine Migration in Sedimentary Basins and Crystalline Basement


Thesis: Will Hazardous Waste Injection into Basal Aquifers Induce Seismic Events in Sedimentary Basins?

Outstanding Student Paper Award of American Geophysical Union in 2011

https://connect.agu.org/hydrology/awards/student-awards


Senior thesis: Tectonic implications of structure and deformation features of Linxi Formation, Inner Mongolia


Publication

Journal Articles (6)

1) Zhang, Y., Person, M., Voller, V., Cohen, D., McIntosh, J., & Grapenthin, R. Hydromechanical Impacts of Pleistocene Glaciations on Pore Fluid Pressure Evolution, Rock Failure, and Brine Migration within Sedimentary Basins and the Crystalline Basement (2018). Water Resources Research. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2017WR022464

2) Zhang, Y., Edel, S. S., Pepin, J., Person, M., Broadhead, R., Ortiz, J. P., ... & Evans, J. P. (2016). Exploring the potential linkages between oil‐field brine reinjection, crystalline basement permeability, and triggered seismicity for the Dagger Draw Oil field, southeastern New Mexico, USA, using hydrologic modeling. Geofluids, 16(5), 971-987. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gfl.12199

3) Zhang, Y., Person, M., Rupp, J., Ellett, K., Celia, M. A., Gable, C. W., ... & Elliot, T. (2013). Hydrogeologic controls on induced seismicity in crystalline basement rocks due to fluid injection into basal reservoirs. Groundwater, 51(4), 525-538. https://ngwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwat.12071

4) Bandilla, K. W., Celia, M. A., Elliot, T. R., Person, M., Ellett, K. M., Rupp, J. A., ... & Zhang, Y. (2012). Modeling carbon sequestration in the Illinois Basin using a vertically-integrated approach. Computing and Visualization in Science, 15(1), 39-51. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00791-013-0195-2

5) Micallef, A., Person, M., Berndt, C., Bertoni, C., Cohen, D., Dugan, B., ... Zhang, Y. & Thomas, A. T. (2021). Offshore freshened groundwater in continental margins. Reviews of Geophysics, 59(1), e2020RG000706. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020RG000706

6) Zhang, J., Wang, D., Guo, J., Ren, Y., Tian, H., Wang, H., Tong, X., Zhang, Y., Shi, J., Chang, Q. & Xiang, Z. (2023). Petrogenesis of the ca. 2.5 Ga dioritic-TTG and granitic gneisses from the Huai'an Complex and its implications for crustal evolution and tectonic settings of the North China Craton. Lithos, 107104. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024493723000889

Conference Papers (7)

1) Zhang, Y., Mayer, A., Gulley, J., & Martin, J. (2021) Impact of Transient Climate Patterns on the Mixing between Freshwater Lens and Seawater in an Island-Lake-Aquifer System Under Different Sea Level Rise Scenarios, Yipeng Zhang, 2021, GSA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2021AM/webprogram/Paper370157.html

2)  Zhang, Y., Person, M., & Voller, V. R. (2015). Hydromechanical Analysis Associated with Laurentide Ice Sheet Glaciations. In Paper Poster Presented at Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Abstract), San Francisco, California, December 14-18. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFM.T23B2936Z/abstract

3) Person, M., Zhang, Y., Mozley, P., Broadhead, R., Bilek, S., & Edel, S. (2015). Pore pressure evolution and induced seismicity within the Permian Basin, Southeast New Mexico USA. In Paper Poster Presented at Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Abstract), San Francisco, California, December 14-18. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFM.T13E..03P/abstract

4) ZHANG, Y. (2014, October). FAILURE ANALYSIS OF THE LAKE HOWE BLOWOUT STRUCTURE, WILLISTON BASIN. In 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.  https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper243926.html

5) Zhang, Y., & Saffer, D. M. (2013). Long Term Observations of Subsurface Pore Pressure in the Kumano Basin and Upper Accretionay Wedge along the NanTroSIEZE Transect, offshore Japan. In Paper Poster Presented at Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Abstract), San Francisco, California, December 5-9. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013AGUFM.T31G2598Z/abstract

6) Zhang, Y., Person, M., Rupp, J., Celia, M., Gable, C., Bowen, B., Mozley, P., Evans, J., & Thomas, D. (2012). Is Hazardous Waste Injection into Basal Aquifers a Good Idea? In Paper Poster Presented at Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Abstract), San Francisco, California, December 5-9. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012AGUFM.H11C1192Z/abstract

7) Zhang, Y., Person, M., Gable, C., Celia, M., Nordbotten, J., Bandilla, K., Elliot, T., Rupp, J., Ellett, K., Bowen, B., Pickett, W., & Woolsey, E. (2010). Multi-layer, sharp-interface models of pore pressure buildup within the Illinois Basin due to basin-wide CO2 injection. In Paper Poster Presented at Annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Abstract), San Francisco, California, December 5-9. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AGUFM.H33B1315Z/abstract