Research Area

  DATE：2018-05-24    
Infomation  
Name: Ying Zhou
Title: 研究员
Phone: 01062751150
Position:  
Email: Ying.yingzhou@gmail.com
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS    
2001.09--2005.07 Ph.D. Geophysics, Princeton University, USA
1999.09--2001.07 M.S. Geophysics, Princeton University, USA
1996.09--1999.07 M.S. Geophysics, Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
1992.09--1996.07 B.S. Remote Sensing, Department of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, China
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION  
2012.12--to now Research Professor, Peking University, China
2013.08--to now Associate Professor of Geophysics Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
2007.01--2012.12 Assistant Professor of Geophysics Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech
2004.11--2006.12 Postdoctoral Researcher Seismological Lab, California Institute of Technology
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award: AGU 2004 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
 Student Travel Award: 2004 Annual IRIS Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, 2004.
 Student Travel Award: 22nd International School of Geophysics: ERMES— Earthquake
mechanics, earth structure and related problems — Erice, Sicily, Italy, August, 2002.
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
 Advanced Topics in Geophysics, Peking University, China (2013, 2014)
 GEOS1034: Earth's Natural Hazards (2014) Virginia Tech
 GEOS1004: Physical Geology / Natural Hazards (2011, 2012, 2013) Virginia Tech
 GEOS4154: Earthquake Seismology (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015) Virginia Tech
 GEOS5254: Advanced Earthquake Seismology (2011, 2012, 2015) Virginia Tech
 GEOS5974: Advances in Global Seismic Imaging (2010, 2012), Virginia Tech
 GEOS5974: Deformation of Earth Materials (2009, 2010), Virginia Tech
 GEOS6194: Geophysics Seminar (2010, co-taught w Chapman), Virginia Tech
 GEOS6104: Seismic Data Analysis (2008, 2009, 2011), Virginia Tech
 GEOS5974: Attenuation in the Pacific Upper Mantle (2008), Virginia Tech
 GEOS5114: Theoretical Seismology (2007, 2008), Virginia Tech
 GEO210: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and other Natural Hazards, teaching assistant at Princeton
University (2002 and 2003).
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 Journal Reviewer, Geophysical Journal International
 Journal Reviewer, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
 Journal Reviewer, Journal of Geophysical Research
 Journal Reviewer, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA)
 Journal Reviewer, Pure and Applied Geophysics
 Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation (Geophysics, EarthScope)
 Session Convener, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2014
SE31- Seismic Imaging and Tomography of Multi-scale Earth Structure
 Session Convener, Chair AGU fall meeting, 2007, session S20: Seismic Tomography:
Pushing the Resolution Limits.
 Committee member for Selecting Outstanding Student Papers, AGU Seismology Section,
AGU 2007 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
1. Investigating tomographic resolution in global crustal imaging, 05/2015-05/2016, US NSF
EAR-1348131, $92K. PI: Zhou
2. Mapping elastic and anelastic structure in the global upper mantle, 09/2010-08/2015, US
NSF EAR-1013617, $215K, PI: Zhou
3. CSEDI: Testing resolution of deep earth seismic structure under the Pacific using
geodynamic models, 05/2010-08/2015, US NSF EAR-0968965, $296K, PI:Zhou, Co-PI: King.
4. Finite-frequency tomography of global crustal structure, 01/2014-12/2017, NSFC,
41374047, CNY 940K, PI: Zhou
5. Mapping seismic anisotropy in the mantle transition zone, 07/15/2008-06/30/2012, US NSF
EAR-0809464, $180K. PI: Zhou
6. Mapping Slab Gaps in the Mantle Transition Zone, 07/15/2015-07/14/2018,, $217K, US
NSF Geophysics Program, PI: Zhou (Pending).
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications (published)
*: graduate students working with me
1. Ying Zhou, Guust Nolet and F. A. Dahlen (2003), “Surface sediment effects on teleseismic P
wave amplitude”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, No. B8, 2471, 2002JB002331.
2. Ying Zhou, F. A. Dahlen and Guust Nolet (2004), “3-D sensitivity kernels for surface-wave
observables”, Geophysical Journal International, 158, 142-168.
3. Ying Zhou, F. A. Dahlen, Guust Nolet and Gabi Laske (2005), “Finite-frequency effects in
global surface-wave tomography”, Geophysical Journal International, 163, 1087-1111.
4. Ying Zhou, Guust Nolet, F. A. Dahlen and Gabi Laske (2006), “Global upper-mantle
structure from finite-frequency surface-wave tomography”, Journal of Geophysical Research,
111, B04304,doi: 10.1029/2005JB003677.
5. F. A. Dahlen and Ying Zhou (2006), “Surface-wave group-delay and attenuation kernels”,
Geophysical Journal International, 165, 545-554.
6. Ying Zhou (2009), “Surface-wave sensitivity to 3-D anelasticity (Q)”, Geophysical Journal
International, 178, 1403-1410
7. Ying Zhou (2009), “Multi-mode 3-D surface-wave sensitivity kernels in radially anisotropic
media”, Geophysical Journal International, 176, 865-888.
8. Youyi Ruan* and Ying Zhou (2010), “The effects of 3-D anelasticity (Q) structure on
surface-wave phase delays”, Geophysical Journal International, 181, 479-492.
9. Ying Zhou, Qinya Liu and Jeroen Tromp (2011), “Surface-wave sensitivity: Mode summation and adjoint SEM”, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05212.x.
10. Yue Tian, Ying Zhou, Karin Sigloch, Guust Nolet and Gabi Laske (2011), “Structure of
North American mantle constrained by simultaneous inversion of multiple-frequency SH, SS,
and Love waves", Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, doi:10.1029/2010JB007704
11. Youyi Ruan* and Ying Zhou (2012), “The effects of 3-D anelasticity (Q) structure on
surface-wave amplitudes”, Geophysical Journal International, doi:
10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05356.x.
12. Kui Liu* and Ying Zhou (2013). "Effects of global crustal thickness variations on
surface-wave phase delays ”, Geophysical Journal International, 192, 773-792.
13. Jing Xue*, Ying Zhou and Yongshun Chen (2015). "Tomographic resolution of plume
anomalies in the lowermost mantle”, Geophysical Journal International, 201, 979-995.
14. Kai Deng* and Ying Zhou, (2015). "Wave diffraction and resolution of mantle transition
zone discontinuities in receiver function imaging", Geophysical Journal International, 201
2008-2025.
Journal Publications (in revision or submission)
*: graduate students working with me
15. Kui Liu* and Ying Zhou, “Global finite-frequency Rayleigh wave phase velocity maps”, in
revision for Geophysical Journal International.
16. Kui Liu* and Ying Zhou, “Rayleigh-wave finite-frequency sensitivity for interstation
measurements”, in submission to Geophysical Journal International.
17. Youyi Ruan* and Ying Zhou, “Finite-frequency effects in 3-D anelastic models”, in
submission to Geophysical Journal International.
Journal Publications (in preparation)
*: graduate students working with me
18. Ying Zhou and Kui Liu, “Traveling-wave mode summation for long-period seismograms”, in
advanced preparation for Geophysical Journal International.
19. Ying Zhou, “Surface-wave mode coupling for calculation of body-wave sensitivity
kernels”, in preparation for Geophysical Journal International.
20. Ying Zhou, “Finite-frequency sensitivity kernels for receiver functions”, in preparation for
Geophysical Journal International.
21. Ying Zhou and Jeroen Tromp, “The scale dependence of finite-frequency effects”,
manuscript in advanced preparation for Geophysical Journal International.