Shane Zhang

Research interests

Optical fiber sensing; Ocean acoustics and tomography; Geothermal heat flow; Antarctic ice sheet; Subduction zones; Seismic ambient noise; Seismic tomography;

News

I’m actively looking for a faculty position.

2025

• May 12: I will attend WISE with a talk: Joint analysis of 2D phase-resolved swells in seafloor optical fiber and sea surface SWOT satellite data.
• Jan 8: Han, Zhongwen, Robb and I published a paper on SRL: Imaging Underwater Faults and Tracking Whales with Optical Fiber Sensing.

2024

• Dec 10: I attended AGU with two presentations.
• Oct 7: I attended SSA Photonic Seismology with three presentations.
• Jun 22: Mike and I published a paper on GJI: Applying Machine Learning to Characterize and Transport the Relationship Between Seismic Structure and Surface Heat Flux.

2023

• Dec 10: I attended AGU with two presentations.
• Nov 29: I gave a Brownbag seminar at Caltech SeismoLab.
• Oct 9: I started my postdoc at Caltech.
• July 7: Mike and I submitted a preprint to EarthArXiV: Transporting Heat Flux From the US and Europe to Antarctica Guided by Regional Seismic Structure.
• July 6: I defended my PhD.
• June 13: Mike and I submitted a preprint to EarthArXiV: Applying Machine Learning to Characterize and Transport the Relationship Between Seismic Structure and Surface Heat Flux.

Employment & Education

• 2023–present, Postdoc, Caltech (Hosts: Zhongwen Zhan and Jörn Callies)
• 2023, Ph.D., Geophysics, University of Colorado Boulder (Advisor: Michael Ritzwoller)
• 2017, B.S., Geophysics, Wuhan University (Advisor: Xiaodong Song)

Publication

Google Scholar

• Han Xiao, Shane Zhang, Robb Moss, and Zhongwen Zhan. Imaging Underwater Faults and Tracking Whales with Optical Fiber Sensing. Seismological Research Letters, 2025. (PDF)

• Shane Zhang and Michael H Ritzwoller. Applying Machine Learning to Characterize and Extrapolate the Relationship between Seismic Structure and Surface Heat Flow. Geophysical Journal International, 2024. (PDF)

• Mengyu Wu, Hongda Wang, Shane Zhang, and M. H Ritzwoller. Plate Age and Uppermost Mantle Structure Across the Juan De Fuca and Gorda Plates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2023. (PDF)

• Chuanming Liu, Shane Zhang, Anne F. Sheehan, and Michael H. Ritzwoller. Surface Wave Isotropic and Azimuthally Anisotropic Dispersion across Alaska and the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022. (PDF)

• Shane Zhang, Hongda Wang, Mengyu Wu, and Michael H Ritzwoller. Isotropic and Azimuthally Anisotropic Rayleigh Wave Dispersion across the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Plates and U.S. Cascadia from Earthquake Data and Ambient Noise Two- and Three-Station Interferometry. Geophysical Journal International, 2021. (PDF)

• Shane Zhang, Lili Feng, and Michael H. Ritzwoller. Three-Station Interferometry and Tomography: Coda versus Direct Waves. Geophysical Journal International, 2020. (PDF)

• Martin van Driel et al. Preparing for InSight: Evaluation of the Blind Test for Martian Seismicity. Seismological Research Letters, 2019. (PDF)

Software

• ThreeStation: Seismic Ambient Noise Three-Station Interferometry
• Tutorials on Python, ObsPy