Gao Yuan

Gao Yuan(Y. Gao)

Email: qzgyseis@163.com; gaoyuan@cea-ies.ac.cn

Tel:   010-88015660


Education: 

B. Sc., Physics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu (1984)

M. Sc. Seismology, Center for Analysis and Prediction, China Seismological Bureau, Beijing (1991)

Ph. D., Graduate School in Beijing, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing (1999)


Professional Employment:

Teacher, Hefei Commercial School, Hefei (1984~1988)

Assistant Research Professor, Center for Analysis and Prediction, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing (1991~1995)

Associate Research Professor, Center for Analysis and Prediction, State Seismological Bureau (later China Seismological Bureau), Beijing (1995~2001)

Research Professor, Center for Analysis and Prediction, China Seismological Bureau, Beijing (2001~2003)

Research Professor, Institute of Earthquake Science, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing (2004~Present)


Professional Positions:

Visiting Scientist, National Earthquake Information Center, US Geological Survey, Golden, USA (Oct~Dec, 1993)

Visiting Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Jul~Oct, 2000)

Visiting researcher, Grant Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (Feb 2002~Mar 2003)

Visiting Professor, Grant Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (2003~2006, three months per year)

Visiting Scientist, Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan (Sep 2007~Jul 2008)

Visiting Professor (honorary), School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (2007~Mar 2010)

Visiting Professor, Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, USA (Feb 2011~Aug 2011)

Adjunct Professor (honorary), Department of Geological Sciences & Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA (2011~ Present)


Professional Service:

Member of the council, Seismological Society of China (2015~??)

Member of the council, Chinese Geophysical Society (2017~??)

Vice commissioner, China Continental Dynamics Commission, Chinese Geophysical Society (2016~??)

Editor, Earth and Planetary Physics, (in English), Beijing (2018~??) 

Associate Editor-in-Chief, Earthquake, (in Chinese), Beijing (2019~??)

Guest Editor, Earthquake Science, (in English), Beijing (Vol.25, No.1, 2012) 

Guest Editor, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, (in Chinese), Beijing (Vol.60, No.6, 2017) 

Guest Editor, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, (in Chinese), Beijing (Vol.63, No.3, 2020) 



Selected Publications:

▲ Shi Y, Gao Y, Shen X, Liu K H. 2020. Multiscale spatial distribution of crustal seismic anisotropy beneath the northeastern margin of the Tibetan plateau and tectonic implications of the Haiyuan fault. Tectonophysics, 774, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228274

▲ Gao Y, Chen A, Shi Y, Zhang Z, Liu L. 2019. Preliminary analysis of crustal shear-wave splitting in Sanjiang lateral collision zone of the SE margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its tectonic implications. Geophysical Prospecting, 67: 2432-2449.

▲ Liu L, Gao Y, Liu B, Li S. 2019. Preliminary seismic hazard assessment for the proposed Bohai strait subsea tunnel based on scenario earthquake studies. J. Appl. Geophys., 163: 13-21.

▲ Zhang Z, Gao Y. 2019. Crustal thicknesses and Poisson's ratios beneath the Chuxiong-Simao Basin in the southeast Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Earth and Planetary Physics, 3(1): 69-84.

▲ Jin H L, Gao Y, Su X N, Fu G Y. 2019. Contemporary crustal tectonic movement in the southern Sichuan-Yunnan block based on dense GPS observation data, Earth and Planetary Physics, 3(1): 53-61.

▲ Gao Y, Shi Y, Chen A. 2018. Crustal seismic anisotropy and compressive stress in the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and the influence of the Ms8.0 Wenchuan earthquake. Chinese Science Bulletin (in Chinese), 63(19): 1934-1948. doi: 10.1360/N972018-00317

▲ Fu, Y. V., Gao, Y., Li, A., Li, L. and Chen, A., 2017. Lithospheric structure of the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau from Rayleigh wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth, 122, doi: 10.1002/2016JB013096

▲ Shen, X., Liu, M., Gao, Y., Wang, W., Shi, Y., An, M., Zhang, Y., Liu, X., 2017. Lithospheric structure across the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the plateau's lateral growth, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 459: 80 - 92.

▲ Wang Q, Niu F, Gao Y, Chen Y T. 2016. Crustal structure and deformation beneath the NE margin of the Tibetan plateau constrained by teleseismic receiver function data. Geophys. J. Int., 204(1): 167-179.

▲ Crampin S, Gao Y. 2015. The physics underlying Gutenberg-Richter in the Earth and in the Moon. Journal of Earth Science, 26(1): 134-139.

▲ Gao Y, Wang Q, Zhao B, et al. 2014. A rupture blank zone in middle south part of Longmenshan Faults: effect after Lushan Ms7.0 earthquake of 20 April 2013 in Sichuan, China. Science China: Earth Sciences. 57(9): 2036-2044.

▲ Crampin S, Gao Y. 2012. Plate-wide deformation before the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake. J. Asian Earth Sci., 46: 61-69. 

▲ Zhao B, Shi Y, Gao Y. 2012. Seismic relocation, focal mechanism and crustal seismic anisotropy associated with the MS7.1 Yushu earthquake and its aftershocks. Earthquake Science, 25(1): 111-119.

▲ Shi Y, Gao Y, Su Y, Wang Q. 2012. Shear-wave splitting beneath Yunnan area of southwest China. Earthquake Science, 25(1): 25-34.

▲ Gao Y, Wu J, Fukao Y, Shi Y, Zhu A. 2011. Shear-wave splitting in the crust in North China: stress, faults and tectonic implications. Geophys. J. Int., 187(2): 642-654.

▲ Gao Y, Suetsugu D, Fukao Y, Obayashi M, Shi Y, Liu R. 2010. Seismic discontinuities in the mantle transition zone and at the top of the lower mantle beneath eastern China and Korea: Influence of the stagnant Pacific slab. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 183(1): 288-295. 

▲ Gao Y, Wu J, Cai J, Shi Y, Lin S, Bao T, Li Z. 2009. Shear-wave splitting in southeast of Cathaysia block, South China. J. Seism., 13(2): 267-275. 

▲ Wu J, Gao Y, Chen Y. 2009. Shear-wave splitting in the crust beneath the southeast Capital area of North China. J. Seism., 13(2): 277-286.

▲ Shi Y, Gao Y, Wu J, Su Y. 2009. Crustal Seismic Anisotropy in Yunnan, Southwestern China. J. Seism., 13(2): 287-299.

▲ Gao Y, Crampin S. 2008. Shear-wave splitting and Earthquake forecasting. Terra Nova, 20(6): 440-448.

▲ Hao P, Gao Y, Crampin S. 2008.  An Expert System for measuring shear-wave splitting above small earthquakes. Computers & Geosciences, 34(3): 226-234.

▲ Gao Y, Crampin S. 2006. A further stress-forecast earthquake (with hindsight), where migration of source earthquakes causes anomalies in shear-wave polarizations. Tectonophysics, 426(3-4): 253-262.

▲ Gao Y, Hao P, Crampin S. 2006. SWAS: A shear-wave analysis system for semi-automatic measurement of seismic shear-wave splitting above small earthquakes. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 159(1-2): 71-89.

▲ Gao Y, Crampin S. 2004. Observations of stress relaxation before earthquakes. Geophys. J. Int., 157(2): 578-582.

▲ Gao Y, Crampin S. 2003. Temporal variations of shear-wave splitting in field and laboratory in China. J. Appl. Geophys., 54(3-4): 279-287. 

▲ Gao Y, Wu Z, Liu Z, Zhou H. 2000. Seismic source characteristics of nine strong earthquakes from 1988 to 1990 and earthquake activity since 1970 in the Sichuan-Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) zone of China. Pure Appl. Geophys., 157(9): 1423-1443.

▲ Gao Y, Wang P, Zheng S, Wang M, Chen Y, Zhou H. 1998. Temporal changes in shear-wave splitting at an isolated swarm of small earthquakes in 1992 near Dongfang, Hainan Island, southern China. Geophys. J. Inter., 135(1): 102-112.