CURRICULUM VITAE

Zhigang Peng

Department of Earth and Space Sciences

3686B Geology Building

595 Charles E Young Drive East

University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Tel: (310) 825-1420; Fax: (310) 825-2779

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Geological Sciences (Seismology), August 2004

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Thesis: Systematic high-resolution imaging of fault zone structures

Advisor: Professor Yehuda Ben-Zion

M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Software Engineering), May 2002

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

B.S. in Geophysics, June 1998

B.E. in Computer Application, June 1998

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R.China

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Research Associate, June 2004 – present

Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Analyzing early aftershock decay rates using waveforms: 1. recorded by the HiNet array in Japan; 2. generated by the 2004 M6 Parkfield earthquake

Deriving post-seismic fault healing from variations in source properties and recurrence intervals of repeating aftershocks

Detecting inner core rotation from temporal changes in scattering seismic waves

Research Assistant, September 1998 – June 2004

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Analyzed trapped waves for high-resolution fault zone structure at depth in several locations

Investigated spatio-temporal variations of crustal anisotropy from shear wave splitting along the Karadere-Duzce branch of the north Anatolian fault

Measured co- and post-seismic velocity changes from repeating earthquakes

Managed large seismic data set using Antelope relational database package

Visiting Graduate Student, July – August 2003

Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA

Derived earthquake source properties using data collected by the seismic network at Anza, CA

Los Angeles Basin Seismic Network Administrator, January – July 1999

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Performed network data analysis and prepared regular bulletins for distribution to scientific community and public agencies

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed:

  1. Ben-Zion, Y., Z. Peng, D. Okaya, L. Seeber, J.G. Armbruster, N. Ozer, A.J. Michael, S. Baris and M. Aktar, 2003. A shallow fault zone structure illuminated by trapped waves in the Karadere- Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault, western Turkey, Geophys. J. Int., 152, 699–717, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01870.x
  2. Peng, Z., Y. Ben-Zion, A.J. Michael and L. Zhu, 2003. Quantitative analysis of fault zone waves in the rupture zone of the Landers, 1992, California earthquake: Evidence for a shallow trapping structure, Geophys. J. Int., 155, 1021–1041.doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2003.02109.x
  3. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2004. Systematic analysis of crustal anisotropy along the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault, Geophys. J. Int., 159, 253–274, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02379.x
  4. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2005. Spatio-temporal variations of crustal anisotropy from similar events in aftershocks of the 1999 M7.4 İzmit and M7.1 Düzce, Turkey, earthquake sequences, Geophys. J. Int., 160, 1027–1043, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02379.x
  5. Lewis, M.A, Z. Peng, Y. Ben-Zion and F.L. Vernon, 2005. Shallow seismic trapping structure in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California, Geophys. J. Int., in press.

Submitted:

  1. Peng, Z., J.E. Vidale, C. Marone and A. Rubin, 2005. Systemic variations in moment with recurrence interval of repeating aftershocks, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett. in February 2005.
  2. Peng, Z., and Y. Ben-Zion, 2005. Temporal changes of shallow seismic velocity around the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault and strong ground motion, submitted to Pure Appl. Geophys. “Advances in Studies of Heterogeneities in the Earth's Lithosphere: The Keiiti Aki Volume II” in 04/2005

Manuscripts in preparation:

  1. Peng, Z., J.E. Vidale and M. Ishii, 2005. Anomalous aftershocks rates in the first hundred seconds
  2. Vidale, J.E., Z. Peng, D. Dodge and P. Earle, 2005. Inner-core rotation seen in temporal changes in short-period seismic side-scattering

INVITED SEMINARS AND TALKS

  1. USGS Earthquake Hazards Team Seminar Series, Menlo Park, CA, February 2005

Title: Anomalous early aftershock decay rates

  1. Seismological Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, January 2005

Title: What can learn from repeating aftershocks?

  1. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004

Title: Variations in moment with recurrence interval of repeating aftershocks of the 1984 Morgan Hill, California, earthquake

  1. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2004

Title: Changes of seismic velocity around the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault from coda waves generated by repeating earthquakes

  1. Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, October 2004

Title: I: Anomalous early aftershock decay rates; II: repeating aftershocks

  1. Seismological Laboratory, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, August 2004

Title: High-resolution imaging of fault zone structures from quantitative analysis of trapped waves

  1. The Bellaire Technology Center, Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX, May 2004

Title: Spatio-temporal variations of crustal anisotropy and seismic velocity along the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault

  1. Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Palm Spring, CA, April 2004

Title: Spatio-temporal variations of crustal anisotropy along the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault

  1. Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, January 2004

Title: Spatial and temporal distributions of crustal anisotropy and seismicity rate changes during the 1999 İzmit and Düzce earthquake sequences

  1. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2003

Title: Source parameters of earthquakes from Anza seismic network

  1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, July 2003

Title: Quantitative analysis of seismic trapped waves in the Karadere-Düzce branch of the North Anatolian fault, the rupture zone of the Landers, 1992, California earthquake, and in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California: Evidence for a shallow trapping structure

  1. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2001

Title: Quantitative inversion of seismic fault zone trapped waves in the rupture zone of the 1992 Landers earthquake

ABSTRACTS (last two years)

  1. Vidale, J.E., Z. Peng and M. Ishii, 2005. Anomalous aftershock decay ratesin the first hundred seconds, submitted to the Seismological Society ofAmerica Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
  2. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2005. Temporal changes of seismic velocity around the Karadere-Duzce branch of the north Anatolian fault and its relation to nonlinear strong ground motion, submitted to the Seismological Society ofAmerica Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
  3. Peng, Z. and J.E. Vidale, 2004. Early aftershock decay rates of the M6 Parkfield earthquake, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S51C-0170X
  4. Peng, Z., J.E. Vidale, C. Marone and A. Rubin, 2004. Repeating earthquakes may indicate a relation between fault healing and proximity to a mainshock asperity, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., AbstractS31D-08
  5. Ben-Zion, Y. and Z. Peng, 2004. Changes of seismic velocity around the Karadere-Duzce branch of the north Anatolian fault from coda waves generated by repeating earthquakes, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., AbstractS21D-06
  6. Vidale, J.E., Z. Peng and M. Ishii, 2004. Anomalous aftershock decay rates in the first hundred seconds revealed from the Hi-net borehole data, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., AbstractS23C-07
  7. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2004. Spatio-temporal variations of anisotropy and seismicity along the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault in the 6 month after the 1999 M7.4 İzmit earthquake, submitted to the 16th Annual IRIS Workshop (June 10-12, Tucson, Arizona) and the 4th ACES Workshop (July 9-14, 2004, Beijing, China)
  8. Lewis, M.A, Z. Peng, Y. Ben-Zion and F.L. Vernon, 2004. Shallow seismic trapping structure in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California, submitted to the 16th Annual IRIS Workshop (June 10-12, Tucson, Arizona) and the 4th ACES Workshop (July 9-14, 2004, Beijing, China)
  9. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2004. Space-time variations of anisotropy and seismicity along the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault in the 6 month after the 1999 M7.4 İzmit earthquake, Seism. Res. Lett., 75, 280
  10. Lewis, M.A, Z. Peng, Y. Ben-Zion and F.L. Vernon, 2004. Shallow seismic trapping structure in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California, Seism. Res. Lett., 75, 292
  11. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2003. Spatial and temporal distributions of shear wave anisotropy and analysis of repeating earthquakes in the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 84, F1789 (INVITED)
  12. Peng, Z., F.L. Vernon, Y. Ben-Zion, D. Kilb and G. Biasi, 2003. Self-consistent derivation of earthquake source properties: method and examples from seismic networks at Anza, CA, and the Karadere-Düzce faults, Turkey, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 84, F1143
  13. Lewis, M.A, Z. Peng, Y. Ben-Zion and F.L. Vernon, 2003. Shallow seismic trapping structure in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 84, F1031
  14. Peng, Z. and Y. Ben-Zion, 2003. Shear-wave splitting analysis along the Karadere-Düzce branch of the north Anatolian fault using similar events, Seism. Res. Lett., 74, 211
  15. Lewis, M.A., Z. Peng, Y. Ben-Zion and F.L. Vernon, 2003. Shallow seismic trapping structure in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California, Seism. Res. Lett., 74, 247

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor for an undergraduate course “Earthquake”, June 2005 – August 2005

Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Teaching Assistant (Volunteer), September 2003 – May 2004

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Seismic Exploration Geophysics (Professor Ta-liang Teng) – taught seismic data analysis techniques, led discussions, and assisted students in the course project using Seismic Unix (SU)

Geophysics and Geoengineering (Professor Ta-liang Teng) – discussed homework assignments, assisted with laboratory exercises

Seminar in Earthquake Physics (Professor Yehuda Ben-Zion) – gave tutorials and guided students in the course project using ZMAP

Enrolled in “The Professoriate: Preparing for the Future” program (a one-year course for developing academic teaching skills), September 2003 – May 2004

Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

FIELD EXPERIENCE

Field assistant, LARSE (Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment) II and the fault zone trapped wave experiment after the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, October – November 1999

Deployed seismometers and managed field equipments

SKILLS

Computers:

Language: C/C++, Java, Perl, Unix shell script, Fortran, Tcl/tk

Software packages: Seismic Unix, Seismic Analysis Code (SAC), Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), Matlab, Numerical Recipes, Latex, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat)

Platforms: Unix (SUN), Linux, MS-DOS, Windows 98/2000/NT/XP, Macintosh

Database: Antelope, MySQL, Oracle

Web: JavaScript/CGI, Servlet, JSP, ASP, Apache, IIS, HTML, XML

Languages:

Bilingual in English and Mandarin

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1999 – present

Seismological Society of America (SSA), 2000 – present

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), 2003 – present

HONORS AND AWARDS

Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Traveling Scholarship, 2003, 2004

Certificate for participation in the "Future Professoriate Program" by Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 2003 – May 2004

Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union, 2002

LEADERSHIP

International Orientation Group Leader, Office of International Services, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, August 2003

·Guided new international students in welcome activities and lectured orientation sessions

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