Songqiao Wei
Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
Location: 207 Natural Science Bldg
Phone: 517-355-3961
Email: swei@msu.edu
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Bio
Songqiao “Shawn” Wei is a seismologist with broad interests in Earth's mantle structures, particularly those associated with subduction zones. His recent work has been focused on imaging seismic structures of the Tonga-Lau subduction system, intermediate-depth seismicity in Tonga, and the mantle transition zone. One of his major interests in methodology is seismic attenuation. Meanwhile, he uses various seismic/geophysical techniques to study mantle discontinuities, subduction zones, and melt/volatiles in the mantle. He likes to collect fresh data from temporary seismic deployment (fun field work!), though he also works on global dataset. Shawn received degrees from Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D. 2016, M.A. 2012) and Peking University (M.S. 2010, B.S. 2007). He previously worked at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego as a Green Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow from 2016 to 2017.
Courses
- GLG 871: Introduction to Seismology
Selected Publications
- Jie, Y.#, S. S. Wei, W. Zhu, J. T. Freymueller, J. L. Elliott (2025), Deep‐Learning‐Based Catalog of Background Seismicity and Aftershocks of the 2020–2021 Large Earthquakes Along the Alaska Peninsula, Seismol Res Lett, doi: 10.1785/0220250072. View Publication
- Tian, D.*, M. Lv, S. S. Wei, S. M. Dorfman, and P. M. Shearer (2020), Global variations of the 520- and 560-km discontinuities, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 552. View Publication
- Wang, F.#, S. S. Wei, C. Drooff, J. L. Elliott, J. T. Freymueller, N. A. Ruppert, and H. Zhang (2024), Fluids control along-strike variations in the Alaska megathrust slip, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 633, 118655, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118655. View Publication
- Wei, S. S., D. A. Wiens, P. E. van Keken, and C. Cai (2017), Slab temperature controls on the Tonga double seismic zone and slab mantle dehydration, Science Adv.. View Publication
- Wei, S. S., P. M. Shearer, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, L. Stixrude, and D. Tian* (2020), Oceanic plateau of the Hawaiian mantle plume head subducted to the uppermost lower mantle, Science, 370(6519), 983-987. View Publication
- Wei, S. S., P. Ruprecht, S. L. Gable*, E. Huggins, N. Ruppert, L. Gao, and H. Zhang (2021), Along-strike variations in intermediate-depth seismicity and arc magmatism along the Alaska Peninsula, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 563, 116878. View Publication
- Xi, Z.#, S. S. Wei, W. Zhu, G. Beroza, Y. Jie#, N. Saloor# (2024), Deep Learning for Deep Earthquakes: Insights from OBS Observations of the Tonga Subduction Zone, Geophys. J. Int., 238(2), 1073-1088, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggae200. View Publication