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

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/msu.edu/swei/

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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 471: Applied Geophysics

Selected Publications

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
Wei, S. S. and D. A. Wiens (2018), P-wave attenuation structure of the Lau back-arc basin and implications for mantle wedge processes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 502, 187-199. View Publication
Wei, S. S. and D. A. Wiens (2020), High bulk and shear attenuation due to partial melt in the Tonga-Lau back-arc mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 125(1), e2019JB017527. View Publication
Wei, S. S. and P. M. Shearer (2017), A sporadic low-velocity layer atop the 410 km discontinuity beneath the Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res. 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