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Yan Yang
Student, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Student
2024 - Present
CalTech Seismological Laboratory
Student
2023 - 2024
California Institute of Technology
Student
2019 - 2023
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Education
CalTech Seismological Laboratory
Doctorate
2024
Bachelors
2016
CalTech Seismological Laboratory
Masters
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Honors & Awards
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2023
Presentation Title: Refining Firn Density Estimations at the South Pole using Distributed Acoustic SensingEvent: 2023 AGU Annual Meeting Awarding Section: Seismology
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Imaging the Garlock Fault Zone With a Fiber: A Limited Damage Zone and Hidden Bimaterial Contrast
The structure of fault zones and the ruptures they host are inextricably linked. Fault zones are narrow, which has made imaging their structure at ...
July 23, 2024
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Fault Zone Imaging With Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Body‐T...
November 17, 2022
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Sub‐Kilometer Correlation Between Near‐Surface Structure and...
December 30, 2021
AGU Abstracts
The Top-to-Bottom Structure of the Garlock Fault Zone Uncovered with Fiber Sensing
CONTROL OF FAULT ZONE HETEROGENEITY AND FAULT ROUGHNESS ON MULTISCALE DEFORMATION AT INTER- AND INTRAPLATE FAULT ZONES IV ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
James Atterholt, Zhongwen Zhan, Yan Yang, Weiqiang...
The structure of fault zones and the ruptures they host are inextricably linked. Fault zones are narrow, which has made imaging their structure at sei...
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Refining Firn Density Estimations at the South Pole using Distributed Acoustic Sensing
OBSERVING WAVE FIELD GRADIENTS IN SEISMOLOGY: APPLICATIONS, INSTRUMENTATION, AND THEORY II ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Yan Yang, Zhongwen Zhan, Auden Reid-McLaughlin, Et...
The study of firn density structure is critical for ice sheet mass balance estimations, and traditional ice core drilling methods present financial an...
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Rupture Imaging of Firn Quakes with Distributed Acoustic Sensing
INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN FIBER-OPTIC SENSING III ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Jiaxuan Li, Yan Yang, Ettore Biondi, Auden Reid-Mc...
A firn quake is an unusual earthquake-like phenomenon observed in snowfields. It is typically felt with an audible whumpf sound, sometimes followed by...
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