主要从事基于海洋主动源地震探测记录,采用速度结构反演和地震偏移成像方法,对大洋岩石圈演化过程开展构造-岩浆-流体相互作用研究,同时利用地震数据开展地球大气圈-水圈-岩石圈多圈层相互作用的多学科交叉研究。在洋中脊结构模型完善和建立、俯冲带地壳与上地幔结构、南海岛礁三维结构探测、以及地球圈层能量转换机制等方面做出相关研究成果。
主要研究内容:海洋地球物理;海洋岩石圈演化过程;洋中脊和俯冲带结构地震探测;主/被动源地震方法应用和研究,如走时层析成像,地震偏移成像,及全波形反演等;基于地震数据的地球多圈层相互作用研究。
200309-200606 中国科学技术大学,获学士/硕士学位;
200609-201206 麻省理工大学-伍兹霍尔海洋研究所,海洋地球物理专业,获博士学位。
2012-2015 在美国休斯敦油气服务公司工作;
2015年12月 入职中国科学院南海海洋研究所,2019年成立“大洋岩石圈结构地震成像”学科组。
(1)国家自然科学基金,重大研究计划重点支持项目,西太平洋马里亚纳海沟俯冲板片含水量探测及水岩相互作用研究,2019.01-2022.12,主持;
(2)国家自然科学基金,重大项目课题,东南亚环形俯冲系统的三维地球动力学模拟与演化研究,2019.01-2023.12,参与;
(3)国家级青年人才项目,2022.01-2024.12,主持;
(4)广东省自然科学基金杰出青年项目,俯冲带水圈-岩石圈相互作用,2021.01-2024.12,主持。
近三年发表文章、著作、申请专利等情况
(1) Zhang,M.,Di,H.,Xu,M.*,Canales,J.P.,Yu,C.,Zhao,X.,et al. (2022). Seismic imaging of Dante’s Domes oceanic core complex from streamer waveform inversion and reverse time migration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,127(8),e2021JB023814. doi:10.1029/2021JB023814.
(2) Yu,C.H.,Xu,M.*,Kirby,J.F.,Shi,X.B.,& Jiménez-Díaz,A. (2022). Spatial variations of the effective elastic thickness and internal load fraction in the Cascadia subduction zone. Geophysical Journal International. 229(1),487-504.
(3) Wang,P.,Zhou,Y.*,& Xu,M. (2022). An improved algorithm for simulating waveforms of SS and its precursors based on propagation matrix method. Chinese Journal of Geophysics. (in Chinese),65(10):3900-3911,doi:10.6038/cjg2022P0649.
(4) Wang,P.,Zhou,Y.*,Xu,M.,Zhang,H.,Chen,X.,& Guo,L. (2022). Investigation of effects of near-surface complexities on measurement of mantle discontinuity using SS and its precursors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,127,e2022JB024485.
(5) Zha,C.,Lin,J.*,Zhou,Z.*,Xu,M.,& Zhang,X. (2022). Effects of hotspot-induced long-wavelength mantle melting variations on magmatic segmentation at the Reykjanes Ridge: Insights from 3D geodynamic modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,127(3),e2021JB023244.
(6) Zhang,Y.,Yao,H.*,Xu,M.,& Liu,B. (2022). Radial anisotropy in the crust beneath Fujian and the Taiwan strait from direct surface-wave tomography. Tectonophysics,827,doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229270.
(7) Chen,H.,Yang,H.*,Zhu,G.,Xu,M.,Lin,J.,& You,Q. (2022). Deep Outer-Rise Faults in the Southern Mariana Subduction Zone Indicated by a Machine-Learning-Based High-Resolution Earthquake Catalog. Geophysical Research Letters,49(12). e2022GL097779.
(8) Zhou,Y.,Chen,X.,Ni,S.,Qian,Y.,Zhang,Y.,Yu,C.,Zhong,Q.,Zheng,T.,& Xu,M.* (2021). Determining crustal attenuation with seismic T waves in southern Africa. Geophysical Research Letters,48(15),e2021GL094410.
(9) Guan,H.*,Geoffroy,L.,& Xu,M.* (2021). Magma-assisted fragmentation of Pangea: Continental breakup initiation and propagation. Gondwana Research. 96,56-75.
(10)Zhu,G.,Wiens,D. A.,Yang,H.*,Lin,J.,Xu,M.,& You,Q. (2021). Upper mantle hydration indicated by decreased shear velocity near the southern Mariana Trench from Rayleigh wave tomography. Geophysical Research Letters,48(15),e2021GL093309.
(11)Wang,S.,Zeng,X.,Xu,M.,Zhang,Y.,Zhou,Y.,Wei,X.,& Lin,X. (2021). Rupture directivity of the 25 November 2018 Taiwan Strait Mw5.8 earthquake and its tectonic implications. Tectonophysics,809,doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228852.
(12)Tian,J.,Lin,J.,Zhang,F.,Xu,M.,Zhang,Y.,Guo,L.,& Zeng,X. (2021). Time Correction of Ocean-Bottom Seismometers Using Improved Ambient Noise Cross Correlation of Multicomponents and Dual-Frequency Bands. Seismological Research Letters,92(3),2004-2014,doi:10.1785/0220200358.
(13)Zha,C.,Lin,J.,Zhou,Z.,Zhang,X.,Xu,M.,& Zhang,F. (2021). Variations in melt supply along an orthogonal supersegment of the Southwest Indian Ridge (16°-25°E). Acta Oceanologica Sinica,40,94-104,doi:10.1007/s13131-021-1724-3.
(14)Xu,M.,Zhao,X.,& Canales,J.P. (2020). Structural variability within the Kane oceanic core complex from full waveform inversion and reverse time migration of streamer data,Geophysical Research Letters. 47(7). doi:10.1029/2020GL087405.
(15)Zhou,Y.,Chen,X.,Yuen,D.,& Xu,M. (2020). Effects of near‐surface complexities on differential travel times and amplitude ratios between PP and its precursors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,125(8),e2019JB019139.
(16)Zhang,Y.,Yao,H.*,Xu,M.,& Liu,B. (2020). Upper mantle shear wave velocity structure of southeastern China: Seismic evidence for magma activities in the late Mesozoic to the Cenozoic. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystem,21(8),e2020GC009103.
2019年度中国十大海洋科技进展
2021年度海洋科学技术奖
2021年度国家级青年人才
2016年至今,中国地震学会青年科技工作委员会委员
2017年至今,广东省石油学会委员
2018年至今,广东省地质学会委员
2019年至今,中国地球物理学会海洋地球物理专业委员会委员
2020年至今,国际大洋发现计划(IODP)科学评估工作组成员
2021年至今,《地球物理学报》编委