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Xueming SHI

Self Introduction

I am an associate professor in Geophysics department, Institute of Geophysics & Geomatics (IGG), China University of Geosciences (CUG), Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China.

I graduated from CUG in 1993, and obtained my PhD in Geophysics in 1999. During the period from Oct. 2003 to Sep. 2005, I was a post-doctoral research fellow (Japanese Monbusho Scholarship) and worked with Professor Hisashi Utada.

My main research fields are: (1) Magnetotelluric(MT) forward modeling and inversion method 1-D/2-D/3-D; (2) Non-linear geophysical inversion methods for ill-posed geophysical inverse problem; (3) Integrated inversion in geophysics and its applications.

I came to ERI to pursue the study of creating a seafloor MT 2-D/ 3-D forward and inversion code based on structured vector finite element method based on the recent improvements of finite element method. Because the special effect of sea water, the seafloor topography modeling would be emphasized and may be able to obtain by a systematic modeling using this code. In parallel, I am going to develop 3-D code based on unstructured finite elements, which are considered to be more apt for complex geometry modeling. Based on the new 3-D forward and inversion algorithm, EM data especially long period seafloor MT data, for examples, the MELT data (the MELT MT experiment carried out in 1996-1997 by teams from the US, Japan, Australia and France on the East Pacific Rise 17S) and more recent MT data acquired in the Pacific Ocean region, will be used to image the deep conductivity of the mantle beneath the Pacific Ocean region.