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Herbert Fan Wang

Self Introduction

I am a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research interests are in poroelastic, or hydromechanical, behavior in the earth. I was born in China but grew up in the USA, in Colorado, Illinois, and Wisconsin. I did my undergraduate work in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received my Master’s degree also in physics at Harvard University and my Ph.D. in geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I did postdoctoral research for one year at MIT before joining the Wisconsin faculty in 1972. I visited the Kashiwa campus in the summer of 2006 where Tokunaga-san was my host. I am visiting this ERI to develop a research collaboration to monitor rock-mass behavior in underground facilities. The U.S. is planning to establish a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in the former Homestake gold mine, which is very similar in concept to the Kamioka site, in which neutrino physics experiments and geoscience experiments are located together. I am particularly interested in deploying and developing fiber-optic based methods for sensing deformation and fluid flow.