Wang, Tao

Major: Planetary Geophysics & Seismology

Research Interests:

1) Studying seismic structure of the Earth and planetary interiors ;

2) Extracting body waves by seismic interferometry; 

3) Applying AI techniques for geophysical researches.

Employment:

2022 -                           Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, China

Oct.2016  - 2022          Associate professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, China

Sep.2013 - Oct.2016   Post-doc, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, China

Education:

Sep.2008-Jul. 2013     PhD., Geophysics, University of Minnesota, USA

Sep.2005-Jul. 2008     MSc., Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Sep.2000-Jul.2004      BSc., Geophysics, Department of Earth & Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China

Publications (First author or corresponding author):

14, Shi, J., Li, J.Q.*, Wang, T.*, 2025, Direct S-wave Splitting from Deep Moonquakes: Real or Apparent? Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, Doi:10.1029/2025JE009223.

13, Shi, J., Han, C.R., Wang, T.*, Qi, C.*, Chen, H., Yu, Z.H., Geng, J.Q., Yang, M.H., Wang, X., Chen, L., Hui, H.J., 2024, Martian Seismic Anisotropy underneath Elysium Planitia Revealed by Direct S Wave Splitting, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119047.

12, Shi, J., Wang, T.*, Chen, H., Yang, M.H., Chen, L., Hui, H.J., Xu, Z.B., Lognonné, P. and Kawamura, T., 2023, Differences in Scattering Properties of the Shallow Crusts of Earth, Mars, and the Moon Revealed by P-Wave Receiver Functions, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, Doi:10.1029/2022JE007676.

11, Yu, Z.H., Wang, T.*, Sun, P.Y., Wang, W.C. and Guo, Z.B., 2022, Active source seismic first-arrival pickup method based on small sample convolutional neural network, Geological Journal of China Universities (in Chinese), doi: 10.16108/j.issn1006-7493.2021060.

10, Yang, M.H., Wang, T.* and Shi, J., 2021, Repeating infrasound from an earthquake doublet in Alaska, Geophysical Researh Letters, doi:10.1029/2021GL094632.

9, Shi, J., Wang, T.* and Chen, L., 2020, Receiver function velocity analysis technique and its application to remove multiples, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2020JB019420

8, Xu, Z., Wang, T.*, Xu, S.H., Wang, B.S., Feng, X.P., Shi, J. and Yang, M.H., 2019, Active source seismic identification and automatic picking of P-wave first arrival using convolutional neural network, Earthquake research in China, doi: 10.19743/j.cnki.0891-4176.201902014.

7, Lai, Y.J., Chen, L.*, Wang, T.* and Zhan, Z.W., 2019, Mantle transition zone structure beneath Northeast Asia from 2D triplicated waveform modeling: Implication for a segmented stagnant slab, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2018JB016642.

6, Feng, X.P. and Wang, T.*, 2019, Influence of source factors on extracting empirical Green's functions by coda interferometry, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), doi: 10.6038/cjg2019M0518.

5, Wu, B.J., Xia, H., Wang, T.* and Shi, X.Q., 2018, Simulation of core phases from coda interferometry, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2017JB015405.

4, Wang, T. and Song, X.D., 2018, Support for equatorial anisotropy of Earth’s inner-inner core from seismic interferometry at low latitudes, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.03.004.

3, Wang, T., Song, X.D. and Xia, H., 2015, Equatorial anisotropy in the inner part of Earth’s inner core from autocorrelation of earthquake coda, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2354.        ( Full paper; Altmetric score )

2, Wang, T., J. Revenaugh and Song, X.D., 2014, Two-dimensional/three-dimensional waveform modeling of subducting slab and transition zone beneath Northeast Asia, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 119(6), 4766-4786, doi:10.1002/2014jb011058.

1, Wang, T. and Chen, L., 2009. Distinct velocity variations around the base of the upper mantle beneath northeast Asia, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 172(3-4): 241-256.

Other publications:

13, Shi J, Li J, Li C, Meng H, Sun C, Qi C, Pan L, Fan S, Tian Z, Wang T, Xue L, Hu X, Chen L, 2025, Near-surface liquid water on Mars inferred from seasonal marsquakes, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-025-67784-4

12, Gu Y, Hui H*, Liu Y, Zhang C,Zhang J, Wang T, Zhang N, Xu L, Lin Y, 2025, Some Unsolved Questions about the Early Differentiation of the Moon, Space: Science & Technology, doi:10.34133/space.0213

11, Shi, J.*, Plasman, M., Knapmeyer-Endrun, B., Xu, Z., Kawamura, T., Lognonne, P., McLennan, S.M., Sainton, G., Banerdt. W.B., Panning, M.P., and Wang, T., 2023, High-frequency receiver functions with event S1222a reveal a discontinuity in the Martian shallow crust, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2022GL101627.

10, Zhu,H.H.*, Liu, W., Wang, T., Su, J.W. and Shi, B.,2022, Distributed acoustic sensing for monitoring linear infrastructures: Current status and trends, Sensors, doi: 10.3390/s22197550.

9, Zhang, Z.R., Wei, B., Shen, Z.H., Wunier, Wang, T., Wang, B.S., Ruan, Y.Y.*, 2020, Effects of the Hutubi underground gas storage in 2016 on the surrounding seismic activities, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), doi: 10.6038/cjg2020O0138

8, Zhang, L.M., Li, J*., Wang, T.,  Yang, F. and Chen, Q.F., 2020, Body waves retrieved from noise cross-correlation reveal lower mantle scatters beneath the Northwest Pacific subduction zone, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL088846

7, Zhang, Z.T., Wu, B.J., Wang, T. and Hui, H.J.*, 2020, Settling of immiscible droplets: A theoretical model for the missing link between microscopic and outcrop observations, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2019JB018829

6, Zhang, Y.P., Wang, B.S.*, Lin, G.Q., Ouyang, Y.P., Wang, T., Xu, S.H., Song, L.L. and Wang, R.C., 2020, Three-dimensional P-wave velocity structure of the Zhuxi ore deposit, south China revealed by control-source first-arrival tomography, Minerals, 10(2), 148; https://doi.org/10.3390/min10020148

5, Wang, W.T.*, Wang, X., Meng, C.M., Dong, S., Wang, Z.G., Xie, J.J. Wang, B.S., Yang, W., Xu, S.H. and Wang, T., 2019, Characteristics of the Seismic Waves from a New Active Source Based on Methane Gaseous Detonation, Earthquake research in China, DOI: 10.19743/j.cnki.0891-4176.201902003.

4, Xia, H.H., Song, X.D.* and Wang, T., 2016, Extraction of triplicated PKP phases from noise correlations,Geophysical Journal International, 205: 499-508

3, Xin, D.H., Song, X.D.* and Wang, T., 2015, Localized temporal variation of Earth’s inner-core boundary from high-quality waveform doublets, Earthquake Science, 28(3): 175-185

2, Chen, L.*, Wang, T., Zhao, L. and Zheng, T.Y., 2008, Distinct Lateral Variation of Lithospheric thickness in the Northeastern North China Craton, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 267(1-2): 56~68          

1, Chen, L.*, Zhu, R. X. and Wang, T., 2007, Progress in continental lithosphere studies, Earth Science Frontiers (in Chinese),14(2), 58-75.

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