Dr. Ping Zhang

Dr Ping Zhang

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Contact email:Ping.Zhang@anu.edu.au
Location:J2.G33
Link:ANU Researchers profile
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Postdoctoral Fellow

APPIONTMENT:

June 2022 - present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australia

EDUCATION:

2018-2022: Ph.D. in Geophysics, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Australia

Thesis Title: Understanding the Banda Arc-Continent Collision through 3-D Seismic Imaging

Supervisor Chair: Prof. Meghan S. Miller

Supervisor Panel: Prof. B.L.N. Kennett, Prof. Malcolm Sambridge, Dr. Caroline M. Eakin

2014-2017: M.S. in Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Thesis Title:  Receiver Function Imaging and Joint Inversion Method: Theory and Application (in Chinese)

Supervisor: Prof. Huajian Yao, Prof. Ling Chen

2010-2014: B.S. in Geophysics (Graduate with Honors), Jilin University, China

Research interests

  • Arc-continent collision (Sunda-Banda Arc)
  • Cratonic stabilization/reactivation (e.g., North China Craton, Yilgarn Craton in West Australia)
  • Receiver function, ambient noise tomography, body wave tomography, coda autocorrelations
  • Joint seismological inversion (methodology & application)

Groups

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Manuscripts in review/revision (* corresponding author)

P2. Bi, H., Fang, H.J.*, Zhang, P., Sudholz, Z., Miller, M.S., Yu, P., Gao, R., (in revision) Seismic evidence for a transcrustal magmatic pathway contributing to critical metal deposits. 

P1. Sudholz, Z.J.*, Zhang, P.*, Eakin, C.M., Yaxley, G.M., Jaques, A.L., Czarnota, K. (in revision) Ancient craton-wide mid-lithosphere discontinuity controlled by pargasite channels.

Journal Articles (* corresponding author)

  • 12. Zhang, P.*, Miller, M.S., Eakin, Caroline. (2022) Unraveling an enigmatic boundary along the Sunda-Banda volcanic arc. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 599, 117860, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117860.
  • 11. Zhang, P.*, Miller, M.S., Schulte-Pelkum, V., (2022) Tectonic Fabric in the Banda Arc-Australian Continent Collisional Zone Imaged by Teleseismic Receiver Functions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 23(6), e2021GC010262, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010262.
  • 10. ​​​​Jiang C.X.*, Zhang, P., White M.C.A, Pickle R., Miller, M.S. (2022) A detailed earthquake catalogue for Banda arc – Australian plate collision zone using machine-learning phase picker and an automated workflow. The Seismic Record. 2(1), 1-10, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0320210041.
  • 9. Zhang, P.*, Miller, M.S. (2021) Seismic Imaging of the Subducted Australian Continental Margin Beneath Timor and the Banda Arc Collision Zone. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(4), e2020GL089632. doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089632.
  • 8. Miller, M.S.*, Zhang, P., Dahlquist M.P., West, A.J., Beck, T.W., Harris, C.W. (2021) Inherited lithospheric structures control arc-continent collisional heterogeneity. Geology. 49(6), 652-656. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G48246.1.
  • 7. Zhang P., Yao, H.J.*, Chen, L.*, Fang, L.H., Wu, Y., & Feng, J.K. (2019) Moho depth variations from receiver function imaging in the Northeastern North China Craton and its tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016122.
  • 6. Zhang P., Yao H.J.*, (2017) Stepwise joint inversion of surface wave dispersion, ZH ratio and receiver function data for 1-D crustal shear wave velocity structure. Earthquake Science, 1-10, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-017-0197-0.
  • 5. Yang, Y., Yao, H.J.*, Wu, H.X., Zhang, P., & Wang, M.M. (2019). A new crustal shear-velocity model in Southwest China from joint seismological inversion and its implications for regional crustal dynamics. Geophysical Journal International. 220(2), 1379-1393. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz514.
  • 4. Yang, Y., Yao, H.J.*, Zhang, P., & Chen, L. (2018). Crustal azimuthal anisotropy in the trans-North China orogen and adjacent regions from receiver functions. Science China Earth Sciences, 1-11, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-017-9209-9.
  • 3. Zhang C., Yao H.J.*, Liu Q.Y., Zhang P., Yuan Y., Feng J.K., Fang L.H., (2018) Linear array ambient noise adjoint tomography reveals intense crust-mantle interactions in North China Craton. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(1), 368-383, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB015019.
  • 2. Qiao, L., Yao, H.J.*, Lai, Y. C., Huang, B. S., & Zhang, P., (2018) Crustal structure of southwest China and northern Vietnam from ambient noise tomography: implication for the large‐scale material transport model in SE Tibet. Tectonics, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC004957.
  • 1. Feng J.K., Yao H.J.*, Poli P., Fang L.H., Wu Y., Zhang P., (2017). Depth variations of 410 km and 660 km discontinuities in Eastern North China Craton revealed by ambient noise interferometry. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(16), 8323-8335, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074263.

Conference Abstracts

  • Zhang P., Robert Pickle, Huaiyu Yuan, Meghan S. Miller, Ruth Murdie, Fabrizio Magrini, Hongjian Fang, Klaus Gessner, and Raphael Quentin de Gromard (2023) Lithospheric structure of the Archean Yilgarn Craton: New Insights from the Southwest Australian Seismic Network (SWAN) (invited talk). 2023 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.
  • Zhang P., Miller M.S., Schulte-Pelkum, V., Eakin C., Jiang, C.X., White M., Becker, T.W., Dahlquist, M.P., West, A.J., Pickle R., Harris C., (2023) Unravelling enigmatic boundary structures along the Banda arc – Australian continent collisional zone: insights from seismic imaging. 2023 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.
  • Robert Pickle, Ping Zhang, Meghan S. Miller, Ruth Murdie, Huaiyu Yuan. (2023) 3D Seismic structure of SouthWestern Australia via joint inversion of local and teleseismic body waves. 2023 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, U.S.
  • Ping Zhang, Huaiyu Yuan, Meghan Miller, Robert Pickle, Ruth Murdie, & Klaus Gessner (2023) Seismic imaging of the southwest Yilgarn Craton structure by ambient noise tomography. In 2023 6th International Archean Symposium (6IAS) Abstracts. 
  • Ping Zhang, Huaiyu Yuan, Meghan Miller, Robert Pickle, Ruth Murdie, & Klaus Gessner (2023) Enhanced 3-D crust and uppermost mantle structure of southwest Australia by ambient noise tomography, In 2023 Australian Earth Science Convention (AESC) abstracts.
  • Meghan Miller, Robert Pickle, Huaiyu Yuan, Ping Zhang, Ruth Murdie, Trevor Allen, & Klaus Gessner (2023) Southwest Australia Seismic Network (SWAN): understanding Australia’s most active seismic zone. in 2023 SSA Annual Meeting Abstracts
  • Ping Zhang, Huaiyu Yuan, Robert Pickle, Ruth Murdie, Meghan S. Miller, Trevor Allen, Klaus Gessner, & Brian Kennett (2022) Enhanced 3-D Seismic Structure of Southwest Australia (Poster), in 2022 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
  • Ping Zhang, Meghan S. Miller, & Caroline Eakin (2022) Unraveling an enigmatic boundary along the Sunda-Banda volcanic arc (Poster), In 2022 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 
  • Chengxin Jiang, Ping Zhang, Malcom C.A. White, Robert C. Pickle, & Meghan S. Miller, (2021) A detailed earthquake catalogue for Timor and Eastern Indonesia using machine-learning phase picker and an automated workflow. In 2021 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 
  • Ping Zhang, Meghan S. Miller. (2021) Seismic imaging of the subducted Australian continental margin beneath Timor and the Banda Arc collision zone (Keynote talk). In 2021 Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC) Abstracts. 
  • Ping Zhang, Meghan S. Miller, & Vera Schulte-Pelkum, (2020) Crustal structure and its tectonic implications to the Banda Arc-Australian continent collision revealed by teleseismic receiver functions (Oral). In 2020 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. T047-06.
  • Meghan S Miller, Ping Zhang, Maxwell Phillip Dahlquist, A. Joshua West, Thorsten W Becker, & Cooper William Harris (2020). Inherited lithospheric structures control arc-continent collisional heterogeneity. In 2020 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. T047-07.
  • Hanxiao Wu, Ping Zhang, Huajian Yao (2020). Stepwise joint inversion for 1-D crustal Vp/Vs structure using surface wave dispersion, Rayleigh wave ZH ratio, and receiver function data. In 2020 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. S064-0011.
  • Ping Zhang, Meghan S Miller, (2019) Transition in the Banda Arc-Australian continental collision revealed by joint tomography with body and surface wave data. In 2019 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
  • Ping Zhang, Meghan S Miller, (2019) Transition in the Banda Arc-Australian continental collision revealed by surface wave tomography (Poster). 2019 SAGE/GAGE Workshop in Portland, U.S. & Passive Imaging Summer School in Cargese, France.
  • Meghan S Miller, Lisa A Alpert, Thorsten W Becker, Maxwell Phillip Dahlquist, Cooper William Harris, Adam Francis Holt, Yuwei Li, Hendro Nugroho, Leland O’Driscoll, Robert Porritt, Nova Roosmawati, A. Joshua West, Sri Widiyantoro, and Ping Zhang. (2019) On the cusp of a tear: Continental subduction in the Banda Arc. In 2019 AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 
  • Meghan S Miller, Cooper William Harris, Robert Porritt, Daoyuan Sun, Ping Zhang, Sri Widiyantoro, Pepen Supendi, Thorsten W Becker, (2019). Insights into the transitions in the Banda Arc-Australian continental collision from seismic imaging of deep slab structures. 2019 EGU General Assembly & 2019 SSA Meeting.
  • Zhang, P., Yao, H., Chen, L., Wang, X., Fang, L., (2017). Exploring Moho sharpness in the Northeastern North China Craton with frequency-dependence analysis of Ps receiver function (Poster). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. S21C-0723.
  • Yao, H., Zhang, P., Chen, L., Wu, Y., Fang, L., (2017). Moho Depth Variations in the Northeastern North China Craton Revealed by Receiver Function Imaging (Oral). In JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting Abstracts. SIT30-03.
  • Zhang, C., Yao, H., Liu, Q., Yuan, Y., Zhang, P., Feng, J., Fang, L., (2017). Ambient noise adjoint tomography for a linear array in North China (Poster). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. S51D-0625.
  • Zhang, P., Chen, L., Yao, H., Fang, L. (2016). Moho Depth Variations in the Northeastern North China Craton Revealed by Receiver Function Imaging (Poster). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. S43B-2820.
  • Yao H., Zhang, P., Fang, H., Zhang, H. (2016). Constrain depth-dependent Vp/Vs ratio in the crust from joint seismological inversion (Oral). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. S32C-02.
  • Yao, H., & Zhang, P. (2015, December). Joint Inversion of Receiver Function, Surface Wave Dispersion and ZH Ratio for Crustal Structure Based on Tikhonov Regularization (Poster). In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. N551A-1962.
  • Guest Lecturer for EMSC3002/EMSC6030 Structural Geology and Tectonics (3rd year undergraduate level), Australian National University (S2 2023).
  • Guest Lecturer for EMSC2022 Introduction to Global Geophysics (2nd year undergraduate level), Australian National University (S1 2023)
  • Demonstrator for EMSC2023 Fundamentals of Geology Field Trip to Wee Jasper (2nd year undergraduate level), Australian National University (S1 2023).
  • Demonstrator to EMSC1066 Blue Planet Field Trip to Mt Kosciuszko (1st year undergraduate level), Australian National University (S1 2023).
  • Demonstrator for EMSC3033 Applied Geophysics (3 rd year undergraduate level), Australian National University, Australia (Semester 1, 2021; The course won the Bear McPhail Teaching Excellence Award)
  • Demonstrator for EMSC2022 Introduction to Global Geophysics (undergraduate level), Australian National University, Australia (Semester 1, 2020 and Semester 1, 2021)
  • Tutor for Geophysical Inversion (in English, postgraduate-level) at University of Science and Technology of China, China (one semester, 2015)