Prof. TAN Yen Joe 陳衍佐
Assistant Professor
Open Positions and Opportunities:
I am currently recruiting students and postdocs. Please get in touch to discuss potential research opportunities.
Room 317, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building
3943 0463
Education
2019 | Ph.D. Geophysics | Columbia University |
2014 | B.S. Geology | Lafayette College |
2014 | B.A. Anthropology and Sociology | Lafayette College |
Academic Employments
2020 – present | Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
2020 – present | Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University |
2019 – 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University |
2018 – 2019 | Visiting Researcher, ISTerre Université Savoie Mont-Blanc |
Research Fields and Current Research Interests
- Marine geophysics
- Volcano seismology
- Earthquake processes
- Environmental seismology
- Machine learning applications in geophysics
Honours and Awards
2022 | Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award |
2021 | NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund 優秀青年科學基金(港澳) |
2018 | New York Community Trust Edward Prince Goldman Scholarship in Science |
2018 | New York Community Trust Edward Prince Goldman Scholarship in Science |
2018 | President Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” Fellowship |
2018 | Chateaubriand Fellowship |
2018 | Los Alamos National Lab Applied Machine Learning Research Fellowship |
Professional Activities
Current
Handling Editor: Seismica |
Advisory Board member: GradMAP Philippines |
Past
Early Career Representative: IAVCEI Committee on Submarine Volcanism |
Teaching
Current
EESC 3320 Hydrogeology EESC 3300 Oceanography EESC 2130 Fundamental Geoscience Fieldwork (Taiwan) EESC 4150 Volcanoes EESC 3130 Introduction to Seismic Data Processing |
Past
ESSC 2030 Introduction to Computational Earth System Science ESSC 4510/EASC 5510 Statistical Methods and Data Analysis |
College Affiliation in CUHK
Morningside College
Selected Recent Publications
- Zhong, Y. and Tan, Y.J.* (2024), Deep-learning-based phase picking for volcano-tectonic and long-period earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 51.
- Zhang, Z., Liu, M., Tan, Y.J.*, Walter, F., He, S., Chmiel, M., and Su, J. (2024), Landslide hazard cascades can trigger earthquakes, Nature Communications, 15, 2878.
- Lee, M.K., Tan, Y.J.*, Russell, J.B., Tolstoy, M., and Waldhauser, F. (2024), Relative seismic velocity variations at Axial Seamount observed with ambient seismic noise capture transition point in volcanic inflation, Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL108883.
- Barkat, A., Tan, Y.J.*, Xu, G., Waldhauser, F., Tolstoy, M., and Wilcock, W.S.D. (2024), Permeability and seismicity rate changes at an inflating submarine volcano caused by dynamic stresses, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 632, 118625.
- Liu, M., Tan, Y.J.*, Lei, X., Li, H., Zhang, Y., and Wang, W. (2024), Intersection between tectonic faults and magmatic systems promotes swarms with large-magnitude earthquakes around the Tengchong volcanic field, southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Geology, 52(4), 302-307.
- Song, Z., Tan, Y.J.*, and Roman, D.C. (2023), Deep long-period earthquakes at Akutan Volcano from 2005-2017 better track magma influxes than volcano-tectonic earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101987.
- Tan, Y.J.* and Marsan, D. (2020), Connecting a broad spectrum of transient slip on the San Andreas fault, Science Advances, 6, eabb2489.
Before joining CUHK:
- Scholz, C.H., Tan, Y.J.*, and Albino, F. (2019), The mechanism of tidal triggering of earthquakes at mid-ocean ridges, Nature Communications, 10(1), 2526.
- Tan, Y.J.*, Waldhauser, F., Tolstoy, M., and Wilcock, W.S.D. (2019), Axial Seamount: Periodic tidal loading reveals stress dependence of the earthquake size distribution (b value), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 512, 39-45.
- Tan, Y.J.*, Tolstoy, M., Waldhauser, F., and Bohnenstiehl, D.R. (2018), Tidal triggering of microearthquakes over an eruption cycle at 9°50’N East Pacific Rise, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 1825–1831.
- Tan, Y.J.*, Tolstoy, M., Waldhauser, F., and Wilcock, W.S.D. (2016), Dynamics of a seafloor spreading episode at the East Pacific Rise, Nature, 540, 261-265.
Research Grants
- Tracking Deep Long-Period Volcanic Earthquakes (PI, RGC GRF), 2023 – present
- Probing Earthquake and Volcanic Processes on the Seafloor (PI, Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award), 2022 – present
- Oceanic Transform Fault Behavior and Properties (PI, NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund 優秀青年科學基金), 2022 – present
- Earthquakes and Slow Slips on the Blanco Oceanic Transform Fault (PI, RGC ECS), 2022 – present
- Collaborative Research: Caldera Dynamics and Eruption Cycles at Axial Seamount (Co-I, NSF Division of Ocean Sciences), 2020 – present