Xiaolong Ma


Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Jaeger Building 2
Room #236
Mills Road Acton
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia
e-mail: Xiaolong.Ma@anu.edu.au


Education:

PhD in Seismology, 2011-2017
PhD thesis topic: Characterizing small-scale seismic heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle by forward modeling methods
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

B.Sc. in Geo-information Science and Technology, 2007-2011
Thesis topic: Tomographic imaging of P- and S-wave velocity structures beneath northeastern Japan
School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University

Employment:

Postdoctoral Researcher in WWU Münster, Germany, 2017-2019
Institute for Geophysics, Münster University

Publications:

Ma X., and Tkalčić H., 2023. CCMOC: A new view of the Earth's outer core through the global coda correlation wavefield. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 334, 106957.

Ma X., and Tkalčić H., 2021. CCREM: New reference Earth model from the global coda-correlation wavefield. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022515.

Ma X., and Thomas C., 2020. Small-scale scattering heterogeneities in the lowermost mantle from a global analysis of PKP precursors. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018736.

Ma X., and Huang Z., 2020. Attenuation of high-frequency P and S waves in the crust of central and western Tien Shan. Pure Appl. Geophys., 177, 4127-4142.

Ma X., and Huang Z., 2020. Small-scale scattering heterogeneities beneath the northern Tien Shan from the teleseismic P wavefield. Earth, Planets and Space, 72:13.

Ma X., Sun X., and Thomas C., 2019. Localized ultra-low velocity zones at the eastern boundary of Pacific LLSVP. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 507, 40-49.

Ma X., Sun X., 2017. Ultra-low velocity zone heterogeneities at the core-mantle boundary from diffracted PKKPab waves. Earth, Planets and Space, 69:115.

Ma X., Sun X., Wiens D.A., Wen L., Nyblade A., Anandakrishnan S., Aster R., Huerta A., and Wilson T., 2016. Strong seismic scatterers near the core-mantle boundary north of the Pacific Anomaly. Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 253, 21-30.

Research Interests:

Seismic small-scale scattering
Structure of the Earth's Deep Interior
Array Processing Methods
Global correlation wavefield
Seismic tomography
Numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation

Technical Skills:

Computer Languages: Fortran, C, Matlab, Perl, Python, MPI, Shell scripting.
Seismological tools: GMT, SAC, ObsPy, TauP, SOD

Voyage Experience:

IN2020_V06: Macquarie Ridge Complex in the Southern Ocean deploying ocean bottom seismometers (OBS). Oct.-Nov. 2020.

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