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Fan-Chi Lin

POST DOCTORAL SCHOLAR IN GEOPHYSICS

Director's Post Doctoral Fellowship

Ph.D., 2009, Geophysics
University of Colorado Boulder

California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory

Pasadena, CA 91125
Tel: (626) 395-3825
Email: linf@caltech.edu

CV: Fan-Chi's CV


Fan-Chi Lin's Publications
(Works in preparation, submitted or in press)


  • Savage, M.K., F.C. Lin, and J. Townend, Ambient noise cross-correlation observations of fundamental and higher-mode Rayleigh wave propagation governed by basement resonance, submitted.

  • Lin, F.C.,D. Li, R. W. Clayton, and D. Hollis, High-resolution 3D shallow crustal structure in Long Beach, California: application of ambient noise tomography on a dense seismic array, Geophysics, in press. (pdf)


    (Works published)

    2013

  • Lin, F.C.,V.C. Tsai, B. Schmandt, Z. Duputel, and Z. Zhan, Extracting Seismic Core Phases with Array Interferometry, Geophys. Res. Letts., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50237, 2013 (pdf)

  • Shen, W., M.H. Ritzwoller, V. Schulte-Pelkum, and F.-C. Lin, Joint inversion of surface wave dispersion and receiver functions: A Bayesian Monte-Carlo approach, Geophys. J. Int., 192(2),807-836, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggs050 (pdf)

    2012

  • Lin, F.C.,D. Li, R. W. Clayton, and D. Hollis, Interferometry with a dense 3D dataset, SEG 2012 Annual Meeting (pdf)

  • Lin, F.-C.,B. Schmandt, and V.C. Tsai, Joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity using USArray: constraining velocity and density structure in the upper crust, Geophys. Res. Letts., 39, L12303, doi:10.1029/2012GL052196 (pdf)

  • Lin, F.C.,V. Tsai, and M.H. Ritzwoller, The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B06302, doi:10.1029/2012JB009208.(pdf)

    2011

  • Lin, F.C. and M.H. Ritzwoller, Apparent anisotropy in inhomogeneous isotropic media, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05100.x, 2011(pdf)

  • Ritzwoller, M.H., F.C. Lin, and W. Shen, Ambient noise tomography with a large continental seismic array, Compte Rendus Geoscience, 13 pages, doi:10.1016/j.crte.2011.03.007, 2011(pdf)

  • Lin, F.C. and M.H. Ritzwoller, Helmholtz surface wave tomography for isotropic and azimuthally anisotropic structure, Geophys. J. Int., 186, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05070.x, 2011(pdf)

  • Lin, F.C., M.H. Ritzwoller, and W. Shen, On the reliability of attenuation measurements from ambient noise crosscorrelations, Geophys. Res. Letts., 38, L11303, doi:10.1029/2011GL047366, 2011(pdf)

  • Lin, F.C., M.H. Ritzwoller, Y. Yang, M.P.Moschetti, and M.J. Fouch, Complex and variable crustal and uppermost mantle seismic anisotropy in the western United States, Nature Geoscience, 4, 55-61, doi:10.1038/ngeo1036, 2011.(link)

    2010

  • Moschetti, M.P., M.H. Ritzwoller, F.C. Lin, and Y. Yang, Crustal shear velocity structure of the western US inferred from ambient noise and earthquake data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B10306, doi:10.1029/2010JB007448, 2010 (pdf)

  • Lin, F.C. and M.H. Ritzwoller, Empirically determined finite frequency sensitivity kernels for surface waves, Geophys. J. Int., 182, 923-932, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04643.x, 2010. (pdf)

  • Moschetti, M.P., M.H. Ritzwoller, F.C. Lin, and Y. Yang, Seismic evidence for widespread crustal deformation caused by extension in the western USA, Nature, 464, Number 7290, 885-889, 8 April 2010.(link)

    2009

  • Lin, F.-C., M.H. Ritzwoller, and R. Snieder, Eikonal Tomography: Surface wave tomography by phase-front tracking across a regional broad-band seismic array, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04105.x, 2009. (pdf)

    2008

  • Yang, Y., M. H. Ritzwoller, F.-C. Lin, M. P. Moschetti, and N. M. Shapiro (2008), Structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath the western United States revealed by ambient noise and earthquake tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B12310, doi:10.1029/2008JB005833. 2008. (pdf)

  • Lin, F., M.P. Moschetti, and M.H. Ritzwoller, Surface wave tomography of the western United States from ambient seismic noise: Rayleigh and Love wave phase velocity maps, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03720.x, 2008. (pdf)

    2007

  • Bensen, G.D., M.H. Ritzwoller, M.P. Barmin, A.L. Levshin, F. Lin, M.P. Moschetti, N.M. Shapiro, and Y. Yang, Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 169, 1239-1260, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03374.x, 2007. (pdf)

  • Lin, F., M.H. Ritzwoller, J. Townend, M. Savage, S. Bannister, Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand, Geophys. J. Int., 18 pages, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03414.x, 2007. (pdf)

    2006

  • Lin, F., M. H. Ritzwoller, and N. M. Shapiro, Is ambient noise tomography across ocean basins possible?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L14304, doi:10.1029/2006GL026610, 2006. (pdf)

    Biophysics

  • Yang Y, Lin FC, Yang GL, A temperature control device for single molecule measurements using the AFM, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 77, 063701(1-5), 2006.

  • Chyan CL, Lin FC, Peng HB, Yuan JM, Chang CH, Lin SH, Yang GL, Reversible Mechanical Unfolding of Single Ubiquitin Molecules, Biophys. J. 87, 3995-4006, 2004.


  • Empirical and Numerical 8s Rayleigh wave group propagation in the western US(Movie)

  • CIDER workshop 2011 (ppt)