Prof. TAN Yen Joe

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
Prof. TAN Yen Joe

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

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