Recent News

2021-11-10: Dongdong joins China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) as an Associate Professor, with ￥1,800K startup funding from CUG One Hundred Talents Program.
2021-07-20: Dongdong serves as an instructor of the 2021 UNAVCO Short Course “The Generic Mapping Tools for Geodesy” online via Zoom.

2020-10-22: Dongdong, collaborating with Dr. Jiayuan Yao, Dr. Li Sun, and Prof. Lianxing Wen, make a comment on the paper “Origin of temporal changes of inner-core seismic waves” by Yang and Song (2020). The comment is published on Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Dr. Jiayuan Yao is the first author.
2020-10-02: Our new global survey of the 520- and 560-km mantle discontinuities, based on seismic observations (SS precursors) and thermodynamic modeling, is published on Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
2020-06-20: Dongdong serves as an instructor of the 2020 UNAVCO Short Course “The Generic Mapping Tools for Geodesy”, online via Zoom.

2019-07-29: Dongdong particats the GMT Developer’s Summit at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA, Jul. 29–Aug. 2, 2019.
2019-07-22: Dongdong serves as an instructor of the 2019 UNAVCO Short Course “The Generic Mapping Tools for Geodesy”, at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, USA, Jul. 22–23, 2019.

2018-12-18: Dongdong joins the core developer team of the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT).
2018-10-01: Dongdong is awarded President Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the highest award for graduate students of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018-09-12: Our two papers about the seismic characteristics of North Korea’s September 2017 nuclear test and its triggered aftershock sequences are published online by Seismological Research Letters.
2018-08-01: Dongdong has been officially hired as a postdoctoral Research Associate by Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University.
2018-06-21: Dongdong has been admitted to the degree of Doctor of Natural Science in Geophysics.
2018-05-28: Dongdong has sucessfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
2018-04-27: Our seismic analysis reveals that North Korea’s 3 September 2017 nuclear test has resulted in an on-site collapse toward the nuclear test center, and possibly triggered an earthquake swarm ~8.4 km north of the test site. The paper is published on Geophysical Research Letters.
2018-03-12: Dongdong is awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from University of Science and Technology of China.

2017-11-30: Dongdong is awarded the 2017 CGU Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation at the 2017 CGU annual meeting.
2017-11-20: Dongdong is awarded the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students from the Ministry of Education, China.
2017-08-01: We present the first seismological evidence for a localized mushy zone across the Earth’s inner core boundary beneath southwest Okhotsk Sea. The paper is published on Nature Communications.