CURRICULUM VITAE

Wen-lu Zhu – August 2012

Personal Information

Wen-lu Zhu, Associate Professor
Department of Geology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
 
Phone:                 (301) 405-1831
Fax:                      (301) 405-3597
e-mail:                  wzhu@geol.umd.edu

Education       
Ph.D.                       Geophysics, Stony Brook University
M.S., B.S.               Geophysics, Peking University
                          
Employment
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011-present
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Assitant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stony Brook University

Fellowships, Prizes and Awards
National Science Foundation CAREER Award receipient, 2011  
Rock Mechanics Research Award, American Rock Mechanics Association, 2008 
Claudia S. Heyman Fellow, Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2006
Outstanding Student Award, Mineral and Rock Physics, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1997
J. Sewald Johnson Postdoctoral Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1997
Best Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1992

Editorships
Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research--Solid Earth, 2008-present

Recent Publications
 
*Tamarkin, T, *Ougier-Simonin, A. and Zhu, W. (2012) Progressive Microscopic Damage Associated with Fault Growth, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L15303, doi:10.1029/2012GL052487.

*Lisabeth, H.P., *K.E. Watter, and W. Zhu (2012), Effect of Temperature on Yielding Behavior of Carbonate Rocks, Proceedings of the 46th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, ARMA 12-427.

*Gribbin, J., Zhu, W., and Tivey M.K (2012) Anisotropy in seafloor flange, slab, and crust samples from measurements of permeability and porosity: implications for fluid flow and deposit evolution, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13, Q03018, doi:10.1029/2011GC003840.

Zhu, W., Gaetani, G., Fusseis, F. Montési, L. and De Carlo, F. (2011) Microtomography of partially molten rocks: three-dimensional melt distribution in mantle peridotite. Science, 332(6025), 88-91. DOI: 10.1126/science.1202221. 

Smith, D., Schouten, H., Zhu, W., Montesi, L., and J.R. Cann (2011) Distributed deformation ahead of the Cocos-Nazca Rift at the Galapagos Triple Junction, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12, Q11003, doi:10.1029/2011GC003689.

*Mitchell, G., Montési, L., Zhu, W., Smith D.K. and H. Schouten (2011) Transient rifting north of the Galápagos Triple Junction, Earth Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.027.

*Chen, T.-m., Zhu, W., Wong, T.-f. and Song, S. (2009) Laboratory Characterization of Permeability and Its Anisotropy of Chelungpu Fault Rocks. Pure and Applied Geophysics, DOI 10.1007/s00024-009-0497-y.

Schouten, H., Smith, D.K., Zhu, W., Montési, L. and Klein, E.M. (2008) Cracking of lithosphere north of the Galapagos triple junction. Geology, 36, 339-342.

Zhu, W., Montési, L. and Wong, T.-f. (2008) Characterizing the permeability-porosity relationship during compactive cataclastic flow. Proceedings of the 42nd US Rock Mechanics Symposium and 2nd U.S.-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium, ARMA 08-290.

*Tembe, S., *Vajdova, V., Baud, P., Zhu, W. and Wong, T.-f. (2007) Compactive yield behavior of two porous sandstones under undrained condition, Mechanics of Materials, 39, 513-523.
 
Zhu, W., Montési, L. and Wong, T.-f. (2007) A probabilistic damage model of stress-induced permeability anisotropy during cataclastic flow, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B10207, doi:10.1029/2006JB004456.

Zhu, W., Tivey, M.K., *Gittings, H. and Craddock, P.R. (2007) Permeability-porosity relationships in seafloor vent deposits: Dependence on pore evolution processes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B05208, doi:10.1029/2006JB004716.
 
Zhu, W. (2006) Quantitative characterization of permeability reduction associated with compactive cataclastic flow, “Radiated energy and the physics of earthquake faulting”, editors: R. Abercrombie, A. McGarr, H. Kanamori, and G. Di Toro, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, 170, 143-151.
 
Zhu, W. and Walsh, J. (2006), A new model for analyzing the effect of fractures on triaxial deformation, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 43, 1241-1255.

(*students or postdocs supervised)
Course Taught
Marine Geophysics, GEOL 455/655.
Engineering Geology/ Engineering and Environmental Geology, GEOL 456/656.
Groundwater, GEOL 451.

Research Cruises
2008                 R/V Atlantis, Geophysicist
                          Distributed Extension at the Galapagos Triple Junction, Eastern Equatorial Pacific
                          Drs. H. Schouten, D. Smith, co-chief Scientists.

2007                 R/V Chikyu, Physical Property Specialist
      NanTroSEIZE Expedition 315, Megasplay Riser Pilot
      Drs. J. Ashi and S. Lallemant, co-Chief Scientists.

2002                 R/V Melville, Geophysicist
      Geochemical and Geological Investigations of the Incipient Rift at 2°40 N, east of the East Pacific Rise
      Drs. E. Klein, D. Smith, co-Chief Scientists.
1998                 R/V Thompson, Shipboard Scientist
      Investigation of the Puna Ridge, the submarine extension of the East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
      Drs. D. Smith, L. Kong, K. Johnson, J. Reynolds, co-Chief Scientists.