Curriculum Vitae
Name: Mingming Li
Personal Information
Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~mingming
Office phone:480 727 2621
Email: Mingming.Li@asu.edu
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Research Interests
Study the nature of mantle convection using numerical modeling method
Education
Sep.2010-now
Sep.2007-Jul.2010
Sep.2003-Jul.2007
PHD student at School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona
State University
Advisor: Allen McNamara
MSc., Solid-earth Geophysics, Institute of Geology and
Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Advisor: Yumei He
BSc., Geophysics, School of Resource and Environment and
Geoscience, Yunnan University
Work Experience
Sep. 2010-now
Employer: School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State
University
Position: Research Associate/Teaching Assistant
Duties: Doing research and/or helping professors for class teaching
and homework.
Publications
Li M., McNamara A., and Garnero E. 2014. Investigating the origin of Ultra-low
velocity zones. (in prep.)
Cottaar. S, Li M, McNamara A., Wenk H.R., and Romanowicz B. 2014. Synthetic
seismic anisotropy models within a slab impinging on the core-mantle boundary
(in prep.).
Li M., McNamara A., and Garnero E. 2014. Chemical complexity of hotspots caused
by cycling oceanic crust through mantle reservoirs. (In review).
Li, M. and A. K. McNamara (2013). "The difficulty for subducted oceanic crust to
accumulate at the Earth's core-mantle boundary." Journal of Geophysical
Research: Solid Earth 118(4): 1807-1816.
Li M., He Y., 2011. Lithospheric structure beneath northeastern boundary region of the
North China Craton from Rayleigh wave dispersion inversion. Acta Seismologica
Sinica, 33(2):143-155
Conferences
1. AGU 2011 Fall Meeting. Abstract: The Difficulty for Subducted Oceanic Crust to
Accumulate at the Core-Mantle Boundary.
2. AGU 2012 Fall Meeting. Abstract: Episodic Entrainment of Subducted Oceanic
Crust into Primordial Reservoirs of the Lower Mantle.
3. 2012 Summer, student of Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research
(CIDER-II) workshop in University of California, Santa Barbara.
4. 2013 Summer, Gorden Conference. Abstract: Episodic Entrainment of Subducted
Oceanic Crust into Primordial Reservoirs of the Lower Mantle.
5. AGU 2013 Fall Meeting. Abstract: Three dimensional morphology and dynamics of
ultra-low velocity zones.
Award
1. Outstanding student presentation award (OSPA) for the 2013 fall AGU meeting.