Surui's updates

April, 2022: I have accepted a faculty position at the University of Houston's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, starting in Fall 2022. I am actively recruiting graduate students and a postdoc to join my group at UH, please contact me if you are interested.
August, 2020: Started my postdoc at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
March 3, 2020: Defended my PhD dissertation entitled "Shallow Water Seafloor Geodesy: GPS on An Anchored Spar Buoy".
November 2019: We have developed a cost-effective GPS-based seafloor geodetic system that works in shallow water, where strain accumulation and release processes are poorly monitored. The system consists of an anchored spar buoy topped by high‐precision GPS. Orientation of the buoy is measured using a digital compass that provides heading, pitch, and roll information. The combined orientation and GPS tracking data are used to recover the three‐dimensional position of the seafloor marker (anchor). Instrumentation and our test results are detailed in Xie et al. (2019). [USF News]
July 2019: New paper (Xie et al., 2019) published online in Nature Communications. We developed new methods to reduce errors in topography mapping with terrestrial radar interferometry. Now we are able to map elevation changes with decimeter precision over a wide area. Applying the new methods to data obtained in 2016, we found that icebergs are inhibited from moving into the fjord of Jakobshavn Isbræ during an unusually long period, due to buttressing force by a tightly packed pro-glacial mélange wedge, which is similar to a doorstop. [USF News; NYU Abu Dhabi News]
December 2018: I will be presenting two posters at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting held in Washington, D.C., come to find me at:
1) Poster C21B-1313 at the Cryosphere Section on Tuesday morning, 11 December: Rapid iceberg calving following removal of tightly packed pro-glacial mélange at Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland.
2) Poster EP51D-1857 at the Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section on Friday morning, 14 December: Geological slip rate estimate for the Calico Fault at Newberry Springs, California: new age constraints from optically stimulated luminescence dating.