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Wan Yang

Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Disciplines

  • Geology
  • Geophysics and Seismology

Research Interests

  • Sedimentology and depositional systems, including modern and ancient, siliciclastic (marine and nonmarine) and carbonate, and outcrop and subsurface studies
  • Stratigraphy, including modern and ancient, siliciclastic (marine and nonmarine) and carbonate, outcrop and subsurface (core, wireline, and 2-D and 3-D seismic), and qualitative and quantitative studies
  • Geological indicators of paleoclimate and climatic controls on sedimentology and basin filling

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  1. Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering

Discipline

    1. Geology 18
    2. Geological Engineering 11
    3. Geophysics and Seismology 11
    4. Petroleum Engineering 7
    5. Geochemistry 3

Research Interest

    1. Geochemistry 2
    2. Petrology 2
    3. Academic excellence 1
    4. Advanced application development for digital oifield inititives using data mining and artificial intelligence technologies 1
    5. Advanced semantic web application development for data management 1
    1. Aggregate sizing and shape measurement 1
    2. Agricultural Engineering 1
    3. Applied Mineralogy 1
    4. Applying collaborative, technology enhanced and experiential learning themes to student and faculty engagement 1
    5. Archeology 1
    6. Asteroids 1
    7. Asthenospheric flow 1
    8. BEST (Basic Engineering Software for Teaching) Dynamics 1
    9. Biostratigraphic, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic reconstructions 1
    10. CO2 and CO2 foam flooding 1
    11. Chemical EOR methods, including polymer flooding, polymer-surfactant flooding, MEOR (biosurfactant), and Wettability alteration for carbonate reservoirs 1
    12. Comets 1
    13. Conformance control to reduce excess water production using gels, expecially preformed particle gels 1
    14. Continental crust 1
    15. Continental rift 1
    16. Critical mineral supply chain resilience 1
    17. Crustal and mantle seismic anisotropy 1
    18. Crustal thickness and composition 1
    19. Deformation bands 1
    20. Distance Learning 1
    21. Earthquake seismology 1
    22. Economic geology 1
    23. Enhanced Oil Recovery (Conventional & Unconventional Reservoirs) 1
    24. Environmental Engineering 1
    25. Environmental Geochemistry 1
    26. Environmental geological engineering 1
    27. Evolution of Mahajanga Basin, NW Madagascar 1
    28. Exploration geophysics 1
    29. Exploration of Earth's interior using geophysical methods especially passive and active seismology. 1
    30. Explosives Engineering 1
    31. Extra-Terrestrial Mining and Excavation 1
    32. Fingerprinting ore-forming processes and development of innovative exploration tools 1
    33. Finite element analysis of subsurface stress environments 1
    34. Force protection 1
    35. Fracture initiation 1
    36. Genesis of magmatic, metasomatic and hydrothermal ore deposits in the crust and upper mantle 1
    37. Geo-data science 1
    38. Geologic mapping 1
    39. Geological Engineering 1
    40. Geological carbon sequestration 1
    41. Geological indicators of paleoclimate and climatic controls on sedimentology and basin filling 1
    42. Geophysical technologies 1
    43. Geophysics 1
    44. Geostatistics 1
    45. Geotechnical Construction 1

Organization

    1. Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
    2. Center for Research in Energy and Environment (CREE) 10
    3. Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center 3
    4. College of Engineering and Computing 2
    5. Freshman Engineering 1

Position

    1. Faculty Member 29
    2. Emeritus Faculty 3
    3. Adjunct Faculty Member 2