Publications
Submitted
Li, H., Liu, J., Mao, S., Yuan, S., Clapp, R. G., & Biondi, B. L. Daily Groundwater Monitoring Using Vehicle-DAS Elastic Full-Waveform Inversion. Under review.
Shi, Y., Wen, J., Ning, J., Jiang, Y., Chen, L., Mao, S., Wu, H., Wang, X., & Zhao, Z. High-Speed Rail: A Novel Seismic Source for Near-Surface Monitoring. Under review.
Published
Mao, S., Ellsworth, W. L., Zheng, Y., & Beroza, G. C. (2025). Depth-Dependent Seismic Sensing of Groundwater Recovery from the Atmospheric-River Storms of 2023. Science, 387, 758-763. pdf (free access), Covered by Perspective (Taira & Bürgmann, 2025), Stanford Doerr News, Los Angeles Times, Science News, New Scientist, ScienMag, The Hill, SSA Highlight, CalMatters, EarthScope, AGU Eos
Mao, S., Ellsworth, W. L., Beroza, G. C. (2023). Adaptive Coda-Wave Imaging with Voronoi Tessellation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2023JB026592. pdf
Mao, S., Lecointre, A., van der Hilst, R. D., Campillo, M. (2022). Space-Time Monitoring of Groundwater Fluctuations with Passive Seismic Interferometry. Nature Communications, 13, 4643. pdf, Covered by MIT News, AGU's Eos Spotlight, SCEC Newsletter, EGU Blogs
Mao, S. (2021). Monitoring and Imaging Seismic Velocity Changes Across Temporal and Spatial Scales. Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. pdf
Mao, S., Mordret, A., Campillo, M., Fang, H., & van der Hilst, R. D. (2020). On The Measurement of Seismic Traveltime Changes in the Time-Frequency Domain with Wavelet Cross-Spectrum Analysis. Geophysical Journal International, 221(1), 550-568. pdf, Top 5 Most Cited Papers in 2020, GJI
Mordret, A., Courbis, R., Brenguier, F., Chmiel, M. Garambois, S., Mao, S., Boué P., Campmen, X., Lecocq, T., van der Veen, W., Hollis, D. (2020). Noise-based Ballistic Wave Passive Seismic Monitoring–Part 2: Surface Waves. Geophysical Journal International, 221, no. 1: 692-705. pdf
Mao, S., Campillo, M., van der Hilst, R. D., Brenguier, F., Stehly, L., & Hillers, G. (2019). High Temporal Resolution Monitoring of Small Variations in Crustal Strain by Dense Seismic Arrays. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(1), 128-137. pdf, Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019 in GRL
Brenguier, F., Mordret, A., Lynch, R., Courbis, R., Campbell, X., Boué P., Chmiel, M., Garambois, S., Mao, S., Takano T., & Lecocq T. (2019). Monitoring of fields using body and surface waves reconstructed from passive seismic ambient noise. SEG International Exposition and Annual Meeting, p. D043S104R007. SEG. pdf
Wu, M., Mao, S., Ning, J., Tang, Q., & Jiang, Y. (2018). Fault Structure Detection by Matched Filter Technique. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 54(4), 730-738. (In Chinese) pdf