Research Sites and Studies
- The Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site, an in site field laboratory for testing geophysical methods to determine the 3-dimensional distribution of permeability in heterogeneous alluvial aquifer systems.
- Cryosphere Geophysics Research Group
- Hydraulic Tomography – Self Potential – Electrical Resistivty Tomography Open Experiment
- Student Chapters
Recent Faculty Led Research Publications
Arenson, L., Colgan, W., Marshall, H.P., 2014. Physical, thermal and mechanical properties of snow, ice and permafrost. In: Haeberli, W., Whiteman, C. (Eds.), Snow and Ice-related Hazards, Risks and Disasters. Elsevier, pp. 35-75. ISBN: 978-0-12-394849-6.
Brothers, Daniel S., Peter J. Haeussler, Lee Liberty, David Finlayson, Eric Geist, Keith Labay, and Mike Byerly. “A submarine landslide source for the devastating 1964 Chenega tsunami, southern Alaska.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 438 (2016): 112-121.
Cardiff, M., Barrash, W., & Kitanidis, P. K. (2013). Hydraulic conductivity imaging from 3‐D transient hydraulic tomography at several pumping/observation densities. Water Resources Research, 49(11), 7311-7326.
Haney, M. M., Mikesell, T. D., van Wijk, K., & Nakahara, H. (2012). Extension of the spatial autocorrelation (SPAC) method to mixed-component correlations of surface waves. Geophysical Journal International, 191(1), 189-206.
Hochstetler, D. L., Barrash, W., Leven, C., Cardiff, M., Chidichimo, F., & Kitanidis, P. K. (2015). Hydraulic Tomography: Continuity and Discontinuity of High‐K and Low‐K Zones. Groundwater.
Johnson, J. B., Lyons, J. J., Andrews, B. J., & Lees, J. M. (2014). Explosive dome eruptions modulated by periodic gas‐driven inflation. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(19), 6689-6697.
Johnson, J. B., & Miller, A. J. (2014). Application of the monopole source to quantify explosive flux during vulcanian explosions at Sakurajima Volcano (Japan). Seismological Research Letters, 85(6), 1163-1176.
Johnson, J. B., & Palma, J. L. (2015). Lahar infrasound associated with Volcán Villarrica’s 3 March 2015 eruption. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(15), 6324-6331.
Lavallée, Yan, Donald B. Dingwell, Jeffrey B. Johnson, Corrado Cimarelli, Adrian J. Hornby, Jackie E. Kendrick, Felix W. von Aulock et al. “Thermal vesiculation during volcanic eruptions.” Nature 528, no. 7583 (2015): 544-547.
Liberty, L. M., Finn, S. P., Haeussler, P. J., Pratt, T. L., & Peterson, A. (2013). Megathrust splay faults at the focus of the Prince William Sound asperity, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(10), 5428-5441.
Liberty, L. M., Schmitt, D. R., & Shervais, J. W. (2015). Seismic imaging through the volcanic rocks of the Snake River Plain: insights from Project Hotspot. Geophysical Prospecting, 63(4), 919-936.
Marshall, H.-P., Hawley, R. L. and Tedesco, M. (2015). Field measurements for remote sensing of the Cryosphere. In: Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (ed M. Tedesco), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118368909.ch14
Michaels, P., & Zubik-Kowal, B. (2012). Parallel computations and numerical simulations for nonlinear systems of Volterra integro-differential equations. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17(7), 3022-3030.
Mikesell, T. D., Malcolm, A. E., Yang, D., & Haney, M. M. (2015). A comparison of methods to estimate seismic phase delays: numerical examples for coda wave interferometry. Geophysical Journal International, 202(1), 347-360.
Mikesell, T. D., van Wijk, K., Otheim, L. T., Marshall, H. P., & Kurbatov, A. (2017). Laser Ultrasound Observations of Mechanical Property Variations in Ice Cores. Geosciences, 7(3), 47.
Mordret, A., Mikesell, T. D., Harig, C., Lipovsky, B. P., & Prieto, G. A. (2016). Monitoring southwest Greenland’s ice sheet melt with ambient seismic noise. Science advances, 2(5), e1501538.
Voronin, S., Mikesell, D., Slezak, I., & Nolet, G. (2014). Solving large tomographic linear systems: size reduction and error estimation. Geophysical Journal International, 199(1), 276-285.
Recent Student Led Research Publications
Babcock, E., & Bradford, J. H. (2015). Reflection waveform inversion of ground-penetrating radar data for characterizing thin and ultrathin layers of nonaqueous phase liquid contaminants in stratified media. Geophysics, 80(2), H1-H11.
Brown, J., Bradford, J., Harper, J., Pfeffer, W. T., Humphrey, N., & Mosley‐Thompson, E. (2012). Georadar‐derived estimates of firn density in the percolation zone, western Greenland ice sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2003–2012), 117(F1).
Finn, S.P., Liberty, L.M., Haeussler, P.J. & Pratt, T.L. (2015). Landslides and megathrust splay faults captured by the late Holocene sediment record of eastern Prince William Sound, Alaska, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 105, 5, doi: 10.1785/0120140273.
Gribler, G., Liberty, L. M., Mikesell, T. D., & Michaels, P. (2016). Isolating retrograde and prograde Rayleigh-wave modes using a polarity mute. Geophysics, 81(5), V379-V385.
Havens, S., Marshall, H. P., Johnson, J. B., & Nicholson, B. (2014). Calculating the velocity of a fast‐moving snow avalanche using an infrasound array. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(17), 6191-6198.
Hedrick, A., Marshall, H. P., Winstral, A., Elder, K., Yueh, S., & Cline, D. (2015). Independent evaluation of the SNODAS snow depth product using regional-scale lidar-derived measurements. The Cryosphere, 9(1), 13-23.
Lamb, A. P., van Wijk, K., Liberty, L. M., & Mikesell, T. D. (2014). The spatial cross-correlation method for dispersive surface waves. Geophysical Journal International, 199(1), 1-10.
Thoma, M. J., Barrash, W., Cardiff, M., Bradford, J., & Mead, J. (2014). Estimating unsaturated hydraulic functions for coarse sediment from a field-scale infiltration experiment. Vadose Zone Journal, 13(3).
Xu, Z., & Mikesell, T. D. (2017). On the reliability of direct Rayleigh-wave estimation from multicomponent cross-correlations. Geophysical Journal International, 210(3), 1388-1393.