NS012
Near-surface geophysics in the critical zone

Session ID#: 79286

Session Description:
Earth’s surface and shallow (<~100 m) subsurface environment, comprising air, water, biota, organic matter, and Earth materials, encompass the “critical zone”, the dynamic interface between the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. While it is straightforward to characterize topography and the above-ground structure of the critical zone, limited direct observations make near-surface geophysics essential to mapping and monitoring below-ground critical zone architecture. Furthermore, their wide range of applicability in terms of scale of measurement (cm to km), makes these methods particularly versatile. In this session we request abstracts focusing on: 1) geophysical characterization/imaging of subsurface critical zone architecture; and/or 2) geophysical monitoring of critical zone processes/dynamics and their interaction with hydrological and biogeochemical cycles. Laboratory to field-based studies spanning from single-point to larger scale measurements (e.g., aerial surveys) with implications for monitoring of critical zone processes in the subsurface, are of particular interest. Studies linking scales of measurement also encouraged.
Co-Organized:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1625 Geomorphology and weathering [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Gregory Mount, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States
Conveners:  Roman A DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States and Kristina Keating, Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States
 
Imaging the structure of solifluction lobes in the Garner Run Subcatchment of the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory using 2D Seismic Refraction Tomography (537894)
Angelo Tarzona1, Alex Castelo2, Joanmarie Del Vecchio3, Yonesha Y Donaldson4, Joaquin Cambeiro5, Hunter Murray6, Jorden Hayes7, Gregory Mount8, Kristina Keating2, Susan Brantley9 and Jonathan Nyquist10, (1)Dickinson College, Department of Earth Sciences, Carlisle, PA, United States, (2)Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (5)Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, (6)Temple University, Philadelphia, United States, (7)Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States, (8)Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States, (9)Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, (10)Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
The Use of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) to Image Solifluction Lobes in the Garner Run Subcatchment of The Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (538462)
Aisha Rodriguez, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, United States, Joaquin Cambeiro, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, Angelo Tarzona, Dickinson College, Department of Earth Sciences, Carlisle, PA, United States, Hunter Murray, Temple University, Philadelphia, United States, Yonesha Y Donaldson, University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, Joanmarie Del Vecchio, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States, Gregory Mount, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States, Kristina Keating, Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, Jonathan Nyquist, Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Roman A DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States
 
Representative sampling of landfills: a robust procedure for selecting trench locations based on electromagnetic induction survey data (538894)
Ellen Van De Vijver, Christin Bobe, Daan Hanssens, Philippe De Smedt and Marc Van Meirvenne, Ghent University, Department of Environment, Gent, Belgium
 
Non-Invasive investigation of water content in trees using high-resolution ground-penetrating radar (GPR) measurements in the Luquillo Mountains (Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory, CZO) (544911)
Mackenzie Vecchio1, Xavier Comas1, Umida Turamuratova1, Gilles Y Brocard2, Emma Jayne Harrison3, Matthew Sirianni1 and Joe Becker1, (1)Florida Atlantic University, Geosciences, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (2)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
A laboratory setup for determining the electrical-hydraulic relationship of soils in the Critical Zone (564414)
Qifei Niu, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
 
Assessment of the Functionality of Sediment Retention Ponds in the Colorado River Basin using Geophysical Surveys and Soil Profile Sampling (581753)
Victoria Moreno, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Carleton Bern, USGS, Colorado Water Science Center, Denver, CO, United States and Cory Williams, USGS Colorado Water Science Center, Grand Junction, CO, United States
 
Imaging changes in living ponderosa pine tree trunk moisture with multi-offset ground-penetrating radar data (581846)
Adam R Mangel, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Golden, CO, United States and Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, United States
 
Seismic full waveform inversion procedure for characterizing critical zone subsurface structure: a case study at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (585675)
Chao Huang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Tieyuan Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States
 
Seismic Ambient Noise and Electrical Resistivity Imaging of Subsurface Water Changes in the Susquehanna Shale Hills CZO, Pennsylvania (585792)
David O Oakley1, Andrew Nyblade1, Susan Brantley1,2, Natalie J Accardo1, Brandon Forsythe2, Caitlin Anne Hodges3, John M Regan4 and Jason P Kaye3, (1)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University, Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States
 
A Geophysical Investigation to Image the Critical Zone Architecture in a High Andean Puna Grassland (585811)
Edward Davis1, Hunter Murray2, Logan Schmidt3, Jasper Oshun1, Kristina Keating4, Margaret M Lang5 and Wyeth Wunderlich6, (1)Humboldt State University, Geology, Arcata, CA, United States, (2)Temple University, Philadelphia, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, (5)Humboldt State Univ, Arcata, CA, United States, (6)Sebastopol, California, United States
 
2D seismic imaging in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory: New constraints on subsurface structure and weathering (586076)
Lisa Ma, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Natalie J Accardo, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Andrew Nyblade, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Xin Gu, Penn state university, State College, PA, United States, Gregory Mount, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States and Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
 
Deep critical zone architecture imaged by seismic tomography on windward and leeward sides of Basse Terre Island, Guadeloupe (588250)
Jorden L Hayes, Dickinson College, Department of Earth Sciences, Carlisle, PA, United States, Sylvain Pasquet, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, UMR 7619 METIS, Paris, France, Peter B Sak, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, United States, Lin Ma, University of Texas, El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States and Jerome Gaillardet, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
 
Probabilistic Joint Interpretation of Geoelectrical and Passive Source Seismic Data for Landfill Characterization (589545)
Itzel Isunza Manrique1, David Caterina1, Thomas Hermans2 and Frederic Nguyen1, (1)University of Liege, Urban and Environmental Engineering, Liege, Belgium, (2)Ghent University, Department of Geology, Ghent, Belgium
 
Variations in deep critical zone weathering revealed by 2-D and circular seismic refraction surveys in a Northern Maryland Piedmont catchment (590206)
Ben Eppinger1, Jorden Hayes2, Cassandra Cosans3, Ciaran J Harman4, Steve Holbrook5, Seulgi Moon6, Shane M Putnam4 and Rob Dean7, (1)Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, United States, (2)Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Dickinson College, Earth Sciences, Carlisle, PA, United States
 
Monitoring Soil Water Content Dynamics in a Field-Scale Infiltration Experiment by Combining Horizontal Borehole and Surface GPR (591040)
Yi Yu, Anja Klotzsche, Lutz Weihermueller, Johan Alexander Huisman, Jan Vanderborght, Harry Vereecken and Jan Van Der Kruk, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Jülich, Germany
 
Quantifying Seismic Velocity Errors in the Marine Critical Zone from Multichannel Reflection Data (595624)
Samuel Callum Clay, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, Timothy Henstock, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom and Mark E Vardy, SAND Geophysics, Southampton, United Kingdom
 
Where is the bottom of the critical zone? Evidence for deep, stacked critical zones from airborne EM and hydrological models in Reynolds Creek CZO (596304)
Steve Holbrook, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Ivan Rabak, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Dept of Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, Laura E Condon, University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mark S Seyfried, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
 
Watershed scale seismic imaging and porosity estimation with the seismic land streamer in the Upper East River, Colorado (598402)
James St. Clair, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States and Lee M Liberty, Boise State Univ, Boise, ID, United States
 
Seismic characterization of the Critical Zone in the Nepal Himalaya: a regional perspective (601000)
William Gregory Medwedeff1, Marin Kristen Clark2, Dimitrios Zekkos3, A. Joshua West4, Deepak Chamlagain5, Abra Atwood6, Suman Budhathoki7 and Sabin Tiwari7, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Tribhuvan University, Department of Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
 
Strong lithologic and climatic control on deep subsurface weathering revealed in landscape-scale porosity distributions (622972)
Russell Patrick Callahan and Clifford S Riebe, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Linking near surface geophysics to critical zone architecture and biogeochemical processes (623985)
Bryan G Moravec1, Robert Root1, Bradley Carr2, Alissa M White3, Jennifer C McIntosh3 and Jon Chorover1, (1)University of Arizona, Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Linking erosion rates and critical zone architecture using geophysical surveys at multiple spatial scales (Luquillo CZO, PR) (626064)
Xavier Comas1, Gilles Y Brocard2, Emma Jayne Harrison3, Mackenzie Vecchio1, Matthew Sirianni1, Joseph Becker4, William Wright4, Susan Brantley5 and William H McDowell6, (1)Florida Atlantic University, Geosciences, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (2)Université de Grenoble-Alpes, ISTerre, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers, Saint Martin D'Heres, France, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
 
Seismic Investigation of Playa Lake in the Llano Estacado Region of Texas (628578)
Andres Fernandez-Canel, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States and Harold Gurrola, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States
 
High-resolution seismic reflection in Lake Altaussee (Salzkammergut, Austrian Alps): Preliminary results and implication for paleoenvironmental reconstructions (491346)
Guillaume Jouve1, Alban Bouchard1, Philippe Alain1, Damien Leloup2, Emmanuel Chapron3 and Erwin Heine4, (1)iXblue, Sonar Systems Division, La Ciotat, France, (2)Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia, (3)GEODE, Toulouse, France, (4)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
 
Feasibility Study of Electrical Monitoring of In-situ Thermal Desorption in Remediation of Contaminated Soil (509496)
Dikun Yang1, Yinchu Li1, Xingchang Liu2, Furong Zhu2 and Jie Zhang2, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China, (2)Geomative CO., LTD., Shenzhen, China
 
Investigating the hydrologic impact of relic terraces using near-surface geophysics in intensively managed critical zones (512343)
Gregory Mount, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States, Ashlee Laura Denton Dere, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States and Tyler Sharretts, University of Delaware, Geography, Newark, DE, United States
 
The Scale Dependence of P-wave Velocity in Earth’s Critical Zone (514304)
Brady Adams Flinchum, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, W. Steven Holbrook, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Bradley Carr, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Refining Active Source Seismic Refraction Field Configurations for Applications in Critical Zone Studies (520210)
Berit Hudson-Rasmussen, Champaign, IL, United States, Mong-Han Huang, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Mariel D. Nelson, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kristen E. Fauria, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Daniella M. Rempe, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
The use of ERI and Seismic refraction to constrain soil depth and geologic structure at Cole Farms Agricultural Site in the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (524802)
Joaquin Cambeiro, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, Perri Silverhart, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, Yonesha Y Donaldson, University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, Angelo Tarzona, Dickinson College, Department of Earth Sciences, Carlisle, PA, United States, Hunter Murray, Temple University, Philadelphia, United States, Kristina Keating, Rutgers University Newark, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, Gregory Mount, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Main Campus, Geosciences, Indiana, PA, United States, Jorden Hayes, Dickinson College, Carlisle, United States, Susan Brantley, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, Roman A DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Jonathan Nyquist, Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States
 
Multi-scale characterization of geological controls on groundwater flow in a mineralized mountain headwater system: Redwell Basin and upper East River, Colorado (Invited) (525263)
Burke J Minsley1, Lyndsay B Ball1, Andrew H Manning2, Jeffrey L Mauk3, Philip Low Verplanck3, Richard B Wanty1, Katrina Danielle Zamudio1, Andrea Viezzoli4, David O Walsh5, Bradley Carr6, Robby Charnock7 and Kenneth Hurst Williams7, (1)USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States, (2)USGS Colorado Water Science Center Lakewood, Lakewood, CO, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States, (4)Aarhus Geophysics ApS, Aarhus, Denmark, (5)Vista Clara Inc., Mukilteo, WA, United States, (6)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (7)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
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