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References and Further Reading

The course text is Reynolds (2011). The books, papers, and government reports below extend it: general method references, the electrical and hydrogeophysical literature that several modules draw on, and the open-source software used in the notebooks. Each entry provides a DOI, ISBN, or stable report URL. A BibTeX block for the principal books and papers is at the bottom of the page.

Course Textbook

  • Reynolds, J. M. (2011). An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-471-48536-0.

General Applied and Environmental Geophysics

  • Telford, W. M., Geldart, L. P., & Sheriff, R. E. (1990). Applied Geophysics (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33938-4.
  • Kearey, P., Brooks, M., & Hill, I. (2002). An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration (3rd ed.). Blackwell Science. ISBN 978-0-632-04929-5.
  • Everett, M. E. (2013). Near-Surface Applied Geophysics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01877-8.

Electrical Methods and Petrophysics

  • Archie, G. E. (1942). The electrical resistivity log as an aid in determining some reservoir characteristics. Transactions of the AIME, 146(1), 54-62. doi:10.2118/942054-G
  • Loke, M. H., Chambers, J. E., Rucker, D. F., Kuras, O., & Wilkinson, P. B. (2013). Recent developments in the direct-current geoelectrical imaging method. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 95, 135-156. doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.02.017
  • Binley, A., & Slater, L. (2020). Resistivity and Induced Polarization: Theory and Applications to the Near-Surface Earth. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49274-4.

Hydrogeophysics and the Critical Zone

These references connect the geophysical methods to subsurface hydrology, the theme of the course notebooks and of Dr. Chen's research group.

  • Rubin, Y., & Hubbard, S. S. (Eds.). (2005). Hydrogeophysics. Springer (Water Science and Technology Library, Vol. 50). ISBN 978-1-4020-3101-4.
  • Binley, A., Hubbard, S. S., Huisman, J. A., Revil, A., Robinson, D. A., Singha, K., & Slater, L. D. (2015). The emergence of hydrogeophysics for improved understanding of subsurface processes over multiple scales. Water Resources Research, 51(6), 3837-3866. doi:10.1002/2015WR017016
  • Parsekian, A. D., Singha, K., Minsley, B. J., Holbrook, W. S., & Slater, L. (2015). Multiscale geophysical imaging of the critical zone. Reviews of Geophysics, 53(1), 1-26. doi:10.1002/2014RG000465

Method-Specific Scientific Notes

  • Chave, A. D. (2009). On the electromagnetic fields produced by marine frequency domain controlled sources. Geophysical Journal International, 179(3), 1429-1457. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04367.x
  • Berger, D. L., Ponce, D. A., & Ross, W. C. (2001). Hydrogeologic Framework of Antelope Valley and Bedell Flat, Washoe County, West-Central Nevada. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4220. doi:10.3133/wri014220 (geophysical-methods section)
  • Hays, W. W. (1976). Interpretation of Gravity Data. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 76-479. doi:10.3133/ofr76479

Classroom Lab Sources

These sources support the processing sequences and limitations used in the public Classroom Lab Studio. The lab wording, synthetic datasets, and HTML graphics are original course content; no figures from the sources are reproduced.

  • Roberts, C. W., Jachens, R. C., Katzenstein, A., Smith, G. A., & Johnson, R. (2002). Gravity map and data of the eastern half of the Big Bear Lake 1:100,000-scale quadrangle, California, and analysis of the depths of several basins. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-353. Gravity data-reduction methods.
  • U.S. Geological Survey. (2004). Long Valley Ground Magnetic Data Processing. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1096. Processing steps and data-channel definitions.
  • Haeni, F. P. (1988). Application of Seismic-Refraction Techniques to Hydrologic Studies. U.S. Geological Survey Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations 02-D2. doi:10.3133/twri02D2.
  • Jacob, R. W., & Hermance, J. F. (2004). Assessing the precision of GPR velocity and vertical two-way travel time estimates. Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, 9(3), 143-153. doi:10.4133/JEEG9.3.143.

Software and Computational Tools

The course notebooks use these open-source libraries. PyHydroGeophysX is developed in Dr. Chen's group and ties the hydrological and geophysical sides of the course together.

  • Chen, H., Niu, Q., & Wu, Y. (2026). PyHydroGeophysX: An extensible open-source platform for integrating hydrological models with geophysical measurements. SoftwareX (in press). Software archive: doi:10.5281/zenodo.17025139. Code: github.com/geohang/PyHydroGeophysX.
  • Rücker, C., Günther, T., & Wagner, F. M. (2017). pyGIMLi: An open-source library for modelling and inversion in geophysics. Computers & Geosciences, 109, 106-123. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.011
  • Cockett, R., Kang, S., Heagy, L. J., Pidlisecky, A., & Oldenburg, D. W. (2015). SimPEG: An open source framework for simulation and gradient based parameter estimation in geophysical applications. Computers & Geosciences, 85, 142-154. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2015.09.015

BibTeX

Copy any entry into your .bib file.

@book{reynolds2011,
  author    = {Reynolds, John M.},
  title     = {An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics},
  edition   = {2nd},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  year      = {2011}
}

@book{telford1990,
  author    = {Telford, W. M. and Geldart, L. P. and Sheriff, R. E.},
  title     = {Applied Geophysics},
  edition   = {2nd},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  year      = {1990}
}

@book{kearey2002,
  author    = {Kearey, Philip and Brooks, Michael and Hill, Ian},
  title     = {An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration},
  edition   = {3rd},
  publisher = {Blackwell Science},
  year      = {2002}
}

@book{everett2013,
  author    = {Everett, Mark E.},
  title     = {Near-Surface Applied Geophysics},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  year      = {2013}
}

@article{archie1942,
  author  = {Archie, Gustave E.},
  title   = {The electrical resistivity log as an aid in determining some reservoir characteristics},
  journal = {Transactions of the AIME},
  volume  = {146},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {54--62},
  year    = {1942},
  doi     = {10.2118/942054-G}
}

@article{loke2013,
  author  = {Loke, M. H. and Chambers, J. E. and Rucker, D. F. and Kuras, O. and Wilkinson, P. B.},
  title   = {Recent developments in the direct-current geoelectrical imaging method},
  journal = {Journal of Applied Geophysics},
  volume  = {95},
  pages   = {135--156},
  year    = {2013},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.02.017}
}

@book{binley2020,
  author    = {Binley, Andrew and Slater, Lee},
  title     = {Resistivity and Induced Polarization: Theory and Applications to the Near-Surface Earth},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  year      = {2020}
}

@book{rubin2005,
  editor    = {Rubin, Yoram and Hubbard, Susan S.},
  title     = {Hydrogeophysics},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Water Science and Technology Library},
  volume    = {50},
  year      = {2005}
}

@article{binley2015,
  author  = {Binley, Andrew and Hubbard, Susan S. and Huisman, Johan A. and Revil, Andre and Robinson, David A. and Singha, Kamini and Slater, Lee D.},
  title   = {The emergence of hydrogeophysics for improved understanding of subsurface processes over multiple scales},
  journal = {Water Resources Research},
  volume  = {51},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {3837--3866},
  year    = {2015},
  doi     = {10.1002/2015WR017016}
}

@article{parsekian2015,
  author  = {Parsekian, A. D. and Singha, K. and Minsley, B. J. and Holbrook, W. S. and Slater, L.},
  title   = {Multiscale geophysical imaging of the critical zone},
  journal = {Reviews of Geophysics},
  volume  = {53},
  number  = {1},
  pages   = {1--26},
  year    = {2015},
  doi     = {10.1002/2014RG000465}
}

@article{chave2009,
  author  = {Chave, Alan D.},
  title   = {On the electromagnetic fields produced by marine frequency domain controlled sources},
  journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
  volume  = {179},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {1429--1457},
  year    = {2009},
  doi     = {10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04367.x}
}

@article{ruecker2017,
  author  = {R{\"u}cker, Carsten and G{\"u}nther, Thomas and Wagner, Florian M.},
  title   = {pyGIMLi: An open-source library for modelling and inversion in geophysics},
  journal = {Computers \& Geosciences},
  volume  = {109},
  pages   = {106--123},
  year    = {2017},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.011}
}

@article{cockett2015,
  author  = {Cockett, Rowan and Kang, Seogi and Heagy, Lindsey J. and Pidlisecky, Adam and Oldenburg, Douglas W.},
  title   = {SimPEG: An open source framework for simulation and gradient based parameter estimation in geophysical applications},
  journal = {Computers \& Geosciences},
  volume  = {85},
  pages   = {142--154},
  year    = {2015},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.cageo.2015.09.015}
}

@software{chen2026_pyhydrogeophysx,
  author    = {Chen, Hang},
  title     = {PyHydroGeophysX: Integrating Hydrological Models with Geophysical Measurements},
  version   = {0.3.0},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.17025139},
  url       = {https://github.com/geohang/PyHydroGeophysX}
}

@article{chen2026_softwarex,
  author  = {Chen, Hang and Niu, Qifei and Wu, Yuxin},
  title   = {PyHydroGeophysX: An Extensible Open-Source Platform for Integrating Hydrological Models with Geophysical Measurements},
  journal = {SoftwareX},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {In press}
}