Civil and Architectural Engineering
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Education
Ph.D., Rutgers-Newark, 2011
B.S., Dickinson College, 2005
Teaching
Fundamentals of Research (GEOL 5020) - every fall
This course is designed to be boot camp for incoming graduate students to: (A) become
familiar with the “business” of science (i.e. how do I get funding, become visible
and get a job?); (B) refine their communication skills; (C) get a jump start on developing
a research project (ideally to be part of a MS or PhD thesis); (D) familiarize incoming
graduate students on the workings of the department; and (E) have an opportunity to
get to know their peers and some of the faculty.
Engineering and Environmental Geophysics (CE 5321/GEOL 5321) - spring, odd years
The content in this class fills the need for civil/environmental/transportation engineers
and earth scientists to be capable at applying near-surface geophysical measurements
and understanding the strengths and limitations of these methods for solving problems.
Topics covered include principals of ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity,
seismic, nuclear magnetic resonance, rock physics relationships, inversion and other
topics. A review of examples from the peer-reviewed scientific/engineering literature
is presented. Students collect lab and field datasets and process and interpret the
data.
Research
Environmental Geophysics is the interdisciplinary field that investigates processes
in Earth's systems using geophysical measurements. My research focuses on studying
cryosphere and groundwater processes using non-invasive geophysical methods. Members
of my research group have expertise with ground penetrating radar, seismic refraction
tomography, time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Recent Publications
*indicates student lead-author
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Harris, R. H.*, Evans, S. G., Marshall, S. T., Godsey, S. E., & Parsekian, A. D. (2025). Using ground‐penetrating radar to infer ice wedge characteristics proximal
to water tracks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130(1), e2024JF007832. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007832
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Pleasants, M. S.*, Kelleners, T. J., Parsekian, A. D., Befus, K. M., Flerchinger, G. N., Seyfried, M. S., & Carr, B. J. (2024). Hydrogeophysical
inversion using a physics-based catchment model with hydrological and electromagnetic
induction data. Journal of Hydrology, 132376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132376
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Ohara, N., Parsekian, A. D., Jones, B. M., Rangel, R. C., Hinkel, K. M., & Perdigão, R. A. (2024). Characterization
of Non-Gaussianity in the Snow Distributions of Various Landscapes. The Cryosphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5139-2024
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Loisel, J., Peters, J., Tegetmeyer, C., Girkin, N., Parsekian, A., & Rivera Wong, J. (2024). Observations from an expedition to Costa Rican peatlands.
The Society of Wetland Scientists bulletin, 42(1).
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Miller, C. E., Griffith, P. C., Hoy, E., Pinto, N. S., Lou, Y., Hensley, S., ... Parsekian, A.D. ...& Goetz, S. J. (2024). The ABoVE L-band and P-band airborne synthetic aperture
radar surveys. Earth System Science Data, 16(6), 2605-2624. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2605-2024
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Oladeji, E.*, Parsekian, A.D., & Grana, D. (2024). Machine learning‐based hydrofacies classification: Effects of
noise and regularization. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 1(3), e2024JH000197. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JH000197
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Li, A.*, Grana, D., Parsekian, A. D., & Carr, B. (2024). Uncertainty Quantification in Tomographic Inversion of Near-Surface
Seismic Refraction Data. Mathematical Geosciences, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11004-023-10083-9
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Jones, B. M., Kanevskiy, M. Z., Parsekian, A. D., Bergstedt, H., Ward Jones, M. K., Rangel, R. C., Hinkel, K.M. and Shur, Y. (2023). Rapid saline permafrost thaw below a shallow thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska.
Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105552. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105552
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Sims, K. W., Messa, C. M., Scott, S. R., Parsekian, A. D., Miller, A., Role, A. L., ... & Boyd, E. S. (2023). The Dynamic Influence of Subsurface
Geological Processes on the Assembly and Diversification of Thermophilic Microbial
Communities in Continental Hydrothermal Systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.10.021
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Jiao, J., Zhang, Y., Parsekian, A. D., Miller, S., Maxwell, R. M., Nguyen, M. C., & Flinchum, B. A. (2023). Integrated
hydrological modeling of the No-Name watershed, Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming (USA).
Hydrogeology Journal, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-023-02712-8
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Rangel, R. C.*, Ohara, N., Parsekian, A. D., & Jones, B. M. (2023). Arctic tundra lake drainage increases snow storage in drifts.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128, e2023JF007294. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007294
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Burns, E. F.*, Rempe, D. M., Parsekian, A. D., Schmidt, L. M., Singha, K., & Barnard, H. R. (2023). Ecohydrologic dynamics of
rock moisture in a montane catchment of the Colorado Front Range. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR034117. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034117
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Sullivan, T.D.* and Parsekian, A. D. (2023) The effects of temperature on shallow borehole NMR measurements in permafrost.
Cold Regions Science and Technology, 211, 103850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coldregions.2023.103850
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Pleasants, M. S.*, Kelleners, T. J., Parsekian, A. D., & Befus, K. M. (2023) A Comparison of Hydrological and Geophysical Calibration Data
in Layered Hydrologic Models of Mountain Hillslopes. Water Resources Research, e2022WR033506. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033506
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Chen, R.H., Michaelides, R.J., Zhao, Y., Huang, L., Wig, E., Sullivan, T.D., Parsekian, A.D., Zebker, H.A., Moghaddam, M. and Schaefer, K.M., (2023) Permafrost Dynamics Observatory
(PDO)–Part II: Joint Retrieval of Permafrost Active Layer Thickness and Soil Moisture
from L‐band InSAR and P‐band PolSAR. Earth and Space Science, p.e2022EA002453. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002453
Please see my GoogleScholar profile for a full list of peer-reviewed journal articles.
