Brady Flinchum

Education:

2013 (currently in progress) Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Wyoming

2012 B.S. in Geophysics, University of Nevada, Reno

Publications:

Parsekian, A., D. Grombacher, A. Davis, B. Flinchum, T. Munday, and K. Cahill (2014), Near-surface geophysics for informed water-management decisions in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands of South Australia, The Leading Edge, 33(12), 1342–1347, doi:10.1190/tle33121342.1.

Flinchum, B. A., J. N. Louie, K. D. Smith, W. H. Savran, S. K. Pullammanappallil, and A. Pancha (2014), Validating Nevada ShakeZoning Predictions of Las Vegas Basin Response against 1992 Little Skull Mountain Earthquake Records, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104(1), 439–450, doi:10.1785/0120130059.

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Abstracts and Conference Proceedings:

Flinchum, B., W. S. Holbrook, D. Grana, A. Parsekian, S. Pasquet, J. Hayes (2015). Exploring Critical Assumptions of Petrophysical Models in Fractured Aquifers by Comparing Estimated Porosity Values Obtained from Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Shallow Seismic Refraction Surveys, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 13.

Holbrook, W. S., B. Carr, S. Moon, J. T. Perron, J. Hayes, B. Flinchum, J. St. Clair, C. Riebe, D. Richter, J. Leone (2015). Weathering, Fractures and Water in the deep Critical Zone: Geophysical investigations in the U.S. Critical Zone Observatories, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 13.

Taylor, N., K. Dueker, C. Riebe, P. Chen, B. Flinchum, W. S. Holbrook (2015). Using Three-Dimensional Passive Seismic Imaging to Capture Near-Surface Weathering and Its Influence on Overlying Vegetation, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 13.

Nash, C., G. Grant, B. Flinchum, J. Lancaster, W. S. Holbrook, L. Davis (2015).   A subsurface model of the beaver meadow complex, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 13.

Anderson, S., W. Dietrich, D. Rempe, N. West, S. Brantley, A. Bacon, H. Buss, B. Fisher, B. Flinchum, W. S. Holbrook, P. Klos, M. Leopold, S. Moon, T. Nielson, J. Pelletier, N. Terry (2015). Seeking GUTH, the Grand Unified Theory of Hillslopes: Linking Weathering, Erosion and Landscapes, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 13.

Carey A., B. Flinchum, G. Paige, B. Carr, S. N. Miller, W. S. Holbrook (2015). A Hydrogeophysics Approach to Investigate Upland-Stream Connectivity on a Rangeland Hillslope in the Upper Crow Creek Watershed in Southeastern Wyoming, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 13.

Flinchum, B., W. S. Holbrook, G. Paige, S. N. Miller (2015. Investigating the relationship between contributing area and groundwater flow path using near-surface geophysical methods in the Snowy Range, Wyoming. presented at the American Water Resources Associate 2015 Annual Water Resources (AWRA) Conference. Nov. 16-19, 2015, Denver, CO.

Miller, S.N., T. Liu, J. Jiao, A. Klatt, B. Flinchum, W.S. Holbrook, Y. Zhang (2015). Using hydrogeophysics for integrated modeling: Case Study in the Snowy Range. Abstract and oral presentation at the American Water Resources Association 2015 Annual Water Resources Conference. Nov. 16-19, 2015, Denver, CO.

Holbrook, W. S., B. Flinchum, B. Carr, J. St. Clair, J. Hayes, M. Mata, and M. Provart (2015). Geophysical Imaging at the U.S. Critical Zone Observatories, presented at the 28th Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP), Austin, March 23.  

Flinchum, B., and W. S. Holbrook (2015). A Combined Geophysical Approach to Identify and Quantify Key Hydrostratigraphic Structure of a Crystalline Aquifer in the Laramie Range, Wyoming, presented at the 28th Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP), Austin, March 23.  

Flinchum, B., W. S. Holbrook, D. Grana, J. St. Clair, and B. Carr (2014). Combined near-surface geophysical approach to delineate hydrostratigraphic boundaries in a fractured aquifer in the Laramie Range, Wyoming, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 18. 

Download the lower resolution version of the poster (~4 Mb)  here or download the full resolution pdf (~150 Mb) here.

Flinchum, B., W. Holbrook, and J. Clair (2014). Constraining hydrologic interpretations using near-surface geophysical methods, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2014, pp. 4524–4527, Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

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Flinchum B., W.S. Holbrook, B. Carr, S. N. Miller, J. St. Clair, J. Vithanage, (2013).  Surface-groundwater interactions mediated by fractures: seismic refraction and electrical resistivity results from the Laramie Range, Wyoming, presented at American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 12.

Flinchum B., W.S. Holbrook, M. Provart, B. Carr, (2013). Geophysical investigation of variability in granite weathering thickness, Laramie Range, Wyoming, presented at Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, October 28.

Flinchum B., W.S. Holbrook, M. Provart, B. Carr, (2013). Preliminary geophysical results from an elevation transect in the Southern Sierra CZO, presented at Deep Critical Zone: Drilling, Sampling and Imaging workshop, Denver, October 24-26.

Flinchum B., W. H. Savran, K. D. Smith, J. N. Louie, S. K. Pullammanappallil, And A. Pancha, (2012). Validation of Las Vegas basin response to the 1992 Little Skull Mtn. earthquake as predicted by physics-based Nevada ShakeZoning computations, presented at Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 17.

Flinchum, M. Brudzinski (2011), Non-volcanic Tremor Triggered by Teleseismic Surface Waves in South-Central Alaska, Abstract 1210130 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 5-9 Dec 

Labrecque, D., B. Flinchum, R. Brigham, N. Pendrigh, P. Sirles, and P. Ivancie (2013), Application of borehole magnetometric resistivity (BMR) for tunnel detection at the Captain Jack Mine, Proceedings of SAGEEP, 2013

 

Labrecque, D., D. Casale, R. Brigham, B. Flinchum, (2013), A Multi-Source Approach for Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Proceedings of SAGEEP, 2013

LaBrecque, D., R. Brigham, B. Flinchum, N. Pendrigh, P. Sirles, P. Ivancie, and M. Momayez (2012), Using ERT to locate a historical mine tunnel, Proceedings of SAGEEP, 2012

 

Savran, B. Flinchum, G. Plank, C. Dudley, N. Prina, and J. N. Louie, 2011, Comparing physics-based Next-Level ShakeZoning computations with USGS ShakeMap statistics for So. Nevada earthquake scenarios: presented at the Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering (EGGE) Las Vegas, NV, Mar. 25.

Grants and Scholarships:

May 2015 - Recipient of Near Surface Research Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicist (SEG) to investigate porosity estimates from near-surface geophysical measurements, particularly seismic refraction and nuclear magnetic resonance

March 2013 - Recipient of Geometrics student travel grant to attend the Symposium of the Application of Geophysics for Engineering and Environmental Problems (SAGEEP)  

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