Dr. Bradford is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences and serves as the Director of the Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface (CGISS). The general goal of CGISS is to focus undergraduate and graduate geoscientific research on the structure, processes, and properties of the uppermost part of the Earth's crust. His research interests are centered around quantitative analysis of wave propagation based geophysical data, particularly seismic reflection and ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Additionally, Dr. Bradford teaches a variety of courses and involves both undergraduate and graduate level students in his many research projects.
Articles & Conference Proceedings
An Evaluation of the Hydrologic Relevance of Lateral Flow in Snow at Hillslope and Catchment Scales (with David Eiriksson, Michael Whitson, Charles H. Luce, Hans Peter Marshall, Shawn G. Benner, Thomas Black, Hank Hetrick, and James P. McNamara), Hydrological Processes (2013)
Lateral downslope flow in snow during snowmelt and rain-on-snow (ROS) events is a well-known phenomenon,...
The Search for the Lost Graves of the Chinese Miners in Hailey, Idaho, USA, 14th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) (2012)
Thousands of Chinese immigrants traveled to Idaho, USA during the gold mining boom in the...
Electromagnetic Induction Antenna Modelling Using a Linear System of Complex Antenna Transfer Functions (with Davood Moghadas, Frédéric André, Jan van der Kruk, Harry Vereecken, and Sébastien Lambot), Near Surface Geophysics (2012)
The quantitative retrieval of soil apparent electrical conductivity using electromagnetic induction (EMI) has remained limited...
The Emergence and Future of Near-Surface Geophysics (with William E. Doll and Richard D. Miller), The Leading Edge (2012)
Over the past 30 years, geophysical methods have assumed a much more prominent and integral...
Monitoring Glacier Surface Seismicity in Time and Space Using Rayleigh Waves (with T. D. Mikesell, Kasper van Wijk, Matthew M. Haney, Hans-Peter Marshall, and Joel T. Harper), Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface (2012)
Sliding glaciers and brittle ice failure generate seismic body and surface wave energy characteristic to...
Books
Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-Penetrating Radar (with Richard D. Miller, Klaus Holliger, and Rebecca B. Latimer), Faculty Authored Books (2010)
Advances in Near-surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar (SEG Geophysical Developments Series No. 15) is a...
Contributions to Books
Integrated Hydrostratigraphic Interpretation of 3D Seismic-Reflection and Multifold Pseudo-3D GPR Data, Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-Penetrating Radar (2010)
To map the 3D distribution of major hydrologic boundaries in a shallow aquifer near Boise,...
Permittivity Structure Derived from Group Velocities of Guided GPR Pulses (with Matthew M. Haney and Kathryn T. Decker), Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-Penetrating Radar (2010)
On a 2D profile of subsurface permittivity structure derived from guided GPR pulses recorded in...