Dr. van Wijk came to Boise State in 2006 from the Colorado School of Mines where he received his doctorate in Geophysics in 2003. His master’s in the same discipline is from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Dr. van Wijk's research interests include wave propagation in disordered media, near-surface geophysics, land mine detection, microwave and laser geophysical sensor development, laboratory ultrasonics, physical and numerical modeling of issues related to exploration and global seismology, and inversion theory. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and the Acoustical Society of America.
Articles
Extension of the Spatial Autocorrelation (SPAC) Method to Mixed-Component Correlations of Surface Waves (with Matthew M. Haney, T. Dylan Mikesell, and Hisashi Nakahara), Geophysical Journal International (2012)
Using ambient seismic noise for imaging subsurface structure dates back to the development of the...
Malargüe Seismic Array: Design and Deployment of the Temporary Array, The European Physical Journal Plus (2012)
We present the goals and the current status of the Malargüe seismic array. Our main...
Western Limits of the Seattle Fault Zone and Its Interaction with the Olympic Peninsula, Washington (with A. P. Lamb, Lee M. Liberty, R. J. Blakely, T. L. Pratt, and B. L. Sherrod), Geosphere (2012)
We present evidence that the Seattle fault zone of Washington State extends to the west...
A Feasibility Study of Time-Lapse Seismic Monitoring of CO2 Sequestration in a Layered Basalt Reservoir (with Murari Khatiwada, Ludmila Adam, and Michael Morrison), Journal of Applied Geophysics (2012)
We investigate the potential of scattered seismic waves to remotely sense geological sequestration of CO2...
Scanning for Velocity Anomalies in the Crust and Mantle with Diffractions from the Core-Mantle Boundary (with Elmer Ruigrok and T. Dylan Mikesell), Geophysical Research Letters (2012)
A novel method, based on differential arrival times of diffractions from the core-mantle boundary, swiftly...
Presentations
Earthquakes, Idaho Public Television - D4K - Dialogue for Kids (2011)
Every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world the ground shakes. Most earthquakes are too tiny...
The Virtual Refraction for Noisy Data and Elastic Media (with Dylan Mikesell and Alexander Calvert), 71st European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition (2009)
In this work we explain the origin of spurious energy related to refracted waves, but...