Dr. Paul Michaels joined the faculty of the Department of Geosciences at Boise State University in 1993. He brought with him many years of experience as an exploration and research scientist, as well as both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Utah. He is certified as a Professional Engineer in the State of Idaho, and holds memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). In addition to many teaching interests, including inverse theory applied to engineering and the sciences, fundamental wave theory and seismology, and computer programming applied to geophysics and engineering, Dr. Michaels has many research interests. His current activities include working with the engineering properties of soils and the development of computer software to implement new representations of soil dynamics.
Articles & Technical Reports
Causal Instrument Corrections for Short-Period and Broadband Seismometers (with Matthew M. Haney, John Powers, and Michael West), Seismological Research Letters (2012)
Of all the filters applied to recordings of seismic waves, which include source, path, and...
Parallel Computations and Numerical Simulations for Nonlinear Systems of Volterra Integro-Differential Equations (with Barbara Zubik-Kowal), Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (2012)
We investigate thalamo-cortical systems that are modeled by nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations of convolution...
Establishing Confidence in Surface Wave Determined Soil Profiles, Proceedings of the GeoRisk 2011 Conference (2011)
Surface waves can be used to determine the shear velocity profile from the ground surface...
Love Wave Propagation in Viscoelastic Media (with G. Vijaya Raghavendra Chakravarthy), Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems (2008)
Surface wave measurements have been used to compute the dynamic soil properties for near surface...
Water, Inertial Damping, and the Complex Shear Modulus, Proceedings of the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics IV Congress (2008)
The author proposes an alternative to the traditional representation of soil damping. Rather than using...
Contributions to Books
Theory of Viscoelastic Love Waves and Their Potential Application to Near Surface Sensing of Permeability (with Vijay Gottumukkula), Advances in Near-Surface Seismology and Ground-penetrating Radar (2010)
In computing Love-wave solutions, the choice of constitutive model depends on the domain of application....
Use of Geophysics to Aid in Mapping Basalts Relevant to Ground Water Flow and a Landslide Hazard at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument (with L. Growney and P. Donaldson), Case Histories of Geophysics Applied to Civil Engineering and Public Policy (1996)
The landslides at Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument (HAFO) are apparently a consequence of saturation...
Patents
Determination of Permeability from Damping, Boise State Patents (2011)
Permeability of a fluid through a saturated material is determined by measuring the dynamic response...