Greg A. Oldenborger

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow UBC Geophysical Inversion Facility Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of British Columbia 6339 Stores Road Vancouver, BC   V6T 1Z4 Tel: 604 822 4180 Fax: 604 822 6088 Email: goldenborger "at" eos.ubc.ca

Profile

• Ph.D., Geophysics, Boise State University
• M.Sc., Geophysics, University of Western Ontario
• B.Sc., Geological Sciences and Geophysics, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

• Electrical and electromagnetic geophysics
• Environmental and engineering geophysics
• Hydrological and hydrogeological processes

Publications

• Oldenborger, G.A., and P.S. Routh, 2009, The point-spread function measure of resolution for the 3D electrical resistivity experiment, Geophysical Journal International, 176, 405-414.


• Oldenborger, G.A., M.D. Knoll, 2007, P.S. Routh, and D.J. LaBrecque, 2007, Time-lapse ERT monitoring of an injection/withdrawal experiment in a shallow unconfined aquifer, Geophysics, 72(4), F177-F187.


• Oldenborger, G.A., P.S. Routh, and M.D. Knoll, 2007, Model reliability for 3D electrical resistivity tomography: Application of the volume of investigation index to a time-lapse monitoring experiment, Geophysics, 72(4), F167-F175.


• McNeil, J.D., G.A. Oldenborger, and R.A. Schincariol, 2006, Quantitative imaging of contaminant distributions in heterogeneous porous media laboratory experiments, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 84(1-2), 36-54.


• Oldenborger, G.A., and P.S. Routh, 2006, Theoretical development of the differential scattering decomposition for the 3D resistivity experiment, Geophysical Prospecting, 54(4), 463-473.


• Oldenborger, G.A., P.S. Routh, and M.D. Knoll, 2005, Sensitivity of electrical resistivity tomography data to electrode position errors, Geophysical Journal International, 163(1), 1-9.


• Oldenborger, G.A., M.D. Knoll, and W. Barrash, 2004, Effects of signal processing and antenna frequency on the geostatistical structure of ground-penetrating radar data, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 9(4), 201-212.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., R.A. Schincariol, and L. Mansinha, 2003, Radar determination of the spatial structure of hydraulic conductivity, Ground Water, 41(1), 24-32.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., G.K.C. Clarke, and D.H.D. Hildes, 2002, Hydrochemical coupling of a glacial borehole-aquifer system, Journal of Glaciology, 48(162), 357-368.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., R.A. Schincariol, and L. Mansinha, 2002, Space-local spectral texture segmentation applied to characterizing the heterogeneity of hydraulic conductivity, Water Resources Research, 38(8), 1154, doi: 10.1029/2001WR000496.
  

Conference Proceedings

• Oldenborger, G.A., and D.W. Oldenburg, 2008, Inversion of 3D time-domain EM data for high conductivity contrasts, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 27, 619–623, November 9–14, Las Vegas, NV.


• Oldenborger, G.A., P.S. Routh, and M.D. Knoll, 2008, Time-lapse ERT monitoring and measures of model reliability for an injection/withdrawal experiment in a near-surface aquifer, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 27, 3709–3713, November 9–14, Las Vegas, NV.


• Oldenborger, G.A., and D.W. Oldenburg, 2007, Finite-volume time-domain EM modelling for high conductivity, 4th International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Electromagnetics, 31-34, September 27-30, Freiberg, Germany.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., P.S. Routh, and M.D. Knoll, 2006, The point-spread function measure of resolution for the 3D electrical resistivity experiment, 18th International Workshop on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth, S6-2, September 17-23, El Vendrell, Spain.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., M.D. Knoll, P.S. Routh, and W. Barrash, 2006, Time-lapse ERT monitoring of an injection/withdrawal experiment, EOS Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl., H42B-05, May 23-26, Baltimore, MD.
  


• LaBrecque, D.J., G.A. Oldenborger, R. Sharpe, and M.D. Knoll, 2006, Axi-symmetric inversion of electrical resistivity tomography data to monitor the movement of fluids injected in wells, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Problems, 1505-1513, April 2-6, Seattle, WA.
  


• Routh, P.S., G.A. Oldenborger, and D.W. Oldenburg, 2005, Optimal survey design using the point spread function measure of resolution, SEG Expanded Abstracts, 24, 1033-1036, November 6-11, Houston, TX.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., P.S. Routh, and M.D. Knoll, 2005, Sensitivity of electrical resistivity tomography data to electrode position, EOS Trans. AGU, 86(18), Jt. Assem. Suppl., NS12A-04, 183, May 23-27, New Orleans, LA.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., P.S. Routh, and M.D. Knoll, 2004, Effect of electrode position errors on electrical resistivity tomography data, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(17), Jt. Assem. Suppl., NS33A-02, 279, May 17-22, Montreal, QC.
  


• Schincariol, R.A., G.A. Oldenborger, J. McNeil, J.M. Markle, and L. Mansinha, 2003, Assessing the spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and its role in solute and heat transport, GSA Abstracts with Programs, 35(6), 215-11, 527, November 2-5, Seattle, WA.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., R.A. Schincariol, and L. Mansinha, 2003, Spectral analysis of visual images for characterizing hydraulic conductivity, Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Subsurface Science Symposium, October 5-8, Salt Lake City, UT.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., M.D. Knoll, and W. Barrash, 2002, Geostatistical structure of ground-penetrating radar data, Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Subsurface Science Symposium, October 13-16, Boise, ID.
  


• Oldenborger, G., M. Buursink, G. Moret, S. Goldstein, T. Johnson, E. Reboulet, C. Hughes, and L. Hausrath, 2002, Tracer/time-lapse imaging test at the Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site, Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Subsurface Science Symposium, October 13-16, Boise, ID.
  


• Clement, W.P., M. Knoll, G. Oldenborger, and W. Barrash, 2001, Understanding small-scale GPR reflection patterns in an alluvial aquifer, Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Subsurface Science Symposium, September 6-7, Idaho Falls, ID.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., R.A. Schincariol, and L. Mansinha, 2000, S-transform texture segmentation for prediction of hydraulic conductivity, EOS Trans. AGU, 81(48), Fall Meet. Suppl., H62C-06, F433, December 15-19, San Francisco, CA.
  


• Oldenborger, G.A., R.A. Schincariol, and L. Mansinha, 2000, Characterizing the heterogeneity of hydraulic conductivity: Application of ground-penetrating radar and space-local spectral techniques, EOS Trans. AGU, 81(19), Spring Meet. Suppl., H51A-10, S246, May 30-June 3, Washington, DC.
  


• Eaton, D., D. Tetreault, G. Oldenborger, and J. Hope, 2000, Ground penetrating radar as a tool for near-surface geological investigations, Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society, Symposium on Near Surface Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, December 11, Toronto, ON.