Thesis List
Below are the theses produced by students at UBC-Geophysical Inversion Facility. The PDF sizes are in parentheses. The web links are to the secure site for the online collections at the Koerner Library site where the free download of the thesis is available. The links have been placed for thesis PDFs above 10 Mb.
| Year | Name | Degree | Title | Download (size) |
| 2020 | T. Astic | PhD | A framework for joint petrophysically and geologically guided geophysical inversion | PDF (90 Mb) |
| 2020 | M.A. Mitchell | PhD | Methodologies for the use of electrical and electromagnetic methods in complex, subterranean environments | PDF (75 Mb) |
| 2019 | D. Fournier | PhD | Advanced potential field data inversion with ℓp-norm regularization | PDF (54 Mb) |
| 2019 | P. Belliveau | PhD | Forward modelling and inversion of time-domain electromagnetic geophysical surveys in the presence of chargeable material | PDF (2 Mb) |
| 2018 | L. Heagy | PhD | Electromagnetic methods for imaging subsurface injections | PDF (79 Mb) |
| 2018 | S. Kang | PhD | On recovering distributed induced polarization information from time-domain electromagnetic data | PDF (67 Mb) |
| 2017 | R. Cockett | PhD | A framework for geophysical inversions with application to vadose zone parameter estimation | PDF (9 Mb) |
| 2017 | L.A. Caudillo-Mata | PhD | Multiscale and upscaling methods for geophysical electromagnetic forward modeling | PDF (8 Mb) |
| 2017 | M. McMillan | PhD | Cooperative and Parametric Inversion Strategies for Airborne Electromagnetic Data | PDF (49 MB) |
| 2017 | K. Steklova | PhD | Computational methods in hydrogeophysics | PDF (4 MB) |
| 2016 | J. Granek | PhD | Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Mineral Prospectivity Mapping | PDF (30 MB) |
| 2016 | S. Devriese | PhD | Detecting and imaging time-lapse conductivity changes using electromagnetic methods | PDF (27 MB) |
| 2016 | D. Cowan | MSc | Forward modeling and inversion of viscous remanent magnetization responses in the time domain | PDF (6 MB) |
| 2016 | J. Fohring | PhD | Adaptive optimal experimental design and inversion of a coupled fluid flow and geophysical imaging model for reservoir monitoring | PDF (4 MB) |
| 2015 | D. Fournier | MSc | A cooperative magnetic inversion method with Lp-norm regularization | PDF (22 MB) |
| 2015 | D. Marchant | PhD | Induced polarization effects in inductive source electromagnetic data | PDF (16 MB) |
| 2014 | D. Yang | PhD | Geophysical survey decomposition and efficient 3D inversion of time-domain electromagnetic data | PDF (22 MB) |
| 2012 | E. Holtham | PhD | 3D inversion of natural source electromagnetic data | PDF (13 MB) |
| 2011 | G. Rosenkjaer | MSC | Electromagnetic Methods in Geothermal Exploration. 1D and 3D Inversion of TEM and MT Data from a Synthetic Geothermal Area and the Hengill Geothermal Area, SW Iceland | PDF (109 MB) |
| 2011 | J. Granek | MSc | Computing geologically consistent models from geophysical data | PDF (4 MB) |
| 2010 | L. Beran | PhD | Discrimination algorithms for the remediation of unexploded ordnance | PDF (8 MB) |
| 2009 | P. Lelievre | PhD | Integrating Geologic and Geophysical Data through Advanced Constrained Inversions | PDF (6 MB) |
| 2008 | N. Williams | PhD | Geologically-constrained UBC-GIF Gravity and Magnetic Inversions with Examples from the Agnew-Wiluna Greenstone Belt, Western Australia | PDF (59 MB) |
| 2007 | M. Sheffer | PhD | Forward Modelling and Inversion of Streaming Potential for the Interpretation of Hydraulic Conditions from Self-Potential Data. | PDF (3 MB) |
| 2007 | L. Passion | PhD | Inversion of time-domain electromagnetic data for the detection of unexploded ordnance | PDF (51 MB) |
| 2007 | S. Napier | MSc | Practical Inversion of 3D Time Domain Electromagnetic Data: Application to the San Nicolas deposit | PDF (12 MB) |
| 2004 | L. Beran | MSc | Classification algorithms for discrimination of unexploded ordnance | PDF (4 MB) |
| 2003 | C. Hewson | MSc | Developing learned regularization for geophysical inversions | PDF (2 MB) |
| 2003 | P. Lelievre | MSc | Forward modelling and inversion of geophysical magnetic data | PDF (4 MB) |
| 2001 | N. Phillips | MSc | Geophysical inversion in an integrated exploration program: examples from the San Nicolas deposit | PDF (8 MB) |
| 1999 | S. Walker | MSc | Inversion of em data to recover 1-d conductivity and a geometric survey parameter | PDF (1 MB) |
| 1999 | L. Passion | MSc | Detecting unexploded ordnance with time domain electromagnetic induction | PDF (4 MB) |
| 1999 | P. Routh | PhD | Electromagnetic coupling in frequency domain induced polarisation data | PDF (11 MB) |
| 1997 | E. Haber | PhD | Numerical strategies for the solution of inverse problems | PDF (2 MB) |
| 1997 | Z. Zhang | PhD | Reconstruction of Conductivity and Susceptibility from the Inversion of EM Data | PDF (22 MB) |
| 1995 | C. G. Farquharson | PhD | Approximate Sensitivities for the Multi-Dimensional Electromagnetic Inversion Problem | PDF (2 MB) |
| 1994 | Y. Zudman | MSc | Use of DC Resistivity and Induced Polarization Methods in Acid Mine Drainage Research at the Copper Cliff Mine Tailings Impoundments | PDF (10 MB) |
| 1992 | Y. Li | PhD | Inversion of Three-Dimensional Direct Current Resistivity Data | PDF (7 MB) |
| 1992 | P. R. McGillivray | PhD | Forward Modeling and inversion of DC Resistivity and MMR Data | PDF (6 MB) |
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