William P. Clement

Extension Associate Professor

Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

Telephone: (413) 545-5910
email: wclement@umass.edu
See the absolute gravity station at UMass Amherst
Stress reduction ideas
Fun stuff
Geophysics 300 resources
New Use for Metal Detector
Symbols, Meaning, and Humpty Dumpty

Education

Ph.D. University of Wyoming, 1995
M.S. University of Montana, 1986
A.B. Dartmouth College, 1979

Interests

Vita (pdf)
Teaching Philosophy (pdf) or (html)
Research Interests

Selected Publications

Clement, W. P., and A. Ward, GPR surveys across a prototype surface barrier to determine temporal and spatial variations in soil moisture content, Chapter 23, The Handbook of Agricultural Geophysics, CRC Press, B. J. Allred, M. R. Ehsani, and J. J. Daniels (eds.), CRC Press, 305 – 315, 2008.

Clement, W. P., and C. J. Murray, GPR data acquired to image clastic dikes at the Hanford Site, Hanford, Washington, in Baker, G. S., and H. M. Jol, eds., Stratigraphic Analyses using GPR, Geol. Soc. Am. Special Paper 432, 169-181, doi:10.1130/2007.2432(12), 2007.

Wilkins, D. E., and W. P. Clement, Palaeolake Shoreline Sequencing using Ground-Penetrating Radar: Lake Alvord, Oregon and Nevada, in Baker, G. S., and H. M. Jol, eds., Stratigraphic Analyses using GPR, Geol. Soc. Am. Special Paper 432, 103-110, doi:10.1130/2007.2432(08), 2007.

Johnson, T. C., P. S. Routh, T. Clemo, W. Barrash, and W. P. Clement, Incorporating geostatistical constraints in nonlinear inversion problems, Water Resources Research, 43, W10422, doi:10.1029/2006WR005185, 2007.

Clement, W. P., Issues During the Inversion of Crosshole Radar Data: Can we have confidence in the outcome?, Journal of Engineering & Environmental Geophysics, 11, 269-287, 2006.

Clement, W. P., and W. Barrash, Crosshole Radar Tomography in a Fluvial Aquifer near Boise, Idaho, Journal of Engineering & Environmental Geophysics, 11, 171-184, 2006.

Clement, W. P., and M. D. Knoll, Traveltime inversion of vertical radar profiles, Geophysics, 71, K67-K76, 2006.

Clement, W. P., W. Barrash, and M. D. Knoll, Reflectivity modeling of ground penetrating radar, Geophysics, 71, K59-K66, 2006.

Bradford, J. H., L. M. Liberty, M. W. Lyle, W. P. Clement, and S. Hess, Imaging complex structure in shallow seismic-reflection data using prestack depth migration, Geophysics, 71, B175-B181, 2006.

Moret, G. J. M., M. D. Knoll, W. Barrash, and W. P. Clement, Investigating the stratigraphy of an alluvial aquifer using crosswell seismic traveltime tomography, Geophysics, 71, B63-B73, 2006.

Moret, G. J. M., W. P. Clement, M. D. Knoll, and W. Barrash, VSP traveltime inversion: Near-surface issues, Geophysics, 69, 345-351, 2004.

Endres, A. L., W. P. Clement, and D. L. Rudolph, Ground penetrating radar imaging of an aquifer during a pumping test, Ground Water, 38, 566-577, 2000.

Cardimona, S., W. P. Clement, and K. Kadinsky-Cade, Seismic reflection and ground penetrating radar imaging of a shallow aquifer, Geophysics, 63, 1310-1317, 1998.

Clement, W. P., S. J. Cardimona, A. L. Endres, and K. Kadinsky-Cade, Site characterization at the Groundwater Remediation Field Laboratory, Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware, The Leading Edge, 16, 1617-1621, 1997.

Carbonell, R., M. A. Speece, W. P. Clement, and S. B. Smithson, Anisotropy measurements and the deep structure of a passive continental margin: southwestern Greenland, in Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries, Banda, E., M. Torné, and M. Talwani (eds.), NATO ASI Series C: Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 463, 121-146, 1995.

Clement, W. P., R. Carbonell, and S. B. Smithson, Shear-wave splitting in the lower crust beneath the Archean crust of southwest Greenland, Tectonophysics, 232, 195-210, 1994.

Carbonell, R., W. P. Clement, and S. B. Smithson, Joint P- and S-wave velocity determination from reflected PP, SS and converted PS/SP phases from large aperture seismic reflection measurements, Tectonophysics, 232, 379-389, 1994.

Rey, P. F., D. M. Fountain, and W. P. Clement, P wave velocity across a noncoaxial ductile shear zone and its associated strain gradient: Consequences for upper crustal reflectivity, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 4533-4548, 1994.

Stress Reduction

Desmogging from Technology

Math 147 Learning Community Resources

Home page for Math 147, section 008

Resources

Faculty Resources
A Department Chair’s Lessons Learned – Good advice for us all
The Boise Hydrogeophysical Research Site
Seven attributes for Higher Education.

Tutorial links

A pronto tutorial
A Matlab Primer by Kermit Sigmon
A Matlab Primer by Mark Gockenbach

SeismicUn*x links

SeismicUn*x Tutorial
Jeff Barker’s Animations with SeisUn*x data

SPW links

Reading SeismicUn*x files with SPW

Science links

Eric Weisstein’s World of Science
Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Project
Equations of Hydrogeology (HTML or PDF)
Surface geophysical methods in hydrologic studies
AGU summary of Environmental Geophysics
Dielectric constants for Earth materials
Steve Cardimona’s EM reflectivity software
Famous Geoscientists
Interesting Books about Science
Discovery Center of Idaho
Periodic Table of Chemistry
Periodic Table of Chemistry (3 MB pdf file)
International Dark Sky Association
The Slide Rule
To actually use a slide rule, try Derek’s Virtual Slide Rule Gallery.
Scales and Snieder’s “What is a Wave?”

Learning/Educational links

Why We Need Women in the Sciences and Engineering
Discovery Center of Idaho
Boise Public Library!
Webster’s Dictionary Online
The Elements of Style
An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration
The Berkeley Course in Applied Geophysics

Women in Science links

Association for Women In Science
Association for Women Geoscientists

Fun links

Cocktail Party Physics, an interesting blog about physics written especially for non-scientists. Written by Jennifer Ouellette, an outstanding science journalist.
Learning from Cats
No. 12 of 75 Reasons to Become a Scientist
A list of teas
Horizontal vs. Vertical EM velocity — Sageep 2001 presentation.
(Must be run on Internet Explorer)
Pogo speaks