Journal papers

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• Niu, Q. and McDavid, C (2024). "Self-potential Signals of a Laboratory Soil Column Test with Soil Evaporation and Plant Transpiration", Vadose Zone Journal (in preparation) 

• Chen, H., Niu, Q., McNamara, J.P. and Flores, A.N. (2024). "Influence of subsurface critical zone structure on hydrological partitioning in mountainous headwater catchments. " Geophysical Research Letters, 51(6), p.e2023GL106964.

• Chen, H., Niu, Q., Mendieta, A., Bradford, J. and McNamara, J. (2023). "Geophysics‐informed hydrologic modeling of a mountain headwater catchment for studying hydrological partitioning in the critical zone." Water Resources Research, 59(12), p.e2023WR035280.

• Niu, Q. (2023). "Revisiting the diffuse layer polarization of a spherical grain in electrolytes with numerical solutions of Nernst-Planck-Poisson equations", Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 128(8), p.e2022JB025934.

• Chen, H., and Niu, Q., (2022). “Improving moisture content estimation from field resistivity measurements with subsurface structure information.” Journal of Hydrology, 613, p.128343  

• Bienvenue, T., Xie, J., and Niu, Q., (2022) “Developing a soil column system to measure hydrogeophysical properties of unconsolidated sediment. Vadose Zone Journal, 21,e20186. 

• Chen, H., and Niu, Q., (2021). “Effects of Material Texture and Packing Density on the Interfacial Polarization of Granular Soils”. Geophysics. 86(6), pp MR285-MR297.

• Xie, J., Cui, Y., and Niu, Q., (2021). “Coupled inversion of hydraulic and self-potential data from transient outflow experiments to estimate soil petrophysical properties”. Vadose Zone Journal. 2021; 20: e20157. https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20157.

• Niu, Q., Zhang, C. and Prasad, M., (2020). “A Framework for Pore-scale Simulation of Effective Electrical Conductivity and Permittivity of Porous Media in the Frequency Range from 1 mHz to 1 GHz”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020515.

• Niu, Q. and Zhang, C., (2019). “Permeability Prediction in Rocks Experiencing Mineral Precipitation and Dissolution: A Numerical Study”. Water Resources Research. 55, 3107–3121.https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR024174

• Niu, Q., and Zhang C. (2018). “Physical explanation of Archie’s porosity exponent of granular materials: a process-based, pore-scale study,” Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 1870-1877, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076751.

• Niu, Q., and Zhang C. (2018). “Joint inversion of NMR and SIP data to estimate pore size distribution of geomaterials,” Geophysical Journal International, 212(3): 1791-1805, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx501.

• Niu, Q., and Zhang C. (2017). “Pore-scale modelling of complex conductivity of saturated granular materials,” Near Surface Geophysics, 15(6), pp. 593 - 602. doi: 10.3997/1873-0604.2017055.

• Wu, Y, Wang, Y.H. and Niu, Q. (2017). “Integrating the four-probe method and SWCC device to measure electrical resistivity anisotropy of unsaturated soil,” Geotechnical Testing Journal, 40(4), pp. 698-709, https://doi.org/10.1520/GTJ20160160.

• Niu, Q., Revil, A., Li, Z., and Wang, Y.H. (2017). “Relationship between electrical conductivity anisotropy and fabric anisotropy in granular materials during drained triaxial compressive tests: a numerical approach,” Geophysical Journal International, 210(1): 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx140.

• Niu, Q., Prasad, M., Revil, A., and Saidian, M. (2016). “Textural control on the quadrature conductivity of porous media,” Geophysics, 81(5), E297-E309. doi: 10.1190/geo2015-0715.1.

• Revil, A., Le Breton, M., Niu, Q., Wallin, E., Haskins, E., and Thomas, D.M. (2016), “Induced polarization of volcanic rocks: 1. Surface versus quadrature conductivity,” Geophysical Journal International, 208 (2): 826-844. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw444

• Revil, A., Le Breton, M., Niu, Q., Wallin, E., Haskins, E., and Thomas, D.M. (2016), “Induced polarization of volcanic rocks: 2. Influence of pore size and permeability,” Geophysical Journal International, 208 (2): 814-825. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw382

• Niu, Q., Wang, Y.H. and Zhao, K. (2016). “Examining the influence of vegetation on slope hydrology in Hong Kong using the capacitive resistivity measurement,” Journal of Applied Geophysics, No. 129, pp 148-157, doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.03.042.

• Niu, Q., Revil, A., and Saidian, M. (2016). “Salinity dependence of the complex surface conductivity of the Portland sandstone,” Geophysics, 81(2), D125-D140. doi: 10.1190/geo2015-0426.1.

• Niu, Q., and Revil, A. (2016). “Connecting complex conductivity spectra to mercury porosimetry of sedimentary rocks,” Geophysics, 81(1), E17-E32. doi: 10.1190/geo2015-0072.1.

• Revil, A., Meyer, C.D., and Niu, Q. (2016). “A laboratory investigation of the thermoelectric effect,” Geophysics, 81(4), E243–E257.

• Niu, Q., Fratta, D. and Wang, Y.H. (2015). “The use of electrical conductivity measurements in the prediction of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity,” Journal of Hydrology，522 (2015): 475-487. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.12.055.

• Niu, Q., Wang, Y.H. and Zhao, K. (2014). “Evaluation of the capacitively coupled resistivity (line antenna) method for the characterization of vadose zone dynamics,” Journal of Applied Geophysics, No. 106, pp. 119-127.

• Niu, Q. and Wang, Y.H. (2014). “Inversion of capacitively coupled resistivity (line antenna) measurements.” Geophysics, Vol. 79, No. 3, E125–E135.

• Niu, Q. and Wang, Y.H. (2013). “Theoretical and experimental examinations of the capacitively coupled resistivity (line antenna) method,” Geophysics, Vol. 78, No. 4, pp. E189-E199.

• Niu, Q., Hou, Y., Liang, J, and Peng, C. (2010). “Centrifuge modelling of cracking and hydraulic fracturing in core dams induced by abrupt change of bank slope,” Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 12, pp. 1935-1941 (in Chinese).

Conference papers

• Chen, H. and Niu, Q., (2021), “Influence of subsurface heterogeneity on critical zone characterizations with electrical resistivity and seismic refraction tomography”. In Sixth International Conference on Engineering Geophysics, Virtual, 25–28 October 2021 (pp. 213-216). Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

• Zhang, F., Niu, Q., and Zhang, C., (2018), “Estimating pore-size distribution in carbonate reservoir rocks using joint inversion of NMR and complex conductivity data, ”88th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Expanded Abstract SEG.

• Nakagawa, M., Dunnington, L., Barron, M., Franke, M., Niu, Q., Tsuchiya, N., Kubota, H., Furtado, J.F. and Woods, S., (2017) Community Supported Geothermal Projects. 42nd Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 13-15, 2017

• Niu Q., and Prasad M., (2016). “Measurement of dielectric properties (mHz–MHz) of sedimentary rocks,” 86th Annual International Meeting, SEG, Expanded Abstract SEG, Pages 3127-3132.

• Niu Q., Wang Y.H., (2015). “The use of the capacitive resistivity method to study geo-environmental related problems,” Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Geo-Energy and Geo-Environment, GeGe2015, Pages 183-184.

• Niu Q., Wang Y.H., (2013). “Comparing the ground resistivity measured by the DC and capacitively-coupled resistivity methods,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Site Characterization 4, ISC-4 Volume 2, 2013, Pages 963-969

• Hou Y. and Niu Q., (2010). “Centrifuge modelling of transverse cracking in dam core,” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics 2010, ICPMG 2010, Volume 2, 2010, Pages 1183-1188