W. Steven Holbrook

Unlocking the secrets of Earth’s breathing skin, one seismogram at a time.

About Me

I am a professor of geophysics and head of the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. My research centers on critical zone geophysics.

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News:

February 2024

PhD student Ben Eppinger had a paper accepted in Earth and Space Science, on full waveform inversion of critical zone seismic data.

Steve Holbrook gave an invited seminar at UCLA on ""Porosity in Catchments and Critical Zones: New Frontiers in CZ Geophysics."

January 2024

Ben Eppinger and Steve Holbrook are coauthors on a paper first-authored by Brady Flinchum in Geophysical Research Letters, "Low Vp/Vs values as an indicator for fractures in the critical zone."

December 2023

Denise Burgett gave a talk at the Fall AGU meeting entitled "The Virtual Critical Zone: Mapping Geophysical and Geochemical Heterogeneity in a Critical Zone Outcrop."

Ben Eppinger presented a poster at the Fall AGU meeting entitled "Sharpening our Picture of the Critical Zone with Double Component Near-Surface Full Waveform Inversion."

Steve Holbrook gave a talk at the Fall AGU meeting entitled "“Large-N” for the Critical Zone: Probing the Subsurface beneath the World’s Largest Trees with a Dense Nodal Seismic Array."

Steve Holbrook gave a keynote presentation at the Berkeley Catchment Science Syposium. The talk was entitled, "Porosity in Catchments and Critical Zones: New Frontiers in CZ Geophysics."