Michael J. Friedel, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Visiting and Adjunct Professor
email: mfriedel@usgs.gov; telephone: 303.236.7790
Publications

Recent publications

Iwashita, F., Friedel, M.J., Souza-Filho, C.R., Fraser, S.J., 2011. Hillslope chemical weathering across Paraná, Brazil: A data mining-GIS hybrid approach. Geomorphology 132(3-4), 167-175.

Friedel, M.J., 2011, Modeling hydrologic and geomorphologic responses across post-fire landscapes using a self-organizing map approach, Environmental Modeling and Software, 26(12), 1660-1674.

Friedel, M.J., 2011, A data-driven approach for modeling post-fire debris-flow volumes and their uncertainty, Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(12), 1583-1598.

Iwashita, F., Friedel, M.J., Rebeiro, G.F., Fraser, S.J., 2011, Intelligent estimation of hydrogeologic properties, Geoderma, 171, 1-10.

Friedel. M.J, Asch, T., accepted, Hybrid numerical and self-organizing map analysis of multi-axis electromagnetic data for UXO discrimination. Geophysical Journal International.


Friedel, M.J., Souza, O.F., Iwashita, F., Yoshinaga, S. P, Silva, A M, accepted, Data-driven modeling for groundwater exploration in fractured crystalline terrain, Northeast Brazil, Hydrogeology Journal.

 
Manuscripts submitted for publication

Friedel, M.J., in revision, Data-driven modeling of multscale surface temperature anomaly and solar activity trends, Environmental Modelling & Software.

Friedel, M.J., Iwashtia, F., in review, Hybrid spatial modeling of autocorrelated random variables with application to environmental inverse problems, Environmental Modelling & Software.

Moreira, L, Friedel, M., Franca, G., in review, Estimation and analysis of nonlinear uncertainty in joint seismic crustal modeling. Geophysical Journal International.

Friedel, M., in review, Hybrid modeling to predict the economic feasibility of mining undiscovered porphyry copper deposits – an alternative hybrid approach. Applied Soft Computing.

Manuscripts in preparation 


Moreira, L, Friedel, M., in preparation, Joint inversion of receiver function, surface wave dispersion and magnetotelluric data for 2D crustal modeling. Geophysical Journal International.

Koga-Vicente, A, Friedel, M.J., in preparation, Comparison of empirical and data-driven models when forecasting climate variability on the hydrometeorologic risks of coastal cities São Paulo, Brazil. Environmental Modeling & Software. 

Friedel, M.J., in preparation, Intelligent scaling of ground-water recharge measurements, Ground Water Journal.

Friedel, M.J., in preparation, Data-driven estimation and forecasting of climate change effects on ground water recharge in the Midwestern United States, Ground Water Journal.   

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