David Robinson

Publications:

  1. Robinson D.A., Bell J.P. and Batchelor C.H., 1994. The influence of iron minerals on the determination of soil water content using dielectric techniques. J. of Hydrology 161:169-180.
  2. Robinson D.A., Gardner C.M.K., Evans J., Cooper J.D., Hodnett M.G. and Bell J.P., 1998. The dielectric calibration of capacitance probes for soil hydrology using an oscillation frequency response model. Hydrology & Earth System Sciences. 2: 83 – 92.
  3. Robinson D.A., 1999. A comparison of soil-water distribution under ridge and bed cultivated potatoes. Agric Water Management. 42: 189-204.
  4. Robinson D.A., Gardner C.M.K. and Cooper J.D., 1999. Measurement of relative permittivity in sandy soils using TDR, capacitance and Theta probes: Comparison, including the effects of bulk soil electrical conductivity.J. of Hydrology 223/3-4: 198-211.
  5. Robinson, D.A. and Friedman, S. P. 2000. Parallel plates compared with conventional rods as TDR waveguides for sensing soil moisture. Subsurface Sensing Technology and Applications, 1:497-511.
  6. Robinson D.A., Cooper J.D. and Gardner C.M.K., 2001. Modelling the relative permittivity of soils using soil hygroscopic water content. J. of Hydrology. 25: 39-49.
  7. Robinson, D.A. and Friedman, S. P., 2001. Effect of particle size distribution on the effective dielectric permittivity of saturated granular media. Water Res. Res, 37:33-40.
  8. Robinson D.A. and Friedman S.P.,  2002. The effective permittivity of dense packing of glass beads, quartz sand and their mixtures immersed in different dielectric backgrounds. J. of Non-Crystalline Solids. 305:261-267.
  9. Robinson D.A. and Friedman S.P., 2002. Observations of the effects of particle shape and particle size distribution on avalanching of granular media. Physica A. Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 311: 97-110.
  10. Friedman S.P. and Robinson D.A., 2002. Particle shape characterization using angle of repose measurements for predicting the effective permittivity and electrical conductivity of saturated granular media. Water Res Res. 38, 11: 0043-1397/02/2001WR000746.
  11. Robinson D.A., Schaap M., Jones S.B., Friedman S.P. and Gardner C.M.K., 2003. Considerations for improving the accuracy of permittivity measurement using TDR: Air / water calibration, effects of cable length. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 76: 62-70.
  12. Schaap M., Robinson, D. A., Friedman S.P., Lazar A., 2003. Measurement and modeling of the dielectric permittivity of layered granular media using time domain reflectometry. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67: 1113-1121.
  13. Lebron I. and Robinson D.A., 2003. Particle size segregation during hand packing of coarse granular materials and impacts on local pore scale structure. Vadose Zone Journal, 2: 330-337.
  14. Robinson, D. A. and Friedman S. P., 2003. A method for measuring the solid particle permittivity or electrical conductivity of rocks, sediments and granular materials, J Geophys. Res. B., 108: 0148-0227/03/2001JB000691.
  15. Robinson D.A., Jones S.B., Wraith J.M., Or D. and Friedman S.P. 2003. Advances in dielectric and electrical conductivity measurement using time domain reflectometry: Simultaneous measurement of water content and bulk electrical conductivity in soils and porous media. Vadose Zone Journal, 2: 444-475. Invited review.
  16. Robinson D.A., Lebron I., Lesch S. and Shouse P., 2004. Temperature effects on EM-38 instrument response used for bulk soil electrical conductivity mapping. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J.  68: 339-345.
  17. Kelleners T.J., Soppe R.W.O., Robinson D.A., Schaap M., Ayars J.E. and Skaggs T.H., 2004. Use of electric circuit theory to calibrate capacitance probe sensors for permittivity measurements in non-conductive and conductive media. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 68: 430-439.
  18. Robinson D.A., 2004. Measurement of the solid dielectric permittivity of clay minerals and granular samples using a TDR immersion method. Vadose Zone Journal, 3 (2): 705-713.
  19. Robinson D.A., 2004. Calculating the dielectric properties of temperate and tropical soil minerals from ion polarizabilities using the Clausius-Mosotti equation. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J 68: 1780-1785.
  20. Lebron I., Robinson D.A., Goldberg, S., and Lesch S.M., 2004. The Dielectric Permittivity of Calcite and Arid Zone Soils with Carbonate Minerals: Implications for Water Content Determination and Geochemical Processes. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J 68: 1549-1559.
  21. Kelleners T.J., Robinson D.A., Shouse P.J., Ayars J.E. and Skaggs T.H., 2005. Frequency dependence of the complex permittivity and its impact on dielectric sensor calibration in soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69: 67-76.
  22. Robinson D.A., Schaap M.G., Or D. and Jones S.B., 2005. On the effective measurement frequency of TDR in dispersive and non-conductive dielectric materials. Water Res Res., 41, WO2007, doi:10.1029/2004WR003816.
  23. Wraith J.M., Robinson D.A., Jones S.B. and Long D.S., 2005. Spatially characterizing bulk electrical conductivity and water content of surface soils with time domain reflectometry, Computers in Agriculture 46: 239-261 Invited paper.
  24. Lesch S.M., Corwin D.L. and Robinson D.A., 2005. Apparent soil electrical conductivity mapping as an agricultural tool for arid zone soil. Computers in Agriculture 46: 351-378 Invited paper.
  25. Robinson D.A., Jones S.B., Blonquist Jr J.M., and Friedman S. P., 2005. A Physically Derived Water Content/Permittivity Calibration Model for Coarse-textured, Layered Soils, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69: 1372-1378.
  26. Robinson D. A., and Friedman S. P., 2005. Electrical conductivity and dielectric permittivity of sphere packing: measurements and modeling of cubic lattices, randomly packed monosize spheres and multisize mixtures. Physica A. Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 358, 2-4: 447-465.
  27. Robinson D.A., Kelleners T.J., Cooper J.D., Gardner C.M.K., Wilson P., Lebron I. and Logsdon S. D., 2005. Evaluation of a Capacitance Probe Frequency Response Model Accounting for Bulk Electrical Conductivity: Comparison with TDR and Network Analyzer Measurements. Vadose Zone Journal, 4: 992-1003.
  28. Jones S.B., Blonquist J.M. Jr., Robinson D.A. Rasmussen V. Philip and Or D., 2005. Standardizing characterization and calibration of electromagnetic sensors for porous media water content determination: Part I methodology. Vadose Zone Journal, 4: 1048-1058.
  29. Blonquist J.M. Jr., Jones S.B. and Robinson D.A., 2005. Characterization and calibration of seven electromagnetic water content sensors: Part II. Evaluation. Vadose Zone Journal, 4: 1059-1069.
  30. Blonquist J.M. Jr., Jones S.B., and Robinson D.A., 2005. A low cost time domain transmission sensor with TDR performance characteristics for determining water content in soils. J of Hydrology, 314 (1-4): 235-245.
  31. Blonquist J.M. Jr., Jones S.B., Lebron I., and Robinson D.A., 2006. Microstructural and phase configurational effects determining water content: Dielectric relationships of aggregated porous media. Water Res Res. 42: WO5424, doi:10.1029/2005WR004418
  32. Blonquist J.M. Jr., Jones S.B., and Robinson D.A., 2006. Precise Irrigation Scheduling Using a Subsurface Electromagnetic Soil Moisture Sensor. Ag Water Man, 84 (1-2) : 153-165.
  33. Abdu H., Robinson D.A., and Jones S.B., 2006. Comparing bulk soil electrical conductivity determination using the DUALEM-1S and EM-38DD EMI instruments. SSSAJ (In Press)
  34. Nogués J., Robinson D.A., and Herrero, J., 2006. Incorporating electromagnetic induction methods into regional soil salinity survey of irrigation districts. SSSAJ (In Press)

Book Chapters

Gardner C.M.K., Robinson D.A., Blyth K. and Cooper J.D., 2001. Soil water content measurement. Pages 1-64. In: Soil and Environmental Analysis: Physical Methods: Second Edition. (Ed. Smith K. and Mullins C.). Marcell Dekker, Inc., 270 Madison Ave, New York.