Author Archives: Jonathan Nyquist

I recently read an interesting paper by Ido Millet, a professor of Management Information Systems at Penn State entitled, “Improving Grading Consistency through Grade Lift Reporting.” The premise is simple: when you have many instructors teaching sections of a class, some … Continue reading →

Highway I-95, the longest north-south highway in the U.S., is also one of the most heavily traveled. Love it or hate it, you’ll probably drive it at some point if you live on the East Coast. PennDOT’s 95-Revive project, a … Continue reading →

One of the projects I’m working on this summer is a Geophysics Field Experience funded by an NSF Geopath grant designed to give freshmen and sophomore college students with no little or no prior geoscience training a chance to experience geophysics … Continue reading →

SAGEEP 2018 was held in music city — Nashvile, TN. The meeting this year included for the first time session I organized and chaired on Geoscience Education. My PhD student, Gina Pope, presented a talk on the Math Mentoring program … Continue reading →

The_Core_Poster2 Before Temple created the current Gen Ed program, we had The Core, which was a set of distribution requirements for undergraduates taking electives outside their major. When the new GenEd was launched, I  designed and taught the class Disasters: … Continue reading →

The New Position Starting January 1st, I became Temple’s new director of General Education.  GenEd, as it is known for short, is a selection of courses designed to ensure that every Temple Student gains a broad appreciation of a variety … Continue reading →

Now available on the Vadose Zone Journal’s “First Look”. The final publication will come out in 2018. TESTING THE FILL-AND-SPILL MODEL OF SUBSURFACE LATERAL FLOW USING GPR AND DYE TRACING Jon Nyquist; Laura Toran; Lacey Pitman; Li Guo; Hangsheng (Henry) … Continue reading →

The seismograph on the Temple Ambler campus picked up today’s Delaware earthquake. Details about the earthquake can be found on the USGS geohazards website.  It was not a particularly large quake, but older, cooler lithosphere on the east coast transmits … Continue reading →

As part of a new NSF GeoPATH grant, Temple and Rutgers Universities are teaming to create a field experience for freshmen and sophomore college students interested in a geophysical field experience May 19th to June 3rd, 2018. Students will spend … Continue reading →

How to you test whether or not a bioswale designed to infiltrate stormwater run-off from Highway I-95 will perform as expected? You simulate the runoff event by directing water from a fire hydrant down the storm drains to mimic a … Continue reading →