{"id":1236,"date":"2022-08-26T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2022-08-26T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:44:00","slug":"mapping-urban-soils-using-geophysics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2022\/08\/26\/mapping-urban-soils-using-geophysics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping urban soils using geophysics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Jon Nyquist and I performed an electrical resistivity survey along one of the stormwater basins next to I-95 to direct infiltration measurements in heterogeneous urban soil.  We identified an extensive clay layer (blue regions) with a few pockets of higher resistivity material which we hypothesized would infiltration better.  Thanks to Dr. Amanda Hess and Jess Erben of Villanova university who performed infiltration measurements in the basin to confirm our findings from the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J_xsection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J_xsection-1024x327.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J_xsection-1024x327.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J_xsection-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J_xsection-768x245.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J_xsection.png 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cross section showing clay layer (blue) and infiltration data<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J-ERT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1020\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J-ERT.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J-ERT.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2022\/08\/SMP-J-ERT-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. Jon Nyquist keeping the survey going in 90 degree weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jon Nyquist and I performed an electrical resistivity survey along one of the stormwater basins next to I-95 to direct infiltration measurements in heterogeneous urban soil. We identified an extensive clay layer (blue regions) with a few pockets of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2022\/08\/26\/mapping-urban-soils-using-geophysics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}