Jonathan H. Tomkin

Jonathan H. Tomkin Curricula Vitae University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 159 Computer Application Building 605 E. Springfield Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: (217) 244 2928 Email: [email protected] Current Position (2011-current) Associate Director, School of Earth, Society, and Environment, University of Illinois Associate Professor (Research), Department of Geology, University of Illinois Director, ESE online, University of Illinois

Education PhD., Earth Sciences, Australian National University (2000). BSc. (Hons), 1st class, Physics, University of Melbourne (1996).

Prior Academic employment Associate Director of Academic Affairs and Res. Assistant Prof., SESE, University of Illinois 2007-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, 2003-2006 Damon Wells Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 2000-2002.

Principal Areas of Research Interest  Defining interactions between surface processes and mountain evolution in tectonically active regions at orogen, basin, and sub-basin scales by testing process based models against thermochronological data. Studied field areas include the Southern Alps of New Zealand, the Olympic Mountains of Washington State, and the Patagonian Andes.  Ground-truthing climate histories and geomorphological process models via the statistical analysis of geomorphological and geochemical data.  Improving the theoretical understanding of glacial action on landscapes via numerical and analytical models of glacial and landscape evolution.  Assessing Learning outcomes at large scales – such as Massive Open Online Courses and institutionally, using large data sets, learning analytics, A/B testing, and adaptive learning.

Administrative Outcomes  As Associate Director, I launched a new interdisciplinary sustainability BS program, which has brought an ongoing enrollment of 185 majors and 60 minors to the School.  As Associate Director, I designed a new curriculum, oversaw the creation and approval of twenty new courses, and rose external funding for instruction and development. In this capacity I act as the direct manager to PhD level staff: an academic advisor, lecturer, and contract instructors.  As Director of the Environmental Sustainability online degree program, I launched a certificate and an online bachelor degree – the first such online program at the University of Illinois. After one year the program is net revenue positive and now grosses over half a million dollars per year.  Designed, taught and project managed the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with an Earth Science theme: “Introduction to Sustainability”, initially delivered in August 2012, and has since been reoffered. Total enrollment in the course is over 100,000 students. Twenty-three staff members from the University of Illinois were involved in its implementation and delivery.

Areas of Technical Expertise  Academic project management, including new programs, curricula development, course development, and staffing.  Earth, Environment and Sustainability education and outreach, with demonstrated skills in teaching, writing, public speaking and project advising.  Developer of finite-element and finite-difference models of climate, landscape, ice-cap and geodynamic evolution. Using statistical data analysis, high end UNIX computer platforms and software, and Fortran 90/95 programming.

Funded Education Proposals NSF WIDER $2,000,000 2014-2016 co-PI Scaling cultures of collaboration: Evidence-based reform in portal STEM courses DoE $39,679 2010-2013 PI Center for Global Studies course development IBHE/DoE $325,000 2008-2011 partner Mathematics Science Partnership: Sense-Making in Science and Mathematics IBHE $75,000 2007-2009 partner The Lifelong Learning IN Illinois Project (I-LLINI project) NSF EAR $1,204,416 2003-2008 co-PI Geoscience Alliance to Enhance Minority Participation LSU BoR $20,000 2005 co-PI Classroom development grant

Funded Research Proposals NSF ANT $346,713 2006-2008 co-PI WAIS grounding-zone migrations in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea and the LGM dilemma: New strategies to resolve the style and timing of outer continental shelf grounding events NSF EAR $90,632 2005-2008 PI Glacial Erosion in the Patagonian Andes: Testing the Buzzsaw ACS PRF $35,000 2006-2008 PI The effect of late Cenozoic glaciation on the evolution of the Olympic Mountains CoR FRG $9,318 2005-2006 PI Unraveling climate and tectonic feedbacks in the Olympic Mountains via numerical simulations NSF EPSCoR PFUND $11,450 2005 PI Numerically modelling feedbacks between climate, erosion and tectonics in the Patagonian Andes

Peer Reviewed Publications, Articles and Books

G.P. Nestell, M.K. Nestell, B.B. Ellwood, B.R. Wardlaw, A.R. Basu, N. Ghosh, L.T.P. Lan, H.D. Rowe, A. Hunt, J.H. Tomkin, K.T. Ratcliffe. High influx of carbon in walls of agglutinated foraminifers during the Permian-Triassic transition in global oceans. International Geology Review, 57, 411-427: DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2015.1010610, 2015.

B.B. Ellwood, , A. El Hassani, J.H. Tomkin, and P. Bultynck, A climate-driven model and development of a floating-point timescale for the Middle Devonian Eifelian State using time-series analysis of magnetic susceptibility data sets. daSilva, A-C., (ed.). Magnetic susceptibility application: a window onto ancient environments and climatic variation., Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 414, 15 pp, doi:10.1144/SP414.4, 2015.

J.H. Tomkin and D. Charlevoix. Do professors matter?: using an a/b test to evaluate the impact of instructor involvement on MOOC student outcomes. Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference). ACM , 71-78. DOI=10.1145/2556325.2566245 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556325.2566245, 2014.

B.B. Ellwood, W-H. Wang, J.H. Tomkin, K.T. Ratcliffe, A. El Hassani, and A.M. Wright. Testing High Resolution Magnetic Susceptibility and Gamma Radiation Methods in the Cenomanian-Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) GSSP and near-by Coeval Section. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.02.018, 2013.

J.H. Tomkin, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainability has Global Impact, In the Trenches, 10-13, 2013. B.B. Ellwood, C.E. Brett, J.H. Tomkin, and W.D. MacDonald, Visual Identification and Quantification of Milankovitch Climate Cycles in Outcrop: An Example from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation, Northern Kentucky, Geological Society Special Publication, v. 373, 2012.

B.B. Ellwood, L.L. Lambert, J.H. Tomkin, G.L. Bell, M.K. Nestell, G.P. Nestell, B.R. Wardlaw. Magnetostratigraphy Susceptibility for the Guadalupian Series GSSPs (Middle Permian) in Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Adjacent Areas in West Texas, Geological Society Special Publication, v. 373, 2012.

J.L. Garc´ıa-Alcalde, B.B. Ellwood, F. Soto, M. Truy´ols-Massoni and J.H. Tomkin. Precise Timing of the Upper Taghanic Biocrisis, Geneseo Bioevent, in the middle—upper Givetian (Middle Devonian) boundary in Northern Spain Using Biostratigraphic and Magnetic Susceptibility Data Sets, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.006, 2011.

T.L. Theis, T. L., and J.H. Tomkin (Eds.). Sustainability: A comprehensive foundation. Retrieved from http://cnx.org/content/col11325/latest/, 2011.

J.H. Tomkin (2011). Climate Processes; external and internal controls. Chapter in Sustainability: A comprehensive foundation. Retrieved from http://cnx.org/content/col11325/latest/, 2011.

S.N. Thomson, M.T. Brandon, J.H. Tomkin, P.W. Reiners, C. Vasquez, and N.J. Wilson. Glaciation as a destructive and constructive control on mountain building, Nature, 467, 313-317, 2010.

A.M. Anders, S.G. Mitchell, and J.H. Tomkin. Cirques, peaks, and precipitation patterns in the Swiss Alps: Connections among climate, glacial erosion, and topography, Geology, 38, 239-242, 2010.

B.B. Ellwood, T.J. Algeo, A. El Hassani, J.H. Tomkin, and H.D. Rowe. Defining the timing and duration of the Kačák Interval within the Eifelian/Givetian boundary GSSP, Mech Irdane, Morocco, using geochemical and magnetic susceptibility patterns, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.012, 2010.

B.B. Ellwood, J.H. Tomkin, A. El Hassani, P. Bultync, C.E. Brett, E. Schindler, R. Feist, and A.J. Bartholomew. A climate- driven model and development of a floating point time scale for the entire Middle Devonian Givetian Stage: A test using magnetostratigraphy susceptibility as a climate proxy, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.10.014, 2010.

B.B. Ellwood, A. Kafafy, A. Kassab, J.H. Tomkin, A. Abdeldayem, N. Obaidalla, K. Willson, D.E. Thompson, Magnetostratigraphy Susceptibility Used for High Resolution Correlation Among Paleocene/Eocene Boundary Sequences in Egypt, Spain and the U.S.A. In Modern Stratigraphic techniques: Theories and Case Histories, eds. Ratcliffe, K. and B. Zaitlin, SEPM Special Publication, 94, 2010.

J.H. Tomkin. Numerically simulating alpine landscapes: The geomorphologic consequences of incorporating glacial erosion in surface process models. Geomorphology, vol. 108, 180-188, 2009.

M.D. Blum, J.H. Tomkin, A. Purcell, and R. Lancaster. Ups and downs of the Mississippi delta. Geology, vol. 36, 675-678, 2008.

B.B. Ellwood, J.H. Tomkin, L.A. Febo, and C.N. Stuart Jr. Time Series Analysis of Magnetic Susceptibility Variations in Deep Marine Sediments: A Test Using Upper Danian-Lower Selandian Proposed GSSP, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 261, 270-279, 2008.

B.B. Ellwood, J.H. Tomkin, K.T., Ratcliffe, M., Wright, A.M., Kafafy. High Resolution Magnetic Susceptibility and Geochemistry for the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary GSSP with Correlation to Time Equivalent Core. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.005, 2008. J.H. Tomkin, Coupling glacial erosion and tectonics at active orogens: a numerical modeling study. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, F02015, doi:10.1029/2005JF000332, 2007.

J.H. Tomkin and G. Roe, Climate and tectonic controls on glaciated critical-taper orogens. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 262, 385-397, 2007.

B.B. Ellwood, J.H. Tomkin, B.C. Richards, S.L. Benoist, L.L. Lambert, MSEC data sets record glacially driven cyclicity: Examples from the arrow canyon Mississippian–Pennsylvanian GSSP and associated sections. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 255, 377–390, 2007.

J.H. Tomkin, Erosional feedbacks and the oscillation of ice masses. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. B10, 2488 10.1029/2002JB002087 18 October 2003.

J.H. Tomkin, M.T. Brandon, F. J. Pazzaglia, J. Barbour and S. D. Willett. Quantitative testing of bedrock incision models, Clearwater River, WA. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108, No. B6, 2308 10.1029/2001JB000862, 20 June 2003.

J.H. Tomkin and J. Braun, The effect glaciation has on the relief of a fast growing orogen: a numerical modelling study. American Journal of Science, Vol. 302, pp 169-190, 2002.

J.H. Tomkin, Landforming Processes in Glaciated Orogens: a Numerical Study. PhD Thesis, Australian National University, 2000.

J.H. Tomkin and J. Braun, Simple models of drainage reorganization on a tectonically active ridge system , New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Vol. 42 pp 1-10, 1999.

J. Braun, D. Zwartz and J.H. Tomkin, A new surface processes model combining glacial and fluvial erosion, Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 28 pp 282-290, 1999.

Recent (2013) invited talks: National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 1/6/13. University of Iowa, “4CAST’13”, Iowa City, 1/17/13. Keynote University of Illinois, Envisioning the Future of Online Graduate Education, 4/2/13. Keynote Faculty Summer Institute, Champaign, IL, 5/15/13. Keynote

Academic Reviews: American Journal of Science Australian Research Council (proposal reviewer) Geology National Science Foundation (proposal reviewer) Geomorphology NASA (proposal reviewer) GSA Penrose Special Paper Swiss National Science Foundation (proposal reviewer) Journal of Geophysical Research National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Earth and Planetary Science Letters Canada (proposal reviewer) Nature Geoscience

Courses Taught: Changing Arctic (ESE 386), 2013 GAEMP Summer School, 2004-2006. Planet Earth (GEOL 100), 2013 Geodynamics (GEOL 552), 2007, 2010 Introduction to Sustainability, Coursera, 2012, 2013 Geophysics Seminar, 2006. Field Expedition to Costa Rica (ESE 497), 2012, 2013 Physical Geology (GEOL 1001) 2003-2005. Alpha Sustainability; into the near future, Osher Lifelong Lambda Delta Honor Society Teaching Award (2005) Learning Institute, 2011 Numerical Methods in Geology (GEOL 7065) 2004, 2006, Earth Systems (ESE 200) 2007-2013 2009. Earth Science for Teachers (ESE 520), 2010 Tectonic Geomorphology (LSU, GEOL 7002) 2005. BASC Current Research in Geoscience (GEOL 591), 2007-2013 Excellence in Teaching Award (2005) Tectonic Geomorphology (UIUC, GEOL 593), 2008