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Summer heat + THAT pungent stench = just a normal field work day. Members of the orphaned wells project are now intimately familiar with "rotten egg" aroma (and they look thrilled!) after working on sampling procedures for methane, hydrogen sulfide, and water at the Kentucky

Every heart beats true for the red, white, and blue, but this cartographer may have been too enthusiastic. This garish red, white, and blue map shows the progress of the KGS Geologic Mapping program as of July 4, 1976. Happy 4th of July! #Kentucky #geology #geoscience

It was a celestial "bomb" bursting in air, just a couple days early for the 4th. #KGS's new infrasound sensors, designed by Greg Steiner and installed as part of KGS's FEMA tornado-seismic project, detected a coherent signal across western Kentucky on June 26. Using KGS data

KOGA! KOGA! Eight KGSers attended the annual Kentucky Oil and Gas Association meeting in Lexington. The all-day meeting included a mix of oil and gas managers, petroleum geologists, politicians, and service company personnel. Carrie Pulliam, assisted by John Hickman, hosted a KGS booth, interacted

It's on all our minds this week: How can #Kentucky communities build climate resilience and prepare for weather-related disasters? Join experts, researchers, and community leaders on July 18 for Kentucky NSF EPSCoR's 'Kentucky Storm Resilience: Documentaries & Discussion'. This free,

Grab the COMBOS, sour gummy worms, and some Diet Coke and let’s hit the road. #KGS's Gina Lukoczki and Liz Adams headed west to the Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum’s Annual Mineral Show in Marion, #Kentucky. They spoke with museum leadership, former miners, and mineral

Fieldwork doesn't stop just because the day does. Leighia Eggett and Taylor Valastek (UK Plant & Soil Sciences) and #KGS's hydrogeologist Glynn Beck finished collecting soil samples under truck headlights and a waxing crescent moon. All samples are part of the Blue Water Farms

KGS staff members and Potter interns made a pitstop to check out the new Kentucky Historical Marker no. 2672 honoring Dr. Willard R. Jillson, former #KGS director, and the Nonesuch Abandoned Channel, a geologic feature Jillson discovered and documented, in southern Woodford

🦖 ALERT: Origami dinosaurs have taken over the Mining and Mineral Resources Building atrium. We suspect a rogue origami artist (using free overstock maps) is behind this prehistoric paper parade. If you spot a triceratops on the coffee table or a pterodactyl eyeing your lunch,

One of the best things about summer on campus? When the parking gets easier, the special guests roll in. #KGS's Publication Resources Curator Cheyenne welcomed a group of #STEM librarians (including UK's Helene Gold) to the Mining and Mineral Resources Building. The group toured

Double the Seths = double the science. Seth Thompson (UK Earth and Environmental Sciences MS student) and #KGS seismologist Seth Carpenter met with State Climatologist, Jerry Brotzge, at Western Kentucky University to discuss tornadoes and the storms that produce them. The purpose was to improve their understanding of how such

At #KGS, our interns are not only on top of the world, they're also underground. The Potter interns ventured to DiamondCaverns in Park City to help Rachel Washburn with her hunt for microbes. Armed with swabs, scrapers, and sample tubes, the team hit cave walls, sediment,

We have too much landslide knowledge to keep it all in #Kentucky. #KGS's Matt Crawford was a panelist at the Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Colorado. Panelists discussed how to use data to inform preparedness, mitigation, and response activities,

From fieldwork to data analysis, the #KGS Potter interns have tackled big questions and are ready to share the impressive results. Join us at the Paul Edwin Potter Internship Showcase 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, at UK’s Mining and Mineral Resources Building. The public is

Mudcracks ≠ dry soil This Barren County well has been underwater for the past few months, making it impossible to access for measurements. So when geologists Deron Zierer and Zach Walton saw it was finally “dry,” they may have gotten a little too excited, stepped in, and

The best place to celebrate #sharkweek? A cave. There's a new discovery at Mammoth Cave NP: an ancient shark species called Macadens olsoni. The fossils were found in the Ste. Genevieve Formation, which dates back approximately 340 to 335 million years. This little shark swam in

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming... At 12:08 a.m. local time, a magnitude 2.6 earthquake occurred about 5 miles E-NE of Uniontown, #Kentucky, at a depth of 15 miles. Because it happened deep underground and late at night, most people likely didn’t feel it.

For #MappingMonday, here's a snippet of the amazing "Mines of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District" map just published by #KGS's Paul Puckett, Emily Morris, and Gina Lukoczki. The #Kentucky side has been updated using newly compiled data from KGS’s Kentucky Mineral Resources

We know of a chill place…54° + science? Say less😎 Two Saturdays ago, #KGS's Rachel Washburn (Washburn CHAOS Lab), the Potter interns, and a few brave citizen scientists trekked out to the LoneStar Preserve to collect cave samples. They're digging (literally) into what kinds of