Kentucky Geological Survey

#KGS Senior Research geologist Rick Bowersox (Ph.D., P.G.)?is retiring! Rick has had a remarkable >17 years career in the KGS Energy Section. Rick made big contributions to the section's research, taking on key roles in the Carter County and Hancock County well projects for the evaluation of in situ reservoir properties and CO? storage potential. Rick conducted important research on numerous topics in the fossil and emerging energy space, including: (i) the potential for compressed air energy storage in #Kentucky, (ii) the Rogersville Shale reservoir characterization, (iii) heavy oil and bitumen resource assessment in the western Kentucky tar sands, (iv) evaluation of helium resources in the Rough Creek Graben, and (v) clean hydrogen production, storage, transport, and utilization in eastern Kentucky. Rick was PI or co-PI on grants and contracts totaling ~$11M over the course of his KGS career and has numerous peer-reviewed publication to his credit (in prominent journals like AAPG Bulletin, Frontiers in Energy Research, and Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering).?Rick also made important contributions in service to UK's educational mission as an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. If you're a colleague (past or present) of Rick's, please join us at his retirement celebration tomorrow (Friday, March 28) in the Mining and Mineral Resources Building (310 Columbia Avenue, Lexington, KY 40506), room 102 at 9:00 am.

Coming to NBC this fall: Two dudes, some nodal seismometers, and a former enriched uranium plant. Ed Woolery (UK) and Seth Carpenter (#KGS) recently deployed a few nodal seismometers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. These sensors will collect passive seismic data to investigate deeper geological structure in the vicinity of the Plant and evaluate the performance of new, highly flexible and low-cost nodal sensors that are currently collecting data in the project area. #Kentucky #geology #geoscience

"Chert vibes." This is something we're going to start working into conversations and just let people wonder whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. #KGS #geology #geoscience #Kentucky #chertvibes

#KGS hydrologists E. Glynn Beck and Charles (Chuck) Taylor attended the Kentucky Groundwater Association Annual Convention a couple weeks ago in Louisville and both presented at the conference. Glynn's presentation was over ‘Using a drone-based thermal camera to map groundwater seeps along Little Bayou Creek, McCracken County’ and Chuck’s talk was a general overview of the #geology of #Kentucky. #geoscience

Happy #FossilFriday everyone! What better way to end the week than with the traverse section of a solitary rugose coral with a stylolite at top? The fossil was found in one of the cores being analyzed and preserved via the Earth Analysis Research Library (EARL)'s Save America's Treasures (Institute of Museum and Library Services) grant. The core is from the Western Kentucky Fluorspar District, Crittenden County, #Kentucky and the approximate depth of this core section is 361 feet. #KGS #geology #geoscience

Always the divas, the western Kentucky Seismic and Strong-Motion Network (KSSMN) stations were in need of attention, so #KGS geologists Jonathan P. Schmidt and Ryan Ramsey headed that way. Jon and Ryan updated the Central US Seismic Observatory (CUSSO) by replacing transient suppression systems (TSP) to protect the expensive equipment and improve overall signal quality. They also serviced the Fulgham (FMKY) station by resolving the networking issues and fixing that site’s TSP, too. The new broadband and accelerometer sensors are now being acquired by our KSSMN servers. Attached are photos of Ryan and Greg Steiner working on the TSP system at FMKY. #Kentucky #geology #geoscience #seismology

Geologist limbo:?how low can you go? #KGS geologists Hudson Koch, Desiree` Cunningham, and Evelyn Bibbins headed to western #Kentucky to verify mapped sinkholes. The property owner permitted them to access the field as long as they could get through the broken gate. Challenge accepted. #geology #geoscience

New pub alert! ?????? #KGS geologist Bailee Hodelka recently published 'Sedimentary records of late Pleistocene-Holocene paleoenvironments from Convict Lake (California, USA).' This study examines the timing of postglacial lake formation in Convict Creek Canyon and demonstrates how terrestrial and aquatic proxies can enhance our understanding of Quaternary landscape and lakescape evolution in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a region vulnerable to climate change and natural hazards. #Kentucky #geology #geoscience

We're happy to report that, outside of Fort Knox, Kentuckians are safe from leprechauns this #StPatricksDay. In #Kentucky, the surficial #geology is not favorable for the natural occurrence of gold (the leprechauns' fave). Most of the surface or near-surface rocks are sedimentary, and there has been no igneous, metamorphic, or tectonic event to allow the gold or precious metal to be concentrated in economic quantities. But you should still probably wear green, just in case. #KGS #geoscience

Who was the builder of King Arthur's round table? Sir Cumference. **round of applause** Happy Pi Day 3.14! #KGS #Kentucky #geology #geoscience