Archived News and Announcements - 2018

Meteorite of the month from the KGS collection: the Burnwell meteorite

Core of the Month, from the DuPont No. 1 WAD waste disposal well, Jefferson County, Ky.
KGS geologist Steve Greb receives Cady Award at GSA meeting
Dave Harris receives prestigious John T. Galey Award.
Federal grant will improve rock sample archives at the Kentucky Geological Survey

Helium in Central Kentucky? Cores from the Texaco No. 1 Kirby well, Garrard County, Ky.

KGS oil and gas searches will switch to our new KY Geode search service, effective October 1st, 2018

KGS open house set for Oct. 17, 2018, 6 - 8 p.m.

Changes coming Oct. 1, 2018 for oil and gas records at our Western Kentucky office.

Radon information for all Kentucky counties now available on new KGS web service

KGS has an opening for a hydrogeologist

Fossil of the Month: Vinlandostrophia ponderosa

Ben Tobin joins KGS as karst hydrogeologist

KGS to host Digital Mapping Techniques gathering May 20–23
Annual Seminar
Communicating geoscience
Communicating geoscience is the focus of the 57th KGS annual seminar

Retired KGS geologist Rick Sergeant dies at 73

KGS releases report on Capital Plaza Tower implosion

KGS Fossil of the Month: Agglutinated foraminifera

KGS hosts another course with Society of American Archivists May 3-4

Fossil of the Month from the KGS collection: Sheltoweeptera redbirdi

Darwin Lecture features Richard Blane Alley March 8, 2018.

Was the Jan. 20 event in Garrard County really an earthquake?

Specimen of the month from the KGS collection: Pyrite

Speleologists discover Kentucky's 5,000th known cave

Jason Dortch joins KGS; will find new uses for LiDAR data and work in KGS Digital Earth Analysis Lab
KGS Advisory Board member Marco M. Rajkovich Jr. nominated to be chairman of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.

UK equipment grant will allow Bethany Overfield to validate radon potential maps

KGS welcomes Emily Morris as new cartographer