A new, three-year project funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will allow the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS) to create landslide susceptibility models and risk assessments for communities in the Big Sandy Area Development District of Eastern Kentucky.
The $243,473 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences will allow KGS staff and student employees to organize and re-label thousands of core storage boxes, resulting in a collection that meets current archival standards.
Kentucky Geological Survey will welcome to the UK campus approximately 100 geoscientists, cartographers and GIS professionals to attend the Digital Mapping Techniques conference later this May.
Kentucky ranks fourth in the country in number of officially documented caves. Cave number 5,000 was discovered recently in Jackson County by Kentucky Speleological Survey member Bruce Isaacs.
Rick Honaker, Professor of Mining Engineering, was awarded $6 Million by the Department of Energy to move on to a second phase of research in an effort to recover rare earth elements from coal and coal byproducts.
