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Doug Curl

Title: Manager, Geoscience Information Section Address: Kentucky Geological Survey 220 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg. University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0107 Phone: 859-323-0519 Fax: 859-257-1147 Email: doug@uky.edu Joined KGS in August, 1998.

Education:

• 1994, B.A., Geology, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC.
• 1998, M.S., Geology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain GIS-related web applications for the Kentucky Geological Survey.
• Help manage KGS spatial databases.
• Work with KGS staff on GIS-related projects.

Professional Organizations:

• KY Association of Mapping Professionals
• Carolina Geological Society

Professional Interests:

• User-friendly web-based mapping applications for geologic data distribution and visualization.
• Exploring methods for improving geoscience geoinformatics and data sharing.
• Structural geology and geologic mapping.

Publications:

• Curl, Douglas C., 2011, Web-Based GIS Applications For Visualizing Geologic And Hydrologic Data In Kentucky: Geological Society Of America Abstracts With Programs, Vol. 43, No. 5, P. 111
• Curl, Douglas C., Weisenfluh, Gerald A., Crawford, Matthew M., 2006, The Kentucky Geologic Map Information Service: Delivering Geologic Map Data To The Web: Geological Society Of America Abstracts With Programs, Vol. 38, No. 3, P. 30.
• Curl, Douglas C., And Weisenfluh, Gerald A., 2004, Delivering Geologic Data To The Public Via The Internet With ArcIMS: Geological Society
  Of America Abstracts With Programs, Vol. 36, No. 2, P. 49.
• Curl, Douglas C., Ruthven, Carol L., And Weisenfluh, Gerald A., 2002, Communicating Geoscience Information To The General Public: Innovations In Data Transfer Technology: Geological Society Of America Abstracts With Programs, Southeastern Section, V. 35.
• Curl, Douglas C., 2001, Beyond The Map: Integration of Non-Spatial Geologic Information with Geospatial Geologic Map Data: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Section, v. 34, p A-22.
• Curl, D.C., and Hatcher, R.D., Jr., 1999, Geological Investigation of part of the eastern Inner Piedmont, South Carolina: Evidence for a post-peak-metamorphic ductile deformation event, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Section, v. 31, A-12.
• Curl, D.C., 2000, Integrated Geospatial Data: Irvine 30 x 60 Minute Quadrangle, East-Central Kentucky, in D.R. Soller, ed., Digital Mapping Techniques '00 – Workshop Proceedings: USGS Open File Report 00-325, http://pubs.usgs.gov/openfile/of00-325/curl.html.
• Curl, Douglas C., Patton, J.A., Sparks, T.N., Yang, Xin-Yue, and Webb, D.J., 2000, Digital Geologic Map of the Harrodsburg, Somerset, Irvine, and Hazard 30 x 60- Minute Quadrangles, East-Central Kentucky: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Section, v. 32, p. A-14.