Title: Geologist, Geospatial Analysis Section
Address: Kentucky Geological Survey 352 Mining and Mineral Resources Bldg. University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0107	Phone: 859.257.5500, ext. 192 Fax: 859.257.1147 E-mail: sparks@uky.edu
Joined KGS in January 1994.

Education:

• 1975, B.S., Geology, Morehead State University, Morehead, Ky.
• 1979, M.S., Geology, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Responsibilities:

Technical coordinator for Digital Geologic Mapping Group. Major responsibilities include data quality control and quality assurance, digital map compilation and edge matching, geographic information systems (GIS) applications, creation of final layout plots, and database maintenance of compiled coverages. Research interests are geologic mapping applications in GIS using ARC/INFO, ArcView, and ArcMap.

Professional Organizations:

• The Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists

Publications:

• Sparks, T.N., Dever, G.R. Jr., and Anderson, W.H., 2001, Geologic map of the Harrodsburg 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, central Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, ser. 12, Geologic Map 1, scale 1:100,000.
• Harris, D.C., and Sparks T.N., 2000, Regional subsurface geologic cross sections of the Mississippian Basin, eastern Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, ser. 12, Map and Chart 14, 1 CD-ROM.
• Yang, X.-Y., Anderson, W.H., Sparks, T.N., and Carey, D.I., 1999, Acquisition of geologic quadrangle data from a digital index map--A new ArcView application to geologic data query, in Digital Mapping Techniques '99--Workshop Proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 99-386, p. 53-56.
• Anderson, W.H., Sparks, T.N., Patton, J.A., Yang, X.-Y., and Sergeant, R.E., 1999, Integration of relational geologic databases and a spatial map database in Kentucky, in Digital Mapping Techniques '99--Workshop Proceedings: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 99-386, p. 123-126.
• Anderson, W.H., Morris, L.G., and Sparks, T.N., 1997, Semi-automated data capture for vectorizing geologic quadrangle maps in Kentucky, in Digital Mapping Techniques '97--Proceedings of a workshop on digital mapping techniques: Methods for geologic map data capture, management and publication: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 97-269, p. 9-13.
• Sparks, T.N., and Zhang, Q., 2003, Geologic map of the Louisville 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, central Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, ser. 12, Geologic Map 4, scale 1:100,000.
• Sparks, T.N., Dever, G.R., Jr, and Anderson, W.H., 2002, Geologic map of the Falmouth, Madison, and Cincinnati 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, northern Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, ser. 12, Geologic Map 3, scale 1:100,000.
• Sparks, T.N., Dever, G.R., Jr, and Anderson, W.H., 2002, Geologic map of the Lexington 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, central Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey, ser. 12, Geologic Map 2, scale 1:100,000.