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Kathryn Gauthier Takacs

Title: Geologist I

Address:
Kentucky Geological Survey
228 Mining and Mineral Resources Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington , KY 40506-0107

Phone: 859.257.5500 x212
Fax: 859.257.1147
E-mail: ktakacs@uky.edu

Joined KGS in February 2004

Education:

• 2005, M.S., Eastern Kentucky University , Richmond , Ky.
• 1991, B.A., Rutgers University , New Brunswick , N.J.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with sample collection, data collection, and management for the Coalbed Methane Desorption project.
• Assist with database management and research for the Mid-continent Interactive Digital Carbon Atlas and Database (MIDCARB) carbon sequestration project.
• Assist members of the Energy and Minerals Section as needed.

Professional Organizations:

• Geological Society of America
• Kentucky Society of Professional Geologists
• Sigma Xi
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Publications:

• Parris, T.M., Takacs, K.G. , Solis, M., Nuttall, B.C., and Drahovzal, J., in press , Measuring surface and shallow gas flux and composition as a prelude to geologic carbon sequestration in eastern Kentucky .
• Borowski, W.S. , Takacs, K.G. , and Thompson, M.K., in press , A geologic record of competing sulfate-depletion processes within continental-rise sediments overlying methane gas hydrates of the Blake Ridge region (offshore southeastern United States) [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs.

• Greb, S.F, Nuttall, B.C., Solis, M., Parris, M., Drahovzal, J.A., Eble, C.F., Harris , D.C. , Hickman, J.B., Lake , P.D., Overfield, B., and Takacs, K.G. , in press , Siting coal-fired power plants in a carbon-managed future; the importance of geologic sequestration reservoirs, KGS, AAPG.
• Takacs, K.G. , 2005, Enrichments of heavy sulfur in sulfide minerals of deep-water marine sediments of the Blake Ridge, ODP Site 995, offshore southeastern United States: Richmond, Eastern Kentucky University Master's Thesis, 67 p.

• Takacs, K.G. , and Borowski, W.S., 2004, Changes in sulfur concentration and sulfur isotopic composition within authigenic sulfide minerals from sediments of Miocene age to the present, ODP Site 995, Blake Ridge , offshore southeastern United States [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, no. 2, p. 43.
• Takacs, K.G. , and Borowski, W.S., 2003, Authigenic sulfide mineralization induced by anaerobic methane oxidation in methane-rich, gas-hydrate-associated sediments: Stratigraphic patterns of sulfide-sulfur concentration and sulfide-sulfur isotopic composition, [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no.2, p. 4.
• Sturgill, J., Curra, J., Takacs, K. , and LaSage, D., 2002, Characterization of water quality in an eastern Kentucky stream: A student research project, Poster Presentation at Posters at the Capital, February 12, 2003, Frankfort, Ky.
• Sturgill, J., Curra, J., Takacs, K. , and LaSage, D., 2002, Characterization of water quality in an eastern Kentucky stream: A student research project [abs.]: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, no. 6, p. 419.

Awards:

Sigma Xi, Eastern Kentucky University Chapter, Annual Student Research Award, 2003