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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: 859-323-0547
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:

• Primary researcher on Sugar Creek and Euterpe Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage projects.
• Present research at professional meetings.
• Assist members of the Energy and Minerals Section by creating maps in ArcMap and Petra, and creating cross-sections using raster or digital electric logs using Petra.

Professional Organizations:

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

Awards:

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

Publications:

• Takacs, K. G., Parris, T.M., and Nuttall, B.C., 2009, Suitability of Kentucky Reservoirs for Carbon Dioxide-Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, Eastern Section 38th Annual Meeting, September 20-22, 2009.
• Parris, T.M., Webb, D.J., Fedorchuk, N., Daugherty, S., and Takacs, K.G., 2009, Brine Chemistry in the Appalachian and Illinois Basins of Kentucky-Implications for Geologic Carbon Sequestration, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, Eastern Section 38th Annual Meeting, September 20-22, 2009.
• Parris, T.M., Solis, M.P., and Takacs, K.G., 2008, Effects of Shallow Coal and Reclaimed Mine Land on Monitoring, Mitigation, and Verification Strategies, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, North-Central Section, 42nd Annual Meeting, April 24-25, 2008.
• Takacs, K.G., and Parris, T.M., 2007, Reservoir Analysis of the Cypress Sandstone (Chesterian) for Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration, Henderson County, Kentucky, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, Eastern Section 36th Annual Meeting, September 16-18, 2007.
• Mardon, S.M., Takacs, K.G., Eble, C.F., Hower, J.C., and Mastalerz, M., 2007, Evaluation of Coalbed Methane Potential and Gas Adsorption Capacity in the Western Kentucky Coal Field, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, Eastern Section 36th Annual Meeting, September 16-18, 2007.
• Parris, T.M., Solis, M., Takacs, K.G., Nuttall, B.C., and Drahovzal, J., 2007, Characterizing Soil Gas Chemistry in Advance of Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Eastern Kentucky, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, Eastern Section 36th Annual Meeting, September 16-18, 2007.
• Mardon, S.M., Takacs, K.G., Hower, J.C., Eble, C.F., Mastalerz, M., 2007, Western Kentucky Coals: Potential for Coalbed Methane and Gas Adsorption, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Section 56th Annual Meeting, March 29-39, 2007.
• Borowski, W.S., Takacs, K.G., and Thompson, M.K., 2006, 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) Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Southeastern Section 55th Annual Meeting, March 23-24, 2006.
• Mardon, S.M., Takacs, K.G., 2006, Determination of Coalbed Methane Potential and Gas Adsorption Capacity in Western Kentucky Coals, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2006.
• 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., 2005, Siting coal-fired power plants in a carbon-managed future; the importance of geologic sequestration reservoirs, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Program with Abstracts, Eastern Section 34th Annual Meeting, September 2005.
• 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, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, Northeastern and Southeastern Sections Combined Annual Meeting, March 25-27, 2004.
• 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, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, South-Central and Southeastern Sections Combined Annual Meeting, March 12-14, 2003.
• 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, Frankfort, Ky., February 12, 2003.
• Sturgill, J., Curra, J., Takacs, K., and LaSage, D., 2002, Characterization of water quality in an eastern Kentucky stream: A student research project, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, Oct. 27-30, 2002.