Martin Charles Noger
November 30, 1923 - March 3, 2015
Martin Charles Noger, who worked at KGS for 27 years, died on March 3, 2015, at the Thomson-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore, Ky. Noger was a native of Hazard, Ky., and a graduate of the University of Kentucky. Before coming to KGS, he worked for 13 years as an exploration geologist at Shell Oil. At KGS, where he was known as "M.C.," he coordinated the geologic mapping of the state with the U.S. Geological Survey, making Kentucky the first state to be completely mapped at a detailed scale. He retired in 1993, but continued to work at KGS part-time through 2005.
Noger authored or co-authored 40 KGS publications on a broad range of topics, including tar sands, subsurface stratigraphy, roadside geology, and geologic land-use maps. He compiled the "Geologic Map of Kentucky: Sesquicentennial Edition of the Kentucky Geological Survey" (1988).
Noger was also a veteran of World War II in Europe.