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All of these employees can be reached at this address.
Kentucky Geological Survey
University of
Kentucky
228 Mining and Mineral Resources Building
Lexington,
KY 40506-0107
Phone: (859) 257-5500
Note: The Digital Mapping Program has been completed and the employees below have been reassigned to new responsibilities.
Gerald A. Weisenfluh - Section Head,
Geospatial Analysis
Section Head, Geologist V Education: B.A., College of Wooster; M.S.
and Ph.D., University of South Carolina Major
Responsibilities: Compilation of geologic maps and databases
for Somerset-Corbin area. Research Interests: Applied coal geology, GIS applications in geology E-mail:jerryw@uky.edu
Warren H. Anderson - Geospatial Analysis
Geologist V, Principal Investigator of Digital Geologic
Mapping Program Education: B.S., South
Dakota School of Mines; M.S., University of Kentucky Major
Responsibilities: Project proposals, final reports, personnel,
fiscal/budgetary, geologic mapping, GIS/database, technology liaison
with external agencies Research Interests: GIS, automated geologic mapping, mineral/petroleum deposits, planetary
geology E-mail:wanderson@uky.edu
Thomas N. Sparks - Geospatial Analysis
Geologist III, Technical Coordinator for Digital
Geologic Mapping Program Education: B.S.,
Morehead State University; M.S., Duke University Major
Responsibilities: Data quality control and quality assurance,
digital map compilation and edge matching, GIS applications using
ARC/INFO, creation of ArcView final layouts Research
Interests: Geologic mapping applications in ARC/INFO and ArcView E-mail:sparks@uky.edu
Steven L. Martin - Geospatial Analysis
Geologist II, Compiler Education: B.S. and M.S., University of Tennessee Major
Responsibilities: Digital mapping of western Kentucky (Jackson
Purchase Region) Research Interests: Structural
geology/tectonics, geologic mapping E-mail: smartin@uky.edu
Douglas C. Curl - Geospatial Analysis, Web
Development Team
Geologist II, Compiler Education: B.S., Guilford College; M.S., University
of Tennessee Major Responsibilities: Digital
map compilation, Web design, database management Research
Interests: GIS and Web GIS development, geologic mapping,
structural geology E-mail: dcurl@uky.edu
Matthew M. Crawford - Geospatial Analysis
Geologist II, Compiler Education: B.A., Hanover College; M.S., Eastern Kentucky
University Major Responsibilities: Digital
mapping, compilation, data management Research
Interests: GIS, geologic mapping, petrology E-mail: mcrawford@uky.edu
Michael L. Murphy - Geospatial Analysis
Compiler E-mail: murphy@uky.edu
