American Institute of Professional Geologists - Kentucky Section (AIPG-KY)

06/16/2024

Photos from the June 15 KY-AIPG awards picnic at the West 6th Farm.

06/03/2024

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05/30/2024

03/06/2024

Make sure you join us tonight for our 2024 Darwin Series Lecure, given by Dr. Claudia Johnson! If you can’t make it in person, no worries! Attached is our zoom link and QR code for those who can’t make. Be sure to join us tonight, it will be a great event!

This event will be located in 102 (Conference) Mines and Mineral Resources Building (MMRB).

310 Columbia Avenue, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506

This event is free to the public!

https://tinyurl.com/brs33jw5

02/27/2024

Please join us for our 2024 Darwin Lecture Series! We are very excited to have Dr. Claudia Johnson and her lecture on “Exploring the Evolution of Coral Reefs: Past, Present, and Future”.

This event will be held Wednesday March 6th, 7PM (EST) located in 102 Mines and Mineral Resources Building. (Please see the attached flyer for parking information).

This event is FREE to the public and will be sure to be a great evening for all.

01/23/2024

Meet your 2024 Section Officers:

President- Austin Dilla
President Elect- Ben Currens
Vice President- Daniel Draper
Secretary- Tim Crumbie
Treasurer- Bill Brab
Communications Coordinator- Richard Smath
Past President- Donnie Lumm

Congratulations to this years committee. We are very excited and honored to have you. Pay close attention to our page to be on the lookout for upcoming events and news for all things KY-AIPG. We have exciting things coming for 2024!

02/10/2023

The American Institute of Professional Geologists - Kentucky Section (AIPG-KY) is hosting its annual Charles Darwin Lecture at 7:00 pm EST next Thursday, February 16 via Zoom. This year's guest speaker is Dr. Lindsay MacKenzie of the Department of Geosciences, Eastern Washington University. The Zoom link is https://tinyurl.com/y8duk9wg.

12/29/2022

An interesting aspect of the boulders is that very few have been known to slide or roll into place since folks started recording such things, and they very, very rarely show visible tracks or paths downslope in lidar-derived imagery. The question of how the boulders got to their resting place is leg...

01/25/2022

Next Monday, we'll hear from Ed Clement's work promoting geoscience education and awareness of the Western Kentucky Fluorspar District at the Clement Mineral Museum.

Register https://tinyurl.com/yckvenv5
On Zoom at 5:30pm Eastern time

12/06/2021

Join us for our DEI forum tomorrow at 5:30pm EST for Dr. Liane Stevens' talk "Demystifying the hidden curriculum to foster inclusion." Register at https://tinyurl.com/kedbvjwk

Dr. Liane Stevens is a metamorphic geologist interested in unraveling the history of Earth's deep crust. Her current research focuses on metamorphic and igneous rocks in the Llano uplift in Texas Hill Country. Dr. Stevens was born and raised in Cape Cod, MA. She holds degrees in geology and geosciences from Wellesley College (B.A.), University of Massachusetts Amherst (M.S.), and the University of Montana (Ph.D.). She currently teaches at Stephen F. Austin State University (Texas) where her undergraduate and graduate course topics include mineralogy, petrology, structural geology, plate tectonics, geoanalytical methods, and geochronology.

10/25/2021

Join us for our DEI forum today at 5:30 pm EST and registering at https://tinyurl.com/kedbvjwk for Kallie Moore's talk "The good, bad, and ugly of being a woman in geoscience"