T234 Reaching New Audiences through Data-rich Art and Geoscience Collaborations

Wednesday, 25 September 2024
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
209A

GEOLOGY AS PLACE: A PROJECT IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY

Paper number: T234-10
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

Authors

Abstract

Geoscientists commonly use both quantitative and qualitative data to describe the Earth and its processes. But data can take many forms. This so-called Kentucky Project is the personal project of a geoscientist who has collected various types of data over decades: personal experience, archival historical records, paper and digital maps among others to document a particular place, the edge of the Bluegrass physiologic region abutting the Knobs. These two regions are diverse in geology, landscape, and culture.

Central Kentucky’s Lincoln County is a particularly good space to study the concept of place as various types of data are available. Its recorded history of settlement from 1790 is preserved in its county courthouse; the author’s relationship with the land dates from the 1950’s; and archival and new geologic data are publicly accessible through GIS tools at the Kentucky Geological Survey. The author has built a Storymap of Lincoln County with geology as its central concept. A broad audience, particularly those living in Kentucky, might be interested in this story.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 5

doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-403141

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