2018
January 2018
Travis A. Paris
Sharps Chapel Area Kimberlite
January Field Trip Prelude
February 2018
Dr. Linda C. Kah
Habitability of Lakes on Mars:
A View from Curiosity
March 2018
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Folds in the Ft. Payne
Formation near Celina, Tennessee
Tectonic or Non-Tectonic Origin?
May 2018
Jared W. Brabazon
Inverse Estimation of Surface
Fractal Dimension and Aperture Width for Rock Fracture
from Spontaneous Imbibition Measurements
Lauren E. McGraw
Volatile Characterization on Near Earth Asteroids
Audrey C. Martin
Constraining the Origin of Jupiter’s Trojan
Asteroids
2017
January 2017
Dr. Stephen H. Stow
. . . . And Some of the Cowboys Wore White Hats;
Disposal of Liquid Nuclear Waste at Clinton Labs in the
Very Early Years
February 2017
Dennis Mayton
Department of Energy Oak Ridge Office Groundwater Program
Status
March 2017
Jen Bauer
Internal Respiratory Structures of Blastoids Provide a
Better Understanding of Past Relationships
Abigail Barrett
Environmental Controls on Microbial Extracellular Enzymes
in Freshwater
April 2017
Harry Moore
Gray Fossil Site
May 2017
Dr. Don W. Byerly
Tennessee Marble
September 2017
R. C. (Dick) Merrill
A Trip To Ground Zero -- The Trinity Site Today
October 2017
Thomas McComb
Reclamation of the Lower North Potato Creek Watershed --
A Success Story
November 2017
Dr. Andrea Rocha
High-throughput Sequencing as a Microbial Diagnostic Tool
for Defining and Managing Environmental Processes
December 2017
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2016
February 2016
Kyle Kirschenmann
"It's Not All Steak and
Lobster"
Agribusiness Development in Afghanistan - Water Resource
Projects
March 2016
Barry Thacker
Promote STEM As A Living STEM-Historian
April 2016
Michael Smilley
Groundwater Monitoring Network Maintenance and
Modifications at a Subtitle C Landfill
Chemical Waste Management Emelle Facility, Emelle,
Alabama
May 2016
Robert Riding
Stromatolites, Now and Then:
What Can We Figure Out From Their 3,500 Million Year
History?
September 2016
Jeff Munsey
TVA Dams Built on Karstic
Foundations
October 2016
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
What We know about the Eastern
Tennessee Seismic Zone
Paleo-Seismicity After 8 Years of Research—Tip of
the Iceberg
November 2016
Julie G. Ezold
The Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Role in the Discovery of Element 117
December 2016
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2015
January 2015
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Oil and Gas Resources and Impact on the Industry of
Horizontal Drilling and Fracking
February 2015
Terri Bown
The Dark Side of the Carbon
Cycle:
Organic Matter Transformations in a Karst Aquifer
March 2015
Dr. Daniel Yoder
The State of Tennessee’s Stormwater Management:
Challenges, Opportunities, and Tools
April 2015
Bill Wilder
Structural Geology, Hydrogeology, and Evolution of Gap
Cave
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, TN/VA/KY
May 2015
Chris Wetteland
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding
Proton Irradiation in Early Solar System Solids
September 2015
Mackenzie Hodges
A Land Snail Assemblage for the Federally Threatened
Anguispira picta
David Riestenberg
Underground Storage of Carbon Dioxide:
Introduction and Field Demonstration Examples
October 2015
Joel Daniel
Geophysics as a Tool for Geologic and Geotechnical
Engineering Site Characterization — Reducing Risk of
the Unknown
November 2015
Elizabeth C. Phillips
The Fukushima Daiichi Accident
or How I Almost Had My Fifteen Minutes of Fame
December 2015
ETGS Members
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2014
January 2014
Dr. Harry Y. (Hap) McSween
The Geologic Exploration of Asteroid Vesta
NASA's Dawn Mission
February 2014
Dr. Peter A. Salpas and
Deidre Tharpe
Oak Ridge Environmental Information System:
No Longer Just a Database
March 2014
Harry L. Moore
Golder Associates
(Retired TN DOT Geologist)
Karst Geohazards in East Tennessee:
Examples of Highway Development in Karst Areas
April 2014
Dr. Jan F. Simek
The Sky Above, The Mud Below:
Prehistoric Rock and Cave Art in Tennessee
May 2014
Nicole Lunning
Insights from Regolithic
Meteorites and a
Discussion of Meteorites from Antarctica
September 2014
Dr. Larry McKay
UT Geology Update
New Faculty, New Building and New Opportunities
October 2014
St. Thomas LeDoux
Characterizing Groundwater
Alteration by Hydraulic Fracturing
Using Radionuclides and Stable Isotopes
November 2014
Brian S. Murray, P.G., PMP
Discrimination of Contaminant
Seasonal Variance
in a 2nd Order Spring, Anniston, Alabama
December 2014
ETGS Members
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2013
January 2013
Dr. Don W. Byerly
A Geologic Overview of the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee
February 2013
R. C. (Dick) Merrill
The Disaster at Jefferson Island
Human induced collapse and subsequent flooding of the
Jefferson Island, Louisiana salt mine;
lessons for future, underground storage, and disposal
March 2013
Dr. Linda C. Kah
Curioser and Curioser: The
Curiosity
Rover Mission in Gale Crater
April 2013
Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle
Characterizing Fractures: Data
from Below the Resolution
Limit of Ground Penetrating Radar
May 2013
Sarah W. Keenan
Changes to Bone Structure and Composition
During Fossilization
Latisha Brengman
Do Silicon Isotopes Reveal Information About Critical
Events in Precambrian Earth History?
Robert Jacobsen
Using Local-Scale Stratigraphy to Investigate the
History of Past Rivers and Climate on Mars
November 2013
Dr. Keil J. Neff
Hydrodynamic Modeling:
Applications in Stream Restoration and Flood Mapping
December 2013
ETGS Members
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2012
January 2012
Jeff Munsey
August 23, 2011 Central Virginia Earthquake
February 2012
Richard Lounsbury
Expect the Unexpected: Unusual Environmental Conditions
Encountered During Road-Building Activities
March 2012
Kenneth Christle
Subaerial Lava Pillars:
Evidence for Non-Explosive
Lava-Water Interactions in Iceland
April 2012
Susan L. Gawarecki, PhD
Public Participation in
Department of Energy
Technical and Policy Decisions
May 2012
Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle
Microgravity and Micromagnetic Evidence for Shallow
Subsurface
Termination of the Northeast Dike at Ship Rock, NM
Brendan Headd
Comparative Functional Analysis of Microbial Sulfide
Oxidation
and its Impact on Environmental Geochemistry
Donnie Hicks
The Curecanti Pluton: A ~1.4 Ga Laccolith in the
Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO
September 2012
Robert D. Hatcher, Jr
New Data Providing
Additional Paleoseismic for Large,
Prehistoric Earthquakes in the East Tennessee Seismic
Zone
October 2012
Grant Mincy
Mining Impacts on
Freshwater Mussels
November 2012
Bob Hunter
Assessing Pathogen
Fate
December 2012
ETGS Members
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2011
February 2011
Dr. Jack Parker
Cost Optimization of DNAPL Site Remediation
Considering Prediction Uncertainty
March 2011
Dr. Robert Hatcher, Jr.
Evidence for a 25,000-year History of
Earthquake Activity in Eastern Tennessee
April 2011
Bruce Stearns
Petrography, Environment of Deposition, and
Feasibility of Mining of a Lignite from
Lauderdale County, Tennessee
May 2011
Phillip Derryberry
The Pulaski Fault in Northeast TN and Southwest VA:
Recorder of Possible Two-Phase Alleghanian Deformation
Geoff Gilleaudeau
Carbon, Sulfur and Iron in the Mesoproterozoic Touirist
Formation, Mauritania:
Implications for Environmental Redox
Matthew Huebner
Using SHRIMP to Trace A Terrane Boundary Through The
Inner Piedmont:
And You Thought They Just Tasted Good
September 2011
Dennis H. Yankee
TVA Kingston Ash
Recovery Project-Progress and Path Forward
October 2011
Dr. Melanie
Mayes
Incorporating
Molecular-Scale Mechanisms Stabilizing Soil
Organic Carbon into Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Models
November 2011
Chu-Lin Cheng and Dr.
Ed Perfect
Geological Storage of
Carbon Dioxide:
Implementation, Simulations, and Impacts
December 2011
ETGS Members
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2010
January 2010
Robert E. Mayer, Jr.
Use of Water Pillows for the Production of Anaerobic
Water
During an In-Situ Groundwater Injection
February 2010
Craig J. Hardgrove
Geology with a Thermal Imager
March 2010
Beth Lavoie
Transport of Dissolved and Particulate Explosives
Compounds
in Saturated Flow Column Experiments
April 2010
Seaira Stephenson
Federal Leadership in
Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance
May 2010
Andrew W. Beck
Petrologic Evidence for Multiple Ultramafic Lithologies
on Asteroid 4Vesta
and
Jackie Langille
The Ama Drime Detachment, Tibet-Nepal:
Insights into Orogen-Parallel Extension in the Convergent
Himalaya
and
Andrew Moore
Determining the Effect of Water Content on Uranium(VI)
Leaching in Sediment Containing Gravel
September 2010
Travis A. Paris
Graves Mountain, Georgia
A Brief Review of an Average Kyanite Mine And World Class
Mineral Collecting Locality
October 2010
Richard Lounsbury
Characterization of Karst Systems to Support EIS
Decisions
November 2010
Yang Liu
The Now "Watery" Moon
December 2010
ETGS Members
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2009
January 2009
Barry F. Beck, Wanfang Zhou,
and Arthur J. Pettit
Introduction to Karst Features in a Peatland Complex,
Northern Ontario, Canada
February 2009
Thomas F. Zondlo
Karst Hydrogeology of the Ten Mile Creek Watershed, West
Knoxville, Tennessee
March 2009
Devon M. Burr
Some Discoveries and Some Questions about
Extraterrestrial Channelized Flow
April 2009
Peter Knappett, Larry McKay,
and Alice Layton
Transport Pathways of Pathogens to Aquifers in Bangladesh
May 2009
C.E. Viviano
Using THEMIS to Extend the Mapping of Phyllosilicates on
Mars
and
Brittany Davis
A Fault and Curved Anomalies Identified from Aeromagnetic
Data
in the Central Georgia Inner Piedmont
September 2009
Frank Bogle
A Karst Hydrogeologic Investigation of the TNT
Manufacturing Valley
at the Volunteer Army Ammunition Plant
Hamilton County, Tennessee
October 2009
Colin Sumrall
Universal Elemental Homolgy - The Key to Recovering The
Echinoderm Tree of Life
November 2009
ETGS Officers
Pre-Trip Planning to Gray Fossil Site, Gray, Tennessee
and Bays Mountain Planetarium, Kingsport, Tennessee
December 2009
ETGS Members
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