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2024
January 2024
Brian S. Murray PG, PMP
Overview of the Geology of Cyprus
February 2024
Dick Merrill
A Geologist Looks at Climate change Claims Using the scientific method
to evaluate climate change (global warming)
March
2024
Mark Carter, PG, CPG, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
Geologic mapping, whole rock geochemistry, and U-Pb zircon geochronology
for terrane characterization and
source-to-sink critical mineral framework studies, southeastern Virginia
and northeastern North Carolina
April
2024
Emily Etheridge, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, PhD Candidate
Thermal Evolution of Enstatite Chondrite and Aubrite Parent Bodies:
Constraints from Silicate Geothermometry
May
2024
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Distinguished Scientist and Professor Emeritus
Earth and Planetary Sciences
UT-Knoxville
The Channeled Scablands of the Northwestern
US - Geologic Puzzle or Formation by Unique Processes
Special May 2024
Meeting
Cynthia Palomares, PG, PE
How Climate Change Impacts Infrastructure
September
2024
Robert Moore
Senior Undergraduate Student
Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, TN
Developing an ArcGIS Toolbox for Automated Roadside Outcrop Detection: A
Case Study of Tennessee
October
2024
Xin Gu
Geochemist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Pyrite Oxidation in Rocks: From Atomic Observation to Global
Implications
November
2024
Authors: William T. Jackson, Jr. (presenter), Joseph Lane, and Barry Shaulis
Geology Supervisor/State Geologist,
Tennessee Geological Survey
Detrital zircon and rutile U-Pb geochronology of Cretaceous strata in the
eastern Gulf Coastal Plain
and its implications for heavy mineral sand
exploration in western Tennessee
December
2024
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., Distinguished Scientist and Professor
Emeritus, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UT-Knoxville
Journey to the Lower Appalachian Lower Middle
Crust - Field Trip Lecture
December
2024 Field Trip
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., Distinguished Scientist and Professor
Emeritus, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UT-Knoxville
Journey to the Lower Appalachian Lower Middle
Crust
2023
January 2023
Lukman Fashina1, Ingrid Luffman2,
Andrew Joyner2, and Nandi Arpita2
1PhD Student,
Department of Geography and Sustainability,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2Department of Geosciences, East Tennessee
State University |
Geospatial Analysis and Water Quality Index Assessment of Karst Spring
Water Quality in Northeast Tennessee
February 2023
Alan Pitts, PhD, Geologist, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
Aerial and Ground-based Structure from Motion Photogrammetry for
Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis - Applications from mapping in the
Central Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province
March 2023
William Odom, PhD, Geologist, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
Miocene or Pliocene, Hemphillian or Blancan? Dating the Gray Fossil Site
with Cosmogenic Nuclides to test Existing Biochronology
April 2023
Chance Sturrup, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
M.S. Candidate
Evaluating Bulk δ13C
and δ15N Values of Acidic Hydrothermal Sediments on Earth -- Implications for
Mars Astrobiology
and
Hannah R. Rigoni,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Ph.D. Candidate
A food web analysis for the subterranean
fauna in the Croatian Dinaric Karst using stable isotopes
and
Paula J. Perilla-Castillo, Sally. P Horn, Steven G. Driese,
Tammy Rittenour, & Larry D. McKay,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Ph.D. Candidate
Holocene Paleofloods Recorded in
Floodplain Soil Profiles in the Upper Tennessee River Basin
May 2023
Ethan G. Sweet, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, MS Candidate
Hyporheic zone hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and microbial community
distributions of the San Saba River, Texas
September 2023
Tony McClain
Petroleum Systems Analysis and the Shale Revolution: A Career
Perspective
October
2023
Patrick White, PE
Geologic Conditions at the Proposed Miner Flat Dam Site in Arizona and
their Impact on Foundation Design
November
2023
Ben Miller, USGS Nashville, TN
Karst hydrologic investigations in carbonate fensters of the western
Great Smoky Mountains
2022
January 2022
Leila Character (previously Donn)1, Tim Beach1, Cody Schank1,
Takeshi Inomata2, Agustin Ortiz JR3, Adam Rabinowitz4,
Tom Garrison1
1leiladonn@utexas.edu, Department of
Geography and the Environment, University of Texas
at Austin
2School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
3Underwater Archaeology Branch, Naval History and
Heritage Command
4Department of Classics, University of Texas at
Austin |
Archaeological Machine
Learning: Using remotely sensed imagery to find and map archaeological
features
February 2022
Mark Carter, PG, CPG, USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
With contributions from Arthur Merschat1, Wright
Horton1, Bill Burton1, Martitia Tuttle2, Russell A. Green3,
Frank Pazzaglia4, Jesse Hill5, Paula Figueiredo6
1USGS Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
2M. Tuttle
and Associates
3Virginia
Tech, Charles E. Via Dept. of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
4Lehigh
University, Dept. of Earth and environmental Sciences
5North
Carolina Geological Survey
6North
Carolina State University, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and
Atmospheric Sciences |
Comparing the 2011 M5.7 Mineral, VA and the 2020 M5.1 Sparta, NC Earthquakes
March 2022
Chris L. Saucier, P.E., TVA
The Boone Dam Internal Erosion Remediation Project
April 2022
Julie Marie Coulombe
Comparative Geochemical Analysis of Recent Volcanic Flows on Barva Volcano,
Costa Rica
and
Morgan Lewis
Structural Analysis of Cross-Cutting and Curviplanar Veins in Gale crater, Mars
and their Implications for Basin Evolution
May 2022
Brian S. Murray PG, PMP
Evolution of an Expansive Contaminant Plume - Naval Weapons Industrial
Reserve Plant Bethpage, Long Island, New York
September 2022
Gareth J. Davies, TDEC (Retired)
The Younger Dryas (the Impact Hypothesis) - and Interesting New
Data.....
October 2022
Brian S. Murray PG, PMP
Part 1 - Geologic Setting and Current State of Dead Sea
Part 2 - Masada Fortress Water Source and Roman Siege Ramp
November 2022
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Distinguished Scientist and Professor Emeritus
Earth and Planetary Sciences
UT-Knoxville
Valley and Ridge to Blue Ridge Foothills: Transition from the
Appalachian Foreland Fold-Thrust Belt into the Outer Metamorphic Core of the
Orogen
2021
January 2021
Dr. Steve Hageman
Late
Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian biological and tectonic transitions in
the Southern Appalachians (Chilhowee Gp)
March 2021
Paul Favara
How to Avoid "Kick the Can" - Get More Out of
Your Annual Performance Assessments
April 2021
Dr. Alauddin Khan
Development of a Regional Groundwater Flow
Model for the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Reservation: Numerical
Model using MODFLOW-USG
May 2021
Helle Leth Skjetne
Chaos Terrains on Pluto, Europa, and Mars: Insights to Crustal Lithology
and Structure
and
Robert B. Reid
An Experimental Study of the Alteration of Venusian Surface Basalts via
CO2-SO2 Gas-solid Reactions
September 2021
Dr. Colin D. Sumrall
A new look at Mississippian Brittle Star Diversity Based on
Disarticulated Skeletal Elements
October 2021
Gareth Davies, TDEC & Stephen Worthington, Worthington Groundwater,
Ontario
The Chalk and Jurassic Carbonates of England: Karst or Not?
November 2021
Gareth Davies, TDEC (Retired)
Investigations at Abandoned Mine Sites in the Rocky Mountains
December 2021
ETGS December Holiday Social
2020
January 2020
Elizabeth C. Phillips
Following through: Oak Ridge's
Cleanup Program Continues Forward
February 2020
Ethan Coon
Building process understanding through models:
Exploring the interactions of hydrology, geomorphology, and soil science
in warming Arctic tundra
March 2020
Sid Jones, PhD, PE, PG
Solute and sediment transport in the Knox Aquifer near Oak Ridge, TN
April 2020
J. Brad Stephenson, PG with support from Seaira Stephenson; Harry L.
Moore, PG; and Alice Ann Moore.
Geology & More in the Land of Fire & Ice - Travels in Iceland -
September/October 2019
May 2020
Victoria E. Frazier
Cities on Karst: Cave Stream Geochemistry Across an Urbanization
Gradient
September 2020
Michael Phillips
Brimstone Volatiles and Hermean Hollows
October 2020
Richard Merrill
Long term effects of a leak in a gas storage well within the Bammel gas
storage field, Harris County, Texas
November 2020
Daniel H. Doctor, PhD
Progress Toward A Preliminary Karst Depression Density Map for the
Conterminous United States: Tennessee Update
December 2020
ETGS Members
The ETGS December Holiday Social will be a virtual (Webex) Pub Quiz in
memory of Dr. Don Byerly,
an ETGS founder we lost in 2018.
2019
January 2019
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Introduction to Dead Sea regional geology and the Mt. Seldom salt diapir
February 2019
Dr. Konrad W. Quast
SSIs and ASDs, A Piece of the Puzzle Versus the Whole Story
March 2019
Dr. Te-Yang Soong
Probabilistic Modeling of Settlement Risk at Land Disposal Facilities
April 2019
David Watson
Metal, Liquid, Gas, God? - Mercury Forms and Transformations that Impact
Fate, Transport, Uptake and Remediation
May 2019
Megan D. Mouser
Viscosity of the Mercurian Magma Ocean: Implications for Crystal
Fractionations and Crustal Petrogenesis
Claire Mondro
A Global Perspective on Martian Alluvial Fans
Cole Nypaver
The future of lunar exploration and the role of the Lunar Reconnaissance
Orbiter in improving our geologic understanding of the Moon
September 2019
Cole Nypaver
Long Term Erosion of Lunar Impact Craters as a New Method of Obtaining
Ages of the Lunar Surface
October 2019
Dr. Steve Stow, PhD
Liquid Nuclear Waste Disposal at Oak Ridge, from X-10 to Yucca Mountain;
Can We Connect the Dots?
November 2019
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Modern Appalachian Topography, Product of Miocene to Recent Uplift: Not
a Relic of Paleozoic Orogeny, And Not The "World's Oldest Mountain
Chain"
December 2019
ETGS Members
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
September 2018
Gareth Davies
Tracing, Modeling, and Testing Assumptions Used in
Dating Groundwater, and,
Urban and Rural Impacts on Groundwater in the Woodville Karst Plain, North Florida
October 2018
Dr. Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Prelude to Field Trip: "Folds in the Ft. Payne
Formation near Celina, Tennessee
Tectonic or Non-Tectonic Origin?"
November 2018
Robert Benfield, LPG TN
A Geologist's Story
December 2018
ETGS Members
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
ETGS Members
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
ETGS Members
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring A Special
Rock or Photos to Share
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
Bring
Another Rock and Tell the Story
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