Publications, Education, and Information Dissemination
The KGS produces printed and online Public Information Circulars (PICs) and other resources, both technical and educational, about KGS research and the state's geology and natural resources.
Recent technical KGS bulletins, published online under Current Research in Earth Sciences, include a work on fusulinids from the Howe Limestone Member in northeastern Kansas by Gregory P. Wahlman and Ronald R. West and another on sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Dakota Formation in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa by Greg A. Ludvigson et al. The KGS also published an online technical series report, Mineralogical and chemical evolution of lamproites in southeastern Kansas by Robert L. Cullers and Pieter Berendsen.
GeoKansas on the KGS website features online educational information on the rocks, minerals, fossils, and other natural resources in Kansas as well as the location of scenic and geologic places of interest throughout the state. The KGS online photo library provides hundreds of county-by-county photographs of the state's natural resources.
The KGS Data Access and Support Center (DASC)—located at the KGS and operating under the direction of the Kansas GIS Policy Board and Kansas GIS Director—serves as the geospatial data clearinghouse for the state of Kansas. DASC works with KGS geologists, and the DASC database includes Kansas GIS data on water, energy, and environmental resources. House Bill 2175, passed by the legislature in 2012, directs continued funding to DASC through the KGS. While DASC has been located at the KGS since its inception in 1989, this bill is the first statutory recognition of DASC and its location at the KGS.
The KGS conducts an annual Kansas Field Conference, undertaken since 1995, to provide State legislators, State agency staff, local government officials, business people, and other decision-makers an opportunity to visit different parts of the state and learn about natural resources. The 2012 trip to northwest Kansas included a look at groundwater management and agriculture, oil exploration and development in the Mississippian play, and geoarchaeology at Paleoindian sites. Co-sponsors included the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism; Kansas Water Office; and Kansas Department of Transportation. [http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Field/index.html Kansas Field Conference guidebooks} are available online.
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