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Full-Text Articles in Speleology
Carbon Cycling And Critical Zone Dynamics In An Urbanized Karst Groundwater System, Amy Hourigan
Carbon Cycling And Critical Zone Dynamics In An Urbanized Karst Groundwater System, Amy Hourigan
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations are correlated to rising global temperatures. Investigating the cumulative global carbon cycling processes is important to understand and quantify the global carbon cycle. By investigating basic geochemical parameters, EpCO2, DIC, and δ13CDIC, at four sites along Lost River Cave (LRC), in Bowling Green, Kentucky, concentrations, fluxes and sources of C dissolved in groundwater were determined. Urban karst groundwater systems, compared to more natural karst landscapes, typically exhibit widespread impervious, heat-absorbing surfaces, urban heat island effects, and increased anthropogenic groundwater inputs and localized CO2 emissions. Carbonate hydrogeochemical …
Impacts Of Forest Management And Timber Harvest Practices On Karst Critical Zone Processes In Tongass National Forest, Alaska, Anna Gwendolyn Harris
Impacts Of Forest Management And Timber Harvest Practices On Karst Critical Zone Processes In Tongass National Forest, Alaska, Anna Gwendolyn Harris
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study characterizes the throughfall, hydrogeochemistry, dissolution rates, and carbon sources of two proximate temperate rainforest cave systems within the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska (Tongass). Study sites include: an old-growth forest, characterized by having never been logged (containing Walkabout Cave system); and a previously logged – within thirty years, second-growth forest (containing Zina Cave system). Precipitation data were recorded over a five-month period at 10-minute intervals, to understand the effects of throughfall between the altering old and second-growth canopies. At each major spring for the two cave systems, high-resolution data were collected from June 29 through November 21, …
Mammoth Onyx Cave - Relating To (Sc 3504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Onyx Cave - Relating To (Sc 3504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3504. Letter, 15 August 1922, of Charles A. Richardson, Assistant Geologist, Kentucky Geological Survey, to Dr. Harry B. Thomas, Horse Cave, Kentucky, regarding his recent study of the formations in Mammoth Onyx Cave, then owned by Thomas. He remarks on the “abundance of Mexican Onyx, or Onyx Marble” and the beauty of the stalactites and stalagmites. Includes a pamphlet by Leon Foster with his impressions of the cave, which was opened to the public in 1922.
Influence Of Spring Flow Reversals On Cave Dissolution In A Telogenetic Karst Aquifer, Mammoth Cave, Ky, Chelsey Kipper
Influence Of Spring Flow Reversals On Cave Dissolution In A Telogenetic Karst Aquifer, Mammoth Cave, Ky, Chelsey Kipper
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
An often overlooked connection between karst groundwater systems and surface water is spring flow reversal, the flow of river water into karst springs caused by changes in hydraulic gradient. Karst aquifers are subject to the intrusion of river water when the hydraulic head of a base level river is higher than the hydraulic head of a base level spring. When this occurs, the flow out of the spring reverses, allowing river water to enter base level conduits. River water thus becomes a source of recharge into karst basins, transporting both valuable nutrients and harmful contaminants into karst aquifers. The rapid …
Ua6/2/4 Lost River Cave & Valley - Property, Wku Archives
Ua6/2/4 Lost River Cave & Valley - Property, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Unprocessed property files created by and about Lost River Cave.
Ua66/8/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Centers & Institutes, Wku Archives
Ua66/8/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Centers & Institutes, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Centers and Institutes administered by the Geography & Geology Department. Including:
- Center for Cave & Karst Studies
- Center for Local Government Services
- Hoffman Environmental Research Institute
- Kentucky Climate Center
- Resources Management Institute
- Small Public Water System Technology Center
Ua66/8/1 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Events, Wku Archives
Ua66/8/1 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Events, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created for Geography & Geology department events.
Ua66/8/6 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Allied Organizations, Wku Archives
Ua66/8/6 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Allied Organizations, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about allied organizations associated with the Geography & Geology department, including the Council of Geography Teachers, Green River Grotto, and Kentucky Geographic Alliance.
Monitoring And Evaluating The Influences Of Class V Injection Wells On Urban Karst Hydrology, James Adam Shelley
Monitoring And Evaluating The Influences Of Class V Injection Wells On Urban Karst Hydrology, James Adam Shelley
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The response of a karst aquifer to storm events is often faster and more severe than that of a non-karst aquifer. This distinction is often problematic for planners and municipalities, because karst flooding does not typically occur along perennial water courses; thus, traditional flood management strategies are usually ineffective. The City of Bowling Green (CoBG), Kentucky is a representative example of an area plagued by karst flooding. The CoBG, is an urban karst area (UKA), that uses Class V Injection Wells to lessen the severity of flooding. The overall effectiveness, siting, and flooding impact of Injection Wells in UKA’s is …
Controls On Speleogenesis In The Upper-Mississippian Pennington Formation On The Western Cumberland Plateau Escarpment, Hali Steinmann
Controls On Speleogenesis In The Upper-Mississippian Pennington Formation On The Western Cumberland Plateau Escarpment, Hali Steinmann
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Much of the pioneering work on caves of the Cumberland Plateau (province spanning Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia) has been stratigraphically located within the Mississippian Bangor and Monteagle Limestones, wherein some of the region’s largest and most spectacular caves occur. Of interest to the understanding of this karst landscape, but severely underrepresented in the literature thereof, are caves and karst features in a heterogeneous sequence of clastics and carbonates known collectively as the Pennington Formation (Upper Mississippian). This work consisted of a regional study of Pennington caves on the western Cumberland Plateau escarpment (Alabama and Tennessee), and a case study …
De Paepe, Duane - Collector (Mss 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
De Paepe, Duane - Collector (Mss 625), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 625. The Duane De Paepe Kentucky Cave Saltpetre History Research Collection, a collection of historical research, field notes, cave surveys, photographs, maps, reports, and scholarly writing on saltpetre mining in Kentucky, especially at Mammoth Cave. The collection was created under a research program sponsored by the Cave Research Foundation and the National Geographic Society in Kentucky, 1976-1980, and directed by De Paepe.
Faust, Burton Sherwood, 1898-1967 (Mss 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Faust, Burton Sherwood, 1898-1967 (Mss 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 620. Correspondence, research notes, drafts, photographs, reference works and bibliographic material of Burton S. Faust relating to his studies of the chemical, historical and cultural aspects of saltpetre and of spelean saltpetre mining in the United States.
Epikarst Hydrogeochemical Changes In Telogenetic Karst Systems In South-Central Kentucky, Leah Jackson
Epikarst Hydrogeochemical Changes In Telogenetic Karst Systems In South-Central Kentucky, Leah Jackson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Telogenetic epikarst carbon sourcing and transport processes and the associated hydrogeochemical responses are often complex and dynamic. Among the processes involved in epikarst development is a highly variable storage and flow relationship that is often influenced by the type, rate, and amount of dissolution kinetics involved. Diffusion rates of CO2 in the epikarst zone may drive hydrogeochemical changes that influence carbonate dissolution processes and conduit formation. Most epikarst examinations of these defining factors ignore regional-scale investigations in favor of characterizing more localized processes. This study aims to address that discrepancy through a comparative analysis of two telogenetic epikarst systems under …
Ua12/2/2 2016 Talisman - Life More Life, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 2016 Talisman - Life More Life, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
2016 Talisman yearbook.
- Paris, Rachel. Dawn of Delta Zeta
- Ziege, Nicole. Kick It to the Limit – Soccer
- Paris, Rachel. Immersion: Band
- Houston, Emily. Immersion: Dance
- Paris, Rahcel. Immersion: ROTC
- Ziege, Nicole. Immersion: Theatre
- Holt, Delaney. Major Pride – WKU Majorette Style Dance Team
- Houston, Emily. Hollow Spike – Volleyball
- Moscoe, Carrie. The Intergallactic Tightrope – Elliott Talkington, Theatre & Dance
- Gilliam, Ashely. Tops on Top – Cheerleaders
- Young, Kreable. A Grand Adventure – Grand Canyon, Outdoor Recreation Activity Center
- Voorhees, Jessica. Home Team Advantage – Track & Field
- Homecoming
- Sproles, Katherine. Saddle School – Dylan Davis, Rodeo
- Sims, Bryna. …
Corbicula Fluminea Food Web Ecology: An Experimental Transplant Approach In A Karst Riverine System, Autumn Smith
Corbicula Fluminea Food Web Ecology: An Experimental Transplant Approach In A Karst Riverine System, Autumn Smith
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
The Asiatic clam Corbicula fluminea is a filter-feeding habitat generalist. Carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of C. fluminea body tissue was compared between reaches of Kentucky’s upper Green River that differed in Cladophora growth. Corbicula fluminea from an upstream reach with little Cladophora was translocated to a downstream reach with high Cladophora levels. Individuals from both reaches were placed in mussel silos in the same downstream reach in autumn 2012 and again in 2013 for 77 and 119 days, respectively. Flow during 2012 consisted of no high flow events until late autumn. Flow patterns in 2013 were consistently higher and more …
Ua1c11/55 Gordon Wilson Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/55 Gordon Wilson Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs taken by and of Gordon Wilson.
Ua668/4 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Administration, Wku Archives
Ua668/4 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Geography & Geology Administration, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about the administration of the Geography & Geology department.
Ua6/1/1 Lost River Cave & Valley - Oral History Project, Wku Archives
Ua6/1/1 Lost River Cave & Valley - Oral History Project, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Unprocessed oral history files regarding Lost River Cave & Valley.
Ua24 Mammoth Cave International Center For Science & Learning, Wku Archives
Ua24 Mammoth Cave International Center For Science & Learning, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about the Mammoth Cave International Center for Science and Learning.
Ua1c11/25 Lost River Cave Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/25 Lost River Cave Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs and postcards created by Lost River Cave & Valley.
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 35, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 35, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:
- Walsh, Erica. Chris Groves Recovering After Dramatic Cave Rescue – Sides Cave
- Lynch, Caroline. Night-long Rescue Effort Has Happy Ending – Chris Groves
- Youngman, Sam. Students Helping Bowling Green Economic Boom
- Pre-Law Club Hosting Panel
- New Support Group Forming – Eating Disorders
- Hall, Rex. New Traffic Signal Delayed – University Boulevard
- Ragan, Jason. Engineering Program A Step Closer
- Student Government Association Will Benefit from Online Voting
- Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Virtual Voting
- Kreitzer, Debbie. Opinion Page an Instrument of Gossip
- Van der Meer, Wieb. …
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 76, No. 34, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue:
- Karen, Mattias. Professor Trapped in Cave – Chris Groves
- Walsh, Erica. Elections May Go Online – Student Government Association
- Hoang, Mai Beauty King – Matt Curry, Mr. Hilltopper
- Western Grad Places Eighth in Hearst – Matt Batcheldor
- Forensics Team Wins Indiana Tournament
- Moore, Brian. Race Lawsuit File Full of Discrepancies, Contradictions – Robert Dye
- Football Players Deserve Rings
- Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Football Championship Rings
- Conger, Aaron. Teachers Should Show Compassion
- Chaney, David. Intro to Toilet Flushing – General Education
- Moore, Conrad. Geography, Geology …
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology
WKU Archives Records
Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.
The Use Of Down-Hole Video To Evaluate Parameters Affecting Removal Of Storm Water Runoff Into A Karst Aquifer In Bowling Green, Kentucky, Philip Reeder
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Due to recent land use changes, runoff has greatly increased In Bowling Green, necessitating the drilling of nearly 600 drainage wells to direct storm water into the Lost River Karst Aquifer. Research was conducted to (1) differentiate areas of the city as optimal for removal of storm water runoff, (2) correlate lithologic features between wells, and (3) determine optimal depths to which new drainage wells should be drilled. This was accomplished using maximum capacity tests, correlation of lithologic features between wells and comparing void density to depth below the land surface.
It was only possible to develop general trends in …
Ua66/8/2 Report, Wku Center For Cave & Karst Studies
Ua66/8/2 Report, Wku Center For Cave & Karst Studies
WKU Archives Records
Report regarding history and activities of the WKU Center for Cave & Karst Studies from 1976 to 1987.
Enteric Contamination Of An Urban Karstified Carbonate Aquifer: The Double Springs Drainage Basin, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Geary Schindel
Enteric Contamination Of An Urban Karstified Carbonate Aquifer: The Double Springs Drainage Basin, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Geary Schindel
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Biological and chemical analysis of water samples, collected from surface and subsurface streams was preformed to determine the quantity and biologic sources of enteric contamination in the Double Springs Groundwater Basin, an urban karstified carbonate aquifer under Bowling Green, Kentucky. Major flow paths, drainage basin boundaries and geologic/hydrologic relationships were identified for the basin. Analysis of biologic contaminates using fecal coliform /fecal streptococcus counts and ratios were conducted for baseflow and storm events and related to the Double Springs hydrographs. Analysis was also conducted to determine the source of sulfides responsible for the growth of sulfur fixing bacteria in the …
Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology
Ua66/8/3 Annual Report, Wku Geography & Geology
WKU Archives Records
Annual report of activities of the WKU department of Geography & Geology.