Ames, Philip
Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S., Basins
The overall objective of this project is to assess availability of coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD in Indiana that could potentially serve as sources of REE.
Primary Contact: Ames, Philip
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Ames, Philip
Data Preservation: Priority 2 –Strategic planning for data preservation related to coal-coal waste-coal combustion products chain in Indiana
The objective of this project is to develop a strategy for data preservation related to the coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD chain, including both the existing data and also data that will be acquired in the future.
Primary Contact: Ames, Philip
Earth MRI - Pennsylvanian paleosols
The objectives are to establish understanding of the variations of REE and other trace lelements in paleosols and identifiy those zones that could be considered a potential resource.
Primary Contact: Ames, Philip
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Ames, Philip
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Ames, Philip
Angelos, Nicholas
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Angelos, Nicholas
Hoosier National Forest Landslide Mapping
Primary Contact: Angelos, Nicholas
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Angelos, Nicholas
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Angelos, Nicholas
Antinao, Jose Luis
2017 StateMap
The primary goal of mapping the portion of Elkhart quadrangle in Indiana is to gain an improved understanding of the chronology and 3-D stratigraphy of the glacial and glaciofluvial units in the area, already well mapped by earlier STATEMAP efforts at a more detailed scale.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
57th Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene -- At the edge of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Stratigraphy and Chronology of Glacial Deposits in Central Indiana
Adjourn a group of professional geologists and students interested and conversant in the problems to discuss our results and directions of research. The trip will be the 57th Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene week field conference.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Characterizing aquifer geometrics in Northern IN using geophysical techniques to profile the buried bedrock surface
To improve the density of data related to bedrock depth below the St. Joseph Aquifer System in northeastern St. Joseph and northwestern Elkhart County, we will employ newly developed passive seismic methods. The data will facilitate mapping at an improved resolution the base of the aquifer, where it coincides with the bedrock surface. The methods developed can be applied to valley-fill aquifers in the rest of the state. The enhanced bedrock topography data will also provide hydrologists and health department officials with better tools to investigate the geologic constraints on naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater in deep wells.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Collaborative: A multiple-technique approach for deconvolving tropical cyclone effects on Late Quaternary geomorphic change in arid southwestern North America.
The project will perform:
1) A spatial identification and morphological, pedological (in collaboration with DRI), and sedimentological characterization of alluvial fan units in the Vizcaino and Colorado subregions of the Sonoran Desert.
2) develop a chronology of the identified alluvial fan units.
3) compare the Late Pleistocene chronology to other paleoclimate proxies and in particular to the record in Antinao et al (2016).
4) compare the Holocene chronology to a paleotempestological record on the Pacific coast (to be developed by this project through collaboration with LSU).
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Elkhart Statemap 18
Develop a continuous mapping coverage at a regional scale for northern Indiana that can be used for planning purposes.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Integration of Central Baja California Research Activities
The goal of this IGWS project is to consolidate activities and results from research by the PI and his students at multiple institutions, in a manner that results are efficiently shared with main PIs from the grants explained above. The goal is to take advantage of synergies via sharing ideas, data, collaborating in the field and in laboratory activities.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Peoria Loess Chronology and Provenance
This project will determine the provenance and chronology of deposition of Peoria Loess during the last glacial period in central Indiana.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Quaternary History of the Beanblossom Valley, south-central Indiana
The objective of this project is to determine the timing of glacial advances into the Beanblossom Creek basin by using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and paleopedology. Research going back over 100 years suggest that Illinoian (Isotope Stage 6) ice blocked the westward-flowing ancestral Beanblossom Creek and created a large glacial lake. We seek to quantify the Illinoian age assignment using both OSL and detailed analysis (pedologic description, particle size analysis, silt and clay mineraology and silt geochemistry) of the Sangamon Geosol. The two techniques will complement each other, as OSL will provide absolute chronology and analysis of the Sangamon Geosol will supplement the OSL age with weathering ratios, depth of carbonate leaching, and amount of clay accumulation (among others).
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
S_Kankakee 100k Quaternary Mapping
The objective of this project is to provide surficial and subsurface geologic data needed for water resource management, land-use planning, and infrastructure projects. The project will obtain new data in addition to compiling existing geologic maps and associated data.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
StateMap 2019 - South Bend
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
StateMap 2020-21 South Bend + Drilling Supplement
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state. Supplemental Funding goal: verify stratigraphy and bedrock surface in 2 areas in N Indiana.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Stratigraphy and chronology of Late Wisconsinan glacial deposits, south-central Indiana - Coalition 2017
The goal is to document the chronology and stratigraphy of late Wisconsinan glacial sediments in south-central Indiana and build a 3-D geological model of unconsolidated sediments for the region.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene Glacial Lake Patoka, south central Indiana
The goal of this study is to combine existing stratigraphic, mineralogic and geophysical data and current interpretations by Dr. Gray, to new datasets to be produced during the study (from shallow coring, geochronology, passive seismic data) in order to develop a litho- and chronostratigraphic framework of the GLP area.
Primary Contact: Antinao, Jose Luis
Beckham-Feller, Valerie
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
National Mesonet Program
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
NGWMN 2022-2024
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
PDMS Fix 2022-2024
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS. The method for obtaining records in the future may also be changed so that the PDMS can be maintained more easily.
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
PDMS Maintenance 2022
The long-term goal is to populate the PDMS with current and historical data for petroleum wells and fields in Indiana.
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Beckham-Feller, Valerie
Bowden, Tisa
2020 IGWS Calendar
By using a portion of the IGWS digital collection of mineral images in the production of our 2020 IGWS calendar, it will provide a marketing tool with which our clientele can better visualize geologic mineral specimens. The calendar also will promote the fact that the IGWS has diverse collections of digital images, not only geologic in nature, but beautiful, as well. It will show the public how geology can be used as modern frame-able wall art and combined with the practicality of a calendar.
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
FAIR data: PDMS use by designated communities through time
Is the PDMS a data source that is Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable? Provide an assessment of staff perspectives on FAIR data compliance and suitability for the PDMS designated community.
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
iDigBio Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 2
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 3
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 4
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 5
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Industrial Minerals Directory 2020 Update
Update contact and geological information for industrial mineral producers in the stateof Indiana.
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Organizing 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Bloomington
To organize Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Bloomington, IN in September 2019.
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Planning, coordination, and training associated with lead sampling activities in schools
The objective is to provide comprehensive planning, coordination, and sampling services for all schools that express interest and participate in the Indiana school water sampling program.
Primary Contact: Bowden, Tisa
Branam, Tracy
2017 StateMap Project 1_Logansport 1:100,000 scale quadrangle bedrock mapping
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Augusta Lake project
The purpose of this project is to abate acid mine drainage that forms at the site and improve the quality of water in Augusta Lake which flows into the Patoka River.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S., Basins
The overall objective of this project is to assess availability of coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD in Indiana that could potentially serve as sources of REE.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Critical zone karst observatory
1) Designing and implementing an online registry and inventory system for dye traces that will update IndianaMap and provide notifications to the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and emergency management professionals in the location where such traces occur.
a. This project mimics the implementation by the Kentucky Division of Water that provides a record of all dye traces conducted in the state. Information from these dye traces are incorporated into statewide maps that help state agencies create and implement development and construction plans.
b. Indiana citizens benefit from this project by having a source of information for active, and justified, projects that define groundwater flow.
c. Emergency professionals benefit from this project by having an actively updated source of information to distribute in advance of planned tracing activities or answer questions or concerns from citizens.
2) Soliciting existing dye trace data in state/federal agencies, universities, and consulting firms to enhance the presently existing layer in IndianaMap.
a. Decades of dye-trace data are presently scattered among environmental consultants, cave enthusiasts, and state agencies. This project will create and authoritative repository and source for these data.
b. This effort enhances existing layers in IndianaMap (http://maps.indiana.edu) by collecting all dye trace data in a free public-accessible and searchable site.
3) Conducting a sequence of dye traces in Harrison/Crawford Counties in collaboration with private landowners, tourist caves, state/federal agencies, and municipalities to better outline the boundaries of groundwater basins.
a. This project was specifically requested by Mr. Rand Heazlitt, manager of the Town of Corydon and a co-investor of Indiana Caverns.
b. Additional dye tracing will help guide exploration and define the limits of the landscape that contributes water to Indiana Caverns.
c. Targeted tracing will also help illustrate the direction and speed of groundwater flow, which can help Mr. Heazlitt leverage state funding to expand the sanitation system of the Town of Corydon in response to increased housing development.
4) Installing a set of field-based geochemical and water-level monitoring instrumentation in caves, wells, and springs of the Blueppring and Lost River karst basins of Lawrence and Orange Counties to provide insight into changes in water chemistry and discharge across the karst basins and during individual storms.
a. One outcome of this project is an increased understanding of how the landscape responds to rainfall, which have caused considerable flooding and are projected to become greater in intensity with climate change.
b. Data from some sites in this project will be made available online for the public and to visitors of Bluespring Cavern in real time on a website that can be live streamed in the visitor center.
5) Collecting water samples at six (6) locations in the Lost River karst basin that, when combined with the data in project 4, provide unique and valuable insight into the transport of carbon, nutrients, and sediments in an agriculturally intensive landscape.
a. The data from projects 4 and 5 will be used to create a comprehensive view of the rate of nutrient and sediment loss from these karst basins.
b. Such results are vitally important to better refining the role of karst landscapes in the global carbon cycle.
c. Results from this study will provide one node of data that can help model water quality changes in the Mississippi River watershed and better predict the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico caused by excess nutrients.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Data Preservation: Priority 2 –Strategic planning for data preservation related to coal-coal waste-coal combustion products chain in Indiana
The objective of this project is to develop a strategy for data preservation related to the coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD chain, including both the existing data and also data that will be acquired in the future.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Evaluation of acid mine drainage seeps
The purpose of this project was to abate acid runoff from seeps that develop at abandoned mine land sites after reclamation.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Evaluation of bench-scale acid mine drainage (AMD) bioremediation tests: Water-quality monitoring and data interpretation
This research is designed to treat these seeps so that the concentration of acidity, sulfate, and toxic metals is much reduced or eliminated.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Evaluation of groundwater age and chemistry relations in aquifer systems in Lake, Porter, and La Porte Counties
This project defined groundwater flow systems and their chemistry within Lake, Porter, and La Porte Counties.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Evaluation of methods for controlling metals deposition in acid seeps and acid mine drainage treatment wetlands
Since all metals precipitation systems need to have metal sludge excavated from them from time to time, it would be best for this metal sludge to be in a form that holds some commercial value. The objective of this study is to demonstrate methods for recovering valuable metals from acidic mine drainage by generating byproducts that have commercial value as raw materials for industry.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Friar Tuck acid mine drainage wetland project
The purpose of this project was to abate acid mine drainage that forms at the Friar Tuck site and flows into the Wabash River drainage system.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
FY2019 USGS NGGDPP Grant: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2019 – Geochemistry and Critical Minerals
Priority 1
- Evaluating and updating 114 existing metadata records in the National Digital Catalog (NDC);
- Inventory and cataloging of 25 boxes of rediscovered geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
Priority 2
- Inventory, cataloging, and digitizing 204 linear feet of industrial minerals records
- Inventory, rehouse, and compile condition reports for 7,500 geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
- Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the NDC;
Priority 3
- Identifying and providing digital access to publicly available drill core data and information for priority areas with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources;
- Describing the relevant mineral information for mineral deposits and occurrences that host critical minerals;
- Providing geospatial representation(s) of areas that delineate prospective areas or geologic belts with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources together with supporting datasets; and
- Describing critical minerals assets to increase use and understanding, including creating metadata records for submission to the NDC.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Geochemistry Database
The objective of this project is to develop an easily accessible database for the Indiana Geological Survey's large and growing inventory of geochemical data.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Groundwater geochemistry of Indiana aquifers: database development and analysis of the natural chemical character of bedrock and glacial aquifer systems
Compile groundwater geochemical analyses conducted in Indiana into a standardized database and analyze the data based on unique aquifer systems.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Groundwater in aquifer systems of LaGrange County–baseline water chemistry, nitrate contamination, and aquifer sensitivity
The study was conducted to determine the baseline water chemistry and the levels of naturally occurring and man-made contaminants in the groundwater of LaGrange County.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Hydrochemical evaluation and predictive modeling of sulfate-reducing bioreactor cells
The goal of the research project is to evaluate and model the performance and longevity of SRBCs for the passive remediation of AMD.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
IDEM RiverWatch Program
Collect pertinent data for the IDEM volunteer stream monitoring program known as RiverWatch. Students will be trained to (1) collect water quality data consisting of: temperature, conductivity, pH, redox, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), turbidity, nitrate, phosphate; (2) flow estimation of stream using cross-section and velocity method; (3) record physical description of stream and bank up to 200 ft above monitoring point, describing stream bed, riparian zone, and sinuosity of stream; (4) collection and identification of macroinvertebrates living in stream at monitoring site, (5) test for total coliform and E. coli bacteria in stream. Student activity will be monitored and assisted as needed. Students will enter data into online forms at IDEM website.Monitoring activity will be conducted once each season for one year for a total of 4 monitoring days.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Interdisciplinary Highly-Collaborative Research
This project will inform the D2I and UITS RDS case study on institutional data management processes at the IGWS and serve as a vehicle for feedback on how the IGWS can improve those internal processes.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Investigation of groundwater in abandoned underground coal mines
Increase public awareness and interest in the potential use of underground mine waters as a geothermal resource, a groundwater resource, and a mine-reclamation resource.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Locating and characterizing important springs of the Indiana Uplands
Scour publication archives for historical spring data dating back to 1901; visit 100 springs to sample water quality and compare these results to available historical data; use these data to develop and make available a geospatial database of springs; and develop a crowdsourcing geospatial tool to acquire information on springs and engage residents in communities throughout SWCI.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Monitoring and Modeling a Large-Scale Experiment to Change the Direction of Groundwater Flow at the Blackfoot Reclamation Site in Pike County: Part 2 Assessing the Efficacy of Reclamation that Includes the Construction of a Large Wetland/Bioreactor System
The project will involve a continuation of hydrochemical monitoring with much emphasis placed on the evaluation of the performance of a large wetland/bioreactor system that is being designed to treat acid mine drainage that is discharging from a valley located within this abandoned mine land site.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Optimization of bioreactor cell design for treating low-flow acid mine drainage in the Midwest: Model development and demonstration
This project will test and demonstrate sulfate-reducing bioreactor cell (SRBC) technology on low-flow, metal-rich acid seeps in the Midwest. A predictive model capable of assisting engineers in designing SRBCs for AMD sources throughout the Midwest will be developed.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING PRODUCTS, BYPRODUCTS, AND REJECTS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
The overall objective of this project is to develop methodologies to identify potential targets for REE recov-ery from the coal value chain. To address this main objective, the more specific goals of this project are to:
1) Determine REE content in Indiana coals and identify coal beds that have highest REE concentrations. Although REE will be the critical elements of particular interest in this project, other elements such as aluminum, phosphorous, uranium, titanium, manganese, gallium, germanium, cobalt, and others will also be examined. These elements are included for bolstering our predictive tools such as principal component analysis, which will allow future explorations for REE to use less expensive methods to locate potential REE resources.
2) Evaluate the distribution of REE in various fractions generated by coal preparation plants: coarse re-fuse, fines, clean coal. The coarse refuse will be of special interest because REE concentrate in min-eral fractions. We expect that coarse refuse from coals having high REE contents as established in point 1 could be targets for REE recovery.
3) Investigate REE concentration in pulverized rejects from power plants and fly ash and bottom ash generated from Indiana coals. Because, as mentioned above, REE are dominantly associated with mineral fractions, they are concentrated in the mineral and glass phases of coal ashes. Special effort will be put into obtaining coal ash from the coals of increased REE concentrations, as established in point 1;
4) Assess REE potential in acid-mine drainage (AMD). AMD contains REEs in dissolved form, making them less expensive to process although concentrations are much lower than in raw coal material or coal combustion concentrates. Preliminary data suggest a strong correlation of REEs to aluminum and magnesium in AMD, indicative of a noncoal detrital clay association, which becomes soluble under acidic conditions.
5) Based on 1–4, identify set of geological/chemical attributes that can be used as proxies for “sweet spots” for REE. We will use selected statistical methods, for example, principal component analysis (PCA) to identify associations of REE with other elements, coal properties, geographic location, etc. These attributes will be used as a predictive tool for elevated occurrences of REE and ultimately will help to delineate best targets for future recovery.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Potential nonpoint-source contamination of the Spring Mill Lake drainage basin
Determine the sources of contaminants that pollute Spring Mill Lake.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Rates and Controls on Toxic Metal Leaching from Coal-Combustion Residues Utilized as Structural Fills in Reclamation Settings: Emphasis on the Midwestern AML Site
The project, which combines field, laboratory, and modeling components, will determine the conditions under which trace elements are leached from CCRs in field settings as well as rates of leaching when CCRs are in contact with various ambient water chemistries.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Sulfate-reducing bioreactor net discharge monitoring
From monitoring flow rates along with chemical and stable isotopic components, the research conducted at this site will provide data for evaluating the effectiveness of the bioreactor in reducing acid-mine drainage, evaluating the microbial activity, and constructing a predictive model capable of providing sizing and longevity information to organizations desiring to build additional bioreactors for future low-flow AMD seep amelioration projects.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Sulfates in Indiana Substrates
Project designed to assist by developing screening method, comparison of accuracy between different soluble sulfate analytical methods, and providing GIS maps showing areas of concern for elevated sulfates, as well as gaps in statewide distribution for existing soil and groundwater data sets.
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Uplands Drinking Water: Formative research with stakeholders to support reliable, safe, and affordable water
We will systematically gather the perspectives of professional stakeholders who are involved in managing the region’s drinking water, to pinpoint actions towards ensuring access to reliable, safe, and affordable drinking water for the Indiana Uplands. The project will focus particular attention on these aspects of the region’s drinking water:
1)Characterizing the current landscape of drinking water sources in the Uplands. This will include estimating the population having access to a regulated community water supply, and the population relying on unregulated sources (private wells, cisterns, ponds, other).
2)Enumerating the key concerns of professional stakeholders about the reliability, safety, palatability, and affordability of drinking water, and the main challenges they describe for regulated, community water systems and unregulated water systems.
3)Eliciting these stakeholders’ observations of local people’s drinking water consumption (or lack thereof) in their service regions.
4)Identifying and building consensus around needed updates to southern Indiana’s water infrastructure, including outlining potential options for greening this infrastructure (e.g., by decreasing energy used to produce and process water).
Primary Contact: Branam, Tracy
Burress, Kaitlyn
2023 EAS Graduate Student Luncheon
Welcome new students and educate them about potential opportunities with the Indiana Geological and Water Survey.
Primary Contact: Burress, Kaitlyn
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Burress, Kaitlyn
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Burress, Kaitlyn
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Burress, Kaitlyn
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Burress, Kaitlyn
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Burress, Kaitlyn
Clifford, Sara
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Continuation of scanning out-of-print IGWS publications to post to the IGWS Bookstore and IGWS Archive.
To continue to make sure all publications and products produced by the IGWS are available digitally and are 'discoverable' to both the staff researchers and to the public.
To continue to assist the IGWS Photographer with timely completion of IGWS projects and publications.
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
E-GeoNews 2021-2022
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
E-GeoNews 2022-2023
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 3
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 4
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 5
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Open Access Publications: RS/Bookstore/IUSW
To process IGWS publications for accessibility and ensure an accurate asset entry and retrieval option is in place for all Open Access Pubs. This will be accomplished in three repository locations, ResourceSpace, IUScholarWorks, and the IGWS bookstore; with all relevant data stored in IU secured cold data storage.
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Clifford, Sara
Culver, Rachel
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Culver, Rachel
Davis, Ginger
2022 Indiana Master Naturalist
This project aims to pilot a new Indiana Master Naturalist program in Monroe County. The 10-week course will be taught in the new IGWS Learning Lab and allow the Survey to expand its adult-oriented programming by connecting natural resource organizations with non-traditional users.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
Central Indiana Water Study Hydrologic Monitoring
Water resource planning requires data related to long-term trends in watershed and aquifer water-budget parameters including precipitation, evapotranspiration (ET, combined loss of water from land surface owing to evaporation and plant transpiration), and groundwater-level fluctuations during both dry and wet periods. The IWBN quantifies these parameters to support data-driven water-resource planning that considers the range of historic hydrologic conditions and regional trends that may arise from a changing climate.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
Expanding the Indiana Geological and Water Survey’s contribution to the NGWMN
Groundwater-elevation data are collected primarily to determine how groundwater levels are changing over time. The data from sites with continuous/high-frequency water-level records are also used to assess groundwater-recharge dynamics for various hydrogeologic settings.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
National Mesonet Program
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
National Water Quality Leadership & Partnerships
To build partnerships throughout the state of Indiana that would support the development of unified educational program centered around water quality, drinking water, and actions for improvement.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
NGWMN 2022-2024
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
The Indiana Water Balance Network
The Indiana Water Balance Network (IWBN) was developed to monitor trends in water loss and gain for different components of the hydrologic cycle in various hydrogeologic settings.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
The Indiana Water Balance Network - 2
The Indiana Water Balance Network (IWBN) was developed to to monitor long-term trends for various components of the hydrologic cycle, including near-surface atmospheric conditions, soil physical parameters, and groundwater level.
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
Uplands Drinking Water: Formative research with stakeholders to support reliable, safe, and affordable water
We will systematically gather the perspectives of professional stakeholders who are involved in managing the region’s drinking water, to pinpoint actions towards ensuring access to reliable, safe, and affordable drinking water for the Indiana Uplands. The project will focus particular attention on these aspects of the region’s drinking water:
1)Characterizing the current landscape of drinking water sources in the Uplands. This will include estimating the population having access to a regulated community water supply, and the population relying on unregulated sources (private wells, cisterns, ponds, other).
2)Enumerating the key concerns of professional stakeholders about the reliability, safety, palatability, and affordability of drinking water, and the main challenges they describe for regulated, community water systems and unregulated water systems.
3)Eliciting these stakeholders’ observations of local people’s drinking water consumption (or lack thereof) in their service regions.
4)Identifying and building consensus around needed updates to southern Indiana’s water infrastructure, including outlining potential options for greening this infrastructure (e.g., by decreasing energy used to produce and process water).
Primary Contact: Davis, Ginger
Dilcher, David
Digitizing the Dilcher collection of slides: paleobotanical and geological research at IU and UF
Primary Contact: Dilcher, David
Douds, Ashley
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
Assessment of geologic and hydrogeologic properties of formations within the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin for geologic energy storage
The objective of this project is to work with the United States Geological Survey to identify available data that can be applied to research related to geologic energy storage in the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin. Additionally, data gaps will be identified for future projects to address.
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
PDMS Fix 2022-2024
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS. The method for obtaining records in the future may also be changed so that the PDMS can be maintained more easily.
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
PDMS Maintenance 2022
The long-term goal is to populate the PDMS with current and historical data for petroleum wells and fields in Indiana.
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Douds, Ashley
Driscoll, Kilauren
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Driscoll, Kilauren
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Driscoll, Kilauren
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Driscoll, Kilauren
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Driscoll, Kilauren
Drobniak, Agnieszka
Application of transmitted light techniques for evaluation of thermal maturity
Project analyzes changes in color of structureless amorphous organic matter and palynomorphs in transmitted light through a range of maturity stages.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
ASSESSING PELLET FUELS QUALITY: USING PETROGRAPHICAL METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF IMPURTITES
The goal of our cooperative project is to:
1) Improve the methods of petrographic impurities identification
2) Develop and test petrographic pellet impurities classification
3) Test the quality of US pellets (nobody done this yet)
4) Publish article about importance of the petrographic method in pellet standards
5) Present the work at the Pellet Fuels Institute Annual Conference (June 24-26, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, WI)
6) Propose to the Pellet Fuels Institute idea of including petrographic method in pellet quality assurance and product certification.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Assessing the Maquoketa Group in the Illinois Basin: age, character and resource potential
This project will establish the age and petrophysical characteristics of the various lithofacies present with the Maquoketa Group in the Illinois Basin. Such an evaluation will begin to approach the challenges of establishing if the organic-rich facies are time-specific or diachronous, and understanding the physical and chemical characteristics of the various rocks types present in the interval. The information gleaned in the proposed study could have a substantial influence on future exploration of unconventional reservoirs and for effective seals.
Specifically, we seek to: 1) characterize the elemental composition of Maquoketa units along multiple cross-basin transects, 2) establish the relative ages of these units, 3) integrate elemental and geophysical data sets of time-rock units to generate basin-wide isopachs 4) combine new organic carbon analyses with previously published reports to characterize oil and gas production potential of each unit and 5) characterize the pore size distribution, capillary entry pressures, and strengths of a select set of lithofacies that represent the stratigraphic interval .
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Assessment of geologic and hydrogeologic properties of formations within the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin for geologic energy storage
The objective of this project is to work with the United States Geological Survey to identify available data that can be applied to research related to geologic energy storage in the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin. Additionally, data gaps will be identified for future projects to address.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Assessment of Hydrologic Consequences of CO2 Sequestration within the Illinois Basin
This project is one component of a larger risk assessment for implementing industrial-scale CO2 subsurface storage throughout the Illinois Basin. The objective is to develop new data sets that are most critical for informing the basin-scale simulation and modeling effort. The IGS will provide region-specific data that a coordinated team of researchers from around the country will integrate into a basin-scale simulation of the effects of large-scale implementation of geological sequestration within numerous rock units in the deep subsurface.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S., Basins
The overall objective of this project is to assess availability of coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD in Indiana that could potentially serve as sources of REE.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Coalbed gas potential in Indiana
The main objective is to carry out the research that helps to understand and to utilize this clean source of energy from coal
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Combined underground coal gasification and CO2 Capture and Storage - TOPS - Technology options for coupled underground coal gasification and CO2 capture and storage
The main objective of the proposed project is to develop a generic underground coal gasification – carbon capture and storage (UCG-CCS) site characterization workflow which would address the dilemma faced by the proponents of reactor zone CO2 storage and offers technological solutions to source-sink mismatch issues that are likely to be faced in many coalfields.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Converting Coal Maps to Story Maps
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Data collection, verification, & encoding for the National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) YR 2/5
The purpose of this project is to provide easy availability of point-source coal resource information, including coal location, thickness, depth, and other parameters.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Data Preservation: Priority 2 –Strategic planning for data preservation related to coal-coal waste-coal combustion products chain in Indiana
The objective of this project is to develop a strategy for data preservation related to the coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD chain, including both the existing data and also data that will be acquired in the future.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Distribution of mercury in in-situ versus feed coal in Indiana
Specifically, the objectives of this project are as follows:
1) Data entry – updating trace element database with a special emphasis on mercury concentrations
We will refine the existing trace element database and update it with additional data obtained from coal companies and power plants, putting emphasis on washed coal.
2) Mapping Hg distribution in major coal beds in Indiana
An updated database will be used to map Hg distribution in major coal beds in Indiana.
3) Identifying locations of the new sources of Hg data in in-situ and feed coals: boreholes, coal mines, and power plants
Maps of Hg distribution will be used to identify areas that would need additional data. Existing mines and power plants will be approached for a possibility of obtaining new samples of feed coal.
4) Collection and analyses of new coal samples – New samples of coal will be collected and sent for analysis of coal quality (proximate, ultimate analysis) and trace elements, including Hg. Splits of the samples will be analyzed for maceral composition and vitrinite reflectance.
5) Collaboration with USGS personnel on incorporating our data into the USGS HG study – During the entire project duration, we will be collaborating with USGS personnel, and Allan Kolker as the Project Leader of the Mercury project. The collaboration will include discussions, joint field work, and complementary analysis.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Earth MRI - Pennsylvanian paleosols
The objectives are to establish understanding of the variations of REE and other trace lelements in paleosols and identifiy those zones that could be considered a potential resource.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Earth MRI--Devonian Phosphate REEs
The objectives are to establish an understanding of regional REE concentration gradients for phosphorites within the Devonian to basal Mississippian interval across the eastern US and test standing models of REE enrichment in phosphorites.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Evaluation of the Illinois Basin coals for underground coal gasification (UCG)
We plan to synthesize all the information related to UCG and prepare a publication that would provide a comprehensive evaluation of coals for UCG basin wide
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
FY2019 USGS NGGDPP Grant: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2019 – Geochemistry and Critical Minerals
Priority 1
- Evaluating and updating 114 existing metadata records in the National Digital Catalog (NDC);
- Inventory and cataloging of 25 boxes of rediscovered geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
Priority 2
- Inventory, cataloging, and digitizing 204 linear feet of industrial minerals records
- Inventory, rehouse, and compile condition reports for 7,500 geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
- Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the NDC;
Priority 3
- Identifying and providing digital access to publicly available drill core data and information for priority areas with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources;
- Describing the relevant mineral information for mineral deposits and occurrences that host critical minerals;
- Providing geospatial representation(s) of areas that delineate prospective areas or geologic belts with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources together with supporting datasets; and
- Describing critical minerals assets to increase use and understanding, including creating metadata records for submission to the NDC.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Geologic support of abandoned and active coal mines in Indiana for ventilation design
This study was conducted to evaluate ventilation systems in underground coal mines and to identify ways in which improvement of ventilation systems in relation to different methane sources can increase mine safety. Coal mine methane has always been considered as a danger for underground coal mining. It can create a serious threat to mining safety and production. Proper mine ventilation can keep methane levels below the explosive limit and at the same time coal seam degasification is a means to recover energy from the methane gas retained in coal.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Illinois Basin Shale Energy Laboratory (IBSEL) Proposal -subcontract to the Ohio State University
The address the following questions are the main objectives of this project:
1) What critical factors determine the distribution and evolution of the pore systems and fracture networks in Pennsylvanian and Devonian petroleum systems in the Illinois Basin?
2) What is the distribution of fluids-in-place in Pennsylvanian and Devonian petroleum systems?
3) What are the mechanisms and rates of cross-stratal and strata-parallel paleofluid and induced fluid flow in low permeability formations under nanoscale confinement?
4) What geochemical and geophysical techniques suitably track and predict stimulated reservoir volume, production decline curves, and petroleum recovery from ‘tight’ fractured formations?
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Indiana Coal Quality Database (ICQD)
The Indiana Geological Survey has collected data and created databases on various physical and chemical parameters of Indiana coals for many years. This project creates the most comprehensive coal quality data compilation available for Indiana coals.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Investigation of the Origin and Nature of Coke Variations in Non-Recovery/Heat-Recovery Coke Making
The objective of our research is to further investigate the role of coal blend dilatation and rheology on coke porosity and CSR in an unconstrained heat-recovery cokemaking technology.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Major points sources of CO2 emissions from coal in Indiana
Provide major point sources of CO2 emissions from coal in Indiana (map and tabular data), including coal-burning electric power plants and industries and institutions.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Maps of the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin
Most comprehensive digital compilation of geologic information about the New Albany..
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Organic matter in the Illinois Basin: Interactive atlas: Part I – New Albany Shale
To design and prepare interactive atlas of organic matter. We plan to start with the New Albany Shale, followed by the coals and other formations in the Illinois Basin.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Organizing 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Bloomington
To organize Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Bloomington, IN in September 2019.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING PRODUCTS, BYPRODUCTS, AND REJECTS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
The overall objective of this project is to develop methodologies to identify potential targets for REE recov-ery from the coal value chain. To address this main objective, the more specific goals of this project are to:
1) Determine REE content in Indiana coals and identify coal beds that have highest REE concentrations. Although REE will be the critical elements of particular interest in this project, other elements such as aluminum, phosphorous, uranium, titanium, manganese, gallium, germanium, cobalt, and others will also be examined. These elements are included for bolstering our predictive tools such as principal component analysis, which will allow future explorations for REE to use less expensive methods to locate potential REE resources.
2) Evaluate the distribution of REE in various fractions generated by coal preparation plants: coarse re-fuse, fines, clean coal. The coarse refuse will be of special interest because REE concentrate in min-eral fractions. We expect that coarse refuse from coals having high REE contents as established in point 1 could be targets for REE recovery.
3) Investigate REE concentration in pulverized rejects from power plants and fly ash and bottom ash generated from Indiana coals. Because, as mentioned above, REE are dominantly associated with mineral fractions, they are concentrated in the mineral and glass phases of coal ashes. Special effort will be put into obtaining coal ash from the coals of increased REE concentrations, as established in point 1;
4) Assess REE potential in acid-mine drainage (AMD). AMD contains REEs in dissolved form, making them less expensive to process although concentrations are much lower than in raw coal material or coal combustion concentrates. Preliminary data suggest a strong correlation of REEs to aluminum and magnesium in AMD, indicative of a noncoal detrital clay association, which becomes soluble under acidic conditions.
5) Based on 1–4, identify set of geological/chemical attributes that can be used as proxies for “sweet spots” for REE. We will use selected statistical methods, for example, principal component analysis (PCA) to identify associations of REE with other elements, coal properties, geographic location, etc. These attributes will be used as a predictive tool for elevated occurrences of REE and ultimately will help to delineate best targets for future recovery.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Potential of Lower Block and Upper Block Coal Members for coking: Resources and properties
We plan to evaluate resources of the Lower Block and Upper Block Coal Members and map their availability
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Producibility
This project is comprised of two tasks related to shale gas: (1) Study of porosity in shale; and (2) Generation of catalytic shale gas. Each task focuses on an individual aspect in need of basic shale research for industrial and environmental reasons. For task 1, for the next 3 years, we intend to investigate links between porosity and permeability and ultimately producibility of hydrocarbons from shale. For task 2 we will study mechanisms of catalysis in shales. So far, the mechanism of geocatalytic shale gas generation remains elusive.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Productibility
This project is comprised of three tasks related to shale gas: (1) Study of porosity in shale; (2) Natural methane outgassing from shales into the atmosphere; and (3) Generation of catalytic shale gas. Each task focuses on an individual aspect in need of basic shale research for industrial and environmental reasons. All three tasks are conceptually linked.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Solid Biomass Energy
1) Create/improve the method of petrographic quality assessment for wider range of solid biomass products (including intermediate crops, crop by-products, grass, and other agricultural waste).
2) Expand our research expertise into growing biomass technologies like gasification (holzgas), torrefaction (biomass suitable for co-firing in coal-fired power plants), and anaerobic digestion (production of a methane-rich biogas from wet biomass sources).
3) Investigate relationships between raw fuel composition and the properties of their combustion and gasification emissions with a focus on parameters that could be used to predict the environmental and health impacts of fuel use.
4) Promote the idea of including petrographic analysis in solid biomass quality assurance testing and product certification with manuscripts, and presentations.
5) Expand collaboration with international universities and industry.
6) Create an "umbrella" center.
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Stratigraphy of the Brazil Formation coal and their potential for coking - Phase 2
Two main objectives of this project are:
1) advance understanding of the stratigraphy of the Brazil and Staunton Formation coals so that the seam identification and correlation become more reliable within the state as well as the entire Illinois Basin; and
2) investigate properties of the coals with the special emphasis on coking properties and consequently on their application in the steel industry
Primary Contact: Drobniak, Agnieszka
Fox, Janis
2020 IGWS Calendar
By using a portion of the IGWS digital collection of mineral images in the production of our 2020 IGWS calendar, it will provide a marketing tool with which our clientele can better visualize geologic mineral specimens. The calendar also will promote the fact that the IGWS has diverse collections of digital images, not only geologic in nature, but beautiful, as well. It will show the public how geology can be used as modern frame-able wall art and combined with the practicality of a calendar.
Primary Contact: Fox, Janis
2023 EAS Graduate Student Luncheon
Welcome new students and educate them about potential opportunities with the Indiana Geological and Water Survey.
Primary Contact: Fox, Janis
IGWS Library and Archives Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, public records room, or in-house archive
- identify materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives, prioritize their digitization then transfer them
Medium-term
- identify and prioritize materials for archival digitization
- accurately determine records housing needs for return to renovated building (number of boxes, flat file sizes, rolled storage, etc.)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Fox, Janis
Frushour, Sam
Critical zone karst observatory
1) Designing and implementing an online registry and inventory system for dye traces that will update IndianaMap and provide notifications to the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and emergency management professionals in the location where such traces occur.
a. This project mimics the implementation by the Kentucky Division of Water that provides a record of all dye traces conducted in the state. Information from these dye traces are incorporated into statewide maps that help state agencies create and implement development and construction plans.
b. Indiana citizens benefit from this project by having a source of information for active, and justified, projects that define groundwater flow.
c. Emergency professionals benefit from this project by having an actively updated source of information to distribute in advance of planned tracing activities or answer questions or concerns from citizens.
2) Soliciting existing dye trace data in state/federal agencies, universities, and consulting firms to enhance the presently existing layer in IndianaMap.
a. Decades of dye-trace data are presently scattered among environmental consultants, cave enthusiasts, and state agencies. This project will create and authoritative repository and source for these data.
b. This effort enhances existing layers in IndianaMap (http://maps.indiana.edu) by collecting all dye trace data in a free public-accessible and searchable site.
3) Conducting a sequence of dye traces in Harrison/Crawford Counties in collaboration with private landowners, tourist caves, state/federal agencies, and municipalities to better outline the boundaries of groundwater basins.
a. This project was specifically requested by Mr. Rand Heazlitt, manager of the Town of Corydon and a co-investor of Indiana Caverns.
b. Additional dye tracing will help guide exploration and define the limits of the landscape that contributes water to Indiana Caverns.
c. Targeted tracing will also help illustrate the direction and speed of groundwater flow, which can help Mr. Heazlitt leverage state funding to expand the sanitation system of the Town of Corydon in response to increased housing development.
4) Installing a set of field-based geochemical and water-level monitoring instrumentation in caves, wells, and springs of the Blueppring and Lost River karst basins of Lawrence and Orange Counties to provide insight into changes in water chemistry and discharge across the karst basins and during individual storms.
a. One outcome of this project is an increased understanding of how the landscape responds to rainfall, which have caused considerable flooding and are projected to become greater in intensity with climate change.
b. Data from some sites in this project will be made available online for the public and to visitors of Bluespring Cavern in real time on a website that can be live streamed in the visitor center.
5) Collecting water samples at six (6) locations in the Lost River karst basin that, when combined with the data in project 4, provide unique and valuable insight into the transport of carbon, nutrients, and sediments in an agriculturally intensive landscape.
a. The data from projects 4 and 5 will be used to create a comprehensive view of the rate of nutrient and sediment loss from these karst basins.
b. Such results are vitally important to better refining the role of karst landscapes in the global carbon cycle.
c. Results from this study will provide one node of data that can help model water quality changes in the Mississippi River watershed and better predict the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico caused by excess nutrients.
Primary Contact: Frushour, Sam
Locating and characterizing important springs of the Indiana Uplands
Scour publication archives for historical spring data dating back to 1901; visit 100 springs to sample water quality and compare these results to available historical data; use these data to develop and make available a geospatial database of springs; and develop a crowdsourcing geospatial tool to acquire information on springs and engage residents in communities throughout SWCI.
Primary Contact: Frushour, Sam
Fuller, Kevin
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Fuller, Kevin
IGS Geospatial Portal
The Survey needs a central enterprise data store that users across all divisions of the organization can access and update. Project data will be collected centrally and can be used (and updated) in future projects. This continually improving data set will not only make work easier within the Survey, but can be used as a product for external use as well.
Primary Contact: Fuller, Kevin
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Fuller, Kevin
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Fuller, Kevin
Gagnon, Chris
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Gagnon, Chris
Gray, Henry
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Gray, Henry
Quaternary History of the Beanblossom Valley, south-central Indiana
The objective of this project is to determine the timing of glacial advances into the Beanblossom Creek basin by using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and paleopedology. Research going back over 100 years suggest that Illinoian (Isotope Stage 6) ice blocked the westward-flowing ancestral Beanblossom Creek and created a large glacial lake. We seek to quantify the Illinoian age assignment using both OSL and detailed analysis (pedologic description, particle size analysis, silt and clay mineraology and silt geochemistry) of the Sangamon Geosol. The two techniques will complement each other, as OSL will provide absolute chronology and analysis of the Sangamon Geosol will supplement the OSL age with weathering ratios, depth of carbonate leaching, and amount of clay accumulation (among others).
Primary Contact: Gray, Henry
Stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene Glacial Lake Patoka, south central Indiana
The goal of this study is to combine existing stratigraphic, mineralogic and geophysical data and current interpretations by Dr. Gray, to new datasets to be produced during the study (from shallow coring, geochronology, passive seismic data) in order to develop a litho- and chronostratigraphic framework of the GLP area.
Primary Contact: Gray, Henry
Griem, Madeline
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Griem, Madeline
FY2022 USGS NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2022 – Records Center and Server Salvage
• Purchase 5,000 Hollinger boxes and label sleeves to store records on new high-density shelving
• Inventory and rehouse 693.4 LF of petroleum industry records
• Merge, reduce, and rehouse 101.3 LF of duplicated gamma log records
• Organize, describe, and ingest into ResourceSpace 26,000 core photographs and interpreted X-ray fluorescence data pdfs
• Update National Digital Catalog records (NDC)
Primary Contact: Griem, Madeline
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Griem, Madeline
Griffin, Kathleen
Augmented Reality 3D Sandbox
To develop and construct a high-interest, interactive exhibit display that demonstrates changing topography and the consequences of such processes.
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
IGS Geospatial Portal
The Survey needs a central enterprise data store that users across all divisions of the organization can access and update. Project data will be collected centrally and can be used (and updated) in future projects. This continually improving data set will not only make work easier within the Survey, but can be used as a product for external use as well.
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
PfEC: Urban Green Infrastructure geospatial data portal development
We will create an ArcGIS Online organizational account for ERIGIS and build several StoryMaps, data layers, and gallery features for the data synthesis and visualization needs of the Grand Challenges.
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
Piloting the OSDU platform for inter-state geological survey data management for synthetic 3D mapping initiative
This project will evaluate the efficacy of the OSDU data platform and determine whether or not the OSDU is a suitable candidate for enterprise data management for the IGWS and the energy, stratigraphy, and other data siloes.
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
The Indiana Water Balance Network
The Indiana Water Balance Network (IWBN) was developed to monitor trends in water loss and gain for different components of the hydrologic cycle in various hydrogeologic settings.
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
The Indiana Water Balance Network - 2
The Indiana Water Balance Network (IWBN) was developed to to monitor long-term trends for various components of the hydrologic cycle, including near-surface atmospheric conditions, soil physical parameters, and groundwater level.
Primary Contact: Griffin, Kathleen
Hampton, LaBraun
Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S., Basins
The overall objective of this project is to assess availability of coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD in Indiana that could potentially serve as sources of REE.
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
Fractured Core Pressure-Pulse Decay
Using equipment to analyze pressure transients from three chambers in contact with shale specimens, this work will develop a technology that accounts for both fracture flow and shale anisotropy with suitable throughput for industrial needs. Implementing this strategy will help to optimize resource-recovery strategies from shale reservoirs, which accounts for roughly 60% (and growing) of nationwide hydrocarbon production. Efforts to this point have proven the concept only through computational analyses. This project, through a series of split-sampling comparisons, will prove it through experimental validation. Once proven, the technology will be marketed to commercial core-analysis laboratories and energy companies for licensing.
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING PRODUCTS, BYPRODUCTS, AND REJECTS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
The overall objective of this project is to develop methodologies to identify potential targets for REE recov-ery from the coal value chain. To address this main objective, the more specific goals of this project are to:
1) Determine REE content in Indiana coals and identify coal beds that have highest REE concentrations. Although REE will be the critical elements of particular interest in this project, other elements such as aluminum, phosphorous, uranium, titanium, manganese, gallium, germanium, cobalt, and others will also be examined. These elements are included for bolstering our predictive tools such as principal component analysis, which will allow future explorations for REE to use less expensive methods to locate potential REE resources.
2) Evaluate the distribution of REE in various fractions generated by coal preparation plants: coarse re-fuse, fines, clean coal. The coarse refuse will be of special interest because REE concentrate in min-eral fractions. We expect that coarse refuse from coals having high REE contents as established in point 1 could be targets for REE recovery.
3) Investigate REE concentration in pulverized rejects from power plants and fly ash and bottom ash generated from Indiana coals. Because, as mentioned above, REE are dominantly associated with mineral fractions, they are concentrated in the mineral and glass phases of coal ashes. Special effort will be put into obtaining coal ash from the coals of increased REE concentrations, as established in point 1;
4) Assess REE potential in acid-mine drainage (AMD). AMD contains REEs in dissolved form, making them less expensive to process although concentrations are much lower than in raw coal material or coal combustion concentrates. Preliminary data suggest a strong correlation of REEs to aluminum and magnesium in AMD, indicative of a noncoal detrital clay association, which becomes soluble under acidic conditions.
5) Based on 1–4, identify set of geological/chemical attributes that can be used as proxies for “sweet spots” for REE. We will use selected statistical methods, for example, principal component analysis (PCA) to identify associations of REE with other elements, coal properties, geographic location, etc. These attributes will be used as a predictive tool for elevated occurrences of REE and ultimately will help to delineate best targets for future recovery.
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Producibility
This project is comprised of two tasks related to shale gas: (1) Study of porosity in shale; and (2) Generation of catalytic shale gas. Each task focuses on an individual aspect in need of basic shale research for industrial and environmental reasons. For task 1, for the next 3 years, we intend to investigate links between porosity and permeability and ultimately producibility of hydrocarbons from shale. For task 2 we will study mechanisms of catalysis in shales. So far, the mechanism of geocatalytic shale gas generation remains elusive.
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Hampton, LaBraun
Hasenmueller, Nancy
2014 Indiana Geological Survey Data Preservation Program
Inventory and catalogue approximately 40,000 grain-size sediment samples that are stored in approximately 700 core boxes and analyze/associate them with existing IGS records and databases.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
2014-15 Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition Website
The website provides information on the goals, products, and personnel of the eight Great Lakes state geological surveys (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. The GLGMC website is used by a number of individuals, including the general public, planners, consultants, and state and federal agencies.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
2015 Indiana Data Preservation Program
For many years, the IGS has kept geologic records, maps, field notebooks, and partially completed projects remaining from scientific research staff who retired or left employment. Approximately 32 file cabinets, 36 map cabinets, and 45 banker boxes exist at the IGS that contain geological paper records from past employees; for the most part, though, there is no catalog or inventory of these items. Some files and boxes are labeled with the name of a staff member or a general topic; however, current staff of the IGS do not know in detail what they contain. We do believe that some records are related to the IGS’s physical sample collections and various other geological databases, and they may contain descriptions of rock core, sediment samples, and outcrops. Documenting the details of these unexamined records would provide added value to our existing collections and geological databases.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
2015-16 Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition Website
The website provides information on the goals, products, and personnel of the eight Great Lakes state geological surveys (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. The GLGMC website is used by a number of individuals, including the general public, planners, consultants, and state and federal agencies.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Archiving Geophysical Logs
The objective of the archiving projectis to create standardized digital formats of all IGS geophysical logs and make them available to IGS staff and the public as PDF and LAS downloads via the IGS web site
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Development of a IGWS Publication Management System
The revised system will function as a peer-reviewed journal open to submission and review from IGWS and non-IGWS staff. Items reviewed for external publication will be stored in a 'dark archive' with publication numbers used internally for staff reporting and IGWS productivity metrics. Publications reviewed for internal publication will have DOI numbers assigned and will become available in a 'live archive' as indexable items available for open access.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Digital GIS compilation of selected data from Gas Potential of the New Albany Shale (Devonian and Mississippian) in the Illinois Basin
The objectives of the original study, completed in 1994, were to update, compile, review, and interpret available literature, maps, and unpublished data concerning the gas potential of the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin. A basinwide cooperative approach using the expertise of scientists from the Illinois Basin Consortium, comprising the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Indiana Geological Survey, and the Kentucky Geological Survey, was employed to produce basinwide maps and stratigraphic cross sections relating to the gas potential.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Digital surficial geologic map product for Monroe County, Indiana
To provide detailed geologic information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product provides surficial geologic information for the county.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Evaluation of groundwater age and chemistry relations in aquifer systems in Lake, Porter, and La Porte Counties
This project defined groundwater flow systems and their chemistry within Lake, Porter, and La Porte Counties.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Glacial terrains: Digital products for outreach and education
To address these issues, we will combine existing digital data sets and regional glacial-terrain mapping with newly available subsurface databases, digital elevation models (DEMs), and digital imagery. This process will continue an evolution toward the use of streamlined, user-friendly desktop environments using off-the-shelf software.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Groundwater in aquifer systems of LaGrange County–baseline water chemistry, nitrate contamination, and aquifer sensitivity
The study was conducted to determine the baseline water chemistry and the levels of naturally occurring and man-made contaminants in the groundwater of LaGrange County.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
IGWS STATEMAP Products Spreadsheet/Database
This task focuses on creating and maintaining a spreadsheet/database that contains information for all the STATEMAP maps and map-related documents that the IGWS has completed and/or submitted to the USGS since 1993. The spreadsheet/database will contain the following information for each map or map-related product: the year that the project was initiated, the name of the mapped area, the map scale, the amount of federal and state dollars contributed to the product, designation of each map as a bedrock or surficial map, the IGWS publication number, the availability of the product from the IGWS Bookstore, the correct citation for the IGWS published and unpublished documents, and the USGS STATEMAP grant number.
Using the spreadsheet/database, an updated interactive map will be created to showcase the mapping efforts in the state. This map (located on the STATEMAP webpage) will provide links to published STATEMAP products for the public; another version will provide links to both published and unpublished STATEMAP products for the IGWS staff.
The data could also be used to either update the Data Collection Viewer or create a new application, the IGWS Data Hub, to showcase all survey work. A second phase to the project could be to create a StoryMap.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Indiana Geologic Names Information System
The database facilitates labeling stratigraphic data in IGWS digital and paper archives, aid IGWS researchers in locating current geologic nomenclature for their publications, and provide web-based access to IGWS geologic nomenclature to a broad spectrum of users from academia, industry, government, and the general public.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Indiana Geological Survey Geologic Names Information System
The database will facilitate labeling stratigraphic data in IGWS digital and paper archives, aid IGWS researchers in locating current geologic nomenclature for their publications, and provide web-based access to IGWS geologic nomenclature to a broad spectrum of users from academia, industry, government, and the general public.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Indiana Geological Survey Geologic Names Information System
The database will facilitate labeling stratigraphic data in IGS digital and paper archives, aid IGS researchers in locating current geologic nomenclature for their publications, and provide Web-based access to IGS geologic nomenclature to a broad spectrum of users from academia, industry, government, and the general public.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Indiana Geological Survey Geologic Names Information System
The database facilitates labeling stratigraphic data in IGWS digital and paper archives, aid IGWS researchers in locating current geologic nomenclature for their publications, and provide web-based access to IGWS geologic nomenclature to a broad spectrum of users from academia, industry, government, and the general public.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Karst Poster
These water-quality problems result from human activities and can be prevented in part through better education of the general public about the areal extent, characteristics, and sensitivity of the karst environment.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Potential nonpoint-source contamination of the Spring Mill Lake drainage basin
Determine the sources of contaminants that pollute Spring Mill Lake.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Azalia quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Azalia 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Elizabethtown and Hope quadrangles)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Elizabethtown and Hope 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (New Bellsville and Columbus quadrangles)
This study will produce detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the New Bellsville and Columbus 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Three-Dimensional Geologic Mapping of a Quaternary Paleovalley System, Bartholomew County (Edinburgh quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Edinburgh 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Update of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey History for the IU Bicentennial
Update the IGWS history document produced by Patton (1988)
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Web-based glacial and bedrock geologic map products and databases for Allen County, Indiana
To provide detailed geologic information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial geologic information, as well as a depiction of subsurface information based on subsurface databases.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Web-based glacial and bedrock geologic map products and databases for Marion County, Indiana
To provide detailed geologic information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product provides traditional surficial geologic information, as well as a depiction of subsurface information based on subsurface databases.
Primary Contact: Hasenmueller, Nancy
Hettle, John
DEAS Temporary Collections Management
- oversee movement of collections to temporary storage
- maintain safety and security of collections for duration of temporary custody
- incorporate assessment and inventory of collections with ongoing IGWS collections activities at Otis.
Primary Contact: Hettle, John
Jacobs, Peter
Peoria Loess Chronology and Provenance
This project will determine the provenance and chronology of deposition of Peoria Loess during the last glacial period in central Indiana.
Primary Contact: Jacobs, Peter
Stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene Glacial Lake Patoka, south central Indiana
The goal of this study is to combine existing stratigraphic, mineralogic and geophysical data and current interpretations by Dr. Gray, to new datasets to be produced during the study (from shallow coring, geochronology, passive seismic data) in order to develop a litho- and chronostratigraphic framework of the GLP area.
Primary Contact: Jacobs, Peter
Johnson, Matthew
2017 StateMap
The primary goal of mapping the portion of Elkhart quadrangle in Indiana is to gain an improved understanding of the chronology and 3-D stratigraphy of the glacial and glaciofluvial units in the area, already well mapped by earlier STATEMAP efforts at a more detailed scale.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
2017 StateMap Project 1_Logansport 1:100,000 scale quadrangle bedrock mapping
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
2020 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
ABC's of Indiana Geology
Share a term on social media that relates to Indiana geology once a week, for 52 weeks.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Assessment of Potential for Induced Seismicity in the Illinois Basin
Determine if there are threshold values of pressures and volumes of injected fluids that could trigger earthquakes. Provide technical analysis to the policy makers and regulatory community that governs oil and gas development in the state and region.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Augmented Reality 3D Sandbox
To develop and construct a high-interest, interactive exhibit display that demonstrates changing topography and the consequences of such processes.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Chicago East Quadrangle bedrock mapping
Generate a bedrock geologic map for the Indiana portion of the 1:100,000 scale Chicago East Quadrangle and advance understanding of the buried Silurian-Devonian bedrock aquifer and confining Maquoketa and New Albany shale-dominate units in this area.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Coal Mining History Story Map
Our objective is to create an easily accessible and useful story map using already written content and available photos and figures with a minimum of staff effort.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Converting Coal Maps to Story Maps
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
CRE - Resilient Hoosier Communities - Detailed topographic trail maps, promoting recreational opportunities along Indiana’s Knobstone escarpment
The need for detailed maps in the SWCI region is relevant and essential given the CRE Resilient Communities Goal 3 to increase recreation within the Indiana Uplands region. Providing access information, updated topographic data, trail locations, and other recreational opportunities is truly the first step in enhancing recreation in the area and getting more visitors to the Indiana Uplands region.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Critical zone karst observatory
1) Designing and implementing an online registry and inventory system for dye traces that will update IndianaMap and provide notifications to the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and emergency management professionals in the location where such traces occur.
a. This project mimics the implementation by the Kentucky Division of Water that provides a record of all dye traces conducted in the state. Information from these dye traces are incorporated into statewide maps that help state agencies create and implement development and construction plans.
b. Indiana citizens benefit from this project by having a source of information for active, and justified, projects that define groundwater flow.
c. Emergency professionals benefit from this project by having an actively updated source of information to distribute in advance of planned tracing activities or answer questions or concerns from citizens.
2) Soliciting existing dye trace data in state/federal agencies, universities, and consulting firms to enhance the presently existing layer in IndianaMap.
a. Decades of dye-trace data are presently scattered among environmental consultants, cave enthusiasts, and state agencies. This project will create and authoritative repository and source for these data.
b. This effort enhances existing layers in IndianaMap (http://maps.indiana.edu) by collecting all dye trace data in a free public-accessible and searchable site.
3) Conducting a sequence of dye traces in Harrison/Crawford Counties in collaboration with private landowners, tourist caves, state/federal agencies, and municipalities to better outline the boundaries of groundwater basins.
a. This project was specifically requested by Mr. Rand Heazlitt, manager of the Town of Corydon and a co-investor of Indiana Caverns.
b. Additional dye tracing will help guide exploration and define the limits of the landscape that contributes water to Indiana Caverns.
c. Targeted tracing will also help illustrate the direction and speed of groundwater flow, which can help Mr. Heazlitt leverage state funding to expand the sanitation system of the Town of Corydon in response to increased housing development.
4) Installing a set of field-based geochemical and water-level monitoring instrumentation in caves, wells, and springs of the Blueppring and Lost River karst basins of Lawrence and Orange Counties to provide insight into changes in water chemistry and discharge across the karst basins and during individual storms.
a. One outcome of this project is an increased understanding of how the landscape responds to rainfall, which have caused considerable flooding and are projected to become greater in intensity with climate change.
b. Data from some sites in this project will be made available online for the public and to visitors of Bluespring Cavern in real time on a website that can be live streamed in the visitor center.
5) Collecting water samples at six (6) locations in the Lost River karst basin that, when combined with the data in project 4, provide unique and valuable insight into the transport of carbon, nutrients, and sediments in an agriculturally intensive landscape.
a. The data from projects 4 and 5 will be used to create a comprehensive view of the rate of nutrient and sediment loss from these karst basins.
b. Such results are vitally important to better refining the role of karst landscapes in the global carbon cycle.
c. Results from this study will provide one node of data that can help model water quality changes in the Mississippi River watershed and better predict the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico caused by excess nutrients.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
CUSEC-SG Historic Earthquake Epicenters and Active Seismic Monitoring Stations
Through the Central United States Earthquake Consortium-State Geologists (CUSEC-SG), the IGS is compiling and mapping these important information resources. The CUSEC is composed of the eight states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Digital surficial geologic map product for Monroe County, Indiana
To provide detailed geologic information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product provides surficial geologic information for the county.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Distance Learning
The objective is to create a series of distance learning webinars that will connect Indiana teachers and students to geoscience careers and research.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Earth MRI - Pennsylvanian paleosols
The objectives are to establish understanding of the variations of REE and other trace lelements in paleosols and identifiy those zones that could be considered a potential resource.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Earth MRI--Devonian Phosphate REEs
The objectives are to establish an understanding of regional REE concentration gradients for phosphorites within the Devonian to basal Mississippian interval across the eastern US and test standing models of REE enrichment in phosphorites.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
E-GeoNews 2020-2021
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
E-GeoNews 2021-2022
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
E-GeoNews 2022-2023
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Elkhart Statemap 18
Develop a continuous mapping coverage at a regional scale for northern Indiana that can be used for planning purposes.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Eppley Institute - Monroe County Park Maps
Provide updated maps and analysis for Eppley report and for the county.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Extent, characteristics, and regional relations of the interlobate region in north-central Indiana
This project aims to develop an understanding of the physical properties, stratigraphic relations, and boundary conditions of the Saginaw, Huron-Erie, and Lake Michigan lobes
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
FY2019 USGS NGGDPP Grant: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2019 – Geochemistry and Critical Minerals
Priority 1
- Evaluating and updating 114 existing metadata records in the National Digital Catalog (NDC);
- Inventory and cataloging of 25 boxes of rediscovered geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
Priority 2
- Inventory, cataloging, and digitizing 204 linear feet of industrial minerals records
- Inventory, rehouse, and compile condition reports for 7,500 geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
- Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the NDC;
Priority 3
- Identifying and providing digital access to publicly available drill core data and information for priority areas with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources;
- Describing the relevant mineral information for mineral deposits and occurrences that host critical minerals;
- Providing geospatial representation(s) of areas that delineate prospective areas or geologic belts with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources together with supporting datasets; and
- Describing critical minerals assets to increase use and understanding, including creating metadata records for submission to the NDC.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
GENI - Mapping Indiana’s Bicentennial
Provide detailed maps of each county at various scales using base data and data provided by each county that are timeless and can be used for many years in the classroom and at other educational opportunities.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
GeoNotes for 2017
Create new GeoNotes to continue educational outreach
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IGS Geospatial Portal
The Survey needs a central enterprise data store that users across all divisions of the organization can access and update. Project data will be collected centrally and can be used (and updated) in future projects. This continually improving data set will not only make work easier within the Survey, but can be used as a product for external use as well.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IGS Miscellaneous Map: Near-surface Aquifer Sensitivity in Indiana
Develop a conceptual model of the physical factors and processes that control groundwater recharge in Indiana, and devise an objective measure of recharge over the landscape. Develop a statewide assessment of aquifer sensitivity to near-surface contamination based on the relationship of recharge to migration of contaminants through the unsaturated zone.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IGS Miscellaneous Map: Near-surface Groundwater Recharge in Indiana
Develop a conceptual model of the physical factors and processes that control groundwater recharge in Indiana, and devise an objective measure of recharge over the landscape. Develop a statewide assessment of aquifer sensitivity to near-surface contamination based on the relationship of recharge to migration of contaminants through the unsaturated zone.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IGS Miscellaneous Map: Sinkhole Development Risk in south-central Indiana
Identify both existing areas of karst development in south-central Indiana, along with identification of the spatial distribution of areas with high probabilities of karst or sinkhole development.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IGWS STATEMAP Products Spreadsheet/Database
This task focuses on creating and maintaining a spreadsheet/database that contains information for all the STATEMAP maps and map-related documents that the IGWS has completed and/or submitted to the USGS since 1993. The spreadsheet/database will contain the following information for each map or map-related product: the year that the project was initiated, the name of the mapped area, the map scale, the amount of federal and state dollars contributed to the product, designation of each map as a bedrock or surficial map, the IGWS publication number, the availability of the product from the IGWS Bookstore, the correct citation for the IGWS published and unpublished documents, and the USGS STATEMAP grant number.
Using the spreadsheet/database, an updated interactive map will be created to showcase the mapping efforts in the state. This map (located on the STATEMAP webpage) will provide links to published STATEMAP products for the public; another version will provide links to both published and unpublished STATEMAP products for the IGWS staff.
The data could also be used to either update the Data Collection Viewer or create a new application, the IGWS Data Hub, to showcase all survey work. A second phase to the project could be to create a StoryMap.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IM Producers Indiana Map Update, Storymap, and Data Download Services
This objective of this project is to improve public access to data pertaining to Indiana industrial mineral mines.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana bedrock core location map
The objectives of this project are to:
Create a derivative dataset that is connected to the current IGS drill cores (data from the PDMS) that can be used for mapping core locations, their sampled intervals, and reference numbers.
Assign created stratigraphic unit abbreviations, an additional field, in the existing IGS drill core location data table or tables. This field will be used for labeling the locations on the map and give user a quick reference to the stratigraphic unit without having to search through many attributes.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana bedrock core map viewer
The objectives of this project are to:
Create a derivative dataset that is connected to the current IGS drill cores (data within the PDMS) that can be used for mapping core locations, their sampled intervals, and reference numbers.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 1
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 2
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 3
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 4
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 5
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IndianaMap
Create a central repository of spatial data for Indiana and to make the data freely available to the public in a format that is readily accessible.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
IU Bicentennial: Uncovering the Hidden History of Megalonyx jeffersonii to Engage in Indiana University’s Natural History Collections
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Landmarks in Indiana Geology
This project focuses on chronicling (Chronicle and Document goals) the history of geological discoveries and events in the State of Indiana. Moreover, this project documents the changing needs for energy, mineral, and water resources in the state and the activities of IU and IGS researchers to support the state’s economy. Because of the close association of IU and the IGS, many of these geological discoveries were made by IU faculty working for the IGS. Notable IU researchers (Celebrate and Recognize goals) include R. D. Owen, E.T. Cox, E.R. Cummings, C.A. Mallott, W.N. Logan, R.R. Schrock, W.D. Thornbury, C. Deiss, J. Patton, and R. Shaver.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Learning Lab
This project will serve as an example for hands-on learning with collections on the IU campus.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Locating and characterizing important springs of the Indiana Uplands
Scour publication archives for historical spring data dating back to 1901; visit 100 springs to sample water quality and compare these results to available historical data; use these data to develop and make available a geospatial database of springs; and develop a crowdsourcing geospatial tool to acquire information on springs and engage residents in communities throughout SWCI.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Major points sources of CO2 emissions from coal in Indiana
Provide major point sources of CO2 emissions from coal in Indiana (map and tabular data), including coal-burning electric power plants and industries and institutions.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Maps of the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin
Most comprehensive digital compilation of geologic information about the New Albany..
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
PDMS Fix 2022-2024
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS. The method for obtaining records in the future may also be changed so that the PDMS can be maintained more easily.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
PfEC: Urban Green Infrastructure geospatial data portal development
We will create an ArcGIS Online organizational account for ERIGIS and build several StoryMaps, data layers, and gallery features for the data synthesis and visualization needs of the Grand Challenges.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Piloting the OSDU platform for inter-state geological survey data management for synthetic 3D mapping initiative
This project will evaluate the efficacy of the OSDU data platform and determine whether or not the OSDU is a suitable candidate for enterprise data management for the IGWS and the energy, stratigraphy, and other data siloes.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Quake Cottage/NEHRP 10
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Azalia quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Azalia 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Elizabethtown and Hope quadrangles)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Elizabethtown and Hope 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (New Bellsville and Columbus quadrangles)
This study will produce detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the New Bellsville and Columbus 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Social Media
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
State Park Geology Guides
This project will update the state park guides published in 1974-1988 and create new guides for for other state park locations. The guides will be made available on the IGWS website, DNR Resource webpage, and distributed to DNR personnel.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
State Park Geology Guides
Produce geologic guides for the most popular state parks in Indiana to enhance the visitors’ experience. The audience is the interested lay reader.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
StateMap 2019 - Knox
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
STATEMAP 2015 Morgan County
The 2015 STATEMAP project will produce (1) a preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Mooresville East 7.5-minute quadrangle (1:24,000-scale) with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units and (2) preliminary detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Martinsville and Mooresville West 7.5-minute quadrangles (1:24,000-scale) with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
STATEMAP 2016
Advance our understanding of the bedrock of Morgan County specifically, and the broader understanding of the Sanders Group to the New Albany Shale interval. Create products that can be accessed and utilized by a broad user group from geologists to planners.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
StateMap 2019 - South Bend
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
StateMap 2020-21 South Bend + Drilling Supplement
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state. Supplemental Funding goal: verify stratigraphy and bedrock surface in 2 areas in N Indiana.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Stratigraphy and chronology of Late Wisconsinan glacial deposits, south-central Indiana - Coalition 2017
The goal is to document the chronology and stratigraphy of late Wisconsinan glacial sediments in south-central Indiana and build a 3-D geological model of unconsolidated sediments for the region.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Sulfates in Indiana Substrates
Project designed to assist by developing screening method, comparison of accuracy between different soluble sulfate analytical methods, and providing GIS maps showing areas of concern for elevated sulfates, as well as gaps in statewide distribution for existing soil and groundwater data sets.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Three-Dimensional Geologic Mapping of a Quaternary Paleovalley System, Bartholomew County (Edinburgh quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Edinburgh 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
TM01 Updated - Charles Deam Wilderness Map
Continue to provide cartographic and detailed topographic trail map for the Charles Deam Wilderness and surrounding areas.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Web-based glacial & bedrock geologic map products & databases for Bartholomew County, IN (Year 2) - Coalition 2016
The objective of this task is to provide detailed geological information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial and bedrock geological information, as well as subsurface information, derivative maps, and summaries that will help users understand and make use of the wealth of geologic information that is becoming available for Bartholomew County.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Web-based glacial and bedrock geologic map products and databases for Bartholomew County, Indiana
The objective of this task is to provide detailed geological information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial and bedrock geological information, as well as subsurface information, derivative maps, and summaries that will help users understand and make use of the wealth of geologic information that is becoming available for Bartholomew County.
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Whetstone StoryMap
Primary Contact: Johnson, Matthew
Jones, Casey
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
IGS Geospatial Portal
The Survey needs a central enterprise data store that users across all divisions of the organization can access and update. Project data will be collected centrally and can be used (and updated) in future projects. This continually improving data set will not only make work easier within the Survey, but can be used as a product for external use as well.
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
S_Kankakee 100k Quaternary Mapping
The objective of this project is to provide surficial and subsurface geologic data needed for water resource management, land-use planning, and infrastructure projects. The project will obtain new data in addition to compiling existing geologic maps and associated data.
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
TM01 Updated - Charles Deam Wilderness Map
Continue to provide cartographic and detailed topographic trail map for the Charles Deam Wilderness and surrounding areas.
Primary Contact: Jones, Casey
Keith, Brian
2019 Limestone Month
This project seeks to educate the public about the geologic history of Indiana Limestone and its uses, through educational activities, photograph galleries, guided quarry tours, guided campus walking tours, and media interviews.
Primary Contact: Keith, Brian
A systems approach to identifying exploration and development opportunities in the Illinois Basin: Digital portfolio of plays in underexplored Lower Paleozoic rocks
Develop a digital play portfolio for Devonian and deeper Paleozoic strata in the Illinois Basin, which represents a poorly understood and underutilized energy resource.
Primary Contact: Keith, Brian
Architecture of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in the dimension stone district of south-central Indiana
The purpose of the project is to determine the architecture of a Salem carbonate shoal and the potential fluid-flow pathways.
Primary Contact: Keith, Brian
Mapping bedrock geology, Monroe County
This project anticipates the need for more detailed geologic information to guide planning in and around a major population center along the corridor of the of the Interstate 69 extension from Indianapolis to Evansville. The project is also intended to expedite current scientific studies of the economically important Salem Limestone and related rocks in central Monroe County, and to further refine computer mapping techniques. The detailed geologic framework and databases that this project will create are intended to document karst features and to provide data for the quantitative assessment of dimension and crushed stone resources in the county.
Primary Contact: Keith, Brian
Trenton Limestone of Indiana
An up to date compilation on the Trenton Limestone and the distribution of dolomite within the unit in Indiana. Potential petroleum reservoirs are generally limited to areas of dolomitzation which need to be defined by mapping. The integrated information from mapping and publications will be used to write the report.
Primary Contact: Keith, Brian
Knauth, Will
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
Continuation of scanning out-of-print IGWS publications to post to the IGWS Bookstore and IGWS Archive.
To continue to make sure all publications and products produced by the IGWS are available digitally and are 'discoverable' to both the staff researchers and to the public.
To continue to assist the IGWS Photographer with timely completion of IGWS projects and publications.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
Digitization of Lithologic Strip Collection and Entry into the Digital Asset Management System
- Digitize existing Lithologic Strips
- Prepare and upload image files
- Enter the relevant location and project information in the metadata
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
FY2022 USGS NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2022 – Records Center and Server Salvage
• Purchase 5,000 Hollinger boxes and label sleeves to store records on new high-density shelving
• Inventory and rehouse 693.4 LF of petroleum industry records
• Merge, reduce, and rehouse 101.3 LF of duplicated gamma log records
• Organize, describe, and ingest into ResourceSpace 26,000 core photographs and interpreted X-ray fluorescence data pdfs
• Update National Digital Catalog records (NDC)
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
IGWS ResourceSpace DAMS Content Curation and System Refinement
Addition of metadata to collections ingested into RS, digital curation and ingest of IGWS materials, alterations and refinements of elements of RS system.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
Indiana Limestone Photo Collection - University of Michigan School of Information Student Digital Curation Project
Have a subsection of the ILPC in Resource Space by the conclusion of the project with all currently extant metadata description attached. As well as to add depth to metadata descriptions for greater accessibility and utility. Generate effective workflows to guide similar work in the future.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
Open Access Publications: RS/Bookstore/IUSW
To process IGWS publications for accessibility and ensure an accurate asset entry and retrieval option is in place for all Open Access Pubs. This will be accomplished in three repository locations, ResourceSpace, IUScholarWorks, and the IGWS bookstore; with all relevant data stored in IU secured cold data storage.
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Knauth, Will
Lanman, Jennifer
2019 Limestone Month
This project seeks to educate the public about the geologic history of Indiana Limestone and its uses, through educational activities, photograph galleries, guided quarry tours, guided campus walking tours, and media interviews.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
2020 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
2023 exhibit
The 2023 exhibition will be centered around the Pleistocene ice age. A physical exhibit will be developed in the IGWS lobby and a coordinating 150-ft geologic timeline will be installed in the Learning Lab. Complementary in-person and digital programming will be developed to extend the exhibition's reach and impact. UITS 3D will create a 3D Matterport scan of the Learning Lab, which will be linked on the IGWS website. The Ice Age exhibition will coordinate with the 2023 annual calendar and the new Indiana state fossil.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
2024 Learning Lab
Project improvements will increase the accessibility of the Learning Lab and offer more opportunities for intergenerational learning.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Building a Nation: The Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection (ILPC)-Continuation
To make this image collection and its associated metadata digital and available to researchers, scholars, and the general public through Indiana University's Image Collections Online (ICO) site and Indiana State Library's "Indiana Memory Project".
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Building a Nation: The Indiana Limestone Photograph Collection (ILPC)-Continuation
To make this image collection and its associated metadata digital and available to researchers, scholars, and the general public through Indiana University's Image Collections Online (ICO) site and Indiana State Library's "Indiana Memory Project".
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Continuation of scanning out-of-print IGWS publications to post to the IGWS Bookstore and IGWS Archive.
To continue to make sure all publications and products produced by the IGWS are available digitally and are 'discoverable' to both the staff researchers and to the public.
To continue to assist the IGWS Photographer with timely completion of IGWS projects and publications.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
DEAS Temporary Collections Management
- oversee movement of collections to temporary storage
- maintain safety and security of collections for duration of temporary custody
- incorporate assessment and inventory of collections with ongoing IGWS collections activities at Otis.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Digitization of Lithologic Strip Collection and Entry into the Digital Asset Management System
- Digitize existing Lithologic Strips
- Prepare and upload image files
- Enter the relevant location and project information in the metadata
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Digitizing the Dilcher collection of slides: paleobotanical and geological research at IU and UF
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Earth MRI - Pennsylvanian paleosols
The objectives are to establish understanding of the variations of REE and other trace lelements in paleosols and identifiy those zones that could be considered a potential resource.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Earth MRI--Devonian Phosphate REEs
The objectives are to establish an understanding of regional REE concentration gradients for phosphorites within the Devonian to basal Mississippian interval across the eastern US and test standing models of REE enrichment in phosphorites.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
FAIR data: PDMS use by designated communities through time
Is the PDMS a data source that is Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable? Provide an assessment of staff perspectives on FAIR data compliance and suitability for the PDMS designated community.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Fall 2021 Exhibit: ShakeIN
The Fall 2021 exhibition will be titled "ShakeIN: Earthquakes in the Hoosier State." A physical exhibit will be developed in the IGWS Lobby, and Science of a Sphere Explorer data visualizations will be available in the Learning Lab. Complementary digital resources will be created to extend the exhibition's reach and impact. The exhibition will coordinate with the national earthquake drill in October.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
FY2018 USGS NGGDPP Grant: Data Rescue, Preservation, Accessibility, and Discoverability
1. Sorting and cataloging 200 linear feet of unmanaged historic research records to reclaim data and archival documents and prioritize reclaimed materials for digitization;
2. Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the National Digital Catalog (NDC) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) compliant finding aids for inclusion on the IGWS website;
3. Cataloging and compiling metadata for a partially unmanaged collection of 4,500 limestone and mineral samples;
4. Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
FY2019 USGS NGGDPP Grant: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2019 – Geochemistry and Critical Minerals
Priority 1
- Evaluating and updating 114 existing metadata records in the National Digital Catalog (NDC);
- Inventory and cataloging of 25 boxes of rediscovered geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
Priority 2
- Inventory, cataloging, and digitizing 204 linear feet of industrial minerals records
- Inventory, rehouse, and compile condition reports for 7,500 geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
- Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the NDC;
Priority 3
- Identifying and providing digital access to publicly available drill core data and information for priority areas with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources;
- Describing the relevant mineral information for mineral deposits and occurrences that host critical minerals;
- Providing geospatial representation(s) of areas that delineate prospective areas or geologic belts with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources together with supporting datasets; and
- Describing critical minerals assets to increase use and understanding, including creating metadata records for submission to the NDC.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
FY2022 USGS NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2022 – Records Center and Server Salvage
• Purchase 5,000 Hollinger boxes and label sleeves to store records on new high-density shelving
• Inventory and rehouse 693.4 LF of petroleum industry records
• Merge, reduce, and rehouse 101.3 LF of duplicated gamma log records
• Organize, describe, and ingest into ResourceSpace 26,000 core photographs and interpreted X-ray fluorescence data pdfs
• Update National Digital Catalog records (NDC)
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
IGWS Library and Archives Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, public records room, or in-house archive
- identify materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives, prioritize their digitization then transfer them
Medium-term
- identify and prioritize materials for archival digitization
- accurately determine records housing needs for return to renovated building (number of boxes, flat file sizes, rolled storage, etc.)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
IGWS ResourceSpace DAMS Content Curation and System Refinement
Addition of metadata to collections ingested into RS, digital curation and ingest of IGWS materials, alterations and refinements of elements of RS system.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
IGWS Specimen and Non-Paper Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- document materials damaged in the move to the temporary housing location
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
- reclaim misidentified, partially identified, poorly identified, or unidentified materials for reincorporation in previously curated collections
- standardize nomenclature to incorporate into the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) and obtain IGSN numbers
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- accurately determine housing issues and needs for materials beyond core library prior to return to renovated building
- correlate SESAR nomenclature with Dana, Strunz, Hey's CIM, ABCD-EFG, OGC GeoSciML, and DarwinCore as appropriate (preferably as an automatic, back-end relational assignment within the CMS, especially where the mineralogical classifications are concerned)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
IU Bicentennial: Uncovering the Hidden History of Megalonyx jeffersonii to Engage in Indiana University’s Natural History Collections
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Learning Lab
This project will serve as an example for hands-on learning with collections on the IU campus.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Open Access Publications: RS/Bookstore/IUSW
To process IGWS publications for accessibility and ensure an accurate asset entry and retrieval option is in place for all Open Access Pubs. This will be accomplished in three repository locations, ResourceSpace, IUScholarWorks, and the IGWS bookstore; with all relevant data stored in IU secured cold data storage.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Oral History
Staff at the IGWS will be trained on best practices for oral history interviews by the IU Archives through the IU Bicentennial Campaign. Staff will conduct interviews with retired, emeritus, and/or affiliated staff members with video and audio recordings. The recordings will be submitted to IU Archives for transcription and storage.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
PDMS Fix 2022-2024
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS. The method for obtaining records in the future may also be changed so that the PDMS can be maintained more easily.
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Social Media
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Whetstone StoryMap
Primary Contact: Lanman, Jennifer
Leffel, Victoria
Hoosier National Forest Landslide Mapping
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
Louisville 100K Bedrock Mapping
Create a new bedrock map of the Louisville 100k quadrangle map. Update, compile, review, and interpret available literature, maps, and unpublished data concerning bedrock geology in the Louisville 100k quadrangle.
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
National Mesonet Program
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
NGWMN 2022-2024
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
Quake Cottage/NEHRP 10
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Leffel, Victoria
Like, Karen
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Like, Karen
PDMS Fix 2022-2024
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS. The method for obtaining records in the future may also be changed so that the PDMS can be maintained more easily.
Primary Contact: Like, Karen
PDMS Maintenance 2022
The long-term goal is to populate the PDMS with current and historical data for petroleum wells and fields in Indiana.
Primary Contact: Like, Karen
Liu, Bei
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Liu, Bei
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Liu, Bei
Loope, Henry
2015-16 Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition Website
The website provides information on the goals, products, and personnel of the eight Great Lakes state geological surveys (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. The GLGMC website is used by a number of individuals, including the general public, planners, consultants, and state and federal agencies.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
2022 Indiana Master Naturalist
This project aims to pilot a new Indiana Master Naturalist program in Monroe County. The 10-week course will be taught in the new IGWS Learning Lab and allow the Survey to expand its adult-oriented programming by connecting natural resource organizations with non-traditional users.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
57th Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene -- At the edge of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: Stratigraphy and Chronology of Glacial Deposits in Central Indiana
Adjourn a group of professional geologists and students interested and conversant in the problems to discuss our results and directions of research. The trip will be the 57th Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene week field conference.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Characterizing aquifer geometrics in Northern IN using geophysical techniques to profile the buried bedrock surface
To improve the density of data related to bedrock depth below the St. Joseph Aquifer System in northeastern St. Joseph and northwestern Elkhart County, we will employ newly developed passive seismic methods. The data will facilitate mapping at an improved resolution the base of the aquifer, where it coincides with the bedrock surface. The methods developed can be applied to valley-fill aquifers in the rest of the state. The enhanced bedrock topography data will also provide hydrologists and health department officials with better tools to investigate the geologic constraints on naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater in deep wells.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Elkhart Statemap 18
Develop a continuous mapping coverage at a regional scale for northern Indiana that can be used for planning purposes.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Extent, characteristics, and regional relations of the interlobate region in north-central Indiana
This project aims to develop an understanding of the physical properties, stratigraphic relations, and boundary conditions of the Saginaw, Huron-Erie, and Lake Michigan lobes
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Late Wisconsinan Ice Margin Chronology, south-central Indiana
The goal is to document the chronology and stratigraphy of late Wisconsinan tills in south-central Indiana.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Late Wisconsinan Ice Margin Chronology, south-central Indiana (Year 2) - Coalition 2016
The goal is to document the chronology and stratigraphy of late Wisconsinan tills in south-central Indiana.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Mapping the Quaternary Geology in Kosciusko County
This overall objective of this project is to provide a county map (1:48,000-scale) to provide a detailed framework of the unconsolidated sediments and landforms in Kosciusko County. Mapping will provide background for making geotechnical, transportation, and land-use planning decisions in an area dominated by coarse-grained sediments and natural lakes. Mapping will also increase knowledge of ice lobe dynamics in northern Indiana, an ares of multiple ice lobe interactions.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Middle-Holocene (ca. 6500 to 3500 years ago) lake-level change of ancestral Lake Superior, Huron Mountains, Upper Michigan
The primary objective is to determine the age and elevation of foreshore sediments associated with beach ridges in a strandplain located in the Huron Mountains, Upper Michigan. These data will be used to generate a relative paleohydrograph for the site covering 3000 years, from roughly 6500 to 3500 years ago.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Morphosequences & Deglaciation Record in Northern Indiana: Chronology of 3 lobes in the St. Joseph & Kankakee valleys - Coalition 2016
The main objective of this project is to map outwash and morphosequences of outwash and moraines and determine the chronology of these deposits related to the Lake Michigan, Saginaw, and Huron-Erie lobes in the St. Joseph and Kankakee drainage basins in northern Indiana using a GIS framework. Another primary goal is to develop an absolute chronology for morphosequences and ice margins of the three lobes by using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of fan/outwash sediments tied directly to ice margin positions. Combined with a relative chronology identified by cross-cutting relationships of landforms and stratigraphy, these OSL ages can provide a framework for timing of fluctuations of the Lake Michigan, Saginaw, and Huron-Erie lobes.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Peoria Loess Chronology and Provenance
This project will determine the provenance and chronology of deposition of Peoria Loess during the last glacial period in central Indiana.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Azalia quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Azalia 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Elizabethtown and Hope quadrangles)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Elizabethtown and Hope 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (New Bellsville and Columbus quadrangles)
This study will produce detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the New Bellsville and Columbus 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Quaternary History of the Beanblossom Valley, south-central Indiana
The objective of this project is to determine the timing of glacial advances into the Beanblossom Creek basin by using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and paleopedology. Research going back over 100 years suggest that Illinoian (Isotope Stage 6) ice blocked the westward-flowing ancestral Beanblossom Creek and created a large glacial lake. We seek to quantify the Illinoian age assignment using both OSL and detailed analysis (pedologic description, particle size analysis, silt and clay mineraology and silt geochemistry) of the Sangamon Geosol. The two techniques will complement each other, as OSL will provide absolute chronology and analysis of the Sangamon Geosol will supplement the OSL age with weathering ratios, depth of carbonate leaching, and amount of clay accumulation (among others).
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
S_Kankakee 100k Quaternary Mapping
The objective of this project is to provide surficial and subsurface geologic data needed for water resource management, land-use planning, and infrastructure projects. The project will obtain new data in addition to compiling existing geologic maps and associated data.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
STATEMAP 2015 Morgan County
The 2015 STATEMAP project will produce (1) a preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Mooresville East 7.5-minute quadrangle (1:24,000-scale) with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units and (2) preliminary detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Martinsville and Mooresville West 7.5-minute quadrangles (1:24,000-scale) with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
StateMap 2019 - South Bend
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
StateMap 2020-21 South Bend + Drilling Supplement
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state. Supplemental Funding goal: verify stratigraphy and bedrock surface in 2 areas in N Indiana.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Stratigraphy and chronology of Late Wisconsinan glacial deposits, south-central Indiana - Coalition 2017
The goal is to document the chronology and stratigraphy of late Wisconsinan glacial sediments in south-central Indiana and build a 3-D geological model of unconsolidated sediments for the region.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene Glacial Lake Patoka, south central Indiana
The goal of this study is to combine existing stratigraphic, mineralogic and geophysical data and current interpretations by Dr. Gray, to new datasets to be produced during the study (from shallow coring, geochronology, passive seismic data) in order to develop a litho- and chronostratigraphic framework of the GLP area.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
The elevation and architecture of the peak Nipissing shoreline along southern Lake Michigan
Construct a paleohydrograph for the area.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Three-Dimensional Geologic Mapping of a Quaternary Paleovalley System, Bartholomew County (Edinburgh quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Edinburgh 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Web-based glacial & bedrock geologic map products & databases for Bartholomew County, IN (Year 2) - Coalition 2016
The objective of this task is to provide detailed geological information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial and bedrock geological information, as well as subsurface information, derivative maps, and summaries that will help users understand and make use of the wealth of geologic information that is becoming available for Bartholomew County.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Web-based glacial and bedrock geologic map products and databases for Bartholomew County, Indiana
The objective of this task is to provide detailed geological information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial and bedrock geological information, as well as subsurface information, derivative maps, and summaries that will help users understand and make use of the wealth of geologic information that is becoming available for Bartholomew County.
Primary Contact: Loope, Henry
Marietta, Garrett
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
IGWS Library and Archives Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, public records room, or in-house archive
- identify materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives, prioritize their digitization then transfer them
Medium-term
- identify and prioritize materials for archival digitization
- accurately determine records housing needs for return to renovated building (number of boxes, flat file sizes, rolled storage, etc.)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
IGWS Specimen and Non-Paper Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- document materials damaged in the move to the temporary housing location
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
- reclaim misidentified, partially identified, poorly identified, or unidentified materials for reincorporation in previously curated collections
- standardize nomenclature to incorporate into the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) and obtain IGSN numbers
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- accurately determine housing issues and needs for materials beyond core library prior to return to renovated building
- correlate SESAR nomenclature with Dana, Strunz, Hey's CIM, ABCD-EFG, OGC GeoSciML, and DarwinCore as appropriate (preferably as an automatic, back-end relational assignment within the CMS, especially where the mineralogical classifications are concerned)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
PDMS Well Data Project Fix
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS.
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
S_Kankakee 100k Quaternary Mapping
The objective of this project is to provide surficial and subsurface geologic data needed for water resource management, land-use planning, and infrastructure projects. The project will obtain new data in addition to compiling existing geologic maps and associated data.
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
The Indiana Water Balance Network - 2
The Indiana Water Balance Network (IWBN) was developed to to monitor long-term trends for various components of the hydrologic cycle, including near-surface atmospheric conditions, soil physical parameters, and groundwater level.
Primary Contact: Marietta, Garrett
Martinez, Alex
National Mesonet Program
Primary Contact: Martinez, Alex
Mastalerz, Maria
Application of transmitted light techniques for evaluation of thermal maturity
Project analyzes changes in color of structureless amorphous organic matter and palynomorphs in transmitted light through a range of maturity stages.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Assessing factors that influence roof and floor conditions in the Gibson County Coal Company's underground mine in Gibson County
The goal of this project is to predict roof and floor conditions in advance of mining.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
ASSESSING PELLET FUELS QUALITY: USING PETROGRAPHICAL METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF IMPURTITES
The goal of our cooperative project is to:
1) Improve the methods of petrographic impurities identification
2) Develop and test petrographic pellet impurities classification
3) Test the quality of US pellets (nobody done this yet)
4) Publish article about importance of the petrographic method in pellet standards
5) Present the work at the Pellet Fuels Institute Annual Conference (June 24-26, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, WI)
6) Propose to the Pellet Fuels Institute idea of including petrographic method in pellet quality assurance and product certification.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Assessing the Maquoketa Group in the Illinois Basin: age, character and resource potential
This project will establish the age and petrophysical characteristics of the various lithofacies present with the Maquoketa Group in the Illinois Basin. Such an evaluation will begin to approach the challenges of establishing if the organic-rich facies are time-specific or diachronous, and understanding the physical and chemical characteristics of the various rocks types present in the interval. The information gleaned in the proposed study could have a substantial influence on future exploration of unconventional reservoirs and for effective seals.
Specifically, we seek to: 1) characterize the elemental composition of Maquoketa units along multiple cross-basin transects, 2) establish the relative ages of these units, 3) integrate elemental and geophysical data sets of time-rock units to generate basin-wide isopachs 4) combine new organic carbon analyses with previously published reports to characterize oil and gas production potential of each unit and 5) characterize the pore size distribution, capillary entry pressures, and strengths of a select set of lithofacies that represent the stratigraphic interval .
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Assessment of geologic and hydrogeologic properties of formations within the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin for geologic energy storage
The objective of this project is to work with the United States Geological Survey to identify available data that can be applied to research related to geologic energy storage in the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin. Additionally, data gaps will be identified for future projects to address.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Biogenic methanogenesis and biodegradation of organic matter in coals
This collaborative research evaluates fundamental biogeochemical processes associated with microbial degradation of organic matter (OM) during generation of methane in coals. The overall goal is to understand the substrates that sustain microbial transformations of OM in coal beds, the nature of involved chemical pathways and effect of varying electron acceptor condition, and the role of these processes in the generation of coalbed methane (CBM).
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S., Basins
The overall objective of this project is to assess availability of coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD in Indiana that could potentially serve as sources of REE.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Characterization of Indiana's coal resource: Availability of the reserves, physical and chemical properties of the coal, and present and potential uses
Many key questions remain regarding the character of Indiana coals including: where are the reserves of low-sulfur coal; how much coal is available for mining; what factors control the ash and moisture content; what geological characteristics influence the occurrence of methane in some of the coals; which coals generate favorable byproducts; and where are the coal beds that are best suited for carbon sequestration? Additionally, there may be unrecognized properties of Indiana coals that could be exploited by emerging industries such as biotechnology, electronics, ceramics, or chemistry. The objective of this project is to produce a comprehensive report for the Center for Coal Technology Research documenting the physical and chemical characteristics of Indiana coal, with a special emphasis on the properties that are unique to Indiana and that our state can capitalize upon.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Characterization of organic matter in the Second White Specks Formation
This study presents approaches for evaluating hybrid source rock/reservoirs within tight-rock petroleum systems. The emerging shale play in the Upper Cretaceous Second White Specks and Belle Fourche formations in central Alberta, Canada is used as an example to evaluate organic and inorganic compositions and their relationships to pore characteristics
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Coalbed gas potential in Indiana
The main objective is to carry out the research that helps to understand and to utilize this clean source of energy from coal
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Combined underground coal gasification and CO2 Capture and Storage - TOPS - Technology options for coupled underground coal gasification and CO2 capture and storage
The main objective of the proposed project is to develop a generic underground coal gasification – carbon capture and storage (UCG-CCS) site characterization workflow which would address the dilemma faced by the proponents of reactor zone CO2 storage and offers technological solutions to source-sink mismatch issues that are likely to be faced in many coalfields.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Converting Coal Maps to Story Maps
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Data collection, verification, & encoding for the National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) YR 2/5
The purpose of this project is to provide easy availability of point-source coal resource information, including coal location, thickness, depth, and other parameters.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Data Preservation: Priority 2 –Strategic planning for data preservation related to coal-coal waste-coal combustion products chain in Indiana
The objective of this project is to develop a strategy for data preservation related to the coal/coal waste/coal combustion products/AMD chain, including both the existing data and also data that will be acquired in the future.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Distribution and characterization of coal-slurry deposits in Indiana
The purpose of the work was to provide preliminary estimates of the total area and volume of coal-slurry deposits (fine-grained refuse from coal-preparation plants) and to provide recommendations for future sampling and analysis.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Distribution of mercury in Indiana coals and its implications for mining and combustion
1) Develop a database of mercury content of Indiana coal seams that can be used by the coal and energy industries;
2) Investigate controls on mercury content to formulate a predictive model for the coal and energy industries to make decisions about mixing coals to meet the new mercury regulations; and
3) Investigate techniques of mercury removal from coal.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Distribution of mercury in in-situ versus feed coal in Indiana
Specifically, the objectives of this project are as follows:
1) Data entry – updating trace element database with a special emphasis on mercury concentrations
We will refine the existing trace element database and update it with additional data obtained from coal companies and power plants, putting emphasis on washed coal.
2) Mapping Hg distribution in major coal beds in Indiana
An updated database will be used to map Hg distribution in major coal beds in Indiana.
3) Identifying locations of the new sources of Hg data in in-situ and feed coals: boreholes, coal mines, and power plants
Maps of Hg distribution will be used to identify areas that would need additional data. Existing mines and power plants will be approached for a possibility of obtaining new samples of feed coal.
4) Collection and analyses of new coal samples – New samples of coal will be collected and sent for analysis of coal quality (proximate, ultimate analysis) and trace elements, including Hg. Splits of the samples will be analyzed for maceral composition and vitrinite reflectance.
5) Collaboration with USGS personnel on incorporating our data into the USGS HG study – During the entire project duration, we will be collaborating with USGS personnel, and Allan Kolker as the Project Leader of the Mercury project. The collaboration will include discussions, joint field work, and complementary analysis.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Earth MRI - Pennsylvanian paleosols
The objectives are to establish understanding of the variations of REE and other trace lelements in paleosols and identifiy those zones that could be considered a potential resource.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Earth MRI--Devonian Phosphate REEs
The objectives are to establish an understanding of regional REE concentration gradients for phosphorites within the Devonian to basal Mississippian interval across the eastern US and test standing models of REE enrichment in phosphorites.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Enhanced Biological Natural Gas Production from Coal - China Gateway - a proposal for IU President's International Research Awards
There are 2 specific objectives that will be accomplished during the studies funded by the President’s International Research Award:
(1) We will build upon a year’s worth of preliminary research using small bottle reactors on methane generation from fungal-treated coal, and determine if methane can be generated using coal slurry in a larger sequential aerobic-anaerobic stirred tank reactor.
(2) We will also evaluate the effects of operating parameters, e.g., temperature, pH and medium composition on methane generation
**Flynn Picardal, SPEA, is the Project Director
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Evaluation of Indiana Coals for Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC)
This is a 2-year study to evaluate Indiana coals in IGCC systems. The project includes field work, sample collection, new analytical work, as well as integration of new and existing
data for interpreting coal performance in an IGCC. We target major economic coal beds: the Danville, Hymera, Springfield, and Lower Block. Sampling locations are selected such that:
1) an adequate distribution of data points is provided using new and existing data, in order to
map the degree variability of individual parameters important for IGCC; and 2) available coal mines and drilling locations are used to obtain fresh samples.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Evaluation of Indiana Coals for Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC)
This is a 2-year study to evaluate Indiana coals in IGCC systems. The project includes field work, sample collection, new analytical work, as well as integration of new and existing
data for interpreting coal performance in an IGCC. We target major economic coal beds: the Danville, Hymera, Springfield, and Lower Block. Sampling locations are selected such that:
1) an adequate distribution of data points is provided using new and existing data, in order to
map the degree variability of individual parameters important for IGCC; and 2) available coal mines and drilling locations are used to obtain fresh samples.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Evaluation of Indiana coals for underground coal gasification (UCG)
Two main objectives of the project are:
1)Careful analysis of Indiana’s geology, coal properties, water resources, etc.;and
2)Identification of potential UCG sites and determination of the feasibility of this technology in Indiana.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Evaluation of the Illinois Basin coals for underground coal gasification (UCG)
We plan to synthesize all the information related to UCG and prepare a publication that would provide a comprehensive evaluation of coals for UCG basin wide
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Exploring the sequestration efficiency of coals using neutron scattering: the effect of exposure to sub-and supercritical CO2 on the porous coal matrix
Two main objectives of this project are:
1) investigating CO2 adsorption mechanisms in coals and organic matter rich shales; and
2) documenting changes in the rock as a result of CO2 injection at reservoir conditions
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
FY2019 USGS NGGDPP Grant: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2019 – Geochemistry and Critical Minerals
Priority 1
- Evaluating and updating 114 existing metadata records in the National Digital Catalog (NDC);
- Inventory and cataloging of 25 boxes of rediscovered geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
Priority 2
- Inventory, cataloging, and digitizing 204 linear feet of industrial minerals records
- Inventory, rehouse, and compile condition reports for 7,500 geochemical specimens;
- Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC;
- Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the NDC;
Priority 3
- Identifying and providing digital access to publicly available drill core data and information for priority areas with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources;
- Describing the relevant mineral information for mineral deposits and occurrences that host critical minerals;
- Providing geospatial representation(s) of areas that delineate prospective areas or geologic belts with the potential for hosting critical mineral resources together with supporting datasets; and
- Describing critical minerals assets to increase use and understanding, including creating metadata records for submission to the NDC.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Geologic support of abandoned and active coal mines in Indiana for ventilation design
This study was conducted to evaluate ventilation systems in underground coal mines and to identify ways in which improvement of ventilation systems in relation to different methane sources can increase mine safety. Coal mine methane has always been considered as a danger for underground coal mining. It can create a serious threat to mining safety and production. Proper mine ventilation can keep methane levels below the explosive limit and at the same time coal seam degasification is a means to recover energy from the methane gas retained in coal.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Illinois Basin Shale Energy Laboratory (IBSEL) Proposal -subcontract to the Ohio State University
The address the following questions are the main objectives of this project:
1) What critical factors determine the distribution and evolution of the pore systems and fracture networks in Pennsylvanian and Devonian petroleum systems in the Illinois Basin?
2) What is the distribution of fluids-in-place in Pennsylvanian and Devonian petroleum systems?
3) What are the mechanisms and rates of cross-stratal and strata-parallel paleofluid and induced fluid flow in low permeability formations under nanoscale confinement?
4) What geochemical and geophysical techniques suitably track and predict stimulated reservoir volume, production decline curves, and petroleum recovery from ‘tight’ fractured formations?
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Indiana Coal Quality Database (ICQD)
The Indiana Geological Survey has collected data and created databases on various physical and chemical parameters of Indiana coals for many years. This project creates the most comprehensive coal quality data compilation available for Indiana coals.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Investigation of the Origin and Nature of Coke Variations in Non-Recovery/Heat-Recovery Coke Making
The objective of our research is to further investigate the role of coal blend dilatation and rheology on coke porosity and CSR in an unconstrained heat-recovery cokemaking technology.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Major points sources of CO2 emissions from coal in Indiana
Provide major point sources of CO2 emissions from coal in Indiana (map and tabular data), including coal-burning electric power plants and industries and institutions.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Maps of the New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin
Most comprehensive digital compilation of geologic information about the New Albany..
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Micro-scale chemical and mineralogical heterogeneity of shales and its influence on permeability of the Upper Devonian/Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation in Canada
The overall hypothesis to be tested is that the rock fabric and specifically mutual arrangement of organic matter and mineral matter in shales influences porosity and permeability in tight oil/gas reservoirs and that understanding this mineral/organic distribution is critical for prediction of both gas storage and producibility.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Organic matter in the Illinois Basin: Interactive atlas: Part I – New Albany Shale
To design and prepare interactive atlas of organic matter. We plan to start with the New Albany Shale, followed by the coals and other formations in the Illinois Basin.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Organizing 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Bloomington
To organize Annual Meeting of the Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Bloomington, IN in September 2019.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Petrographic and chemical characterization of Indiana coals and their use in the steel industry
The purpose of this project was to provide a detailed chemical and petrographic characterization of selected coal seams in Indiana, with the main focus on the Danville Coal Member of the Carbondale Formation and the Lower Block Coal Member of the Brazil Formation.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING PRODUCTS, BYPRODUCTS, AND REJECTS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
The overall objective of this project is to develop methodologies to identify potential targets for REE recov-ery from the coal value chain. To address this main objective, the more specific goals of this project are to:
1) Determine REE content in Indiana coals and identify coal beds that have highest REE concentrations. Although REE will be the critical elements of particular interest in this project, other elements such as aluminum, phosphorous, uranium, titanium, manganese, gallium, germanium, cobalt, and others will also be examined. These elements are included for bolstering our predictive tools such as principal component analysis, which will allow future explorations for REE to use less expensive methods to locate potential REE resources.
2) Evaluate the distribution of REE in various fractions generated by coal preparation plants: coarse re-fuse, fines, clean coal. The coarse refuse will be of special interest because REE concentrate in min-eral fractions. We expect that coarse refuse from coals having high REE contents as established in point 1 could be targets for REE recovery.
3) Investigate REE concentration in pulverized rejects from power plants and fly ash and bottom ash generated from Indiana coals. Because, as mentioned above, REE are dominantly associated with mineral fractions, they are concentrated in the mineral and glass phases of coal ashes. Special effort will be put into obtaining coal ash from the coals of increased REE concentrations, as established in point 1;
4) Assess REE potential in acid-mine drainage (AMD). AMD contains REEs in dissolved form, making them less expensive to process although concentrations are much lower than in raw coal material or coal combustion concentrates. Preliminary data suggest a strong correlation of REEs to aluminum and magnesium in AMD, indicative of a noncoal detrital clay association, which becomes soluble under acidic conditions.
5) Based on 1–4, identify set of geological/chemical attributes that can be used as proxies for “sweet spots” for REE. We will use selected statistical methods, for example, principal component analysis (PCA) to identify associations of REE with other elements, coal properties, geographic location, etc. These attributes will be used as a predictive tool for elevated occurrences of REE and ultimately will help to delineate best targets for future recovery.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Potential of Lower Block and Upper Block Coal Members for coking: Resources and properties
We plan to evaluate resources of the Lower Block and Upper Block Coal Members and map their availability
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Prediction of CO2 sorption in coal seams
The overall research goals are to:
1) Develop a reliable and practical method to measure CO2 sorption in coal in realistic temperature/pressure conditions;
2) Determine CO2 sorption characteristics in coals of specific rank, type, and lithotype structure; and
3) Evaluate how fast and how much of initially present methane (CH4) can be desorbed from coal during CO2 adsorption.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Quality of coals in Indiana: Collecting new data
The main objective is to collect coal samples and obtain new analyses on coals to expand the coal-quality database.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Producibility
This project is comprised of two tasks related to shale gas: (1) Study of porosity in shale; and (2) Generation of catalytic shale gas. Each task focuses on an individual aspect in need of basic shale research for industrial and environmental reasons. For task 1, for the next 3 years, we intend to investigate links between porosity and permeability and ultimately producibility of hydrocarbons from shale. For task 2 we will study mechanisms of catalysis in shales. So far, the mechanism of geocatalytic shale gas generation remains elusive.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Productibility
This project is comprised of three tasks related to shale gas: (1) Study of porosity in shale; (2) Natural methane outgassing from shales into the atmosphere; and (3) Generation of catalytic shale gas. Each task focuses on an individual aspect in need of basic shale research for industrial and environmental reasons. All three tasks are conceptually linked.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Significance of isotopically labile organic hydrogen in the thermal maturation of source rocks
The main objective of the project is to evaluate the geochemical magnitude and significance of hydrogen isotopic exchangeability in kerogens.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Solid Biomass Energy
1) Create/improve the method of petrographic quality assessment for wider range of solid biomass products (including intermediate crops, crop by-products, grass, and other agricultural waste).
2) Expand our research expertise into growing biomass technologies like gasification (holzgas), torrefaction (biomass suitable for co-firing in coal-fired power plants), and anaerobic digestion (production of a methane-rich biogas from wet biomass sources).
3) Investigate relationships between raw fuel composition and the properties of their combustion and gasification emissions with a focus on parameters that could be used to predict the environmental and health impacts of fuel use.
4) Promote the idea of including petrographic analysis in solid biomass quality assurance testing and product certification with manuscripts, and presentations.
5) Expand collaboration with international universities and industry.
6) Create an "umbrella" center.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Stratigraphy of the Brazil Formation coal and their potential for coking - Phase 2
Two main objectives of this project are:
1) advance understanding of the stratigraphy of the Brazil and Staunton Formation coals so that the seam identification and correlation become more reliable within the state as well as the entire Illinois Basin; and
2) investigate properties of the coals with the special emphasis on coking properties and consequently on their application in the steel industry
Primary Contact: Mastalerz, Maria
Miller, Connor
National Mesonet Program
Primary Contact: Miller, Connor
NGWMN 2022-2024
Primary Contact: Miller, Connor
Reinhart, DeAnn
2023 EAS Graduate Student Luncheon
Welcome new students and educate them about potential opportunities with the Indiana Geological and Water Survey.
Primary Contact: Reinhart, DeAnn
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Reinhart, DeAnn
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Reinhart, DeAnn
Romlein, Ben
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
Environmental Forecast Matrix PfEC GIS Development
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
Expanding the Indiana Geological and Water Survey’s contribution to the NGWMN
Groundwater-elevation data are collected primarily to determine how groundwater levels are changing over time. The data from sites with continuous/high-frequency water-level records are also used to assess groundwater-recharge dynamics for various hydrogeologic settings.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
IGS Geospatial Portal
The Survey needs a central enterprise data store that users across all divisions of the organization can access and update. Project data will be collected centrally and can be used (and updated) in future projects. This continually improving data set will not only make work easier within the Survey, but can be used as a product for external use as well.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
IGWS ResourceSpace DAMS Content Curation and System Refinement
Addition of metadata to collections ingested into RS, digital curation and ingest of IGWS materials, alterations and refinements of elements of RS system.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
Locating and characterizing important springs of the Indiana Uplands
Scour publication archives for historical spring data dating back to 1901; visit 100 springs to sample water quality and compare these results to available historical data; use these data to develop and make available a geospatial database of springs; and develop a crowdsourcing geospatial tool to acquire information on springs and engage residents in communities throughout SWCI.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
NGWMN 2022-2024
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
PDMS Fix 2022-2024
The main objective of this project is to merge all of the records by removing the "Records Cornucopia" and adding all of the scanned documents to their correct location in the "Reports" and "Log Info" sections of the PDMS. The method for obtaining records in the future may also be changed so that the PDMS can be maintained more easily.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
PDMS Maintenance 2022
The long-term goal is to populate the PDMS with current and historical data for petroleum wells and fields in Indiana.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
Piloting the OSDU platform for inter-state geological survey data management for synthetic 3D mapping initiative
This project will evaluate the efficacy of the OSDU data platform and determine whether or not the OSDU is a suitable candidate for enterprise data management for the IGWS and the energy, stratigraphy, and other data siloes.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
The Indiana Water Balance Network - 2
The Indiana Water Balance Network (IWBN) was developed to to monitor long-term trends for various components of the hydrologic cycle, including near-surface atmospheric conditions, soil physical parameters, and groundwater level.
Primary Contact: Romlein, Ben
Rupp, Robin
2017 StateMap
The primary goal of mapping the portion of Elkhart quadrangle in Indiana is to gain an improved understanding of the chronology and 3-D stratigraphy of the glacial and glaciofluvial units in the area, already well mapped by earlier STATEMAP efforts at a more detailed scale.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Acquisition of Control Points Throughout Indiana for Accurate Calibration of the Tromino Geophone
Our objective is to create a data base which will contain the frequencies for depth to bedrock throughout the state of Indiana. This would allow researchers to be able to properly create calibration curves that are specific to the region where research is being conducted. This would facilitate more accurate interpretations of data collected using the Tromino during research conducted by the survey. Data could be accessible by academic and/or industry researchers as a service provided by IGWS.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Annual submission of bibliographic information of geologic maps in Indiana to USGS
Ensure that geologic maps published by the IGS and other Indiana geologic maps are properly represented in the USGS Map Catalog.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Characterizing aquifer geometrics in Northern IN using geophysical techniques to profile the buried bedrock surface
To improve the density of data related to bedrock depth below the St. Joseph Aquifer System in northeastern St. Joseph and northwestern Elkhart County, we will employ newly developed passive seismic methods. The data will facilitate mapping at an improved resolution the base of the aquifer, where it coincides with the bedrock surface. The methods developed can be applied to valley-fill aquifers in the rest of the state. The enhanced bedrock topography data will also provide hydrologists and health department officials with better tools to investigate the geologic constraints on naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater in deep wells.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Elkhart Statemap 18
Develop a continuous mapping coverage at a regional scale for northern Indiana that can be used for planning purposes.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
FY2018 USGS NGGDPP Grant: Data Rescue, Preservation, Accessibility, and Discoverability
1. Sorting and cataloging 200 linear feet of unmanaged historic research records to reclaim data and archival documents and prioritize reclaimed materials for digitization;
2. Creating collection inventory metadata for ingestion in the National Digital Catalog (NDC) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) compliant finding aids for inclusion on the IGWS website;
3. Cataloging and compiling metadata for a partially unmanaged collection of 4,500 limestone and mineral samples;
4. Processing sample metadata for International Geological Sample Number (IGSN) registration and ingestion into NDC.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Louisville 100K Bedrock Mapping
Create a new bedrock map of the Louisville 100k quadrangle map. Update, compile, review, and interpret available literature, maps, and unpublished data concerning bedrock geology in the Louisville 100k quadrangle.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Mapping bedrock geology in Lawrence County
This project anticipates the need for more detailed geologic information to guide planning in and around a major population center along the SR 37 and US 50 corridors. The project is also intended to expedite current scientific studies of the economically important Salem Limestone and related rocks in Lawrence County, and to further refine computer mapping techniques. The detailed geologic framework and databases that this project will create are intended to provide data for the quantitative assessment of dimension and crushed stone resources in the county.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
National Geologic Mapping Database (NGMDB) Map Catalog 2015-2017
Ensure that geologic maps published by the IGS and other Indiana geologic maps are properly represented in the USGS Map Catalog.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Azalia quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Azalia 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (Elizabethtown and Hope quadrangles)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Elizabethtown and Hope 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Quaternary Geology of Bartholomew County (New Bellsville and Columbus quadrangles)
This study will produce detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the New Bellsville and Columbus 7.5-minute quadrangles with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Quaternary History of the Beanblossom Valley, south-central Indiana
The objective of this project is to determine the timing of glacial advances into the Beanblossom Creek basin by using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and paleopedology. Research going back over 100 years suggest that Illinoian (Isotope Stage 6) ice blocked the westward-flowing ancestral Beanblossom Creek and created a large glacial lake. We seek to quantify the Illinoian age assignment using both OSL and detailed analysis (pedologic description, particle size analysis, silt and clay mineraology and silt geochemistry) of the Sangamon Geosol. The two techniques will complement each other, as OSL will provide absolute chronology and analysis of the Sangamon Geosol will supplement the OSL age with weathering ratios, depth of carbonate leaching, and amount of clay accumulation (among others).
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Revised digital elevation model of Indiana
The objective of this project was to create 30-meter DEMs using recently acquired digital line graph (DLG) data for the areas containing Level 1 data. The new DEMs were merged into the entire Indiana data set, replacing the Level 1 data.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
S_Kankakee 100k Quaternary Mapping
The objective of this project is to provide surficial and subsurface geologic data needed for water resource management, land-use planning, and infrastructure projects. The project will obtain new data in addition to compiling existing geologic maps and associated data.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
STATEMAP 2015 Morgan County
The 2015 STATEMAP project will produce (1) a preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Mooresville East 7.5-minute quadrangle (1:24,000-scale) with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units and (2) preliminary detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Martinsville and Mooresville West 7.5-minute quadrangles (1:24,000-scale) with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
STATEMAP 2016
Advance our understanding of the bedrock of Morgan County specifically, and the broader understanding of the Sanders Group to the New Albany Shale interval. Create products that can be accessed and utilized by a broad user group from geologists to planners.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
StateMap 2019 - South Bend
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
StateMap 2020-21 South Bend + Drilling Supplement
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state. Supplemental Funding goal: verify stratigraphy and bedrock surface in 2 areas in N Indiana.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Stratigraphy and chronology of Late Wisconsinan glacial deposits, south-central Indiana - Coalition 2017
The goal is to document the chronology and stratigraphy of late Wisconsinan glacial sediments in south-central Indiana and build a 3-D geological model of unconsolidated sediments for the region.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene Glacial Lake Patoka, south central Indiana
The goal of this study is to combine existing stratigraphic, mineralogic and geophysical data and current interpretations by Dr. Gray, to new datasets to be produced during the study (from shallow coring, geochronology, passive seismic data) in order to develop a litho- and chronostratigraphic framework of the GLP area.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Three-Dimensional Geologic Mapping of a Quaternary Paleovalley System, Bartholomew County (Edinburgh quadrangle)
This study will produce a detailed Quaternary geologic map of the Edinburgh 7.5-minute quadrangle with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Web-based glacial & bedrock geologic map products & databases for Bartholomew County, IN (Year 2) - Coalition 2016
The objective of this task is to provide detailed geological information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial and bedrock geological information, as well as subsurface information, derivative maps, and summaries that will help users understand and make use of the wealth of geologic information that is becoming available for Bartholomew County.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Web-based glacial and bedrock geologic map products and databases for Allen County, Indiana
To provide detailed geologic information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial geologic information, as well as a depiction of subsurface information based on subsurface databases.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Web-based glacial and bedrock geologic map products and databases for Bartholomew County, Indiana
The objective of this task is to provide detailed geological information in an area that continues to experience pressure on natural resources by a large population. The final product will provide traditional surficial and bedrock geological information, as well as subsurface information, derivative maps, and summaries that will help users understand and make use of the wealth of geologic information that is becoming available for Bartholomew County.
Primary Contact: Rupp, Robin
Sabaj, McKailey
Expanding the Indiana Geological and Water Survey’s contribution to the NGWMN
Groundwater-elevation data are collected primarily to determine how groundwater levels are changing over time. The data from sites with continuous/high-frequency water-level records are also used to assess groundwater-recharge dynamics for various hydrogeologic settings.
Primary Contact: Sabaj, McKailey
National Mesonet Program
Primary Contact: Sabaj, McKailey
NGWMN 2022-2024
Primary Contact: Sabaj, McKailey
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Sabaj, McKailey
Sturgeon, Polly
2017-2018 Master Naturalist Program
Educate Master Naturalist participants about the geology of Indiana.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2018-2019 Master Naturalist Program
Educate Master Naturalist participants about the geology of Indiana.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2019 Limestone Month
This project seeks to educate the public about the geologic history of Indiana Limestone and its uses, through educational activities, photograph galleries, guided quarry tours, guided campus walking tours, and media interviews.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2019-2020 Master Naturalist Program
Educate Master Naturalist participants about the geology of Indiana.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2020 IGWS Calendar
By using a portion of the IGWS digital collection of mineral images in the production of our 2020 IGWS calendar, it will provide a marketing tool with which our clientele can better visualize geologic mineral specimens. The calendar also will promote the fact that the IGWS has diverse collections of digital images, not only geologic in nature, but beautiful, as well. It will show the public how geology can be used as modern frame-able wall art and combined with the practicality of a calendar.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2020 IMAA Teacher's Workshop
4-day workshop at the IUB Memorial Union in June 2018. Field trip to local quarries. IGWS leads demonstrations, talks, and assists with quarry tours.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2020 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2022 Indiana Master Naturalist
This project aims to pilot a new Indiana Master Naturalist program in Monroe County. The 10-week course will be taught in the new IGWS Learning Lab and allow the Survey to expand its adult-oriented programming by connecting natural resource organizations with non-traditional users.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2023 exhibit
The 2023 exhibition will be centered around the Pleistocene ice age. A physical exhibit will be developed in the IGWS lobby and a coordinating 150-ft geologic timeline will be installed in the Learning Lab. Complementary in-person and digital programming will be developed to extend the exhibition's reach and impact. UITS 3D will create a 3D Matterport scan of the Learning Lab, which will be linked on the IGWS website. The Ice Age exhibition will coordinate with the 2023 annual calendar and the new Indiana state fossil.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2023 Indiana Academy of Science annual meeting
Provide outreach to statewide researchers and professional societies on IGWS research and collections.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2023 Limestone Heritage Teacher's Workshop
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
2024 Learning Lab
Project improvements will increase the accessibility of the Learning Lab and offer more opportunities for intergenerational learning.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
ABC's of Indiana Geology
Share a term on social media that relates to Indiana geology once a week, for 52 weeks.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Augmented Reality 3D Sandbox
To develop and construct a high-interest, interactive exhibit display that demonstrates changing topography and the consequences of such processes.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Coal Mining History Story Map
Our objective is to create an easily accessible and useful story map using already written content and available photos and figures with a minimum of staff effort.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
DEAS Temporary Collections Management
- oversee movement of collections to temporary storage
- maintain safety and security of collections for duration of temporary custody
- incorporate assessment and inventory of collections with ongoing IGWS collections activities at Otis.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Digitization PEN: Paleoniches on the western Cincinnati arch, the Ordovician of Indiana
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Distance Learning
The objective is to create a series of distance learning webinars that will connect Indiana teachers and students to geoscience careers and research.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
E-GeoNews 2020-2021
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
E-GeoNews 2021-2022
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
E-GeoNews 2022-2023
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
E-GeoNews newsletter 2018-19
E-GeoNews, the newsletter of the Indiana Geological Survey, exists to inform people about the work and accomplishments of the Survey. It also announces events that are of interest to people interested in geology.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Fall 2021 Exhibit: ShakeIN
The Fall 2021 exhibition will be titled "ShakeIN: Earthquakes in the Hoosier State." A physical exhibit will be developed in the IGWS Lobby, and Science of a Sphere Explorer data visualizations will be available in the Learning Lab. Complementary digital resources will be created to extend the exhibition's reach and impact. The exhibition will coordinate with the national earthquake drill in October.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
FY22 Traveling Discovery Trunks
Provide themed traveling discovery trunks that the general public (teachers, scout leaders, outreach groups) can loan for 2 weeks from the IGWS. Each trunk will contain real specimens and/or replicas, a curriculum guide, and assorted support materials.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
FY23-24 Traveling Discovery Trunks
This project will create new themed trunks for hydrogeology and paleontology topics. User feedback will inform trunk contents and each trunk will contain real specimens and/or replicas, a curriculum guide, and assorted support materials.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Geoheritage
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
GeoMinute video series
To reach much of the public sector in Indiana using the “Youtube” methodology, by shooting short (1 minute) topical geologic subjects. This will be done by interviewing existing personnel about their current research or area of expertise and by using mostly existing equipment.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
GeoNotes for 2017
Create new GeoNotes to continue educational outreach
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
IGWS ResourceSpace DAMS Content Curation and System Refinement
Addition of metadata to collections ingested into RS, digital curation and ingest of IGWS materials, alterations and refinements of elements of RS system.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
IGWS Specimen and Non-Paper Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- document materials damaged in the move to the temporary housing location
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
- reclaim misidentified, partially identified, poorly identified, or unidentified materials for reincorporation in previously curated collections
- standardize nomenclature to incorporate into the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) and obtain IGSN numbers
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- accurately determine housing issues and needs for materials beyond core library prior to return to renovated building
- correlate SESAR nomenclature with Dana, Strunz, Hey's CIM, ABCD-EFG, OGC GeoSciML, and DarwinCore as appropriate (preferably as an automatic, back-end relational assignment within the CMS, especially where the mineralogical classifications are concerned)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
IMLS: Promoting Digital Access and (Re-)Discovery of the IU Paleontology Collection
To enhance the accessibility and discoverability of the type and figured specimens (especially including the entirety of the Rexroad conodont collection) via high-resolution macrophotography.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
IU Bicentennial: Uncovering the Hidden History of Megalonyx jeffersonii to Engage in Indiana University’s Natural History Collections
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Learning Lab
This project will serve as an example for hands-on learning with collections on the IU campus.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Library Program
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Open Access Publications: RS/Bookstore/IUSW
To process IGWS publications for accessibility and ensure an accurate asset entry and retrieval option is in place for all Open Access Pubs. This will be accomplished in three repository locations, ResourceSpace, IUScholarWorks, and the IGWS bookstore; with all relevant data stored in IU secured cold data storage.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Oral History
Staff at the IGWS will be trained on best practices for oral history interviews by the IU Archives through the IU Bicentennial Campaign. Staff will conduct interviews with retired, emeritus, and/or affiliated staff members with video and audio recordings. The recordings will be submitted to IU Archives for transcription and storage.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
PfEC: Urban Green Infrastructure geospatial data portal development
We will create an ArcGIS Online organizational account for ERIGIS and build several StoryMaps, data layers, and gallery features for the data synthesis and visualization needs of the Grand Challenges.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Public Presentations and Tours
Engage public in earth science topics and issues.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Quake Cottage 9
To educate schools, museums, and scientific audiences about earthquakes hazards and risks within the region and mitigation practices that reduces the economic and health impacts of such events.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Quake Cottage Program 5 - CUSEC
To educate a variety of target audiences about earthquakes hazards and risks within the state and mitigation practices that reduces the economic and health impacts of such events.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Quake Cottage/NEHRP 10
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Social Media
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Spatial analysis of significant water withdrawal facilities in Indiana
This project will support the larger effort of improving the data accuracy in databases important to water resources planning in Indiana.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
State Park Geology Guides
This project will update the state park guides published in 1974-1988 and create new guides for for other state park locations. The guides will be made available on the IGWS website, DNR Resource webpage, and distributed to DNR personnel.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
State Park Geology Guides
Produce geologic guides for the most popular state parks in Indiana to enhance the visitors’ experience. The audience is the interested lay reader.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Statewide Subsurface Energy Project
The goal of this project is to develop products that help stakeholders and decision-makers, from communities to government and industry, identify areas that satisfy the technical requirements for geological sequestration and the community needs within those areas.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Traveling Discovery Trunks v2
Provide themed traveling discovery trunks that the general public (teachers, scout leaders, outreach groups) can loan for 2 weeks from the IGWS. Each trunk will contain real specimens and/or replicas, a curriculum guide, and assorted support materials.
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Update of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey History for the IU Bicentennial
Update the IGWS history document produced by Patton (1988)
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Whetstone StoryMap
Primary Contact: Sturgeon, Polly
Thompson, Todd
2017-2018 Master Naturalist Program
Educate Master Naturalist participants about the geology of Indiana.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2018-2019 Master Naturalist Program
Educate Master Naturalist participants about the geology of Indiana.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2019 Limestone Month
This project seeks to educate the public about the geologic history of Indiana Limestone and its uses, through educational activities, photograph galleries, guided quarry tours, guided campus walking tours, and media interviews.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2019-2020 Master Naturalist Program
Educate Master Naturalist participants about the geology of Indiana.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2020 IGWS Calendar
By using a portion of the IGWS digital collection of mineral images in the production of our 2020 IGWS calendar, it will provide a marketing tool with which our clientele can better visualize geologic mineral specimens. The calendar also will promote the fact that the IGWS has diverse collections of digital images, not only geologic in nature, but beautiful, as well. It will show the public how geology can be used as modern frame-able wall art and combined with the practicality of a calendar.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2020 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2022 Indiana Master Naturalist
This project aims to pilot a new Indiana Master Naturalist program in Monroe County. The 10-week course will be taught in the new IGWS Learning Lab and allow the Survey to expand its adult-oriented programming by connecting natural resource organizations with non-traditional users.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
2023 EAS Graduate Student Luncheon
Welcome new students and educate them about potential opportunities with the Indiana Geological and Water Survey.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
ABC's of Indiana Geology
Share a term on social media that relates to Indiana geology once a week, for 52 weeks.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Architecture of the Salem Limestone (Mississippian) in the dimension stone district of south-central Indiana
The purpose of the project is to determine the architecture of a Salem carbonate shoal and the potential fluid-flow pathways.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Augmented Reality 3D Sandbox
To develop and construct a high-interest, interactive exhibit display that demonstrates changing topography and the consequences of such processes.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Development of a IGWS Publication Management System
The revised system will function as a peer-reviewed journal open to submission and review from IGWS and non-IGWS staff. Items reviewed for external publication will be stored in a 'dark archive' with publication numbers used internally for staff reporting and IGWS productivity metrics. Publications reviewed for internal publication will have DOI numbers assigned and will become available in a 'live archive' as indexable items available for open access.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
FAIR data: PDMS use by designated communities through time
Is the PDMS a data source that is Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable? Provide an assessment of staff perspectives on FAIR data compliance and suitability for the PDMS designated community.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 2
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 3
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 4
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Indiana Journal of Earth Sciences - Volume 5
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Industrial Minerals Directory 2020 Update
Update contact and geological information for industrial mineral producers in the stateof Indiana.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Internal Architecture of the Tolleston Beach using Ground Penetrating Radar
Additional subsurface tools are needed to understand the architecture of the Tolleston Beach. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) that images the subsurface to depths of 10s of meters, is portable, non-invasive, and less expensive. It can be used to build cross-sections of the landform.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Investigation of the source/cause of subsurface voids at Mt. Baldy, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, to mitigate visitor safety.
The objective of this agreement is to investigate these previously undocumented anomalies in an effort to determine risk to visitors at INDU, investigate the “hole” phenomenon, and guide park decision making with regard to visitor safety and public education and understanding of know/unknown hazards.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Landmarks in Indiana Geology
This project focuses on chronicling (Chronicle and Document goals) the history of geological discoveries and events in the State of Indiana. Moreover, this project documents the changing needs for energy, mineral, and water resources in the state and the activities of IU and IGS researchers to support the state’s economy. Because of the close association of IU and the IGS, many of these geological discoveries were made by IU faculty working for the IGS. Notable IU researchers (Celebrate and Recognize goals) include R. D. Owen, E.T. Cox, E.R. Cummings, C.A. Mallott, W.N. Logan, R.R. Schrock, W.D. Thornbury, C. Deiss, J. Patton, and R. Shaver.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Late Holocene lake level of Lake Huron
The purpose of this project is to determine the physical limits and timing of past lake-level fluctuations during the last 5,000 years.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Late Holocene lake level of Lake Michigan
The purpose of this project is to determine the physical limits and timing of past lake-level fluctuations during the last 5,000 years.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Late Holocene lake level of Lake Superior
The purpose of this project is to determine the physical limits and timing of past lake-level fluctuations during the last 5,000 years.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Mapping bedrock geology in Lawrence County
This project anticipates the need for more detailed geologic information to guide planning in and around a major population center along the SR 37 and US 50 corridors. The project is also intended to expedite current scientific studies of the economically important Salem Limestone and related rocks in Lawrence County, and to further refine computer mapping techniques. The detailed geologic framework and databases that this project will create are intended to provide data for the quantitative assessment of dimension and crushed stone resources in the county.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Mapping bedrock geology, Monroe County
This project anticipates the need for more detailed geologic information to guide planning in and around a major population center along the corridor of the of the Interstate 69 extension from Indianapolis to Evansville. The project is also intended to expedite current scientific studies of the economically important Salem Limestone and related rocks in central Monroe County, and to further refine computer mapping techniques. The detailed geologic framework and databases that this project will create are intended to document karst features and to provide data for the quantitative assessment of dimension and crushed stone resources in the county.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Middle-Holocene (ca. 6500 to 3500 years ago) lake-level change of ancestral Lake Superior, Huron Mountains, Upper Michigan
The primary objective is to determine the age and elevation of foreshore sediments associated with beach ridges in a strandplain located in the Huron Mountains, Upper Michigan. These data will be used to generate a relative paleohydrograph for the site covering 3000 years, from roughly 6500 to 3500 years ago.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Piloting the OSDU platform for inter-state geological survey data management for synthetic 3D mapping initiative
This project will evaluate the efficacy of the OSDU data platform and determine whether or not the OSDU is a suitable candidate for enterprise data management for the IGWS and the energy, stratigraphy, and other data siloes.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Public Presentations and Tours
Engage public in earth science topics and issues.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Quake Cottage Program 4
To educate a variety of target audiences about earthquakes hazards and risks within the state and mitigation practices that reduces the economic and health impacts of such events.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Quake Cottage Program 5 - CUSEC
To educate a variety of target audiences about earthquakes hazards and risks within the state and mitigation practices that reduces the economic and health impacts of such events.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Quake Cottage/NEHRP 10
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Social Media
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
STATEMAP 2015 Morgan County
The 2015 STATEMAP project will produce (1) a preliminary bedrock geologic map of the Mooresville East 7.5-minute quadrangle (1:24,000-scale) with a cross section and detailed descriptions of map units and (2) preliminary detailed Quaternary geologic maps of the Martinsville and Mooresville West 7.5-minute quadrangles (1:24,000-scale) with cross sections and detailed descriptions of map units.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
The elevation and architecture of the peak Nipissing shoreline along southern Lake Michigan
Construct a paleohydrograph for the area.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Trenton Limestone of Indiana
An up to date compilation on the Trenton Limestone and the distribution of dolomite within the unit in Indiana. Potential petroleum reservoirs are generally limited to areas of dolomitzation which need to be defined by mapping. The integrated information from mapping and publications will be used to write the report.
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Update of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey History for the IU Bicentennial
Update the IGWS history document produced by Patton (1988)
Primary Contact: Thompson, Todd
Tripp, Don
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Acquisition of Control Points Throughout Indiana for Accurate Calibration of the Tromino Geophone
Our objective is to create a data base which will contain the frequencies for depth to bedrock throughout the state of Indiana. This would allow researchers to be able to properly create calibration curves that are specific to the region where research is being conducted. This would facilitate more accurate interpretations of data collected using the Tromino during research conducted by the survey. Data could be accessible by academic and/or industry researchers as a service provided by IGWS.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Characterizing aquifer geometrics in Northern IN using geophysical techniques to profile the buried bedrock surface
To improve the density of data related to bedrock depth below the St. Joseph Aquifer System in northeastern St. Joseph and northwestern Elkhart County, we will employ newly developed passive seismic methods. The data will facilitate mapping at an improved resolution the base of the aquifer, where it coincides with the bedrock surface. The methods developed can be applied to valley-fill aquifers in the rest of the state. The enhanced bedrock topography data will also provide hydrologists and health department officials with better tools to investigate the geologic constraints on naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater in deep wells.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Critical zone karst observatory
1) Designing and implementing an online registry and inventory system for dye traces that will update IndianaMap and provide notifications to the Indiana Department of Homeland Security and emergency management professionals in the location where such traces occur.
a. This project mimics the implementation by the Kentucky Division of Water that provides a record of all dye traces conducted in the state. Information from these dye traces are incorporated into statewide maps that help state agencies create and implement development and construction plans.
b. Indiana citizens benefit from this project by having a source of information for active, and justified, projects that define groundwater flow.
c. Emergency professionals benefit from this project by having an actively updated source of information to distribute in advance of planned tracing activities or answer questions or concerns from citizens.
2) Soliciting existing dye trace data in state/federal agencies, universities, and consulting firms to enhance the presently existing layer in IndianaMap.
a. Decades of dye-trace data are presently scattered among environmental consultants, cave enthusiasts, and state agencies. This project will create and authoritative repository and source for these data.
b. This effort enhances existing layers in IndianaMap (http://maps.indiana.edu) by collecting all dye trace data in a free public-accessible and searchable site.
3) Conducting a sequence of dye traces in Harrison/Crawford Counties in collaboration with private landowners, tourist caves, state/federal agencies, and municipalities to better outline the boundaries of groundwater basins.
a. This project was specifically requested by Mr. Rand Heazlitt, manager of the Town of Corydon and a co-investor of Indiana Caverns.
b. Additional dye tracing will help guide exploration and define the limits of the landscape that contributes water to Indiana Caverns.
c. Targeted tracing will also help illustrate the direction and speed of groundwater flow, which can help Mr. Heazlitt leverage state funding to expand the sanitation system of the Town of Corydon in response to increased housing development.
4) Installing a set of field-based geochemical and water-level monitoring instrumentation in caves, wells, and springs of the Blueppring and Lost River karst basins of Lawrence and Orange Counties to provide insight into changes in water chemistry and discharge across the karst basins and during individual storms.
a. One outcome of this project is an increased understanding of how the landscape responds to rainfall, which have caused considerable flooding and are projected to become greater in intensity with climate change.
b. Data from some sites in this project will be made available online for the public and to visitors of Bluespring Cavern in real time on a website that can be live streamed in the visitor center.
5) Collecting water samples at six (6) locations in the Lost River karst basin that, when combined with the data in project 4, provide unique and valuable insight into the transport of carbon, nutrients, and sediments in an agriculturally intensive landscape.
a. The data from projects 4 and 5 will be used to create a comprehensive view of the rate of nutrient and sediment loss from these karst basins.
b. Such results are vitally important to better refining the role of karst landscapes in the global carbon cycle.
c. Results from this study will provide one node of data that can help model water quality changes in the Mississippi River watershed and better predict the ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico caused by excess nutrients.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
DEAS Temporary Collections Management
- oversee movement of collections to temporary storage
- maintain safety and security of collections for duration of temporary custody
- incorporate assessment and inventory of collections with ongoing IGWS collections activities at Otis.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Flatwoods area, south-central Indiana
The objectives of this study are to compile existing stratigraphic, mineralogic, and geophysical data and couple this with new data collection (passive seismic, deep coring, and geochronology) in order to reconstruct the Quaternary geologic history of the Flatwoods area.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
IGWS Specimen and Non-Paper Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of materials
- document materials damaged in the move to the temporary housing location
- identify and transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
- reclaim misidentified, partially identified, poorly identified, or unidentified materials for reincorporation in previously curated collections
- standardize nomenclature to incorporate into the System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) and obtain IGSN numbers
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- accurately determine housing issues and needs for materials beyond core library prior to return to renovated building
- correlate SESAR nomenclature with Dana, Strunz, Hey's CIM, ABCD-EFG, OGC GeoSciML, and DarwinCore as appropriate (preferably as an automatic, back-end relational assignment within the CMS, especially where the mineralogical classifications are concerned)
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Louisville 100K Bedrock Mapping
Create a new bedrock map of the Louisville 100k quadrangle map. Update, compile, review, and interpret available literature, maps, and unpublished data concerning bedrock geology in the Louisville 100k quadrangle.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Planning, coordination, and training associated with lead sampling activities in schools
The objective is to provide comprehensive planning, coordination, and sampling services for all schools that express interest and participate in the Indiana school water sampling program.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Quaternary History of the Beanblossom Valley, south-central Indiana
The objective of this project is to determine the timing of glacial advances into the Beanblossom Creek basin by using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and paleopedology. Research going back over 100 years suggest that Illinoian (Isotope Stage 6) ice blocked the westward-flowing ancestral Beanblossom Creek and created a large glacial lake. We seek to quantify the Illinoian age assignment using both OSL and detailed analysis (pedologic description, particle size analysis, silt and clay mineraology and silt geochemistry) of the Sangamon Geosol. The two techniques will complement each other, as OSL will provide absolute chronology and analysis of the Sangamon Geosol will supplement the OSL age with weathering ratios, depth of carbonate leaching, and amount of clay accumulation (among others).
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
StateMap 2020-21 South Bend + Drilling Supplement
The goal of this project is to develop a Quaternary geology stratigraphy, presented as a 2D map, that helps in building a 3D geological mapping of the state. Supplemental Funding goal: verify stratigraphy and bedrock surface in 2 areas in N Indiana.
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Tripp, Don
Tucker, Katherine
Chicago East Quadrangle bedrock mapping
Generate a bedrock geologic map for the Indiana portion of the 1:100,000 scale Chicago East Quadrangle and advance understanding of the buried Silurian-Devonian bedrock aquifer and confining Maquoketa and New Albany shale-dominate units in this area.
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian Black Shales in Indiana
The objective of this project is to expand our database on critical elements in the Pennsylvanian black shales
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
Earth MRI--Devonian Phosphate REEs
The objectives are to establish an understanding of regional REE concentration gradients for phosphorites within the Devonian to basal Mississippian interval across the eastern US and test standing models of REE enrichment in phosphorites.
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
FY2022 USGS NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2022 – Records Center and Server Salvage
• Purchase 5,000 Hollinger boxes and label sleeves to store records on new high-density shelving
• Inventory and rehouse 693.4 LF of petroleum industry records
• Merge, reduce, and rehouse 101.3 LF of duplicated gamma log records
• Organize, describe, and ingest into ResourceSpace 26,000 core photographs and interpreted X-ray fluorescence data pdfs
• Update National Digital Catalog records (NDC)
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
StateMap 2021 Program
Create new maps that include: 1) bedrock mapping in the southern half of the Bedford quadrangle in south-central Indiana, 2) bedrock mapping in northern half of the Madison, Falmouth, and Louisville quadrangles in southeast Indiana, and 3) unconsolidated mapping of ice-marginal sediments between the cities of Jasper and Washington in south-central Indiana
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Tucker, Katherine
Wilkins, Kristen
2023 exhibit
The 2023 exhibition will be centered around the Pleistocene ice age. A physical exhibit will be developed in the IGWS lobby and a coordinating 150-ft geologic timeline will be installed in the Learning Lab. Complementary in-person and digital programming will be developed to extend the exhibition's reach and impact. UITS 3D will create a 3D Matterport scan of the Learning Lab, which will be linked on the IGWS website. The Ice Age exhibition will coordinate with the 2023 annual calendar and the new Indiana state fossil.
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
2023 Limestone Month Festival
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
2023 NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2023-2024 - Legacy Research Access and Public Outreach
Part A – purchase new flat file cabinets and archival cardboard, then inventory, scan, transcribe, catalog, and rehouse 350 legacy maps and 60 field notebooks; Part B – scan 4,400 gamma logs and transcribe interpreted data; and Part C – photograph and catalog 2,000 specimens from the Education Collection.
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
2024 NGGDDP (Data Preservation)
Update the Indiana National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS), pair data with physical logs, and provide stratigraphic data to the National Index of Borehole Information (NIBI).
Complete the unconsolidated borehole database work from the 2023 Data Preservation award and provide unconsolidated lithologies to the NIBI.
Convert borehole wireline logs into a digital format usable in geological software and provide this data set through the new borehole system developed.
Redevelop a borehole database that has not been updated fully in the past 10 years.
Obtain critical mineral analysis on a select number of cores from a meteor impact crater.
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
Digitization of Lithologic Strip Collection and Entry into the Digital Asset Management System
- Digitize existing Lithologic Strips
- Prepare and upload image files
- Enter the relevant location and project information in the metadata
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
FY2022 USGS NGGDPP: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2022 – Records Center and Server Salvage
• Purchase 5,000 Hollinger boxes and label sleeves to store records on new high-density shelving
• Inventory and rehouse 693.4 LF of petroleum industry records
• Merge, reduce, and rehouse 101.3 LF of duplicated gamma log records
• Organize, describe, and ingest into ResourceSpace 26,000 core photographs and interpreted X-ray fluorescence data pdfs
• Update National Digital Catalog records (NDC)
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
IGWS Collections Management
Short-Term
- fulfill CAP goal of creating an item-level inventory of all materials by ingesting existing catalogs into the new CARST management system and conducting new inventories and assessments to identify missed materials;
- continue to document and address ongoing issues resulting from the moves to and from temporary housing locations
- continue assessing and defining unaddressed housing issues and needs
Medium-term
- identify and clearly differentiate between known donated collections, collections generated through in-house work/fieldwork, and loaned materials
- research and resolve any identified provenance and usage questions or concerns, especially those related to historic "found-in-collection" materials
- identify and prioritize paper materials for archival digitization
- assign or resolve DOI and IGSN (igsn.org) registrations for appropriate materials through IU Libraries and System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR)
- transfer or expunge materials not appropriate for reference library, Records Center, in-house archive, specimen repository, education collection, or outreach giveaway activities
---this includes identification of materials appropriate for inclusion in IU Archives
Long-term
- increase accessibility to materials
- mitigate future loss or disassociation of materials
- create appropriate archival environment for housing materials in perpetuity
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
Map of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Unconformity in Indiana
Working maps (circa 1980s) of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian unconformity have been scanned for Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Knox, Martin, Owen, Pike, Sullivan, and Vigo counties. Many of these maps were approved by Stan Keller. We will search inventory in Marching 100 for additional maps. Data and contours from these maps, as well as the new field data, will be incorporated into a new ArcGIS Pro layer.
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
Open Access Publications: RS/Bookstore/IUSW
To process IGWS publications for accessibility and ensure an accurate asset entry and retrieval option is in place for all Open Access Pubs. This will be accomplished in three repository locations, ResourceSpace, IUScholarWorks, and the IGWS bookstore; with all relevant data stored in IU secured cold data storage.
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
StateMap 2022 Program
Create new maps that include:
1) Quaternary mapping of the Bloomington 100k quadrangle
2) Bedrock mapping of the Jasper and Indiana portion of Tell City 100k quadrangle maps
3) Bedrock mapping of the Princeton and Indiana portions of adjacent 100k quadrangle maps
Data updates:
1) Updated NGMDB entries with new URLs, citations, etc.
Stratigraphy:
1)Formalizing a Late Pleistocene stratigraphy for northern Indiana
Primary Contact: Wilkins, Kristen
