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Resources

 

Key Terms

Soil Organic Matter

Coal Mining Terms

The Carbon Cycle

The Nitrogen Cycle

Sediment Transport

Isotope Radio Mass Spectrometry

 

Climate Change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCC Working Group 1

Real Climate

 

Environmental Resources

US EPA 2005 Mountaintop mining/valley fills in Appalachia

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977

Climate generator

Universal Soil Loss Equation Manual

Soil Erosion Models

Movies of Sediment Transport

 

Stream Gage Data and Weather Data

USGS Streamgage at North Fork Kentucky River at Whitesburg, KY

USGS Streamgage at North Fork Kentucky River at Hazard, KY

NOAA Raingage at Jeremiah 1S Letcher County, KY

NOAA Raingage at Skyline 1 SE Letcher County, KY

NOAA Raingage at Hazard Waterworks Hazard, KY

NOAA National Climate Data Center

 

Environmental Geospatial Data

NRCS Geospatial Soil Data

KGS Geospatial Data Library (various Kentucky shapefiles, including counties, physiographic regions, and geology)

Aerial images

 

Mining Information

Kentucky Mine Mapping Information System

Kentucky Mining Permits

Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) (additional mining data)

 

Library and Literature Databases

University of Kentucky Libraries

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Google Scholar

Engineering Village

Wiley

Science Direct

 

Instructors

Jimmy Fox

Elliot Campbell

 

Facilities

Eastern Kentucky Environmental Research Institute

Environmental Research Training Laboratories

Civil Engineering Laboratories

 

Housing

New North Hall Housing Facility at University of Kentucky