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Caitlan N. Howard, GIT, Chapter Secretary We continue our efforts to provide informative presentations, coordinate yearly field trips, provide networking opportunities for our members, pursue funding for the Chapter, and recruit members from throughout the professional geologic community. We were pleased to have Richard Wooten as our featured speaker for our November Seminar hosted on Zoom. His Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer Series Presentation topic was Going Against the Grain: Linking Brittle Cross-Structures with Landslides, Hydrogeology, and Earthquakes in the North Carolina Blue Ridge and Piedmont. Wooten’s forty years of experience in his profession showed during his presentation, and the announcement of this lecture led to a spike in attendance from members of our Austin Peay State University Student Chapter. The AEG Nashville Chapter fall field trip was held On October 2–3, 2021, at the Hamilton Valley Cave Research Center and Onyx Cave. We wish to thank Dr. Chris Groves of Western Kentucky University for volunteering to lead the cave tour that evening and for giving us several great lectures on the research being conducted by the Crawford Hydrology Lab and WKU at stops throughout the cave. Several WKU geology students were in attendance and assisted with the tour. The evening included presentations on karst given by Maggie Brosky of WKU and Bruce Rogers. A big thanks to Dr. Pat Kambesis of the Cave Research Foundation for the use of the research center facilities. We held an in-person holiday social at the Bavarian Bierhaus in Nashville on December 11, 2021. It provided our members the opportunity to connect with their local AEG cohorts and share ideas about content and events for the coming year with our officers. A few of our younger members expressed an interest in a virtual ASBOG study group, and other members
Fluorescent minerals observed with black light
AEG Nashville members touring Onyx Cave during the October 2021 field trip
Dr. Chris Groves explaining differential weathering in Onyx Cave
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Gypsum flowers observed in Onyx Cave AEG NEWS 65(2)
Spring 2022
