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USGS Kentucky District Schedule

Kick-off of the Louisville/Clarksville Signature Event

Tuesday October 14, 2003

The Opening Ceremony of the Lewis and Clark Signature Event will begin at 12 pm on the Great Lawn located in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Invitations to the event were extended to the Mayor of Louisville, the Town Councilman of Clarksville, members of Congress, and agency representatives of the US Geological Survey, National Park Service, Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Land Management, and other Federal agencies.

US Geological Survey representatives will include, Mark Ayers - Kentucky District Chief, Dale Blevins - USGS Lewis and Clark Coordinator, Jon Campbell - USGS Lewis and Clark Outreach Coordinator, and USGS Kentucky District staff.

Display tents will be located on the Great Lawn as part of the Trail of Discovery.

USGS staff will be present during the week long event providing live demonstrations of various equipment used for stream gaging and data collection, to answer questions and explanations regarding the methods/processes used to collect and interpret the data, to provide general information about the US Geological Survey, and it's purpose regarding the nation's natural resources and the importance of data collection for monitoring them.

Featured Exhibit's and Presentations

Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19

• Live demonstrations by USGS staff collecting real-time data in the Ohio River using a boat; remote control boat demo depicting the operation and use of the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) equipment
• USGS field truck with boom depicting the current Streamflow meters (AA and pygmy), a wading rod equipped with an AQUA-CALC headset, and examples of old versus new surveying equipment used in data collection
• Map and photos of Kentucky gaging station locations and examples of discharge measurements and rating curves
• Exhibits inside the USGS tent include a map of the historic Lewis and Clark expedition route; artifacts from the USGS museum collection; excerpts of the law establishing the USGS; USGS fact sheets of Lewis and Clark, a Bicentennial Commemoration map, Geomorphic and Hydrologic Observations of Lewis and Clark; brochures regarding purchase information of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Map; photo album of past USGS employees, volunteers, field sites; current day USGS operations; laptop computers displaying real-time stream gauging data, simulated real-time Doppler data, models of sediment flow, the Water Science For Schools web site, and a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the USGS - who we are and what we do; USGS Kentucky District publications; photos of USGS employees performing various types of field and office work; Water Science for Schools packets; Water Science for kids posters, bookmarks, and mapping worksheets; a Water Jeopardy game relating to water trivia; hydro-lab demonstration depicting different constituents in water, (i.e., dissolved oxygen, salinity, conductivity, etc).
• 'Tent of Many Voices' presentations - "William Clark as Hydrologist" given by Dale Blevins, USGS National Lewis and Clark Coordinator (Tuesday, October 14 - 1:00pm) and given by Jim Stewart, USGS Indiana District Chief (Saturday, October 25 - 12:30pm); "Lewis and Clark's Observation of River Characteristics and 200 Years of Observation" given by John Moody, Hydrologist, USGS Colorado District (Saturday, October 18 - 10:00 am); 
• Falls Stage presentation - "The Legend of Ben York" performed by Cecil Williams,  aka 'Panhandle Slim' - retired USGS employee and story-song singer (Wednesday, October 15)