CLIMBS Project

Recap: SuperCollider 2025 In-Person, All-Hands Collaboration

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Lexington, Kentucky — On September 19th, SuperCollider 2025 once again united the KY NSF EPSCoR research community under one roof for a day of updates, collaboration, and student-driven innovation. For the first time, SuperCollider was centered around the new Track-1 project, CLIMBS. This year’s event marked a major milestone in CLIMBS’ mission to advance hazard …

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CLIMBS Welcomes Weibing Gong, UK Faculty and Natural Hazards Engineer

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As CLIMBS works to strengthen climate and hazard resilience across Kentucky, its faculty forms the backbone of the initiative. Dr. Weibing Gong, a new addition to the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, brings expertise in landslide hazards and geotechnical engineering, directly advancing Project 5 of CLIMBS: forecasting and mitigating landslides across the state. …

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WATCH: Ryan Ramsey and Crew Install Landslide Monitors in Floyd County

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How does CLIMBS mitigate landslide impacts? With hillslope monitoring stations all across Eastern Kentucky! Watch as Ryan Ramsey, a University of Kentucky graduate student and Kentucky Geological Survey geologist, and his team install a landslide monitor in Floyd County’s Jenny Wiley State Park and explain how CLIMBS Project 5 will use the data from these …

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CLIMBS Students Bring Flood Education to Kentucky Teachers

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PhD students from the CLIMBS project recently shared their expertise at the Kentucky Association of Environmental Education’s Outdoor Learning Symposium (OLS), leading a session designed to help K–12 teachers bring flood preparedness into the classroom. The session, titled “Flood Preparedness: Using Local Data to Inform Active Learning,” introduced teachers to practical ways of using stream …

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Watch: Feature on UofL Project 1 Undergraduate Ben Lampton

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Ben Lampton is a rising senior studying Applied Geography and Meteorology at the University of Louisville. Under the mentorship of UofL’s Dr. Scott Gunter, Lampton has utilized his knowledge of coding and meteorology to identify convective and non-convective wind gusts from Kentucky Mesonet data. Watch the full video produced by Aviana Judd to hear Lampton …

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MSU’s Jen O’Keefe Earns Highest Organic Petrology Award

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🎉 Big congrats to Morehead State University‘s and CLIMBS Project 2 senior investigator Jen O’Keefe — the youngest-ever recipient of the 2025 John Castaño Honorary Membership Award, the highest honor from The Society for Organic Petrology! 🏆 Her groundbreaking research, leadership, and collaborative spirit are making a global impact. For more on the award and …

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Nearly 200 Attendees Welcomed at CLIMBS’ Film Screening and First Public Event

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Kentucky Storm Resilience – Documentaries and Discussion, took place on Friday July 18th at the Worsham Cinema on the University of Kentucky’s campus. It brought together non-profits, industries, businesses, and government agencies across Kentucky to watch documentaries with the primary goal of collaboration and connection for the good of storm resilience across the Commonwealth. The …

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Enviropods to Kick Off This Summer in Hopkinsville, Frankfort, and Hazard

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By Avi Judd “One of the issues that we’ve had in the geosciences is that a lot of students don’t realize we exist when they are thinking about majors or careers,” said senior lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Enviropods co-director Summer Brown.  How can earth scientists combat this problem? By introducing K-12 students …

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Close to Home: Emelia Harris Turns Environmental Loss Into Purpose

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The pond outside Emelia Harris’ house is bright orange. A few years ago, the water source was home to a vibrant ecosystem containing a variety of fish, turtles, and frogs. The water was crystal clear. Then nearby construction resulted in run-off entering Harris’ pond. As an Estill County, Kentucky native, Harris spent her childhood immersed …

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UK’s Meredith Swallom Wins Top Honors for Flood Research

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Meredith Swallom, a 4th year PhD student supported under Project 2 of CLIMBS’ Paleo-Perspectives initiative, won top honors in the Lightning Talk competition at the 2025 John P. Wyatt, M.D. Environment and Health Symposium on April 22nd. Her talk, “Drainages, Dams, and Downpours: What Makes a Flood?”, explored how past and present landscape changes may …

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