1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Natty home of the Cincinnati Reds and the best Bengals coverage. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: Jumping right to it as we always do on Saturday morning. 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: We've got a lot to cover, so little time before 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: he handed over to Gary Jeff Walker, let me bring 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: in mister d Mark Jones. He is the chief of 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: the Ohio Geological Survey, which I might add I find 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: to be tremendously fascinating because I'm an outdoorsman. I spent 8 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: a lot of time in creek beds and forests and 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, around rocks, and yes, I'm a rock houn 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: and so everything about our landscape is truly fascinating. 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 2: So Mark, welcome to the Big Outdoors. 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: Your division was established by the state legislature in eighteen 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: thirty seven as the Geological Survey of Ohio, and so 14 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: you're the oldest division in the state, although at the 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: time the DNR did not really exist. That didn't come 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: about until what the late nineteen forties. So welcome again 17 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: to the big Outdoors. And if you could explain, you know, 18 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: what the Geological Survey is and. 19 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 2: It's mission to the state of Ohio and the people 20 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 2: of Ohio. 21 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 3: All right, Chip, well, thank you, thanks for having me 22 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 3: on yes we are. Yes, we are the Division of 23 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: Geological Survey of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and 24 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 3: our mission, as with any state or national geological survey, 25 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 3: is to provide information and services for you know, for 26 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: the wise management of natural resources. So if you picture 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 3: you know, any political division like a state or country, 28 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 3: you know, when you're settling that that territory, the first 29 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: one of the first things you need to know is 30 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: where are the natural resources? Where's the water, where's the coal? Uh? 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 3: You know, where's the salt and the sand and gravel 32 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 3: and all those things that you actually build a civilization 33 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 3: out of. And the Geological Survey helps provide that information. 34 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 3: We go out, we investigate the land, We investigate the 35 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 3: soil and the bedrock, and we can tell you in 36 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 3: what quantity, uh and in what locations you can find 37 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 3: these important resources. 38 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 2: Well, and there's you know there. 39 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: The division has a lot of how I want to 40 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: call probably just department center division from you know, like astrogeology, 41 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: bedrock geology, geologic hazards, the record centered glacial geology. It's 42 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: quite quite in depth, and so you know, so much 43 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 1: of a well, look look at ten thousand years ago, 44 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: we had a we had a laser to cover what 45 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: you know, almost probably three quarters of Ohio or more, 46 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: and it changed the whole landscape and therefore I guess 47 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: the geology of the state. And so that was a 48 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: pretty important event. So, you know, to me, it's just 49 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: totally it's totally fascinating. I mean, even mapping is just 50 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: to me, you know, off the charts compared to you know, 51 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: what we had, you know, even fifty years ago. 52 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 3: Oh right, absolutely, you know, mapping is one of the 53 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 3: most important functions that we have. And you might wonder, well, 54 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 3: I mean, why is there so much mapping? You make 55 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 3: a mapping you're done, right, But the fact is, you 56 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: need you're never really done mapping. You're constantly mapping because 57 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 3: you're finding new information for your coming up with new techniques, 58 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 3: new technologies, things that you can do, you know, with 59 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: with with satellite mapping and so forth in remote imagery, 60 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: and it's always creating new ways to look at the 61 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: Earth's surface or what's under the Earth's surface. So mapping 62 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 3: is one of our most important services, you know, mapping 63 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 3: the geology, and we're constantly doing it. But you know 64 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 3: that that's what. 65 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: That's what's surprised that's what's just something else that's amazing 66 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: to me. You would have thought that, Okay, everything's been mapped, 67 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: we know where every different type of geologic structure is 68 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: or or you know, mineral or everything that's you know, 69 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: below the surface of the state of Ohio. 70 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: And right, go ahead. 71 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not exactly true. You know, we we're maybe 72 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 3: not necessarily in Ohio, but you know it's a national interest, 73 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 3: for example, to find uh, you know, more rare earth elements. 74 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 3: We've all heard about, Yeah, how important rare earth are 75 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 3: to to technology, especially battery technology. Are we good? 76 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,119 Speaker 1: No, yeah, keep going, I got he's he's not gonna 77 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: fire me yet, you. 78 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 3: Know, all right, Yeah, so nationally there there is a 79 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 3: big point to look at some minerals that we don't 80 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 3: think of. 81 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 2: Well, listen, you hold bark, hold that thought. 82 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna hit a short break and we'll become we'll 83 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: come back with much much more. My guest Mark Jones. 84 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: He is the Chief of Division of Ohio Geological Survey. 85 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: On the Big Outdoors seven hundred w l W, Big 86 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: Outdoors News Radio seven hundred w l W, Cincinnati Home 87 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: and the Cincinnati Reds and the Best Bengals coverage. Stick 88 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: around Gary Jeff Walker is up at the bottom of 89 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: the news. Delighted to have him around the big one. Absolutely, 90 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: I mean without him, you don't have me. Without me, 91 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,679 Speaker 1: you don't have him. Then you go to Michael kay Allen, Well, 92 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: he can do without anybody for that matter, because he 93 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: just does it all. Then we've got sports of all 94 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: sorts around here. The Gerbils will go crazy. Mark Jones, 95 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 1: he is the chief of Geological Survey here in Ohio, 96 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: which is under the Department of Natural Resources, and we've 97 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 1: been we've been talking about what they do, what they mean, 98 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: and I mean this is far reaching. I'm going to 99 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: go out on a lemon and say it's probably a 100 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: more important it's the most important division under the old 101 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: d n R, without which DNR cannot function. 102 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: So very myrtal like to hear that she's our director. 103 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: Okay, but any you know, I mean, you guys we 104 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: have I saw a press release not not too long 105 00:06:54,200 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: ago about what is believed to be the mineral wealth 106 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: currently in the state of Ohio. 107 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 2: It was in the billions, right. 108 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right. One of our functions as the 109 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: Geologic Survey is to you know, gather annual statistics on 110 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 3: the state's industrial minerals. And when I say industrial minerals, 111 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 3: I'm talking about things like limestone, dolomite, sand and gravel, rock, salt, coal, peat, clay, 112 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 3: a couple others. When you add it all up, yeah, 113 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 3: it can reach into the billions. And you know, usually 114 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 3: when we think of mining, we think of things like 115 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 3: silver and gold and copper, but we don't have those 116 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 3: in Ohio. But we do have a lot of mineral wealth, 117 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: and the foremost limestone and dolomite and sand and gravel 118 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 3: and so forth. And these are the minerals that we 119 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 3: need to you know, to build infrastructure, you know, construction, 120 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 3: road building, and so forth. These are important minerals to 121 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 3: our history and to our future growth. 122 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: Well, having been around quite a few gravel pits in 123 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: the last couple of years for my own construction purposes, 124 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 1: you know, it's quite it is quite amazing, you know, 125 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: how much is actually available. And were these gravel pits 126 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: put in? Did they did they get just kind of 127 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: as an aside, did they get established because of the 128 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: last glacier or was a lot of this already there? 129 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 3: Pretty much all the gravel pits that you see are 130 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 3: really all the gravel deposits that you see in Ohio, 131 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 3: whether they're exploited for mining or not. I mean, yes, 132 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 3: they are a result of our long Ice Age history. 133 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 3: Those those sands and gravels were deposited by streams of 134 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 3: water that were gush out of these glaciers. And you 135 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 3: know what a stream does. I mean it tumbles the 136 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 3: rocks and sorts them into into you know, rounded pebbles 137 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 3: and boulders and so forth, and these glaciers they melted. 138 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 3: They left these these streams of sand and gravel behind 139 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 3: for us to find. And it's a good thing they did, 140 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 3: because you know, the out to our state's history. 141 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, and gosh knows what the road building and construction 142 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: going on today is tremendously important. What one I'm not 143 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: familiar with was astrogeology. 144 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 2: What is that. 145 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 3: Astrogeology? That's just what we call, you know, meteorites. You know, 146 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:52,119 Speaker 3: Ohio has a has a small history of having uh 147 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 3: meteorites fall and land on our state. I think we 148 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 3: we have. Oh I don't know the number off the 149 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 3: top of my head, but there is a small number 150 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 3: of confirmed media I said, have hit the state. So 151 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 3: go ahead, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, we get quite a 152 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 3: few people that contact us and they want to know more, 153 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 3: and oftentimes they even want to send us a picture 154 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 3: of something that they found that they that they're wondering 155 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 3: is a meteorite that you know, maybe they found it 156 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 3: in their yard or they found it hiking in the woods. 157 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 3: So it's just an area of curiosity for a lot 158 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: of people, and we try to be accommodating of people's curiosity. 159 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: Well, it just so happens that on my property, uh 160 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: In in southern Highland County, which I might add sits 161 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: on top of the Serpent Mound disturbance for which I 162 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: had one of your geologists on a couple of years 163 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: ago to discuss. I found this huge rock that was 164 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: so out of place that I contacted your division and 165 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: I was told but that it was called an erratic okay, 166 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: and so I would like to leave that thought with 167 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: you and come back and just chat about that for 168 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: a second. Because the rock was so fascinating, I got 169 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: it out with my bulldozer, okay, and put it in 170 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: my driveway temporarily until. 171 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 2: I'm satisfied with what it is. 172 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: So Mark Jones, sit tight, We'll be back with more 173 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: Ohio Geological Survey, The Big Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. 174 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: Radio seven hundred. 175 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: WLW, Cincinnati, Chip Art waiting at the bottom of the hour. 176 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 1: My guest is Mark Jones. He is the chief of 177 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 1: Division of Geological Survey here into the Department of Natural Resources. 178 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: And I, being a rock count, I'm always tremendously fascinated 179 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: by geology, and I know a lot about doorsmen at all, 180 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: and I've turned on a few others to geology and 181 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: fossils and all those kinds of things that you look 182 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: for in creek beds and outcroppings and all that. So, Mark, 183 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: when we dropped out, I told you I found an erratic. 184 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: It's probably four feet across. Its shaped kind of like 185 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: an oval wafer, and it was so out of place 186 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: that I was just fascinated by it. My course, my 187 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: son wanted to take a sledgehammer to it, and I 188 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: just I refused, vehemently refused. Okay, so explain to people 189 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: what an erratic is if they're baffled by something they 190 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: find on their property that just looks so out of place. 191 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 3: Well, you know, if erratics are very important in the 192 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 3: history of glacial geology and erratic is called that because 193 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 3: it's a rock that it's not where it should be. 194 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 3: It's a traveler. It came from someplace else. Was one 195 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 3: of the most important lines of evidence that we had 196 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 3: early on or glacier, because how do you explain a 197 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 3: rock that you find it hundreds of years or hundreds 198 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 3: of miles away from where it's supposed to be. 199 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the. 200 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 3: Answer is was picked up and moved here by a glacier. 201 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 3: And so we find rocks as far south as northern 202 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 3: Kentucky that we can trace directly back to sites in 203 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 3: northern Michigan or Ontario, Canada even and so it's a 204 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 3: very important line of evidence for glacier of glacial geology 205 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 3: and how it works. 206 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 1: Well, that makes me happier about what I found because 207 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: it is important and not so much for what it 208 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: might be, but where it came from. I know I found, 209 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: and I found a piece of what looked like obsidian 210 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: that apparently came from Wisconsin. And how to wind up here, Well, 211 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: you've you've given us great answers for that. So for 212 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: people interested in in in your division and and uh 213 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: and how to get more inform I mean, how can 214 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: people how do you encourage people to interact with you? 215 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's as easy as going to the 216 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 3: internet and just searching for Ohio Geological Survey, and we 217 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 3: should be the first thing that pops up. We also 218 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 3: have a Facebook page. We uh, we do a lot 219 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 3: of outreach. We're at the Ohio State Fair, We're at 220 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 3: a number of other you know, uh, natural resource focused 221 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 3: events and and happenings around the state. So just just 222 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 3: just look for us online. You'll find us, and you'll 223 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 3: find a lot of information about us well. 224 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 1: And you also get into a fossil and mineral collecting 225 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: and identifications and your educational resources I assume for schools, right. 226 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, we we get quite a few schools educators that 227 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 3: reach out to us because they want more information, for 228 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 3: example about earthquakes or something like that. We we had 229 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:15,119 Speaker 3: quite a few homeschoolers reaching out to us for information 230 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 3: on geology. 231 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: And well, you brought up a near and dear to 232 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: my heart as homeschooling. My kids are homeschooled and still 233 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 1: being homeschooled, so I'll put that bug in their ear 234 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: as well. So in terms, I'm just out of curiosity. 235 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: How many field geologists do you have. 236 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 3: Overall, we have a staff of about thirty five thirty 237 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 3: six people total now out of the field geologist. Off 238 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 3: the top of my head, I'm going to guess if 239 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 3: we probably have about a dozen or so, oh my 240 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 3: gosh people. Yeah, we have people working in groundwater and 241 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 3: in glacial mapping, just you know, mapping of the glacial soils, right, 242 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 3: and we have that that work in the deeper mapping, 243 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 3: you know, mapping of our energy resources. We have a 244 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 3: couple of people that map the state's karst. Karst is 245 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 3: our words for sinkholes and screens and things like that. 246 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 3: So probably about a dozen or so people. 247 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 2: How do you get anything done? You guys need more funding. 248 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 3: Absolutely we do. I'm glad to hear you say. That's 249 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 3: what's not coming from my mouth. But yes we are. 250 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 3: You're as busy as I'm gonna. 251 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna push for more funding for you guys. There's 252 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: so much more to do. I mean, I I'll get 253 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: on that. Okay, All right, Well listen, hey, Mark Jones, 254 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: appreciate your time this morning and enlightening us and my 255 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: audience about geological survey. And I will be reaching out 256 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: to a couple of your geologists in the future. I 257 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: got a lot of burning questions. Okay, okay, mark tons 258 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: with that we got we gotta hit a break and 259 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: a little bit it is. We'll be back the Big Outdoors. 260 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 1: News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati back at the moment, 261 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 1: we're back the Big Outdoors. These Radio seven hundred wl W, Cincinnati, 262 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: got a couple of numbers for you. Of course, our 263 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: deer seasons that are over are over. So we took 264 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: in Kentucky one hundred and forty five thousand, four hundred 265 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: and seventy seven animals, in Indiana one hundred and thirty 266 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 1: one thousand and five hundred and thirty eight white tailed 267 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: deer in Ohio two hundred and twenty eight thousand, two 268 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy one. And I gotta send a big 269 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 1: thank you out to Gary Jeff Walker. We kind of 270 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: passing the dark around here for having me on Monday night. 271 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 2: Danny, and you, Danny. 272 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: You're you're duly invited to his party on the February 273 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,159 Speaker 1: twenty first. Okay, he's not a very sensitive guy, so 274 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: he doesn't send cards and and and notes and all 275 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 1: that other stuck up to. 276 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 2: Me in the other studio that I'm in when he's 277 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 2: on and say you're invited. Yes, oh yeah, he just 278 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 2: said bring your own food. Though, Oh I don't have 279 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 2: enough money for that. I won't here. 280 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Gary, Jeff's got all the money. I mean, 281 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: he's on Saturday. He's on Saturdays. He's a he's got 282 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: his night cap and all kinds of other crazy except 283 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: for everybody else. Bill Cunningham, that's he's just such a sucker, 284 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: you know, well there is that. 285 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 2: He is. 286 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:44,119 Speaker 3: He is. 287 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: So anyway, I don't know what we're gonna do with 288 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,719 Speaker 1: ourselves now. A deer season is over. We got some 289 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: small game hunting going on to the end of the month, 290 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 1: and various and sundry other things. You can get out 291 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: there and kyote hunt. I know there's people out there 292 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: still trapping and you know, just have a great time. 293 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: You know, us out doorsman, we're not much for just 294 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: going out hiking. We gotta have a gun, you know, 295 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: we gotta have a bow, we gotta have a fishing ride. 296 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: We've gotta be doing something that's right. Yeah, we're consumptive 297 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: users of the environment. 298 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 2: Jeff, I'll bet you he will. I was gonna have 299 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 2: a John Godola Cook it for him. 300 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: So with that we are Thanks Danny, we're out of 301 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: here at the Big Outdoors News Radio seven hundred WLW, 302 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,479 Speaker 1: Cincinnati'd be safe in the woods and safe on the waters.