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WKU Graduate To Appear
On Discovery Channel Saturday Bowling Green, Ky. - Andrea Croskrey, who received her master’s degree in geosciences from Western Kentucky University in May, will be featured in a Discovery Channel documentary Saturday night. “What Lies Below” follows Croskrey and two other cavers as they explore caves in Iceland. The show airs at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. (Central time). Croskrey, a native of Blakesburg, Iowa, worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute within WKU’s Applied Research and Technology, completing master’s research that developed new applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for protection of groundwater resources within Kentucky. She was chosen and participated in the Discovery Channel expedition to Iceland while a graduate student at WKU, having earlier participated in other cave expeditions including geological work in southwest China and a continuous week underground exploring and surveying deep in New Mexico’s Lechugilla Cave. Croskrey, who received her bachelor’s degree in 2003 from Northwest Missouri State, this month began a position with the National Park Service Geologic Resources Division in Denver. This work involves working with GIS databases for geologic information and followed successful internships with the National Park Service at Mammoth Cave and in Alaska during and after her WKU graduate program. “Andrea’s career path embodies the core concept of WKU’s
Applied Research and Technology Program,” said Dr. Chris
Groves, director of the Hoffman Institute and Andrea’s graduate
adviser. “While at WKU Andrea developed skills in GIS and
geological analysis while actually using them in local and
federal government projects to protect natural resources.
Now she works full-time at a national level to continue
this work for the National Park Service.” More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you’d like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu. For information, contact Geography and Geology at (270)
745-4555.
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