Nicholas C. Crawford, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

POSITIONS HELD:

Professor, Department of Geography and Geology at
Western Kentucky University

Director, Center for Cave and Karst Studies/
Crawford Hydrology Laboratory

Director, Karst Field Studies at Mammoth Cave

President, Crawford and Associates, Inc.

Dr. Nick Crawford at
Lost River Blue Hole.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:

Groundwater contamination: carbonate aquifers, sinkhole flooding and sinkhole collapse.

Performed over 900 dye traces pertaining to karst groundwater and its problems.

Recipient of 25 grants for applied karst hydrologic research.

Author of over 160 journal articles, book chapters, guidebooks and professional reports.

Rhodamine WT being injected
into Big Rock Creek just upstream of
where it sinks near Lewisburg, Tennessee.

HONORS:

1998 Outstanding Kentucky Geologist Award
-American Institute of Professional Geologists

1996 Public Service Award
-Western Kentucky University

1995 Award for Excellence in Research
-Western Kentucky University

1994 Honorary Life Membership Award
-National Speleological Society

1990 Silver Seal Award for Protection of Groundwater
-National Council of State Garden Clubs

Author in World Book Encyclopedias

Quoted in National Geographic Magazine and Time Magazine

Dr. Nick Crawford and Irene Cherry
standing beside a sinkhole collapse
that opened up in the Cherry's
back yard after a heavy rain.

For more detailed information on karst related issues, don't forget to visit:

Crawford Hydrology Laboratory
Center for Cave and Karst Studies
Department of Geography and Geology
1 Big Red Way / EST 403
Bowling Green, KY 42101
(270) 745-3252 - Office