Director Emeritus, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas

Rex Buchanan is the Director Emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey, based at the University of Kansas.  A native of Kansas, he is the co-author of Roadside Kansas: A Guide to its Geology and Landmarks  (rev. edition, 2010) and editor of Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils  (rev. edition, 2010), both published by the University Press of Kansas; and co-author of The Canyon Revisited: A Rephotography of the Grand Canyon, 1923-1991, published by the University of Utah Press (1994). He served as Secretary of the Association of American State Geologists and  chaired the Kansas Task Force on Induced Seismicity.  In 2008 he was named a fellow of the Geological Society of America and in 2016 received GSA’s Public Service Award.