Springs, streams and groundwater oh my!
Rex Buchanan, Associate Director for Public Outreach at the Kansas Geological Survey talked to the environmental reporting class in the Multimedia Newsroom.For Rex Buchanan, measuring water levels in northwest Kansas is his idea of a good time. Maybe he was being sarcastic, but I kinda doubt it.
Rex works for the Kansas Geological Survey. He's a science writer and a teacher as well. Buchanan visited our environmental reporting class on Tuesday to talk about springs, streams and groundwater.
Did you know the Ogallala Aquifer underlies eight states? Buchanan claims he's seen it spelled about fifty different ways by KU journalism students.