David Kime
David Kime has a background in geology but has years of experience working in admission, registration and advising at NKU and Cornell University. He has been at NKU since December 1996 and has been an NKU academic advisor since 1999. He is "Master Advisor" certified. David serves as the Honors Program primary academic advisor and registration troubleshooter. He also occasionally teaches HNR 101 and HNR 301 courses in the general theme of scientific exploration. Teaching these classes, however, is really just an excuse to get out of his office and take students on exciting and meaningful field trips.
His two most significant undergraduate experiences that continue to impact his life today were his travel experience and his senior independent study thesis (the equivalent of NKU Honors’ capstone project). Between his junior and senior year, David participated in a consortium field excursion to study the northern Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Montana. David’s senior thesis was a nearly 70-page report on the tectonic processes of Venus and a comparison of these processes to Earth’s tectonics. For this project, he utilized brand new data and radar images from Venus provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. If anyone is interested, his thesis is a thrilling read that ends with, what was then, a rather shocking conclusion, which is now generally accepted.
During his time at NKU, David has given professional presentations at organizations as far reaching as the Geological Society of America, the National Academic Advising Association, the Southern Regional and National Learning Communities Conferences, the American College Personnel Association, the National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education, and the Kentucky Council for Post-Secondary Education Advising Conference. He has also completed the National Academic Advising Association Summer Institute and has participated NKU geology program’s fieldwork in dinosaur paleontology in Utah.
It was a good year in 2004 for David. He won both NKU’s Outstanding Academic Advisor Award and NKU’s Outstanding University Programs Staff Award. That year was also the year he adopted Indy and was offered the job in the Honors Program, which began in January of 2005.
His primary interest recently has been the science and history of Mammoth Cave, and he has completed two Karst Field Studies Workshops, each comprising a week on intensive classroom and caving experiences. He estimates that he has now seen 35 miles of Mammoth Cave.
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