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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. In 2004, David won both NKU’s Outstanding Academic Advisor Award and NKU’s Outstanding University Programs Staff Award. David serves as the Honors Program primary academic advisor, coordinator of the Honors Peer Advising Program, and registration troubleshooter. He is also the advisor for the Blue Flannel Club.
 
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.
 
David’s senior thesis (equivalent to NKU’s Honors Capstone) was a report on the tectonic processes of Venus and a comparison of these processes to Earth’s tectonics. For this project, he utilized radar images from Venus provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. More recently David’s primary interest has been the science and history of Mammoth Cave, and he has completed Karst Field Studies courses in the areas of history, exploration, geology, and archaeology of Mammoth Cave. He estimates that he has seen over forty miles of Mammoth Cave.