Incoming CHAOS
Incoming Chaos is our mission tracker—your one-stop lineup of everything ahead: academic talks, fieldwork, outreach, and the full-spectrum chaos, from conferences to concerts.
December 2025
December finds the CHAOS Lab trading muddy boots for mass specs. With field season wrapped, the team is deep into data reduction and metabolomics work. Dr. Alex Washburn is representing the lab at AGU in New Orleans, presenting research on orphaned wells and methane. Between spreadsheets and spectra, we’ll be celebrating the holidays and gearing up for a feral new year.
12.15-19. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana
Every December, the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting turns one city into science central—thousands of geoscientists, endless coffee, and more posters than walls. This year, Dr. Alex Washburn and the KGS crew are repping Kentucky with research on orphaned wells and methane. If you’re at AGU, go find the KGS banner and cheer on your local rock nerds.
12.24 - 12.31. Out of Office and Celebrating the Holidays.
United States.
We’re shutting down the centrifuges and turning up the holiday playlists.
CHAOS Lab is out of office Nov 24 – Dec 31—celebrating the season, plotting new experiments, and maybe consuming questionable amounts of pie. Back in January, feral as ever.
12.17. Underworld Fieldwork
CAVE CITY REGION, KENTUCKY
Yes it's winter, and yes we're back in the field collecting more samples, gathering more data, and conducting more feral science - this time with the BIOFORGE Division.
January 2026
Blasting into the new year ready to tackle more fieldwork, more labwork, more omics datasets, and more metal concerts! We're also dropping our first round of papers from our cave research. And, we're still answering the important questions on our social media accounts: Is this rock interesting? and Can I lick it?
1.01. New Year's Day
Everywhere.
Welcome to 2026! Let's make this year metal AF and full of impactful, feral science!