Incoming CHAOS

October 2025

October is pure, unfiltered CHAOS. We’re kicking things off at the North American Cartographic Information Society meeting to get our map-nerd fix, then heading to GSA Connects for geoscience, deep time, and dirty data. But it’s not all conference halls—this month also brings Halloween, and with it, haunted houses, fog machines, scream-fests, and spooky science vibes. You’ll find us chasing microbes by day and hitting the haunts by night. This is our season.

10.15-18. North American Cartographic Information Systems Meeting

Louisville, Kentucky.

Where mapmakers, data storytellers, and spatial visionaries gather to chart the weird, the wild, and the beautifully complex—Chaos Lab calls it cartographic chaos at its finest. Plot twist: microbes are on the map. Catch us live at the NACIS meeting presenting—The Good, the Bad, and the Bioproductive: Microbial cartography in Kentucky. More info here.

10.19-22. Geological Society of America Connects 2025

San Antonio, Texas.

Where rock fiends, map slingers, and deep-time disciples gather to drop data, trade war stories, and rattle the geosphere—that’s CHAOS Lab’s kind of party. Science, strata, and a whole lotta ground truth. Catch me Monday, Oct 20th at 1:30 in New Advances in Geobiology with Where the Wild Things Heal: Linking Subsurface Geology to Microbial Ecology and Bioactive Potential in Kentucky Caves. More info here.

10.31. Halloween

Various locations.

Let’s be real—CHAOS Lab’s brand is basically a Halloween metal concert year-round. But October? That’s when we truly thrive. Creepy microbes, cursed minerals, unholy data, and field gear that smells like the undead. We'll be summoning science, raising hell, and maybe a few eyebrows. Happy Halloween from the lab where it’s always spooky season—and the petri dishes bite back.

November 2025

November at CHAOS Lab is a mix of science, gratitude, and maybe a little pie-fueled chaos. We’re heading to the Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting to drop data, connect with Kentucky’s best minds, and stir up some interdisciplinary mayhem. Then we’ll pause (briefly) for Thanksgiving—to give thanks for field partners who don’t bail, lab gear that mostly works, and families who pretend to understand what we do.

11.21-22. Kentucky Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting 2025

Louisville, Kentucky.

The Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting is where Kentucky’s science scene goes full throttle—biologists, geologists, chemists, physicists, and all flavors of nerd converge for two days of data drops, poster sessions, and wild cross-discipline collisions. From high school prodigies to seasoned researchers, it’s a celebration of homegrown science, curiosity, and the kind of collaborative chaos we live for. Louisville won’t know what hit it.

11.27. Thanksgiving

United States.

At CHAOS Lab, Thanksgiving is our chance to hit pause (sort of) and give thanks—for loyal field partners, stubborn microbes, functional gear (bless), and the beautiful mess that is research. We’re grateful for the chaos, the curiosity, and the crew that makes it all possible.

Also, let’s be clear: pie is the official dessert of CHAOS Lab. We eat it year-round, but on Thanksgiving? It’s basically sacred. Pumpkin, pecan, apple—we don’t discriminate. Just pass the pie.