Statewide Microbiome Mapping

The Kentucky Microbiome Map

This is microbial cartography—but make it feral. At the Kentucky Geological Survey, we're building the first map of its kind: a geospatial and temporal snapshot of Kentucky’s wild microbial world. From E. coli in waterways to extremophiles hiding in ancient rock, we’re compiling peer-reviewed studies, water quality reports, and KGS-led investigations across every landscape and physiographic region the Commonwealth has to offer.

This map doesn’t just show you where microbes are—it shows you when, how, and why they matter. It’s a living dataset designed to fuel research in pathogen surveillance, emerging disease projection, groundwater monitoring, public health policy, and more.

Whether you're a scientist, a policymaker, or just someone who thinks “harmful algal bloom” sounds like a metal band, this is your backstage pass to the invisible biosphere. Microbes. Maps. Mayhem. You're welcome.

Used. Cited. Unleashed.

This is Microbial ISR: intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance across Kentucky’s microbial front—fueling research, tracking pathogens, and running deep recon on groundwater systems across the Commonwealth and beyond. Built for Kentucky, but optimized for studies anywhere microbes roam.

Pathogen Surveillance

This map doesn’t just sit there looking pretty—it helps hunt down microbial threats before they go mainstream. Early detection, real-time surveillance, and enough data to make public health nerds weep with joy (or terror).

Groundwater Reconnaissance

Whether it’s groundwater integrity or algal rage monsters choking your lake, this map keeps tabs on what’s brewing below the surface—because ignorance isn’t bliss when cyanotoxins show up to the party.

Fueling New Intelligence

Launching a study? Chasing funding? Working in a Kentucky-adjacent microbial wasteland? This map is your chaos-stained blueprint—pre-loaded with baseline data to make reviewers nod and maybe even fear you a little.

Intitate Communications

Got questions? Want to utilize the Kentucky Microbiome Map for your own research campaign? Thinking of launching a pathogen surveillance op or just need help decoding microbial mayhem? Hit us up—we don't bite, but some of our microbes might.

These are the projects, papers, and presentations that have summoned the map into action—proof that chaos spreads.

Coming Soon

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