Deputy Director, Kansas Geological Survey, 2007-2010. Previously Associate Director for Public Outreach (1996-2007), Assistant Director for Publications and Public Affairs (1983-1996), and Director of Information (1978-1983).
Lecturer (Courtesy Appointment), William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas, 1978-present.
Research Assistant, University-Industry Research Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976-78.
Reporter, Salina (Kansas) Journal, 1971-75.
Expertise and Interests:
Science writing and scientific publication
Kansas geology
Natural resources, the environment, and public policy
Selected Professional Activities:
Editor, Association of American State Geologists, 2013-2014
John K. Strickler Award for Environmental Education, Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education, 2009
Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2008
Chair, Geology and Public Policy Committee, Geological Society of America, 2010; Member, Geology and Public Policy Committee, Geological Society of America, 2007-2010
Chair, Communications Advisory Committee, American Geological Institute, 1992-93
President, Association Earth Science Editors, 1986
President, Kansas Academy of Science, 2000
President, Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education, 1984-1986 and 1994-96
Selected Publications:
Buchanan, Rex C., and James R. McCauley, Roadside Kansas: A Traveler's Guide to Its Geology and Landmarks (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010, 2nd edition), 365 p.
Buchanan, Rex C. (ed.), Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils (University Press of Kansas, 2010, 2nd edition), 228 p.
Buchanan, Rex, and Timothy R. Carr, "Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in Kansas," Kansas Geological Survey, Public Information Circular 27, December 2008, 4 p.
[available online]
Sophocleous, Marios, and Rex C. Buchanan, "Ground-water Recharge in Kansas," Kansas Geological Survey, Public Information Circular 22, August 2003, 6 p.
[available online]
Buchanan, Rex, and Robert Buddemeier, "The High Plains Aquifer," Kansas Geological Survey, Public Information Circular 18, September 2001, 6 p.
[available online]
Buchanan, Rex, Robert Sawin, and Wayne Lebsack, "Water of the Most Excellent Kind: Historic Springs in Kansas," Kansas History 2000 (23): 128-141.
Adkins-Heljeson, Marla, Robert Bates, and Rex Buchanan (eds.), Geowriting, 5th ed., (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, 1995), 138 p.
Baars, Donald L. and Rex C. Buchanan, The Canyon Revisited: A Rephotography of the Grand Canyon, 1923-1991 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994), 168 p.
Buchanan, Rex C., and Robert Buddemeier (compilers), Kansas Groundwater, Kansas Geological Survey, Educational Series 10, 1993, 44 p.
[available online]
Buchanan, Rex C., 'To Collect, Correlate, and Preserve': A History of the Kansas Geological Survey, Bulletin 227 (Lawrence, KS: Kansas Geological Survey, 1989), 96 p.
[available online]
Rossbacher, Lisa A. and Rex C. Buchanan, Geomedia: A Guide for Geoscientists Who Meet the Press (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, 1988, 2nd printing 1989), 45 p.
Steeples, Don W. and Rex C. Buchanan, Kansas GeoMaps. Kansas Geological Survey Educational Series 4, 1983. Revised edition 1984, 30 p.
