Kentucky
Academy of Science Kentucky
Academy of Science 
Dr. Chesnut has been a driving force behind efforts to establish a Kentucky History Museum for many years. He is currectly the Board President of the Kentucky Museum of Natural History Project, a private non-profit foundation whose goal is the foundation and development of a Kentucky Natural History Museum. Dr. Chesnut served as geologist, chief paleontologist, and stratigrapher for the Kentucky Geological Survey beginning in 1979 and retiring in 2001. He also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in the Geosciences Department for many years starting in 1998.
Dr. Chesnut serves as an advisor to the Kentucky Paleontological Society and has served as the President of the Kentucky Socieity for Professional Geologist (1998). He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and a past fellow of the Geological Society I(London, England) as well as a member of the International Pateontological Association, the Kentucky Academy of Science, the Kentucky Paleontological Society, the National Center for Science Education, the Society for Sedimentary Geology and other other professional societies. Dr. Chesnut received his B.S., M.S, and Ph.D. in Geology all from the University of Kentucky.
Faculty member
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Kentucky
Dr. Ettensohn has been involved in efforts to establish a Kentucky Natural History Museum for many years. Dr. Ettensohn’s work in geology and paleontology is highly regarding worldwide and has widely published his work on black oil and gas shales, Kentucky limestone deposits, seismites, and the Appalachian Basin to name just a few. Dr. Ettensohn joined the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Kentucky as a faculty member in 1975 and served as the Chairman of the department from 1997-2005. Currently he is the Director of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Ettensohn has also served as a guest visiting professor around the world including China, Ecuador and Nepal. Dr. Ettensohn has been the President of the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He is a current member of the Kentucky Academy of Science and received the 2010 KAS Distinguished University Scientist Award. Dr. Ettensohn received his B.S. (Geology) and M.S. from the University of Cincinnati and his PhD. From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign.
Executive Director
Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission
As Executive Director of the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, Mr. Dott sets overall policy and direction for the conservation agency with the state natural heritage data program, state nature preserve acquisition and management program. He also serves as an Ex officio board member of the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund Board, is a member on the US Council of NatureServe, and a board member of the Kentucky Natural Lands Trust. Prior to the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, he was with the Office of Legal Services in the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet, .
Mr. Dott earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa in the Honors Program from the University of Kentucky and received a Juris doctor from the National Law Center at George Washington University.
Associate Professor
Agriculture and Natural Resources
and Farm Director
Berea College
Dr. Sean Clark received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Before coming to Berea in 1998 he was research manager for the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems Project at the University of California, Davis, a long-term comparison of farming systems that examined agronomic, ecological, and economic aspects of conventional and alternative food production systems. In recent years he has worked on projects including ground beetles as ecological indicators, honey bee selection for parasite resistance, economics of small-scale intensive agriculture, and the feasibility of pond aquaculture. His current research focuses student farms as educational laboratories on college campuses. He and Dr. Laura Sayre, researcher at the French National Institute for Agronomic Research, are the editors of the recently published book Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (University Press of Kentucky, 2011) profiling student-run, campus farms in the United States and Canada.
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