Contact Us
Office Locations
Southern Utah Regional Office
646 North Main Street
Cedar City, UT 84721
435.865.9036 or 435.590.0344
email: tylerknudsen@utah.gov or lanceweaver@utah.gov
Fax: 435.865.9037
Location Map
Staff Contact Information
Administration
- Bill Keach, Director/State Geologist, 801.537.3301
- Mike Hylland, Deputy Director, 801.537.3382
- Jodi Patterson, Financial Manager, 801.537.3310
- Linda Bennett, Accounting Technician, 801.537.3303
- Starr Soliz, Office Specialist, 801.537.3300
Editorial Services
- Jennifer Miller, Publications Manager/copyright permissions, 801.537.3330
- Jenny Erickson, Graphic Arts Specialist, 801.537.3329
- John Good, Graphic Arts Specialist, 801.537.3331
- Martha Jensen, Cartographer/GIS Analyst, 801.537.3318
- Lori Steadman, Cartographer/GIS Analyst, 801.537.3319
Energy & Minerals Program
- Michael Vanden Berg, Geologic Manager, 801.538.5419
- Cheryl Gustin, Program Secretary, 801.537.3360
- Taylor Boden, Geologist (Minerals), 801.537.3362
- Tom Chidsey, Senior Petroleum Geologist, 801.537.3364
- Thomas Dempster, Assistant Curator, Utah Core Research Center, 801.537.3359
- Ryan Gall, Petroleum Geologist, 801.537.3312
- Christian Hardwick, Geophysicist (Geothermal), 801.538.5412
- Elliot Jagniecki, Senior Petroleum Geologist, 801.537.3370
- Stephanie Mills, Senior Metals Geologist, 801.537.3308
- Peter Nielsen, Petroleum Geologist, Curator, Utah Core Research Center, 801.537.3359
- Jeff Quick, Coal Geologist, 801.537.3372
- Andrew Rupke, Industrial Minerals Geologist, 801.537.3366
Geologic Hazards Program
- Steve Bowman, Geologic Manager/Geological Engineering/Landslides, 801.537.3304
- Cheryl Gustin, Program Secretary, 801.537.3360
- Jessica Castleton, Hazards Mapping, 801.537.3381
- Gordon Douglass, GIS Manager, 801.538.4810
- Ben Erickson, Hazards Geologist, 801.537.3379
- Richard Giraud, Debris Flows/Landslides, 801.537.3351
- Adam Hiscock, Faulting/Hazards Geologist, 801.537.3388
- Emily Kleber, Faulting/Hazards Geologist, 801.537.3380
- Tyler Knudsen, Hazards Mapping/Paleoseismology, Southern Utah Regional Office, 435.865.9036
- Greg McDonald, Hazards Mapping/Landslides/Faulting, 801.537.3383
- Adam McKean, Hazards Mapping, 801.537.3386
Geologic Information & Outreach Program
- Mike Hylland, Geologic Manager, 801.537.3382
- Cheryl Gustin, Program Secretary, 801.537.3360
- Brian Butler, Bookstore Manager, 801.537.3320
- Stephanie Carney, Technical Reviewer, 801.537.3374
- Mackenzie Cope, Geologist, UGS web, 801.537.3332
- Andy Cvar, Bookstore, 801.537.3320
- Jim Davis, Geologist, Public inquiries, 801.537.3306
- Gentry Hammerschmid, Bookstore, 801.537.3320
- Jay Hill, UGS web/GIS Programmer, 801.538.4833
- Mark Milligan, Geologist, Public inquiries, 801.537.3326
- Marshall Robinson, Geologist, UGS web/GIS/IT manager, 801.803.3898
- Suzanne Sawyer, Librarian, 801.537.3333/801.538.4846
- Lance Weaver, Geologist, UGS web/GIS/IT manager, Southern Utah Regional Office, 435.590.0344
Geologic Mapping Program (includes Paleontology)
- Grant Willis, Geologic Manager, 801.537.3355
- Starr Soliz, Program Secretary, 801.537.3300
- Zach Anderson, Geologist, 801.538.4779
- Robert Biek, Geologist, 801.537.3356
- Kent Brown, GIS Analyst, 801.537.3350
- Don Clark, Geologist, 801.537.3344
- Don DeBlieux, Paleontologist, 801.537.3328
- Martha Hayden, Paleontological Assistant, 801.537.3311
- Jon King, Geologist, 801.537.3354
- James Kirkland, State Paleontologist, 801.537.3307
- Basia Matyjasik, GIS Analyst, 801.537.3122
- Doug Sprinkel, Senior Geologist, 801.537.3300
Groundwater Program (includes Wetlands)
- Hugh Hurlow, Geologic Manager, 801.537.3385
- Starr Soliz, Program Secretary, 801.537.3300
- Paul Inkenbrandt, Hydrogeology, 801.537.3361
- Lucy Jordan, Hydrogeology, 801.537.3347
- Stefan Kirby, Geologic framework studies of hydrologic basins, 801.537.3349
- Miles McCoy-Sulentic, Wetlands, 801.537.3345
- Emily McDermott, 801.537.3389
- Diane Menuz, State Wetlands Coordinator, 801.538.7436
- Nathan Payne, GIS Analyst, 801.537.3391
- Trevor Schlossnagle, Geologist, 801.537-3335
- Ryhan Sempler, Wetland Ecologist, 801.537.3338
- Janae Wallace, Water-well cuttings petrology/Water Quality, 801.537.3387
