SILVER REEF MUSEUM
Cosmopolitan Event
Saturday, September 27, 2025
10:00 AM
About the presenter:
Tyler Knudsen is a Senior Geologist with the Utah Geological Survey’s Geologic Hazards Program in Cedar City. He holds a B.S. degree in geology from the University of Utah, a M.S. degree in geology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and joined the UGS in 2006. Tyler has authored or co-authored several studies and maps on the geologic hazards of the St. George basin, Zion National Park, and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Other contributions include: paleoseismic investigations on the active Sevier and Washington faults, ground subsidence and earth fissure mapping in southwestern Utah, and emergency response to damaging rockfalls in Rockville and Zion National Park. Recent projects include quaternary geologic mapping of the mineral mountains west and opal mound fault zones at the Utah FORGE site near Milford and comprehensive geologic-hazard mapping of the Bryce Canyon and Cedar City-Enoch areas.
