Item talk:Q139123

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   name: Ronald Litwin
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   titles:
   - Scientist Emeritus
   organizations:
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     - Florence Bascom Geoscience Center
     - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/florence-bascom-geoscience-center
   email: rlitwin@usgs.gov
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   intro_statements:
   - Ronald Litwin is a Scientist Emeritus at the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center.
   expertise_terms:
   - biodiversity
   - biogeography
   - desert ecosystems
   - estuarine ecosystems
   - forest ecosystems
   - freshwater ecosystems
   - grassland ecosystems
   - tundra ecosystems
   - wetland ecosystems
   - aerial photography
   - computational methods
   - core analysis
   - field methods
   - image analysis
   - laboratory methods
   - luminescence dating
   - extinction and extirpation
   - palynology
   - vegetation
   - biostratigraphy
   - earth history
   - fossils
   - geologic history
   - rocks and deposits
   - sedimentary rocks
   - stratigraphy
   - unconsolidated deposits
   - land use change
   - impact cratering
   professional_experience:
   - 1973-1977           (summers)  Field Assistant, Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie
     Museum of Natural History (PA) and Milwaukee Public Museum (WI)
   - 1977-1979           Curatorial Assistant, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology,
     Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA)
   - 1986- present     Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
   education:
   - B.S., 1977, Biology, The Pennsylvania State University
   - Ph.D., 1986, Geology, The Pennsylvania State University
   affiliations:
   - Sigma Xi
   - Geological Society of America
   - AASP- The Palynological Society
   honors: []
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   personal_statement: Ron Litwin has been a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey
     since 1986. He works on the biostratigraphy, paleoclimate, and paleoecology
     of the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, Midcontinent, Colorado Plateau,
     Basin and Range, and Sierra Nevada using fossil pollen and spores. He is located
     in the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center.