usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T15:18:59.450862' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/lucy-edwards profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: - American Association for Advancement of Science (Fellow) - Geological Society of America (Fellow) - North American Micropaleontology Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology - The Paleontological Society (Fellow) - The Palynological Society - American Geophysical Union - USGS representative to North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature education: - B.A. (Honors College), 1972, Geology, University of Oregon - Ph. D., 1977, Geological Sciences, University of California, Riverside email: leedward@usgs.gov expertise_terms: - biostratigraphy - fossils - geologic history - lithostratigraphy - sedimentary rocks - stratigraphy - earth history - impact cratering - palynology - core analysis - field methods - laboratory methods - statistical analysis honors: [] intro_statements: - Lucy Edwards is a Scientist Emeritus at the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center. name: Lucy Edwards name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0003-4075-3317 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/florence-bascom-geoscience-center organization_name: Florence Bascom Geoscience Center personal_statement: "Lucy E Edwards focuses her research on the stratigraphy of\ \ the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. Her specialty is dinoflagellates (a\ \ type of algae), and she studies their fossil cysts for what they reveal about\ \ the time and environment of deposition and how they came to be preserved in\ \ the fossil record. She also specializes in stratigraphic nomenclature and\ \ methods of stratigraphic correlation.Mentorship/OutreachCourses taught at\ \ George Washington University, Indiana University, University of Kansas, University\ \ of Oslo, George Mason University, T\xFCrkiye Petrolleri AO." professional_experience: - 1974, 1975 (summers) Biostratigrapher, Exxon Production Research Co., Houston, TX - 1977-2018 Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA - 2018-present Scientist Emerita, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA title: Scientist Emeritus