usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-10-02T16:16:05.315299' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/ronald-litwin profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: - Sigma Xi - Geological Society of America - AASP- The Palynological Society education: - B.S., 1977, Biology, The Pennsylvania State University - Ph.D., 1986, Geology, The Pennsylvania State University email: rlitwin@usgs.gov 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 honors: [] intro_statements: - Ronald Litwin is a Scientist Emeritus at the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center. name: Ronald Litwin name_qualifier: null orcid: null organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/florence-bascom-geoscience-center organization_name: Florence Bascom Geoscience Center 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. 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 title: Scientist Emeritus