ORCID:
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USGS Staff Profile:
'@context': https://schema.org '@type': Person affiliation: - '@type': Organization name: Geological Society of America; Fellow - '@type': Organization name: American Geophysical Union. Assoc. Editor, Jour. Geophysical Res. 1992-1995 - '@type': Organization name: Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Assoc. - '@type': Organization name: American Quaternary Assoc. - '@type': Organization name: International Medical Geology Assoc. - '@type': Organization name: International Society for Aeolian Research (guest editor, 2013-14; Board of Directors, 2014-2016) award: - 2012 Elected Senior Scientist, USGS - 2012-2014 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School of Geography and the Environment, Univ. of Oxford - 2011 Astor Visiting Lecturer for the Humanities, Univ. of Oxford - 2007 Co-recipient, Kirk Bryan Award; best publication in Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, Geological Society of America - Meritorious Service Award, Dept. of the Interior (1995) - 1995 Best Paper Award, Jour. Great Lakes Res. - 1994 Elected Fellow, Geological Society of America - 1993 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Rock Magnetism, Univ. Minnesota - 1992 Best Paper Award, Geophysics description: - '@type': TextObject abstract: Scientist Emeritus with the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center additionalType: short description - '@type': TextObject abstract: I investigate how climatic variability, weather, and land uses affect surfaces and ecosystems of deserts, with emphasis on sediment eroded, transported, and deposited by wind, mostly as atmospheric dust. additionalType: staff profile page introductory statement - '@type': TextObject abstract: "My studies probe the geologic, biologic, and human controls on dust\ \ generation as well as the mineralogic and geochemical properties of dust that\ \ in turn affect climate, weather, ecosystem health, water resources (effects\ \ of dust on melting of snow and ice), ocean fertility, and the health of a\ \ large proportion of earth\u2019s people. I have also conducted research on:Hawaiian\ \ coral-reef health in settings of coastal erosionQuaternary climate and responses\ \ of landscapes to climatic change and human activitiesIron-sulfur diagenesis\ \ and its effects on lake-sediment paleoenvironmental recordsMagnetic and chemical\ \ records of airborne pollution and environmental changePaleomagnetism of Tertiary\ \ and Quaternary sedimentary and igneous rocksSources of magnetic anomalies\ \ in the shallow crustField geology, Antarctica (1970-1971; 1978-1979)" additionalType: personal statement email: rreynolds@usgs.gov hasCredential: - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential name: Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1975 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential name: M.S., Univ. of Colorado, 1970 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential name: A.B., Princeton University, 1968 hasOccupation: - '@type': OrganizationalRole affiliatedOrganization: '@type': Organization name: Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center url: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geosciences-and-environmental-change-science-center roleName: Scientist Emeritus startDate: '2024-05-12T16:04:27.215597' - '@type': Occupation additionalType: self-claimed professional experience name: Research Geologist, USGS (periodic supervisory positions) 1975-2012 - '@type': Occupation additionalType: self-claimed professional experience name: Acting Program Manager, Global Change Program USGS 2002 - '@type': Occupation additionalType: self-claimed professional experience name: Senior Scientist, USGS 2012-2013 Emeritus since 2013 - '@type': Occupation additionalType: self-claimed professional experience name: Adjunct Research Professor, Univ. of Minnesota - '@type': Occupation additionalType: self-claimed professional experience name: Affiliate, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research Univ. of Colorado identifier: - '@type': PropertyValue propertyID: GeoKB value: https://geokb.wikibase.cloud/entity/Q48841 - '@type': PropertyValue propertyID: ORCID value: 0000-0002-4572-2942 jobTitle: Scientist Emeritus knowsAbout: - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: contamination and pollution - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: desertification - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: health and disease - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: human impacts - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: industrial pollution - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: land use change - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: erosion - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: geochemistry - '@type': Thing additionalType: self-claimed expertise name: soil chemistry memberOf: '@type': OrganizationalRole member: '@type': Organization name: U.S. Geological Survey name: staff member startDate: '2024-05-12T16:04:27.213042' name: Richard L Reynolds url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/richard-l-reynolds