Item talk:Q48841

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:11:12.848948'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/richard-l-reynolds
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - Geological Society of America; Fellow
   - American Geophysical Union. Assoc. Editor, Jour. Geophysical Res. 1992-1995
   - Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Assoc.
   - American Quaternary Assoc.
   - International Medical Geology Assoc.
   - International Society for Aeolian Research (guest editor, 2013-14; Board of
     Directors, 2014-2016)
   education:
   - Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado, 1975
   - M.S., Univ. of Colorado, 1970
   - A.B., Princeton University, 1968
   email: rreynolds@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - contamination and pollution
   - desertification
   - health and disease
   - human impacts
   - industrial pollution
   - land use change
   - erosion
   - geochemistry
   - soil chemistry
   honors:
   - 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
   intro_statements:
   - 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.
   name: Richard L Reynolds
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-4572-2942
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geosciences-and-environmental-change-science-center
   organization_name: Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
   personal_statement: "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)"
   professional_experience:
   - Research Geologist, USGS (periodic supervisory positions) 1975-2012
   - Acting Program Manager, Global Change Program USGS 2002
   - Senior Scientist, USGS 2012-2013 Emeritus since 2013
   - Adjunct Research Professor, Univ. of Minnesota
   - Affiliate, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research Univ. of Colorado
   title: Scientist Emeritus