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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