Lucy Edwards
Lucy Edwards is a Scientist Emeritus at the Florence Bascom Geoscience Center.
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/Outreach
- Courses taught at George Washington University, Indiana University, University of Kansas, University of Oslo, George Mason University, Türkiye 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
Education and Certifications
B.A. (Honors College), 1972, Geology, University of Oregon
Ph. D., 1977, Geological Sciences, University of California, Riverside
Affiliations and Memberships*
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
Science and Products
Preliminary analysis of integrated stratigraphic data from the South Venice corehole, Sarasota County, Florida
Palynomorph biostratigraphy of Eocene samples from the Sagavanirktok Formation at Franklin Bluffs, North Slope of Alaska
Geologic, hydrologic, and water-quality data for a multi-aquifer system in Coastal Plain sediments near Millers Pond, Burke County, Georgia, 1992-93
Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 612 bolide event: New evidence of a late Eocene impact-wave deposit and a possible impact site, U.S. east coast: Comment and reply
Fossils, rocks, and time
Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 612 bolide event: New evidence of a late Eocene impact-wave deposit and a possible impact site, US east coast
Pliocene paleoclimatic reconstruction using dinoflagellate cysts: Comparison of methods
Dinoflagellate-cyst census data from the seabed samples of Wall and others (1977) and Turon (1984)
Peridinialean dinoflagellate plate patterns, labels and homologies
Geology and paleontology of the Haynesville cores: Northeastern Virginia coastal plain
Science and Products
Preliminary analysis of integrated stratigraphic data from the South Venice corehole, Sarasota County, Florida
Palynomorph biostratigraphy of Eocene samples from the Sagavanirktok Formation at Franklin Bluffs, North Slope of Alaska
Geologic, hydrologic, and water-quality data for a multi-aquifer system in Coastal Plain sediments near Millers Pond, Burke County, Georgia, 1992-93
Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 612 bolide event: New evidence of a late Eocene impact-wave deposit and a possible impact site, U.S. east coast: Comment and reply
Fossils, rocks, and time
Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 612 bolide event: New evidence of a late Eocene impact-wave deposit and a possible impact site, US east coast
Pliocene paleoclimatic reconstruction using dinoflagellate cysts: Comparison of methods
Dinoflagellate-cyst census data from the seabed samples of Wall and others (1977) and Turon (1984)
Peridinialean dinoflagellate plate patterns, labels and homologies
Geology and paleontology of the Haynesville cores: Northeastern Virginia coastal plain
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