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
Supplemented graphic correlation: A powerful tool for paleontologists and nonpaleontologists
Pacific Enewetak Atoll Crater Exploration (PEACE) Program; Enewetak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands; part 2: Paleontology and biostratigraphy of Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands; application to OAK and KOA craters
Insights on why graphic correlation (Shaw's method) works: A reply
Age of the Comfort Member of the Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina
Significant unconformities and the hiatuses represented by them in the Paleogene of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Province
Insights on why graphic correlation (Shaw's method) works
The Fishburne Formation (lower Eocene), a newly defined subsurface unit in the South Carolina coastal plain
Range charts and no-space graphs
The use of a paired comparison model in ordering stratigraphic events
Science and Products
Supplemented graphic correlation: A powerful tool for paleontologists and nonpaleontologists
Pacific Enewetak Atoll Crater Exploration (PEACE) Program; Enewetak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands; part 2: Paleontology and biostratigraphy of Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands; application to OAK and KOA craters
Insights on why graphic correlation (Shaw's method) works: A reply
Age of the Comfort Member of the Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina
Significant unconformities and the hiatuses represented by them in the Paleogene of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Province
Insights on why graphic correlation (Shaw's method) works
The Fishburne Formation (lower Eocene), a newly defined subsurface unit in the South Carolina coastal plain
Range charts and no-space graphs
The use of a paired comparison model in ordering stratigraphic events
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government