Lucy E. Edwards
Lucy E. Edwards specializes in the biostratigraphy of the Atlantic and Gulf
Coastal Plains. She studies dinoflagellates and the cysts they produce to tell
the age and the environment of the sediments. She also develops and tests
methods of stratigraphic correlation. She received her undergraduate education
at the University of Oregon and her Ph.D. from the University of California at
Riverside. While in graduate school, she worked summers for Exxon Production
Research Co. in Houston, Texas. She has been a geologist with the USGS since
1977.
Lucy has served as Chairman of the North American Commission on
Stratigraphic Nomenclature, President of the
American Association of
Stratigraphic Palynologists, a member of the editorial board of
Micropaleontology Press, and on various international committees. She has
taught courses at George Washington University, Indiana University, University
of Kansas, University of Oslo, George Mason University. In addition to her work
in the eastern US, she has worked on studies on Bangladesh, Enewetak, Pakistan,
Abu Dhabi, and the North Slope of Alaska.
Current Projects
Previous Projects
- 1993-1995. Upper Cenozoic Biostratigraphy of Florida and
Neogene and Quaternary Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy of South Florida.
Project Chief: G. Wingard.
- 1992-1995. Savannah River Project. Project Chief: L.
Edwards.
- 1990-1994. Mid-Paleocene biostratigraphy in marginal and
nearshore environments. Project Chief: L. Edwards.
- 1990-1993. Paleontological Framework of the Mississippi
Coastal Zone. Project Chief: T. Gibson.
- 1987-1991. Pliocene Climate. Project Chief: R. Poore.
- 1984-1990. Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Project. Project
Chief: T. Gibson.
- 1983-1985. High Precision Correlation Techniques. Project
Chief: L. Edwards.
Significant Products
Work in Progress
- Edwards, L.E., in press
- Paleocene dinoflagellates from the Black Mingo Group of South Carolina, in
Saunders, A.E., ed., South Carolina Geology, v. 37. 29ms. pp., 3 figs., 2 pl.
- Edwards, L.E., in press
- Paleocene and Eocene dinocysts from the Salt Range, Punjab, northern
Pakistan, in Warwick, P.D., and Wardlaw, B.R., Potwar regional framework
assessment studies, Pakistan: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 39 pp., 4 figs.,
2 tables, 2 plates.
- Edwards, L.E., and Willard, D.A., in press
- Dinoflagellate cysts and pollen from sediment samples, Mississippi Sound
and Gulf of Mexico: in Gohn, G.S., ed., U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 35 ms
pp., 10 figs., 2 tables, 2 pls.
- Mixon, R.B., Pavlides, L., Powars, D.S., Froelich, A.J.,
Weems, R.E., Newell, W.L., Schindler, J.S.,
Edwards, L.E., and Ward, L.W., submitted
- Geology of the Fredericksburg 30' x 60' quadrangle, northeastern Virginia
and southern Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations
Series Map, 1:100,000 scale, with text.
- Mixon, R.B., Pavlides, L., Powars, D.S., Froelich, A.J.,
Weems, R.E., Newell, W.L., Schindler, J.S.,
Edwards, L.E., and Ward, L.W., submitted
- Upper Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Chapter
III in Mixon and others, Geology of the Fredericksburg 30' x 60' quadrangle,
northeastern Virginia and southern Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey
Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, 46 ms. pp.
- Willard, D.A., and Edwards, L.E., in press
- Palynomorph biostratigraphy and paleoecology of subsurface upper Neogene
and Quaternary sediments in southern Jackson County, Mississippi: in Gohn,
G.S., ed., U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 25 ms pp., 3 figs., 1 table.
To Contact
U.S. Geological Survey
926A National Center
Reston, VA 20192
FAX: (703) 648-6953
E-mail: leedward@usgs.gov