Friday, April 7 2023, 4:10pm Geology Colloquium - GG Building 200A or via Zoom Colloquium Speaker: Debra Willard Bio: Debra Willard is a Research Geologist at the US Geological Survey in Reston, VA. She received her B.S. at Penn State and conducted her graduate research on palynological and paleobotanical records from Pennsylvanian-age peat swamps at the University of Illinois. After a postdoc at the Smithsonian Institution, she joined the USGS as a Research Geologist in 1991. Her research uses palynological evidence to document vegetational response to a range of environmental and climatic stressors in Paleogene, Neogene, and Holocene sediments. She served as the Coordinator for the USGS Climate Research & Development Program from 2010–2021 before resuming a research role, focusing on the response of wetland systems to changing climate and land cover since the Last Glacial Maximum. Host: Ervan Garrison This is a hybrid event, if you are unable to join us in person please join via zoom. Meeting ID: 997 2477 2096 Note: A password is required to join this meeting. Please call the Geology office (706-542-2652) and speak with a representative to obtain the code. Alternatively, a code request can be made to UGA Geology. Debra Willard Research Geologist US Geological Survey-Reston Debra Willard
