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 jwilliams@usgs.gov

Jeff Williams, a marine geologist specializing in coastal and inner continental shelf areas, has concentrated for over two decades on a variety of coastal and marine research topics dealing withexploration of hard mineral resources, wetlands and coastal processes, and geologic origins and evolution of coastal and estuarine systems and continental shelves. He has directed or participated in more than 70 geological field investigations along the Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes as well as the Irish Sea, United Kingdom. He has been a member on three National Academy of Sciences committees dealing with various coastal and marine topics and has authored more than 170 scientific papers and technical publications.

Williams currently serves as the Program Coordinator of the Marine and Coastal Geology Program with the U.S. Geological Survey's headquarters office in Reston Virginia. He previously held geoscience management and research positions with the Coastal Engineering Research Center, as a visiting marine geologist with the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences in Taunton, England, and with the Exxon Oil Company as an exploration geologist. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are in geology and oceanography from Allegheny College and Lehigh University.

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