CURRICULUM VITA OF
DOUGLAS F. WILLIAMS

Address

Birthdate

Education

Academic Positions

Professional Societies

• Council for Undergraduate Research
  
• Sigma Xi
  
• Explorer’s Club
  
• Golden Key Honor Society
  
• Limnology and Oceanography
  
• American Geophysical Union
  
• Geological Society of America
  
• Soc. of Econ. Paleon. and Mineralogy
  
• South Carolina Academy of Sciences
  
• Torch Club
  
• Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Honors and Awards

• Elected Honorary Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Sept. 1995 (3rd non-Russian so honored).
  
• Recipient of 1995 Golden Key Award for Creative Integration of Research and Teaching.
  
• Recipient of 1995 Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award.
  
• Recipient of 1994 Carolina Development Foundation Outstanding Research Award, University of South Carolina.
  
• Keynote Speaker, “Opportunities for Integrating Research and Teaching”, 1996 National Lilly Conference.
  
• Nominee, National Advisor of the Year, Alliance for Minority Participation program.

Other Relevant Experience

• Chairman, Global Lake Drilling Task Force, International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, July 1995 - present
  
• Convener, national NSF workshop, “Research Opportunities in Mongolia”, Oct. 1995, Seabrook Island, SC.
  
• Co-Convener, special theme session at annual Geological Soc. America meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 1995
  
• Co-organizer of Russian-American Environmental Science Education and Training partnership (RESET)
  
• Co-chairman, Steering Committee, Baikal Drilling Project
  
• Co-editor, special Baikal Drilling Project volume of Journal of Geology and Geophysics (Geologia i Geofizika)
  
• Convener, special symposium on "Lacustrine Basins and Global Change" at the VII Congres European Geosciences Union, Strasbourg, April 1993.
  
• Co-Convener, special symposium "Large Lakes and Climate Change", 1992 Spring Toronto of the American Geophysical Union.
  
• Co-Convener, special symposium "Baikal Paleoclimatology and Paleolimnology", 1991 Spring meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
  
• Convener, Baikal Research Workshop, Charleston, SC October 21-25, 1990.
  
• Review Panel for U.S. Ocean Drilling Program Science Program, National Science Foundation, Sept. 1993
  
• Review Panel for U.S. National Underwater Research Program, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Admin., Sept. 1993
  
• U.S. Representative to Founding Members Council of the Baikal Internat'l Center for Ecological Research, Irkutsk, Russia.
  
• Organizing Chairman of U.S. 'Baikal Research Association'.
  
• Co-Chief Scientist on first Russian-American Baikal coring-seismic expedition, July 1990, Lake Baikal, Russia.
  
• Convener, first Russian-American organizational meeting of Baikal Drilling Project, July 1989, Columbia, SC.
  
• S.C. Representative to the "Committee of 50", American Geophysical Union.
  
• Convener, symposium on "Application of Stable Isotopes," Estuarine Res. Federation, Durham, NH, 1985.
  
• Chairman, SEPM Research Committee on Stable Isotopes, 1989-1991.
  
• Editorial board, Marine Micropaleontology, Elsevier, 1986-89; 1989-1992; Geology, Geological Society of America, 1991-1993; 1993-1995;
  Marine Sciences, China Press, 1989-1995; Russian J. of Geology and Geophysics, 1993-1995.

Research Expertise

Publication Summary

Research Funding Summary

Federal Agencies

Private Foundations

Industrial Contracts

Teaching Summary

Administrative Experience

• Chairman, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1985-1989
  
• Associate Chairman, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1981-1985
  
• Director of Graduate Studies, Marine Science Program 1981-1984
  
• Chairman, Departmental Seminar Series, Dept. of Geological Sciences, 1978-1982
  
• Chairman, Russell Research Award Committee
  
• University Research Advisory Committee, Office of Sponsored Programs and Research, 1990-91
  
• Member of numerous other committees of both Geological Sciences and Marine Sciences
  

Research Supervision Summary

Most Recent or Pending Research Funding

Professional References

Research Supervision

• Completed Ph.D. Programs (7) Directed By D. F. Williams: A. Palmer (Geol, 1984), D. Krantz (MarSci, 1988), A. Gary (Geol, 1988), P. McMahon (Geol, 1990), D. Trainor (Geol, 1990), X. Chen (Geol, 1992), L. Qiu (Geol, 1992).
  
• Completed Master's Research Programs (23) Directed By D. F. Williams: W. Falls (Geol., 1980), M. Zimmerman (Mar Sci, 1980), D. Gribble (Geol, 1981), A. Leventer (Mar Sci, 1981), M. Judson (Geol, 1981), J. Jenkins (Mar Sci, 1981), K. Leonard (Geol, 1981), B. Pharr (Geol, 1983). D. Krantz (Mar Sc, 1983), L. Ember (MarSci, 1985), D. Trainor (Geol, 1985), R. Frith (MarSci, 1985), A. Kronick (MarSci, 1986), L. Martin (Geol, 1987), D. Mucciarone (Geol, 1988), E. Healy (MarSci, 1988), L. Monts (Geol, 1989), Z. Yu (Geol, 1989), C. Cline (Geol, 1991), P. Jenkins (Geol, 1992), X. Gao (MarSci, 1992), P. Romashkin (Geochem, 1993, Novosibirsk), A. Prokopenko (Geochem, 1993, Novosibirsk).
  
• Present Ph.D. Candidates Directed By D. F. Williams (6): W.F. Falls (Geology), P. Romashkin (Geology), A. Prokopenko (Geology), E. Karabanov (Geology), S. Nikolova (Marine Science).
  
• Present Master's Degree Candidates: (1)
  
• Undergraduate - I have directed over 40 Undergraduate Research Assistants in my laboratory over the last 15 years; these students have served as much as 3.5 years to as little as 3 months as undergraduates actively engaged in state-of-the-art, hands-on, publishable research.
  
• Post-doctoral Associates - I have been privileged to have the following post-doctoral associates work with me: Dr. R.H. Fillon, Ph.D. Florida State University; Dr. Andre' Droxler, Ph.D. University of Miami; Dr. Pierre Richard, Ph.D. University of Paris; Prof. Victor Mats, Ph.D. Moscow State University; Dr. Howard Spero, Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara; Dr. Michael Kahn, University of Southern California.; Dr. Sarah Fowell, Lamont-Doherty Geol. Observatory; Dr. Yan Jun, Qingdao Inst. of Oceanology, Qingdao PRC; Dr. Y. Han, Qingdao Inst. of Oceanology, Qingdao PRC.

Publications in print or in press since 1991

• (105) 1991 A dramatic Change in the Ecosystem of the Northern Basin of Lake Baikal (East Siberia) in the Holocene, Doklady Akad. Nauk (Moscow) SSSR ,v. 321: 1032-1037 (Bezrukova, E.V., Bogdanov, Y.A., Williams, D. F., Granina, L.Z., Grachev, M.A., Ignatova, N.V., Karabanov, E.B., Kuptsov, V.M., Kurylev, A.V., Irtunova, P.P, Likoshway, Y.E., Chernyaeva, G.P., Shimaraeva, M. C., and Yakushin, A.O.).
• (106) 1991 Application of matched filter method to enhance signal-to-noise ratios in geological time series. Nuclear Geophysics, v. 5., pp. 279-289 (Yu, Z., Lerche, I. Williams, D.F. and Healy-Williams, N.).
• (107) 1991 Opening the carbon isotope `vital effect' black box, II: A quantitative carbon isotope model for interpreting foraminiferal 13C data., Paleoceanography, v. 6, pp. 639-655 (H.J. Spero, I. Lerche and D.F. Williams).
• (108) 1991 Changes in the depositional flux of 1OBe in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico: lnverse correlation with 180, Chemical Geology. (Isotope Geoscience Section), 86 p. 253-258, (B.L.K. Somayajulu, P. Sharma, J. Klein, R. Midleton, D.F. Williams and W.S. Moore).
• (109) 1991 Computer modeling of hydrocarbon migration pathways and fluid flow histories from carbon isotope anomalies in Gulf Coast exploration wells. Trans. of Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies, v. 41, pp. 676-689 (D.F. Williams, I. Lerche and Z. Yu).
• (110) 1991 Pliocene-Pleistocene Stable Isotope Record for ODP Site 653, Tyrrhenian Basin: Implications for the Paleoenvironmental History of the Mediterranean Sea, in Proc. Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), v. 107, pp. 387-399 (R. Thunell, D. Williams, E. Tappa, D. Rio and I. Raffi).
• (111) 1992 Initial Results of U.S.-Russian Paleoclimate Study of Lake Baikal, EOS (Trans. Amer. Geophys. Un.), v. 73: p. 457 and 460-462 (The Lake Baikal Paleoclimate Project members: Colman, S.M., Williams, D.F., et al.).
• (112) 1992 Stable isotope composition of calcareous paleosols and ground-water cements from the Ogallala Group (Neogene), western Nebraska. Contributions to Geology, v. 29, pp. 97-110 (Gardner, L.R., Diffendal, R.F., Jr., and Williams, D.F.)
• (113) 1992 Historical overview of the Baikal Drilling Project. International Project on Paleolimnology and Late Cenozoic Climate (IPPCCE) Newsletter no. 6: 4-10. (Williams, D.F.).
• (114) 1992 Lake Baikal Paleoclimate Project, Southeastern Siberia: initial dating and paleo-environmental results. International Project on Paleolimnology and Late Cenozoic Climate (IPPCCE) Newsletter no. 6: 30-39. (Colman, S.M., Karabanov, E.B., Williams, D.F., et al.).
• (115) 1992 Biogenic silica of Baikal bottom sediments used for paleoreconstructions. International Project on Paleolimnology and Late Cenozoic Climate (IPPCCE) Newsletter no. 6: 52-59 (Granina, L.Z., Karabanov, E.B., Williams, D.F., et al.).
• (116) 1993 Transport of carbonate sediment in the western North Atlantic: evidence from oxygen and carbon isotopes . Marine Geology, v. 112, pp. 23-34 (Balsam, W.L. and Williams, D.F.)
• (117) 1993 Biogenic silica accumulation and paleoproductivity in the northern basin of Lake Baikal during the Holocene. Geology, v. 21, p. 25-28 (Qiu, L., Williams, D.F., Karabanov, and E., Gvodzkov, A.).
• (118) 1993 The Baikal Drilling Program: tasks, proceedings, scientific objectives , Russian J. Geology and Geophysics, v. 11, pp. 5-13 (Kuzmin, M.I., Williams, D.F., Logachov, N.A., et al.).
• (119) 1993 Accumulation of biogenic silica in bottom sediments of Lake Baikal. Russian J. Geology and Geophysics, v. 11, pp. 143-153 (Granina, L.Z., Grachev, M.A., Karabanov, E.B., Kuptsov, V.M., Shimaraeva, M. K., and Williams, D.F. ).
• (120) 1993 Geochemical indicators of paleoproductivity and sources of organic matter in surficial sediments of Lake Baikal. Russian J. Geology and Geophysics, v. 11, pp. 131-142 (Williams, D.F., Qiu, L., Karabanov, E.B. and Gvozdkov, A.) .
• (121) 1993 Late Quaternary climatic record in Lake Baikal bottom sediments of the Selenga Delta area. Russian J. Geology and Geophysics, v. 11, pp. 76-89 (Prokopenko, A., Williams, D.F., Karabanov, E.B.) .
• (122) 1993 The Holocene-late Quaternary record of sedimentary organic matter in cores from the Academician Ridge (Lake Baikal). Russian J. Geology and Geophysics, v. 11, pp. 90-98 (Williams, D.F. and Jenkins, P.B.).
• (123) 1993 Isotope composition of carbon in soils and bottom sediments of river valleys in Pribaikalye. Russian J. Geology and Geophysics, v. 11, pp. 210-218 (Koval, P.V., Kitaev, N.A., Williams, D.F., Grebenschikova, V.I., and Romanov, V.A.)