EXPERTISE
Kelvin W. Ramsey joined the Delaware Geological Survey in 1987. He has served as a Research Associate II & III, Associate Scientist and Scientist. Mr. Ramsey's areas of expertise include Sedimentology and Stratigraphy as related to research and applied studies of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
Dr. Ramsey's current research includes surficial geologic mapping of the Delaware. Other research interests include the record of Holocene sea-level rise in Delaware and the late Tertiary and Quaternary geology of the mid-Atlantic region. He also studies historic hurricanes and their effect on Delaware and the mid-Atlantic region, as well as assessing coastal changes after storms.
Dr. Ramsey is a member of the Delaware Emergency Management Agency Technical Assessment Center and provides scientific information during storm events. He also is involved in assessment of offshore sand resources in federal waters which may be used for beach nourishment.
Dr. Ramsey has a secondary appointment as Professor in the College of Marine and Earth Studies.
EDUCATION
University of Delaware, 1988, Ph.D., Geology
Vanderbilt University, 1982, M.S., Geology
College of William and Mary, 1979, B.A., Geology - Classical Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
Significant Publications and Abstracts of Presentations
1990, Geologic Map of Southern Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Open File Report No. 32, scale 1:100,000 (with Schenck, W. S.).
1990, Ages of the Bethany, Beaverdam, and Omar Formations of southern Delaware. Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 47, 19 p.(with Groot, J. J. and Wehmiller, J. F.).
1992, Coastal response to Late Pliocene climate change: Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, Virginia and Delaware: in, Fletcher, C. H., III and Wehmiller, J. F., eds., Quaternary Coasts of the United States: Marine and Lacustrine Systems, SEPM Special Publication No. 48., p. 122-127.
1993, Geologic Map of the Milford and Mispillion River Quadrangles: Delaware Geological Survey Geologic Map No. 8, scale 1:24,000.
1994, Geomorphology and stratigraphy of the Quaternary of Delaware. 1994 Southeastern Friends of the Pleistocene Field Trip Guidebook, 66 p.
1995, Geologic Map of the Seaford Area, Delaware: Delaware Geological Survey Geologic Map No. 9, scale 1:24,000 (with Andres, A. S.).
1996, Radiocarbon dates from Delaware: a compilation: Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 54, 18 p (with Baxter, S. J.).
1997, Geology of the Milford and Mispillion River Quadrangles: Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations No. 55, 40 p.