Member Since 2008
Geoff S. Plumlee
Chief Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Chief Scientist (2019-2024), now Emeritus — Strategic vision on transdisciplinary science to USGS Director/workforce, federal committees, external partners. DEIA/EJ ally. USGS Assoc Dir 2016-2019—Led USGS research on environ health. USGS environ geochemist 1983-2016, Center Director 1996-2001—Convergent research on mineral resources, environment, disasters, and human health. 150+ publications. AGU Council 2015-2018—Proposed, helped launch GeoHealth Section. PhD Geochem Harvard, BS Geol UNM.
Professional Experience
U.S. Geological Survey
Chief Scientist Emeritus
2025 - Present
US Geological Survey Director's Office
Chief Scientist
2019 - 2025
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Chief Scientist
2019 - 2024
U.S. Geological Survey
Associate Director, Environmental Health
2016 - 2020
USGS Crustal Geophysics and Geochemistry Science Center Denver
Research Geochemist and Center Director
1996 - 2016
USGS Geological Survey
Research Geochemist
1983 - 1996
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Education
Harvard University
Doctorate
1989
University of New Mexico Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Bachelors
1980
Honors & Awards
GeoHealth Section Award
Received December 2021
AGU Abstracts
Transdisciplinary USGS Earth-System Science to Advance Environmental, Health, and Natural Resource Security
BUILDING COMMUNITY COOPERATION IN DEVELOPING AND SHARING SCIENCE APPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, NATURAL HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE, AND PUBLIC SAFETY I ORAL
science and society | 12 december 2024
Geoffrey S. Plumlee
The earth is a dynamic system of interacting earth, biological, physical, chemical, and environmental processes. How humans affect, are affected by, a...
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The role of USGS earth-system science in helping tackle public health and wildlife health challenges posed by mineral particles
TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ON HAZARDOUS MINERAL PARTICLES TO UNDERSTAND GEOHEALTH/ONE HEALTH POSTER
geohealth | 10 december 2024
Geoffrey S. Plumlee
The USGS has a rich history of transdisciplinary earth-system science examining the human and wildlife health implications of exposures to mineral par...
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The Sustainable Land Imaging Partnership to Support Long-Term Science, Public, and Commercial Services
PLANNING FOR OBSERVATION CONTINUITY: SCIENTIFIC NEEDS, DECISION SUPPORT VALUE, AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES I ORAL
science and society | 14 december 2023
Timothy S. Stryker, Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Timothy R...
Continued monitoring of land surface, coastal, and surface water phenomena is required for environmentally sustainable land use management, resource u...
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Volunteer Experience
2019 - 2021
Chair
Geohealth Canvassing Committee
2019 - 2020
Chair
Joint Sections Fellows Committee
2019 - 2019
Chair
Geohealth Fellows Committee