• Ph.D., 1974, University of South Carolina-Columbia (Geology)
• M.S., 1972, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Geology)
• BA, 1962 , University of New Hampshire-Durham (Economics)

I am primarily a field geologist specializing in coastal, braided river, and various glacial environments. I have 40 years of field experience in New England, South Carolina, Alaska, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Madagascar, Ecuador, Mexico, and the Azores. My current research interests focus on:

• Geology of Essential Fish Habitat and aquaculture sites
• Coastal geologic hazards and management issues
• Geologic mapping of Quaternary (surficial) deposits
• Geotechnical aspects of highway construction through, and use of, glacial materials
• Late glacial and post-glacial landscape development
• Long-term (years) beach changes
• Processes and development of barrier and headland shorefaces in glaciated terrain
• Holocene stratigraphy of microtidal lagoons
• Geoarchaeology of New England

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• Coastal Geologic Environments (GEO 277)
• Introduction to Sedimentary Geology (GEO 450)
• Glacial Geology (GEO 515)
• Sedimentary Processes and Environments(GEO 550)
• Coastal Geologic Hazards (GEO 577)

• Boothroyd, J.C., and McCandless, S.J., 2003, Quaternary geology of the East Greenwich and parts of the Bristol and Crompton Quadrangles, RI: Open File Map 2003-01, Rhode Island Geological Survey STATEMAP Program, Glacial morphosequence Map (scale: 1:24,000, 7½ min).


• Boothroyd, J.C., McCandless, S.J., and Dowling, M.J. , 2003, Quaternary Geologic Map of Rhode Island: Rhode Island Geological Survey STATEMAP Program, Glacial morphosequence map (scale: 1:100,000) (Interim map, 21 quadrangles).


• Boothroyd, J.C., Sirkin, Les, 2002, The Quaternary geology of Block Island and adjacent regions: in Paton, P. ed., The Ecology of Block Island: Rhode Island Natural History Survey, Kingston, RI, p. 13-27, 7 cd images.


• Boothroyd, J.C., and McCandless, S.J., 2002, Quaternary geology of the Providence-East Providence Quadrangle, RI: Open File Map 2002-01, Rhode Island Geological Survey STATEMAP Program, Glacial morphosequence Map (scale: 1:24,000, 7½ x 15 min), Report, 15p.


• Boothroyd, J.C., 2001, Quaternary geology of the Carolina-Quonochontaug Quadrangles, RI: Open-File Report RIGS 01.2001, Rhode Island Geological Survey STATEMAP Program, Glacial morphosequence Map (scale: 1:24,000), Report, 14p.


• Coastal Resources Management Council, (1999), Special area management plan for the Salt Ponds of Rhode Island: CRMC, 150 p. (major rewrite and additions to the geology and coastal hazards sections of 50 manuscript pages and 14 figures).


• Coastal Resources Management Council, (1999), Special area management plan for the Narrow River watershed, Rhode Island: CRMC, 150 p. (major rewrite and additions to the geology and coastal hazards sections of approximately 20 manuscript pages).


• Boothroyd, J.C., Klinger, J.P., Galagan, C.L., 1998, Coastal geologic hazards on the south shore of Rhode Island: in Murray, D.P., ed., Guidebook to field trips in Rhode island and adjacent regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, New England Intercollegiate Conference Guidebook, p. A5-1 - A5-27.


• Boothroyd, J.C., Freedman, J.H., Brenner, H.A., Stone, J.R., 1998, The glacial geology of southern Rhode Island: in Murrray, D.P., ed., Guidebook to field trips in Rhode Island and adjacent regions of Connecticut and Massachusetts, New England Intercollegiate Conference Guidebook, p. C5-1-C5-25.


• Boothroyd, J.C., 1997, Surficial geology of the Great East Lake Quadrangle, ME: Maine Geological Survey STATEMAP Program, Glacial morphosequence Map (scale 1:24,000), Materials Map (scale 1:24,000), Report, 14p.


• Coastal Resources Management Council, 1995, Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Plan: CRMC, 200 p. (major rewrite and additions to the geology and coastal hazards sections of approximately 30 manuscript pages and 27 shoreline retreat maps).

• Association of American State Geologists
• Geological Society of America (Fellow)
• Society for Sedimentary Geologists - SEPM (National and Eastern Section)
• International Association of Sedimentologists
• American Geophysical Union

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