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Geoffrey Plumlee, Ph.D.

Dr. Geoffrey “Geoff” Plumlee is the Chief Scientist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS).  Dr. Plumlee provides strategic scientific vision and counsel to the USGS Director, Executive Leadership Team, and workforce on transdisciplinary USGS research opportunities, capabilities, activities, and partnerships. 

Dr. Plumlee serves as an executive science liaison for the USGS with Department of Interior (DOI) and other federal agencies and is the USGS/DOI principal or representative on various federal interagency committees such as the Subcommittee on Global Change Research and the NSTC Joint Subcommittee on Environment, Innovation and Public Health. 

Dr. Plumlee has worked with the USGS for nearly 42 years. He has been USGS Chief Scientist and Senior Science Advisor to the USGS Director since early 2019. From 2016 to early 2020, Dr. Plumlee was the USGS Associate Director for Environmental Health, where he led USGS research at the intersection of the environment and health. Prior to 2016, as a Research Geologist and Environmental Geochemist, Dr. Plumlee helped lead and carry out many policy-informing research projects to understand complex linkages between mineral resources, the built and natural environments, disasters, and human health. Dr. Plumlee’s success as a researcher and now as USGS Chief Scientist directly result from his ability to seek out and establish transdisciplinary research collaborations that engage scientists from across the USGS and external partners, including a broad range of earth, biological, physical, health, social, emergency response, and engineering science disciplines. 

Dr. Plumlee is a graduate of Harvard University, where he earned his Doctorate in Geochemistry.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of New Mexico.  

 

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