Dr. Kathleen Dyer-Williams has more than 30 years of research and consulting experience in geologic hazards and paleoliquefaction studies. Dr. Dyer-Williams has investigated paleoliquefaction in the New Madrid seismic zone and surrounding regions in the central U.S., the Charlevoix and Passamaquoddy seismic zones in southeastern Canada, and the Dominican Republic in the northeastern Caribbean. She has played a crucial role in estimating the locations and magnitudes of paleoearthquakes in these regions through the evaluation of scenario earthquakes using liquefaction potential analysis. In addition, Dr. Dyer-Williams has mapped and analyzed landslide hazard in Venezuela, and across the Caribbean, including the islands of St. Lucia, Antigua, Trinidad, and Tobago. Currently, she is evaluating scenario earthquakes for the Central Virginia seismic zone and for the Marianna area southwest of the New Madrid seismic zone for the interpretation of paleoearthquakes that produced paleoliquefaction features in those regions. For more details, click here for Dr. Dyer-Williams' Curriculum Vitae.
