Phone: 616.331.3381
Email: nealw@gvsu.edu
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William J. Neal is professor Emeritus and past chairman of the Department of Geology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. As a sedimentologist he has been involved in coastal studies since the 1970s. In 1993 he received (with Orrin H. Pilkey) the American Geological Institute's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of Geology.
Research Regions & Interests:
Sedimentary petrology, stratigraphy, and environmental geology; coastal mapping and hazard evaluation, anddiagenesis of gypsum; petrology of deep-sea sediments. Field sites include the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Alaska, Great Lakes, Colombia, and Portugal.
Selected Publications:
Van Regenmorter, J., Videtich, P.E., & Neal, W.J., 2008, Coprolites, Cololites, and Fish Fossils in The Mississippian Michigan Formation, Western Michigan: Michigan Academician, v. XXXVIII, p. 21-35.
Neal, W. J., Pilkey, O.H., & Kelly, J. T, 2006, Atlantic Coast Beaches: A Guide to Ripples, Dunes, and Other Natural Features of the Seashore. Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, 272 p.
Jackson, C.W., Bush, D.M., & Neal, W.J., 2006, Gabions, a poor design for shore hardening: the Puerto Rico experience: Journal of Coastal Research, SI v. 39, v. II, p. 852-857 in Klein, A.H.F., et al., eds., Proceedings of the 8th International Coastal Symposium ICS 2004, 1909p.