
Eric Carson is a geologist with the Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey and a professor at UW-Madison. He received his B.S. from West Virginia University and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research investigates the chronology of the last glaciation in Wisconsin, processes through time associated with rivers, and the development of landscapes over timescales ranging from tens of thousands of years to tens of millions of years.