Education
B.S., Indiana State University. Terre Haute, IN, Physical Geography, 1971
M.A., Eastern Michigan University., Ypsilanti, MI, Geomorphology, 1974
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Soil Geomorphology, 1979
Additional Campus Affiliations
Director, Illinois State Geological Survey
Principal Geologist, Illinois State Geological Survey
Center Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Adjunct Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Recent Publications
Swezey, C. S., Blome, C. D., Kincare, K. A., Lundstrom, S. C., Stone, B. D., Sweetkind, D. S., Berg, R. C., Brown, S. E., & Yellich, J. A. (2022). Implementation plan of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program strategy—Great Lakes (Central Lowland and Superior Upland Physiographic Provinces). U.S. Geological Survey.
Swezey, C. S., Blome, C. D., Kincare, K. A., Lundstrom, S. C., Stone, B. D., Sweetkind, D. S., Berg, R. C., Brown, S. E., & Yellich, J. A. (2022). Implementation Plan of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program Strategy—Great Lakes (Central Lowland and Superior Upland Physiographic Provinces). US Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211120
Culshaw, M., Jackson, I., Peach, D., van der Meulen, M. J., Berg, R., & Thorleifson, H. (2021). Geological Survey Data and the Move from 2-D to 4-D. In A. K. Turner, H. Kessler, & M. J. van der Meulen (Eds.), Applied Multidimensional Geological Modeling: Informing sustainable human interactions with the shallow subsurface (pp. 13-33). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119163091.ch2
Stumpf, A. J., Berg, R. C., & Curry, B. B. (2020). Changing roles of state geological surveys in the USA: Experiences from Illinois. In The Changing Roles of State Geological Surveys (1 ed., Vol. 499, pp. 183-201). (Geological Society Special Publication). The Geological Society of London. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP499-2019-128
Berg, R. C., Kessler, H., MacCormack, K. E., Russell, H. AJ., & Thorleifson, L. H. (2019). Chapter 29: Future of 3D Geological Mapping and Modelling at Geological Survey Organizations. In 2019 Synopsis of Three-dimensional Geological Mapping and Modelling at Geological Survey Organizations (Vol. 112, pp. 302-305). (AER/AGS Special Report). Alberta Geological Survey, Alberta Energy Regulator,.