University of Saskatchewan

Faculty Member, Geological Sciences

Professor and Director of the Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory

Arts and Sciences

About

Bill grew up in Youngstown Ohio and spent a year and a half in Bountiful Utah. He attended Youngstown State University while working afternoon and midnight turn shifts at Syro Steel in Girard Ohio.
After receiving his B.S. degree in Geology and Biology, he worked as a geologist and materials inspector in St. Louis Missouri before starting graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis. He transferred to the University of Michigan when his M.S. thesis advisor took a faculty position there.
Bill obtained a M.S. in aqueous geochemistry and oceanography with advisor Lynn Walter and then went on to finish a PhD with Gerald Smith and Kyger Lohmann. Hired directly out of grad school, Bill was a professor at Syracuse university 2 days after defending his PhD.
At Syracuse, Bill designed and built the Syracuse Stable Isotope Laboratory. After being promoted to Associate Professor at Syracuse, Bill was offered a position as Co-Director of the much larger Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory in Saskatoon Saskatchewan.
In Saskatchewan, Bill continued to develop new analytical tools and techniques. The lab now houses 8 mass spectrometers and is capable of performing a tremendous variety of analytical procedures.
Today, Bill conducts research on all seven continents and works with National Geographic in the Arctic and Antarctic as a naturalist. He enjoys music, motorcycles, photography, art, language, culture, and many other interests.

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