David S. Powars | |
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Known for | principal discoverer of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater.[1][2] |
Awards | Virginia Museum of Natural History’s Thomas Jefferson Award for outstanding contributions to science in Virginia. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geology |
David S. Powars is a Research Geologist with the United States Geological Survey at the Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center, in Reston, Virginia.[2]
He is credited as a principal discoverer of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater.[1][2] He is the task leader of geological investigation of Coastal Plain (CP) deposits in Chesapeake Bay Region (as part of the Atlantic Watershed Project).[2]
He received the Virginia Museum of Natural History’s Thomas Jefferson Award for outstanding contributions to science in Virginia.[citation needed]