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Overview

Douglas F. Williams is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within the social sciences and earth and planetary sciences. Their work addresses interdisciplinary topics at the intersection of archaeology, paleontology, and environmental studies.

The scientist's notable recent publications include the following:

  • The Microarchitecture of DOJO, Tesla's Exa-Scale Computer (2023), IEEE Micro
  • Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland (2021), Antiquity
  • Ula Thirra: a case study in the geomagnetic detection of combustion features in Channel Country of far south-western Queensland (2023), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Isotopic analyses of prehistoric human remains from the Flinders Group, Queensland, Australia, support an association between burial practices and status (2021), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Sharing Experiences in Designing Professional Learning to Support Hydrology and Water Resources Instructors to Create High-Quality Curricular Materials (2022), Frontiers in Education

Williams frequently publishes in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, with additional contributions to IEEE Micro, Antiquity, Frontiers in Education, and Archaeologies.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Michael Westaway
  • Kelsey M. Lowe
  • Nathan Wright
  • Shaun Adams
  • Mark Collard

Their main fields of study encompass social sciences and earth and planetary sciences, supported by subfields that include paleontology, anthropology, geography, planning and development, hardware and architecture, as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

Douglas F. Williams concentrates research on topics such as:

  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era hominins and archaeology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian studies
  • Parallel computing and optimization techniques
  • Advanced neural network applications
  • Advanced data storage technologies
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research

This blend of expertise highlights a multidisciplinary approach covering both the technological aspects of computing and detailed environmental and archaeological investigations, reflecting the diversity of their research interests and contributions.

Best Publications

  • Surface Circulation of the Indian Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum, Approximately 18,000 yr B.P.

    Warren L. Prell;William H. Hutson;Douglas F. Williams;Allan W.H. Bé

  • Lake Baikal Record of Continental Climate Response to Orbital Insolation During the Past 5 Million Years

    D. F. Williams;J. Peck;E. B. Karabanov;A. A. Prokopenko

  • Continental climate response to orbital forcing from biogenic silica records in Lake Baikal

    Steven M. Colman;J.A. Peck;E.B. Karabanov;Susan J. Carter

  • Ecological and paleoenvironmental information using stable isotope profiles from living and fossil molluscs

    David E. Krantz;David E. Krantz;Douglas F. Williams;Douglas F. Williams;Douglas S. Jones;Douglas S. Jones

  • Chronology of the pleistocene oxygen isotope record: 0–1.88 m.y. B.P

    Douglas F. Williams;Robert C. Thunell;Eric Tappa;Domenico Rio

  • Orbital forcing of continental climate during the Pleistocene: a complete astronomically tuned climatic record from Lake Baikal, SE Siberia

    Alexander A. Prokopenko;Linda A. Hinnov;Douglas F. Williams;Mikhail I. Kuzmin

  • Dynamics of the Laurentide ice sheet during the last deglaciation: evidence from the Gulf of Mexico

    Amy Leventer;Douglas F. Williams;James P. Kennett

  • Opening the carbon isotope "vital effect" black box, 2, Quantitative model for interpreting foraminiferal carbon isotope data

    Howard J. Spero;Ian Lerche;Douglas F. Williams

  • Glacial–Holocene salinity changes in the Mediterranean Sea: hydrographic and depositional effects

    Robert C. Thunell;Douglas F. Williams

  • The age, origin, and volcanological significance of the Y-5 ash layer in the Mediterranean

    Robert Thunell;Alan Federman;Stephen Sparks;Douglas Williams;Douglas Williams

  • Growth history and ecology of the Atlantic surf clam, Spisula solidissima (Dillwyn), as revealed by stable isotopes and annual shell increments☆

    Douglas S Jones;Douglas F Williams;Michael A Arthur

  • Late Quaternary paleoclimatology, stratigraphy and sapropel history in eastern Mediterranean deep-sea sediments

    Robert C. Thunell;Douglas F. Williams;James P. Kennett

  • Carbon isotopic compositions of Recent planktonic foraminifera of the Indian Ocean

    Douglas F. Williams;Michael A. Sommer;Michael L. Bender

  • Strontium-calcium ratios in Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera

    David W. Graham;Michael L. Bender;Douglas F. Williams;Lloyd D. Keigwin

  • Extracting environmental information from planktonic foraminiferal δ 13 C data

    Howard J. Spero;Douglas F. Williams

  • Paleoenvironmental proxy records from Lake Hovsgol, Mongolia, and a synthesis of Holocene climate change in the Lake Baikal watershed

    Alexander A. Prokopenko;Galina K. Khursevich;Elena V. Bezrukova;Mikhail I. Kuzmin

  • Seasonal stable isotopic variations in living planktonic foraminifera from bermuda plankton tows

    Douglas F. Williams;Allan W.H. Bé;Richard G. Fairbanks

  • Biogenic Silica Record of the Lake Baikal Response to Climatic Forcing during the Brunhes

    Alexander A Prokopenko;Alexander A Prokopenko;Eugene B Karabanov;Eugene B Karabanov;Douglas F Williams;Mikhail I Kuzmin

  • Seasonal temperature-salinity changes and thermocline development in the mid-Atlantic Bight as recorded by the isotopic composition of bivalves

    Michael A. Arthur;Douglas F. Williams;Douglas S. Jones

  • Sodium, magnesium and strontium in the tests of planktonic foraminifera

    Michael L. Bender;Robert B. Lorens;Douglas F. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell University of South Carolina
Douglas S. Jones
Douglas S. Jones Florida Museum of Natural History
Howard J. Spero
Howard J. Spero University of California, Davis
John W. King
John W. King University of Rhode Island
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett University of California, Santa Barbara
Amy Leventer
Amy Leventer Colgate University
Isabella Raffi
Isabella Raffi University of Chieti-Pescara
Richard G. Fairbanks
Richard G. Fairbanks Columbia University
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
William Balsam
William Balsam Dartmouth College

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