About
Earth Access, LLC is a geoscience company in Charleston, South Carolina, founded in 2017. It does three things:
- Publishing. Earth Access Geoscience publishes undergraduate research and data; authors submit through Earth Access Authoring.
- Services. Consulting in coastal geology, geophysical, drone and GNSS surveys, expert testimony, and sensor networks.
- Tools. Public tools for coastal data, including Earth Access FloodNet and Earth Access GIS.
M. Scott Harris, Ph.D., P.G.
President and Chief Science Officer
Scott is a Coastal Plain and Continental Shelf geoscientist. His work traces sea level and landform change from the Ice Ages to today’s coast: Holocene and Quaternary sea-level history, barrier islands, and the drowned landscapes of the southeastern U.S. shelf, with work in Greece and Ethiopia as well. He works with marine and land geophysics (sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiling, and 2-D and 3-D ground-penetrating radar) and writes the software that turns the data into answers.
Over an academic career of research and teaching, he has taught at the College of William & Mary and Coastal Carolina University, taught summer courses at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and is on the faculty of Geology and Environmental Geosciences at the College of Charleston, where he also directed the archaeology program. He holds a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Delaware and has more than 70 publications and technical reports and more than 200 talks and presentations.