He earned his Master’s at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) on Precambrian paleontology in 2010 and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in carbonate geochemistry in 2014. Dr. Edwards has traveled to Bermuda several times since 2006 as he attended and led field trips studying the coral reefs, in addition to field trips to the Bahamas, Florida Keys, and Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Edwards teaches classes in historical geology and sedimentology, both of which incorporate geologic and environmental processes responsible for carbonate reef formation and how reefs have changed through time. His research focuses on a time period known as the Ordovician (~485–444 million years ago) and using chemical signatures preserved in rock to better understand how reef communities may have been impacted by environmental changes throughout deep time.