I am Marcie Purkey Phillips. I have been a professional biostratigrapher since 2013.  I specialize in data collection and analysis of calcareous nannofossils from the Cretaceous through Recent, and Neogene marine diatoms, for the purposes of geologic age modeling and paleoenvironmental interpretation. My expertise also includes calibrating, analyzing, and adding precision to vintage and recent biostratigraphic datasets of most other microfossil groups such as foraminifers and radiolarians. My research interests focus on developing biostratigraphy-based geologic age models and paleoenvironmental interpretations particularly in places that are not well understood. I enjoy reconstructing geologic history by integrating biostratigraphic data with any and all other paleontological and geological data sets to produce a comprehensive interpretation.

My education includes a B.S. in Geology from the University of Nevada, Reno (2009) and a M.S. in Micropaleontology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2013). From 2002 – 2014 I was enlisted in the Army National Guard.

My associated professional experience includes offshore and onshore participation on International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expeditions 337 and 381 (photo, upper right); employment with Houston-based Noble Energy, which was acquired by Chevron in October 2020; contracting with PaleoData, a Petrostrat company, the leading micropaleontology consultant in the Gulf of Mexico; and, currently, as a scientific researcher with the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics (UTIG). I have worked offshore and onshore basins around the globe including the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of Corinth, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the North Pacific, the Denver-Julesburg Basin, and northeastern Nevada.