Curriculum Vitae of:

Preston Lee Phillips Jr.
Work: (910) 522-5787
e-mail:  lee.phillips@uncp.edu

EDUCATION:

• The University of Iowa
  • Ph.D., Geoscience, July 2004
    • Thesis:  Paleohydrologic and stratigraphic implications of early diagenetic carbonate cements within marginal marine mid-Cretaceous strata, North American western interior seaway
    • Advisors: Robert L. Brenner and Luis A. González

• The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
  • M.S., Geology, May 1996
    • Thesis:  Carbonate petrology and strontium isotope stratigraphy of the Middle Ordovician Chickamauga Supergroup in its type area, Walker County, Georgia
    • Advisors: James A. Dockal and Jack C. Hall
  • B.S., Geology, May 1993

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Teaching:

• Associate Professor, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, July 2009 – present
• Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, August 2004 – June 2009
• Instructor, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, August 2003 – July 2004
  • GLY 1000: Physical Geology, Fall 2009
  • GLY-1150: Earth Sciences, Each Semester
    • Honors Section, Fall 2006, Fall 2008
  • GLYL-1150: Earth Science Laboratory, Fall 2004, 2005, 2007
  • GLY-2620: Environmental Geology, Spring 2004, 2007, Fall 2005
  • GLY-3100: Minerals and Rocks, Fall 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, 2009
  • GLYL-3110: Minerals and Rocks Laboratory, Fall 2007, 2009
  • GLY 3660: Geomorphology, Fall 2008
  • GLYS-401: Geochemistry, Spring 2004, 2009
  • GLYS-403: Local Groundwater Systems, Summer 2005
  • GLY-4150: Geology Fieldtrip, Maymester 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
  • GLY-5010: Essentials of Earth Science, Spring 2005, 2008
  • GLYS-5010 Geology Fieldtrip, Maymester 2007
  • GLYS-5100: Inquiry Based Earth Science, Summer I 2007
  • FRS-1000: Freshman Seminar, Fall 2007
• Teaching Assistant, The University of Iowa
  • Introduction to Environmental Sciences, Spring 2003
• Field Methods, Summer 1998,1999, and 2001
• Petrology, Spring 1998, and 2002
• Spring Fieldtrip to Puerto Rico, 2000  (assistant leader)
• Spring Fieldtrip to New Mexico, 1999 (co-leader)
• Fieldtrip to St. Francios Mtns, MO, 1998 and 1999  (organizer and leader)
• Sedimentary lectures in Petrology, Spring 1999 and 2001
• Earth History and Resources, Fall 1997, 2002
• Part-time Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geology, The Western State College of Colorado, 1996/97
  • Physical Geology
  • Physical Geology Laboratory  
  • Geochemistry
  • Spring Fieldtrip to Dinosaur National Monument  (co-leader)
• Lecturer, Pamlico Community College, Winter Quarter 1995/96
  • Physical Geology
  • Physical Geology Laboratory
• Lecturer, UNC at Wilmington, Historical Geology, Fall 1995
• Teaching Assistant, UNC at Wilmington
  • UNC System-Wide Field Course in Geology, 1995
  • Geology Field Methods, 1995
  • Physical and Historical Geology Laboratories, 1994/95
• Instructor, UNCW Division for Public Service, University Children’s Academy
  • Rocks and Minerals, Spring 1995
  • Dinosaurs, Fall 1994

Administrative:

• Assistant Director of the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center (August 2009 - Present)
• Associate Director of the UNCP Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center (Jan. 2006 – present)

Committees:

• 2008-09 Geography Search Committee
• 2008 Peer Evaluation Committee – Chair, Amy L. Gross
• 2008 Peer Evaluation Committee Member, Ledrew Stocks
• 2008 to 2011, UNCP Faculty Senate – Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• Summer 2008 Geology Lecturer Search Committee - member
• 2007-08 Faculty Senate Executive Committee
• 2007-08 Geology Search Committee - member
• 2007 Peer Evaluation Committee
  • Nathan Phillippi – Committee Member
  • Erin Poliakon – Committee Chair
• Fall 2007 – present, UNCP NIH Extramural Research Fund Advisory Board
• Summer 2007 – present, FSU-UNCP Microprobe Users Consortium
• Spring/Summer 2007, Geology Lecturer Search Committee – Chair
• Spring 2007, Geology Search Committee - member
• Spring 2006 to present, Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Center
• Spring 2006 to present, UNCP Esther G. Maynor Honors College Council
• Fall 2005 to present, Academic Affairs Committee (Chair, 2007-08)
• Fall 2005 to 2008, UNCP Faculty Senate – at large senator
• January 2005 to Summer 2006, Revolution II – Committee for Advancement of Earth/Environmental Science K-12 Education
• February 2004 to May 2004, UNCP Physical Environment Committee

Other:

• Research Assistant, Iowa Department of Natural Resources - Iowa Geological Survey, Summer 2003
• Research Assistant, Iowa Department of Natural Resources - Iowa Geological Survey, Summer 2002
• Research Assistant, The University of Iowa, Summer and Fall 1998
• Lab Technician, Iowa Department of Natural Resources – Geological Survey Bureau, Summer 1998
• Geology Intern, USGS-Mineral Resources Division, Reno, NV, Summer 1993

HONORS:

• 2009, UNCP - Outstanding Teaching Award
• Spring 2006, Honors College Faculty
• 2004, NSF-NAGT Workshop - Early Career Geoscience Faculty: Teaching, Research, and Managing your Career
• 1999-2001, US Department of Education GAANN Fellowship
• 1993, USGS-NAGT Internship
• 1992-1993, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Undergraduate Research Fellowship

GRANTS:

• 2008 – Army Research Office, Establishment of the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center (SENCR-MIC): A Collaborative effort of Fayetteville State University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Co- PI with Steven Singletary (PI) and Shubo Han of FSU, and Siva Mandjiny of UNCP.
• Result: funded $1,420,000
• 2007 – NSF-MRI, Acquisition of an Electron Microprobe and Carbon Coater for Fayetteville State University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Co- PI ($1,334,270 requested)
• Result: not funded
• 2007 – UNCP Faculty Research and Development Grant ($1,600
• 2005 – UNCP Faculty Research and Development Grant ($1,900)
• 2005 - NSF-GEO – Opportunity for Enhancing Diversity, The Life of the Aquifer, Co-PI ($98,023)
• 2004 - ACF-PRF Summer Research Fellowship, Penn State ($8,000)
• 2001 - UISG Research Grant ($400)
• 2000 - UISG Scholarly Presentation Grant ($250)
• UI Graduate Student Senate Travel Funds for Scholarly Presentation ($350) - 2000, ($100) - 1998
• UI Department of Geoscience Travel Funds ($150) - 2001, ($275) - 2000
• UI Department of Geoscience Littlefield Fund ($500) - 2000, ($500) - 1999
• 1999 - Geological Society of America Student Research Grant ($1,591)
• University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research ($500) - 1999 / 2000, ($500) - 1998 / 99
• 1998 - UI Department of Geology Gary Wilkins Fund ($500)
• UI Department of Geology Scholarship Award ($1,000) - 1997-98, ($750) - 1998-99, ($210) - 2002-03

PUBLICATIONS:

Manuscripts

• Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Joeckel, R.M., Ravn, R.L., Phillips, P.L., González, L.A., and Brenner, R.L., in press, New insights on the sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Dakota Formation in Kansas-Nebraska-Iowa from a decade of sponsored research activity: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin.
• Farley, M.B., Phillips, P.L., and McBroom, R., 2007, Investigating regional hydrogeology of the mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain: Starting Point – Teaching Entry Level Geoscience (http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/icbl/examples/19297.html).
• Phillips, P.L., Ludvigson, G.A., Joeckel, R.M., González, L.A., Brenner, R.L., and Witzke, B.J., 2007, Sequence stratigraphic controls on synsedimentary cementation and preservation of dinosaur tracks: Example from the Early Cretaceous (Upper Albian) Dakota Formation, Southeastern Nebraska: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 246, p. 367-389.
• Joeckel, R.M., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Kvale, E.P., Phillips, P.L., Brenner, R.L., Thomas, S.G., and Howard, L.M., 2005, Palaeogeography and fluvial to estuarine architecture of the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), Eastern Nebraska, USA.  In: Blum, M.D., Marriott, S.B. (Eds.), International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 35: Fluvial Sedimentology VII, Blackwell, Oxford, p. 453-480.
• Joeckel, R.M., Cunningham, J., Corner, R.G., Brown, G.W., Phillips, P.L., and Ludvigson, G.A. 2004, Late Albian dinosaur tracks from the cratonic (eastern) margin of the Western Interior Seaway, Nebraska, USA: Ichnos, v. 11, p. 275-284.
• Brenner, R.L., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Phillips, P.L., White, T.S., Ufnar, D.F., González, L.A., Joeckel, R.M., Goettemoeller, A., and Shirk, B.J., 2003, Aggradation of gravels in tidally-influenced fluvial systems, upper Albian (Lower Cretaceous) on the cratonic margin of the North American Western Interior foreland basin: Cretaceous Research, v. 24, n. 4, p. 439-448.
• Joeckel, R.M., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Kvale, E.P., Phillips, P.L., Brenner, R.L., Thomas, S.G., Howard, L.M., and Summerside, S.E., 2001, Dakota Formation (Cretaceous, Albian) Fluvial to estuarine sediments in the lowermost Platte Valley, Nebraska: Field trip guide for the Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 6-10, 2001, Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Open-file Report No. 61, 52 p.
• Phillips, P. Lee, Jr., and White, Tim S., 1998, Preliminary description and discussion of facies of the Nishnabotna Member of the Dakota Formation, Guthrie County, Iowa, in Anderson, R.R. and Bunker, B.J. (eds.), The natural history of Springbrook State Recreational Area, Guthrie County, Iowa: Geological Society of Iowa Guidebook 66, p. 65-69.

Abstracts

• Post, Sidney H.*, Phillips, P. Lee, Phillippi, Nathan E., 2009, Using LiDAR to Survey the Distribution of Carolina Bays in Robeson County, North Carolina: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 1, p. 44.
• Farley, M.B., Phillips, P. Lee, and McBroom, Rachel, 2008, Student Investigations of Spatial Changes in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain Aquifers: Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers, Abstracts of Poster Sessions, 63rd Annual Meeting, p.7.
• Phillips, P.L., Lightfoot, T., and Peters, D.J., 2008, Efforts of an Emerging Undergraduate Research Center to Promote Interest from Across the Disciplines: CUR National Conference – Frontiers and Challenges in Undergraduate Research, June 2008.
• Farley, M.B., Phillips, P. Lee, and McBroom, Rachel, 2008, Investigating Regional Hydrogeology of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain: a Student Exercise: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 58.
• McBroom, R.A., Farley, M.B., and Phillips, P.L., 2008, Life of the Aquifer:  A Partnership for Engaging Underserved Grades 9-12 Students in Local Geology, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) National Conference on Science Education, Boston, MA, March 28, 2008.
• Farley, M.B., Phillips, P.L., and McBroom, R.A., 2007, Life of the Aquifer – Improving Earth Science Education for Teachers and Students of Underrepresented Groups on the North Carolina Coastal Plain: Eos Trans. AGU 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED51A-0119.
• McBroom, R.A., Farley, M.B., and Phillips, P.L., 2007, Life of the Aquifer: A Partnership for Engaging 9-12 Students in Local Geo: North Carolina Science Teachers Association 2007 Professional Development Institute, November 15 & 16, 2007, Greensboro, NC, p.33.
• Phillips, P.L., Ufnar, D.F., Ludvigson, G.A., and Gonzalez, L.A., 2007, Siderite spherules and cements as proxies for paleogroundwater evolution and paleoclimatic changes: A comparison of apples and oranges?: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 39, n. 6, p. 302.
• Farley, M.B., and Phillips, P.L., 2006, Making geology visible: building the geosciences at a historically minority university: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, n. 7, p. 567.
• Phillips, P.L., White, T.S., Witzke, B.J., Ludvigson, G.A., Brenner, R.L., González, L.A., and Pope, J.P., 2005, Significance of cone-in-cone structures in marine mudstones: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 37, n. 2, p. 37.
• Ludvigson, G., Phillips, P., Joeckel, R., González, L., Brenner, R. and Davis, J., 2004, Tracking the footprints of ancient groundwaters: a sedimentologic view of dinosaurian track beds, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24, n. 3 Suppl., p. 85A – 86A.
• Phillips, P.L., Ludvigson, G.A., Joeckel, R.M., González, L.A., Brenner, R.L., and Witzke, B.J., 2003, The role of synsedimentary carbonate cementation in the preservation of dinosaur track sites: an example from the Dakota Formation, Sixty-third annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v, 23, n. 3, Suppl., p. 87A.
• Phillips, P.L., Ufnar, D.F., González, L.A., Ludvigson, G.A., and Brenner, R.L., 2002, Delineating nonmarine parasequence boundaries using geochemistry of early diagenetic carbonate cements in fluvial deposits: Albian Boulder Creek Formation, NE British Columbia: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 34, n. 2, p. A-41.
• Brenner, R.L., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Joeckel, R.M., Phillips, P.L., González, L.A., and Ufnar, D.F., 2001, Deposition of fluvial gravels in Late Albian Kiowa Marine Cycle fluvial-estuarine setting, Nishnabotna Member, Dakota Formation along the cratonic margin, Cretaceous western interior basin: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, n. 6, p. A-355.
• Joeckel, R.M., Cunningham, J., Phillips, P.L., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Corner, R.G., Brown, G.W., 2001, The first report of dinosaur tracks from Nebraska, Sixty-first annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 21, n. 3, Suppl., p. 66.
• Brenner, R. L., Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Phillips, P. L., White, T. S., Ufnar, D. F., and Joeckel, R. M., 2001, Aggradation of Fluvial Gravels During the Late Albian (Lower Cretaceous) Kiowa-Skull Creek Marine Cycle: Nishnabotna Member, Dakota Formation, Cratonic Margin of the Western Interior Foreland Basin, in Mason, J. A., Diffendal, Jr., R. F., and Joeckel, R. M., editors, Programs with Abstracts, Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Open-File Report 60, Conservation and Survey Division, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, p. 66.
• Joeckel, R. M., Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Phillips, P. L., Brenner, R. L., and Thomas, S., 2001, Late Albian Fluvial-Estuarine sediments in the Dakota Formation, Ash Grove Quarry and lower-most Platte River valley, Nebraska, USA, in Mason, J. A., Diffendal, Jr., R. F., and Joeckel, R. M., editors, Programs with Abstracts, Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Open-File Report 60, Conservation and Survey Division, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, p. 145.
• Ludvigson, G. A., Witzke, B. J., Brenner, R. L., González, L. A., Phillips, P. L., Ufnar, D. F., White, T. S., and Joeckel, R. M., 2001, Fluvial-Estuarine Transition along the Cratonic Margin, Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, during the Late Albian Kiowa Marine Cycle, in Mason, J. A., Diffendal, Jr., R. F., and Joeckel, R. M., editors, Programs with Abstracts, Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Open-File Report 60, Conservation and Survey Division, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, p. 179.
• Phillips, P. L., Ufnar, D. F., González, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Ludvigson, G. A., 2001, Early diagenetic carbonate cements within fluvial deposits delineate nonmarine parasequence boundaries: evaluation of the Boulder Creek Formation, northeast British Columbia, in Mason, J. A., Diffendal, Jr., R. F., and Joeckel, R. M., editors, Programs with Abstracts, Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Open-File Report 60, Conservation and Survey Division, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, p. 227.
• Ufnar, D. F., González, G. A., Ludvigson, G. A., Brenner, R. L., and Phillips, P. L., 2001, Marine flooding surfaces in amalgamated coastal plain paleosols: The Albian Boulder Creek Formation, NE British Columbia, in Mason, J. A., Diffendal, Jr., R. F., and Joeckel, R. M., editors, Programs with Abstracts, Seventh International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Open-File Report 60, Conservation and Survey Division, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, p. 273.
• Brenner, R.L., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., Phillips, P.L., White, T.S., Ufnar, D.F., and Joeckel, R.M., 2001, Transporting coarse-grained material long distances over low gradients: Cretaceous conglomerates filling incised valleys on the cratonic margin of the Western Interior Foreland Basin, 2001 AAPG Annual Convention, Official Program, v. 10, p. A25.
• Phillips, P.L., Gonzalez, L.A., Ludvigson, G.A., White, T.S., Brenner, R.L., and Witzke, B.J., 2000, Latitudinal variations in oxygen isotopic compositions of regionally recharged paleo-aquifers, Cretaceous Western Interior Basin: a transect from Kansas to Alaska: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, n. 7, p. A-94.
• Ludvigson, G.A., Ufnar, D.F., Gonzalez, L.A., White, T.S., Phillips, P.L., Witzke, B.J., and Brenner, R.L., 2000, When good sphaerosiderites go bad: caveats in the application of a paleoclimate proxy: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, n. 7, p. A-524.
• Phillips, P.L., Ufnar, D.F., Ludvigson, G.A., Gonzalez, L.A., and White, T.S., 2000, Contrasting oxygen isotopic compositions of local vs. regional recharge of paleogroundwater systems of the mid-Cretaceous western interior basin:  Scientific meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union Program and Abstracts.
• Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., White, T.S., Ufnar, D.F., Phillips, P.L., Brenner, R.L., Gonzalez, L.A., and Carpenter, S.J., 2000, Fluvial-estuarine deposits of the Late Albian (Cretaceous) Kiowa marine cycle, Guthrie Country, Iowa: Abstract presented at The Iowa Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Des Moines.
• Ludvigson, Greg A., Witzke, Brian J., White, Tim S., Phillips, Preston L., Gonzalez, Luis A., and Brenner, Robert L., 2000, Tidally-influenced estuarine deposits of the cratonal margin of the Late Albian Kiowa-Skull Creek marine cycle, Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 32, n 4, p. A-24.
• Phillips, P.L., González, L.A., Ludvigson, G.A., Witzke, B.J., and Brenner, R.L., 1999, Calcite-siderite oxygen isotope-based paleotemperature estimates, example from the mid-upper Albian and Middle Turonian deposits along the margin of the Western Interior Basin: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 31, n 7, p. A-461.
• Phillips, P.L., Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., and Witzke, B.J., 1999, Calcite-siderite oxygen isotopic paleotemperature estimates from the uppermost Swan River Formation, Late Albian, cratonic margin, Western Interior Basin: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 31, n 5, p. A-65.
• Phillips, P.L., Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., Brenner, R.L., and Witzke, B.J., 1998, Contrasting oxygen isotopic compositions of Albian local vs. regional recharge, cratonic margin, Western Interior Basin: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 30, n 7, p. A-332.
• Ludvigson, G.A., González, L.A., White, T.S., Phillips, P.L., Leckie, D.A., and McCarthy, P.J., 1998, Oxygen isotopic compositions of local vs. regional recharge on Albian coastal plains, proximal foreland basin, western Canada: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 30, n 7, p. A-316.
• Phillips, P. Lee, Jr., Spivack, A.J., Dockal, J.A., Hall, J.C., and Heatherington, A., 1995, Strontium isotope stratigraphy within a biodepositional framework of the Middle Ordovician Chickamauga Supergroup, Walker County, Georgia: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 27, n 6, p. 175.
• Phillips, P. Lee, Jr. and Hall, J.C., 1995, Petrologic and biostratigraphic analysis of the Middle Ordovician Chickamauga Supergroup within its type area, northwest Georgia: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 27, n 2, p. 80.
• Phillips, P. Lee, Jr. and Hall, Jack C., 1993, Conodont biostratigraphy of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Central Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 25, n 4, p. 61.
• Phillips, P. Lee, Jr. and Hall, Jack C., 1992, Conodont biostratigraphy of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Southern Appalachian Valley and Ridge Province: GSA Abstracts with Programs, v 24, n 2, p. 57.

INVITED LECTURES:

• University of Iowa, September 29, 2006
  • Choosing a career in academia.
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington, March 11, 2005
  • So you have chosen a career in academia.
• University of North Dakota, April 23, 2004.
  • The effects of sea level change and submarine groundwater flow and discharge on the precipitation of early diagenetic carbonate cements in coastal deposits: an example from the Manitoba Escarpment area.
  • Sequence stratigraphic controls on synsedimentary cementation and preservation of dinosaur tracks: an example from the Early Cretaceous Dakota Formation, Southeastern Nebraska.
• University of North Carolina at Pembroke, June 2003.
  • Sequence stratigraphic controls on synsedimentary cementation and preservation of dinosaur tracks: an example from the Early Cretaceous Dakota Formation, Southeastern Nebraska.

ELECTED POSITIONS:

• 2008-11 UNCP Faculty Senate – Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• 2005-08 UNCP Faculty Senate – at large seat
• 1998-99 Graduate Student Representative to the faculty of the UI Department of Geology
• University of Iowa Association of Geology Graduate Students
  • President 1998-99
  • Vice President 1999-2000
• UNCW Geology Club
  • Treasurer 1991-93
  • Secretary 1990-91

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