Background
Phillips, Joseph Daniel was born on September 11, 1938 in Woodbury, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph Francis and Katherine Cecelia (Browne) Phillips.
Phillips, Joseph Daniel was born on September 11, 1938 in Woodbury, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph Francis and Katherine Cecelia (Browne) Phillips.
Bachelor, Rutgers University, 1961; Master of Science in Engineering, Princeton University, 1963; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1966.
Engineer trainee, Mobil Oil Company. New York City, 1957;
engineer trainee, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, 1958-1960;
engineer management trainee, New Jersey Bell Tel. Company, Newark/Camden, New Jersey, 1961;
research assistant, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1962-1965;
assistant scientist, Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institute, 1965-1968;
associate scientist, Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institute, 1968-1977;
staff research scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1977-1979;
senior research scientist, University Texas, Austin, 1978-1996;
chief scientist, World Geoscience Corporation, Houston, since 1996.
Consultant Mobil Oil Corporation, Dallas, 1969, Exxon Corporation, Houston, 1977, BellTel. laboratories, Whippany/Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1976-1978. Visiting scholar U. Cambridge, England, 1974-1975. Adjunct Professor/instructor marine geophysics, seismics and geomagnetism, oceanography, acoustics and potential fields, faculty advisor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, University Texas, 1968-1996.
Consultant airborne/marine archeology National Underwater and Marine ArcheologicAgy., 1997-1998.
Fellow Explorers Club. Member American Society Naval Engineers, American Geophysical Union, Society Exploration Geophysicists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Marine Lodge, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Gwendolyn Williams, 1961. Children: Julia Kear, Stephanie Morgan, Joseph Williams.
