Darcy K. McPhee, PhD.
Darcy McPhee is the Program Manager for the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) within the USGS Mineral Resources Program. Earth MRI is a national mapping and data collection effort to understand geologic framework and domestic mineral resource potential.
Darcy McPhee is the Program Manager for the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) within the USGS Mineral Resources Program. Earth MRI is a partnership among the USGS, the State geological surveys and other federal, state, Tribal, and private-sector organizations to modernize the nation’s surface and subsurface mapping to support our nation’s understanding of its geology and mineral resources.
Prior to working with Earth MRI, Darcy served as the Acting Associate Program Coordinator for the USGS Mineral Resources Program as well as the Associate Program Coordinator for the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) where she ran the STATEMAP and EDMAP national geologic mapping programs. Darcy has a PhD in geophysics from Stanford University, and her career with the USGS began as a research geophysicist in Menlo Park, California. There she specialized in using gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic techniques to study upper crustal-scale problems related to earthquake and volcano hazards, groundwater, geothermal energy, and tectonics in the western United States.
Professional Experience
Program Manager, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative, USGS Mineral Resources Program
Acting Associate Program Coordinator, USGS Mineral Resources Program
Associate Program Coordinator, USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program
Research Geophysicist, Geology, Minerals, Energy and Geophysics Science Center, USGS
Faculty, Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE)
Education and Certifications
Ph.D in Geophysics, Stanford University
M.S. in Geophysics, Stanford University
B.A. in Physics with a minor in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
Affiliations and Memberships*
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Geological Society of America (GSA)
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Science and Products
Superimposed extension and shortening in the southern Salinas Basin and La Panza Range, California: A guide to Neogene deformation in the Salinian block of the central California Coast Ranges
ULFEM time series analysis package
Documentation for a web site to serve ULF-EM (Ultra-Low Frequency Electromagnetic) data to the public
Porphyry copper deposit model
Audiomagnetotelluric investigation of Snake Valley, eastern Nevada and western Utah
Audiomagnetotelluric data and preliminary two-dimensional models from Spring, Dry Lake, and Delamar Valleys, Nevada
An integrated geophysical approach for groundwater and seismic hazard management in Joshua Tree National Park, southern California
Audiomagnetotelluric Data and Two-Dimensional Models from Spring, Snake, and Three Lakes Valleys, Nevada
Principal Facts of Gravity data in the Northern Willamette Valley and Vicinity, Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington
Audiomagnetotelluric data from Spring, Cave, and Coyote Spring Valleys, Nevada
Resistivity imaging in eastern Nevada Using the audiomagnetotelluric method for hydrogeologic framework studies
Science and Products
Superimposed extension and shortening in the southern Salinas Basin and La Panza Range, California: A guide to Neogene deformation in the Salinian block of the central California Coast Ranges
ULFEM time series analysis package
Documentation for a web site to serve ULF-EM (Ultra-Low Frequency Electromagnetic) data to the public
Porphyry copper deposit model
Audiomagnetotelluric investigation of Snake Valley, eastern Nevada and western Utah
Audiomagnetotelluric data and preliminary two-dimensional models from Spring, Dry Lake, and Delamar Valleys, Nevada
An integrated geophysical approach for groundwater and seismic hazard management in Joshua Tree National Park, southern California
Audiomagnetotelluric Data and Two-Dimensional Models from Spring, Snake, and Three Lakes Valleys, Nevada
Principal Facts of Gravity data in the Northern Willamette Valley and Vicinity, Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington
Audiomagnetotelluric data from Spring, Cave, and Coyote Spring Valleys, Nevada
Resistivity imaging in eastern Nevada Using the audiomagnetotelluric method for hydrogeologic framework studies
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government