About Marjorie

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. Previously, I held a postdoc at the Frankfurt Isotope and Element Research Center at Goethe University Frankfurt funded by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship. I defended my PhD in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT in 2021.

My research focuses on geochemical and physical records of time and environment preserved in sedimentary rocks. I want to understand how the Earth and life have changed through time, how that history is preserved in rocks, and how post-depositional processes complicate that record.

I was born in Chicago, Illinois and spent most of my childhood in Ohio and Kentucky. After a gap year in Poland, I moved to the Northeast and attended Wellesley College where I majored in Geosciences and was student body president. After college, I spent some time working in investment banking as an analyst in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s New York energy office before joining the Bergmann Lab at MIT.

I’ve had wonderful geological and laboratory adventures on five continents and made contributions to our understanding of the environmental context in which complex, macroscopic animals emerged on our planet, and how that story is captured in carbonate rocks.

I love teaching science to talented future first-generation students in Mississippi through Freedom Summer Collegiate, and invite you to contact me about getting involved.

Working with me at UW

I am open, but not committed, to recruiting a PhD student for a fall 2025 on projects involving the U-Th system in carbonates. I do not have dedicated postdoc funding at this time, but I am always eager to have conversations with interested potential postdocs who are willing to apply for funding to work with me.