| Jessica (Chappell) Mantaro | M.S. Student
Advisor: Chris Scholz |
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Department of Earth Sciences Office: 314 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Department: 315.443.2672 Office Hours: for Fall 2007 |
| Jessica (Chappell) Mantaro | M.S. Student
Advisor: Chris Scholz |
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Department of Earth Sciences Office: 314 Heroy Geology Laboratory
Department: 315.443.2672 Office Hours: for Fall 2007 |
BIOGRAPHY and RESEARCH INTERESTS
¨ I am a native of central New York. I earned my undergraduate degree here at Syracuse University. My undergraduate research focus was thermochronology and tectonics. I attended a 2-week long workshop for apatite U-Th/He dating at Yale University . During my undergraduate career, I acquired experience with using the SEM, SHRIMP and ion microprobe (at Colgate, Stanford, and UCLA, respectively). I attended field camp at SUNY Oswego (western Maine and the central Adirondacks) where I worked on field mapping, mineralogy, and petrology. I also met my husband at field camp (we were wed on May 26, 2007).
¨ However, I have since switched my research focus to long term climate change and rift basin evolution. I am currently advised by Professor Christopher Scholz . My thesis work is focused on the XRF analysis of drill cutting samples from six wells on the southeastern shore of Lake Albert in the East African Rift. Along with XRF analysis, I will be using stable isotope (TON and TOC) data, well log data, onshore and offshore seismic data, and Be/Al dating of sandy sequences to better constrain the long-term climate change in eastern equatorial Africa. An ancillary goal is to stratigraphically correlate the six exploration wells.
FIELD PHOTOS
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seismic line and basement depths (2-way time) of Lake Albert’s northern basin (Africa)
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Indian Lake, Adirondack Mountains NY
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Summit of Baldface Mtn, ADK’s NY |
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| Fun with black flies and field work | Migmatitic outcrop, Coos Canyon, Maine. |
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| Relict andalusite + staurolite. Metapelites in Coos Canyon, Maine. | Jess breaking rocks in 2005 |
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I, like many other earth scientists, love the outdoors. I enjoy camping, hiking, canoeing, and off-roading. When I can grab a few hours of down time, my #1 passion is fishing.
PUBLICATIONS:
Chappell, Jessica Lee, Bickford, M.E., Selleck, Bruce W., Wooden, Joseph L., Mazdab, Frank, and Heumann, Matthew L. 2006. High-temperature shearing and pegmatite formation during the Ottawan extensional collapse, Northwestern Adirondack Mountains, New York. Geological Society of America, Abstracts With Programs (156-6)
Baldwin, S. L., Webb, L. E., Monteleone, B. D., Little, T. A., Fitzgerald, P. G., Chappell, J. L., 2005. Metamorphism and exhumation of the youngest known HP/UHP terrane on Earth, eastern Papua New Guinea. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (V54B-01)
