Jessica (Chappell) Mantaro	M.S. Student Advisor: Chris Scholz
	Department of Earth Sciences 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-1070 USA Office: 009 Heroy Geology Laboratory Department: 315.443.2672 Fax: 315.443.3363 Email: jlchappe@syr.edu Office Hours: for Fall 2007 Tuesday 3-4pm Friday 3-4pm (Rm 009 - Seismic Lab)

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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.

Indian Lake, Adirondack Mountains NY	Summit of Baldface Mtn, ADK’s NY

Image of Lake Albert showing the six well locations where my thesis samples are from.  Five of the wells are on a fault relay ramp and one well is on the hangingwall block.

. Itrax Core Scanner, like the one used at the Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.  We send our samples out after processing to be reassembled and then scanned by the Itrax.  We receive continuous down-hole data on trace and major elements, which are very exciting results in the realm of climate change research (e.g. continuous continental records of climate change are exciting!) (note: image from http://www.coxsys.se/core_scanner.htm)

Image of me working at one of the workstations in the seismic lab. The 4-monitor workstation is an excellent way to display well-logs concurrently with seismic data.

This image is from an independent project I did during the summer of 2007 involving RGB analysis of sediment core 2A from Lake Malawi.  In this project I also looked at smear slides from various “interesting looking” and also at regular depth intervals.

Click on thumbnails for larger image.

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.

For our honeymoon, my husband and I spent some time up at Saranac Lake where I did a whole lot of fishing and where I caught my first northern pike. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a net; the fish snapped my line (I now use Berkley FireLine) and it took my lure.

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Grants:

• iLearn Undergraduate Research Program, 2005 - Granted $2,565 to complete SHRIMP work at Stanford University for undergraduate research (High-temperature shearing and pegmatite formation during the Ottawan extensional collapse, Northwestern Adirondack Mountains, New York)

Modified 9/20/07 MMC