Jenna Kaempfer

Engaged and research-oriented Geologist focused on gathering information and analyzing data. Organized and dependable, successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude, and able to perform characterization studies and site investigations. Willing to relocate.

• 2023, San Bernardino, California, USA, Field excursion to collect samples and acquire structural measurements of mineralizations on the Mission Creek Fault
• 2016 - 2021, Helium Analytical Laboratory (HAL), University of Illinois, W. Guenthner, Research includes gas extraction and chemical analysis of samples
• 2019, University of Illinois Advanced Field Geology, group field study of Carboniferous sediments of western Ireland
• 2018, Society of Exploration Geophysicists SFT16; Carlin-Type Gold Deposits of Northern Nevada, USA
• 2018, University of Illinois Advanced Field Geology, group field study of Scotland's geology and tectonics
• 2017, University of Illinois Advanced Field Geology, group field study of Southwest US tectonics
• 2016, Electron Microscopy Certification through the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois
• 2015, Electron Microscopy Certification through SEM Practicum at the University of Rochester
• 2014, 2015, Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, USA, Julie Meachen, Des Moines University, Research focus: Excavation and collection of Pleistocene – Holocene megafaunal and microfaunal fossils
• 2013 - 2015, Laboratory Technical Assistant, Stable Isotope Ratios in the Environment Analytical Laboratory (SIREAL), University of Rochester, Physical preparation and chemical pretreatment of organic and inorganic materials. Management of laboratory, samples, and data archives. Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen isotope analysis using a ThermoElectron GasBench Mass Spectrometer
• 2013, 2014, Hanna Basin, Wyoming, USA, Pennilyn Higgins and SIREAL, University of Rochester, Research focus: Collection of Eocene micro-vertebrate mammalian fossils, stratigraphic sequencing and sample collection of Paleocene – Eocene lacustrine units for stable isotope analysis
• 2012, Axel Heiberg Island, Canada, 6-week expedition with the Paleomagnetic Research Group, University of Rochester. Responsibilities included: collection of field samples containing various late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils, drilling cores of flood basalts for paleomagnetic analysis

• Evaluating the roll of radiation damage zonation on zircon (U-Th)/He date-eU patterns (in prep.), J.M. Kaempfer, W.R. Guenthner, A.K. Ault
• Spatiotemporal Patterns in Exhumation: Sevier to Laramide Tectonics in the Idaho Fold Thrust Belt (in prep.), J.M. Kaempfer, W.R. Guenthner, D. Pearson
• Connecting visual metamictization to radiation damage to expand applications of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, E.M. Armstrong, A.K. Ault, J.M. Kaempfer, W.R. Guenthner, 2024, Chemical Geology, 648, 121949
• Proterozoic to Phanerozoic Tectonism in Southwestern Montana Basement Ranges Constrained by Low Temperature Thermochronometric Data, J.M. Kaempfer, W.R. Guenthner, D.M. Pearson, 2021, Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006744
• Fe-oxides in jasperoids from two gold districts in Nevada: Characterization, geochemistry, and (U-Th)/He dating, D.E. Huff, E. Holley, W.R. Guenthner, J.M. Kaempfer, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 286, 72-102

• Deep-time tectono-thermal history of the northern us cordillera: understanding zircon (U-Th)/he thermochronology and its application to Idaho-Montana basement rocks, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021
• Transitional deformation in the Santaquin basement complex in the Charleston-Nebo thrust sheet, Central Utah, M.Sc., University of Rochester, 2016
• Generations of deformation within the Santaquin basement complex of Santaquin, UT, B.A., University of Rochester, 2015

• National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
• Geological Society of America (GSA)
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Zeta Phi Chapter: Honorary Society for the Earth Sciences