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Jay Chapman
Assistant Professor (Since 2018)


Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071


 41° 18' 53" N
105° 35' 1" W
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Office: ESB 3008
Office phone: (307) 278-9702
​email: jay.chapman@uwyo.edu
Jay Chapman

Research Interests

My research group focuses on the tectonics of convergent margins and the evolution of the continental lithosphere.   Research goals are generally centered around identifying and resolving interactions between orogenic magmatism, crustal deformation, sedimentation, and lithospheric dynamics in Cordilleran and collisional orogenic systems.   Most research projects are field-based, but we also employ lab-based analytical, experimental, and numerical methods.  Please visit the research page to learn more about ongoing research.

RECENT NEWS:

April 2021:  Congratulations to Amanda Rossi, who will intern with the USGS in Golden, CO this summer!

March 2021: My co-authors and I have a new article out in Earth-Science Reviews, "The North American Cordilleran Anatectic Belt," which is the culmination of a graduate seminar in Spring 2020 [pdf]

August 2020: Two new graduate students have joined the group!  Welcome to Jessie Shields and Amanda Rossi! Bios.

July 2020: Fangyang Hu has a new paper out in GRL tracking elevation changes in Tibet that I am a co-author on [pdf].

June 2020: UWyo Field Camp this year was completely online/virtual.  I put together several Google Earth Projects for the week focused on the Seminoe State Park.  Check them out HERE.

April 2020:  Wang Xin as a new paper out in Geology, "The role of the westerlies and orography in Asian hydroclimate
since the late Oligocene" that I am a co-author on.  Check it out. [pdf].

March 2020: Adam Trzinksi and I sneaked in some field work over Spring Break in the northern Chiricahua Mtns.  It looks like the last field work for a while with COVID taking over.

February 2020: The new FTIR spectrometer was finally installed and is up and running

February 2020: My co-authors and I have a new article out in Geology, "Geochemical evidence for an orogenic plateau in the southern US and northern Mexican Cordillera during the Laramide orogeny."  [pdf]​
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The new FTIR system installed in the Spectroscopy lab
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In the Tinas Altas Mtns., south of Yuma, AZ
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Top of Angel Lake in Ruby Mtns., NV