Jacob Setera
Research Scientist | University of Texas at El Paso
Jacob Setera
Research Scientist
University of Texas at El Paso
Phone
281.483.4369
Phone
281.483.4369
Biography
Jacob Setera is a Senior Research Scientist within NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Astromaterials Research and Exploration (ARES) division. Jacob’s appointment is through the University of Texas at El Paso in conjunction with the Jacobs-JETS contract. He manages the Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) systems in the Center for Isotope Cosmochemistry and Geochronology (CICG).
Education
Ph.D.
Geology
Rutgers University
2020
B.S.
Geology
University of New Hampshire
2012
Education
Ph.D., Geology, 2020
Rutgers University
B.S., Geology, 2012
University of New Hampshire
Laboratories
Select Publications
Kinney S.T., MacLennan S.A., Szymanowski D., Keller B.C., VanTongeren J.A., Setera J.B., Jaret S.J., Forrest Town C., Straus J.V., Bradley D.C., Olsen P.E. & Schoene B. (2022) Onset of long-lived silicic and alkaline magmatism in eastern North America preceded Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Geology. Accepted.
Cantine M.D., Setera J.B., VanTongeren J.A., Mwinde C., & Bergmann K.D. (2021) Grain size and transport biases in an Ediacaran detrital zircon record. Journal of Sedimentary Research. 91(9), 913-928.
Wu P., Gazel E., Udry A., Setera J.B., & Ostwald A. (2021) Melt inclusions in chassignite NWA 2737: A link between processes recorded in Martian meteorites and rocks at Gale Crater. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 56(7), 1328-1349.
Kinney S.T., MacLennan S.A., Keller C.B., Schoene B., Setera J.B., VanTongeren J.A., & Olsen P.E. (2021) Zircon U-Pb Geochronology Constrains Continental Expression of Great Meteor Hotspot Magmatism. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(11), e2020GL091390.
Lindsay F.N., Delaney J.S., Göpel C., Herzog G.F., Hewins R., Humayun M., Nagao K., Nyquist L.E., Park J., Setera J.B., Shih C.-Y., Swisher C.C., Zanda B., & Turrin B.D. (2021) 40Ar/39Ar ages of Northwest Africa 7034 and Northwest Africa 7533. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 56(3), 515-545.
Strauss B.E., Tikoo S.M., Gross J., Setera J.B., & Turrin B. (2021) Constraining the Decline of the Lunar Dynamo Field at ~3.1 Ga Through Paleomagnetic Analyses of Apollo 12 Basalts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 126(3), e2020JE006715.
Setera J.B., Turrin B.D., Herzog G.F., VanTongeren J.A., Delaney J.S., & Swisher C.C. (2020) 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology for sub-milligram samples using a Ta platform microfurnace, with illustrations from the Bushveld Complex. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 21(10), e2020GC009182.
Setera J.B., VanTongeren J.A., Turrin B.D., and Swisher C.C. (2020) Rapid cooling of the Bushveld Igneous Complex: Insights from biotite 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. Geology. 48(8), 834-838.
Quinn R.L., Prizzi M., Godfrey L., & Setera J.B. (2020) From the Piedmont to the Coast: LA-ICP-MS 87Sr/86Sr evidence for short-term, long-distance mobility in the American Southeast. Archaeometry. 65(5), 1009-1027.
Gross J., Hilton A., Prissel T.C., Setera J.B., Korotev R.L., & Calzada-Diaz A. (2020) Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Northwest Africa 10401: A new type of the Mg-suite rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 125(5), e2019JE006225.
Quinn R.L., Warnasch S.C., Watson M., Godfrey L., Setera J.B., VanTongeren J., Mortlock R., & Wright J. (2020) Biogeochemical evidence for residence, diet, and health of the Woman in the Iron Coffin (Queens, New York City). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 30(2), 225-235.
Jackson W.T., McKay M.P., Bartholomew M.J., Allison D.T., Spurgeon D.L, Shaulis B., VanTongeren J.A., & Setera J.B. (2019) Initial Laramide tectonism recorded by Upper Cretaceous paleoseismites in the northern Bighorn Basin, USA: Field indicators of an applied end load stress. Geology. 47(11), 1059-1063.
Setera J.B. and VanTongeren J.A. (2018) Lateral Variability in the Upper Main Zone, Bushveld Complex, due to directional magma recharge and emplacement from north to south. Journal of Petrology 59(9), 1763-1786.
Phillips S.C., Johnson J.E., Clyde W.C., Setera J. B., Maxbauer D.P., Severmann S., and Riedinger, N. (2017) Rock magnetic and geochemical evidence for authigenic magnetite formation via iron reduction in coal?bearing sediments offshore Shimokita Peninsula, Japan (IODP Site C0020). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 18(6), 2076-2098.
Bucholz C.E., Jagoutz O., VanTongeren J.A., Setera J., and Wang Z. (2017) Oxygen Isotope Trajectories of Crystallizing Melts: Insights from Modeling and the Plutonic Record. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 207, 154-184.
Zirakparvar N.A., Setera J., Mathez E., VanTongeren J., and Fossum R. (2017) The pre-Atlantic Hf isotope evolution of the east Laurentian continental margin: Insights from zircon in basement rocks and glacial tillites from northern New Jersey and southeastern New York. Lithos 272, 69-83.