Posing on top Eskola's famous outcrop from his 1921 volume "On the Eclogites of Norway". Photography courtesy of Kennet Flores.
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Jesse B. Walters
Postdoctoral Research Associate Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe Universität Altenhöferallee 1 60438 Frankfurt am Main, DE walters@em.uni-frankfurt.de Also find me on: Google Scholar Researchgate |
Welcome to my website, where you can find information about my current research and past publications.
Research Interests
I use a combination of computational, experimental, geochemical, and chronological techniques to address geochemical cycling between Earth's surface and interior reservoirs, with a particular focus on redox sensitive elements. Active projects focus on the deep sulfur cycle, redox chemistry in metamorphic rocks, trace metal cycling in subduction zones, and the development of new petrochronometric techniques for tracing tectonometamorphic and metasomatic processes (see Research).
I use a combination of computational, experimental, geochemical, and chronological techniques to address geochemical cycling between Earth's surface and interior reservoirs, with a particular focus on redox sensitive elements. Active projects focus on the deep sulfur cycle, redox chemistry in metamorphic rocks, trace metal cycling in subduction zones, and the development of new petrochronometric techniques for tracing tectonometamorphic and metasomatic processes (see Research).
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About Me
I hail from the small (pop. ~ 400) lumber town in south-central Washington. My childhood was spent exploring the northwest with my family, leading to an early interest in geology. I managed to inspire my father even, who proceeded to drag my brother and I to the most remote corners of the American West in search of gold and gems. My step-father and his family are also avid rockhounds . Their camping trips always culminated in a contest of who could find the biggest agate (to which the only prize was years of bragging rights). |
My childhood backyard: An August sunset lighting up Mt. Adams during a full moon.
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Sampling active lava flows on the big island of Hawaii in 2012.
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I graduated high school in 2008 (with six other students). Following community college, I transferred to Central Washington University. I quickly developed an interest in petrology and geochemistry, and dove into research as quickly as I could. I graduated in 2013 with honors and subsequently pursued a M.Sc. at Boise State University, where I conducted fieldwork in the Nepal Himalaya. After graduating I drove across the country to the University of Maine (2016-2020) for my PhD. There I conducted 'wicked' research on sulfur and trace metal cycling in subduction zones, and inevitably fell in love with skiing and lobster rolls. I spent my final year at Goethe Universität, Germany, as a Fellow in the Fulbright Program, where I remain as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
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Guide Narayan and I outside the village of Pisang, in the Annapurna Himal, Nepal (2014).
