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Publications

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  1. Jess, S., Schoenbohm, L. and Enkelmann, E., 2025. Novel apatite provenance analysis reveals erosion of moraines as primary sediment source during glacial retreat. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 668, p.119560.

  2. Haag, M.B., Schoenbohm, L.M., Jess, S., Bierman, P., Wolpert, J., Corbett, L. and Sommer, C.A., 2025. Erosional dynamics and escarpment retreat at the southern end of the South American passive margin escarpment. Geomorphology, 486, p.109885.

  3. Jess, S., Heer, E. and Schoenbohm, L., 2025. Research students are diverse, while those in salaried positions are not: results from a survey of Canadian academic geoscience. Earth Science, Systems and Society, 5(1), pp.esss2024-013.

  4. Haag, M.B., Schoenbohm, L.M., Wolpert, J., Jess, S., Bierman, P., Corbett, L., Sommer, C.A. and Endrizzi, G., 2025. Rock strength controls erosion in tectonically dead landscapes. Science Advances, 11(4), p.eadr2610.

  5. Jess, S., Gröger, H., Hendriks, B., Peace, A. and Schiffer, C., 2024. Compilation of apatite fission-track data from the Northeast Atlantic realm: A jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. Lithosphere, 2023(Special 14), p.lithosphere_2023_285.

  6. Peace, A.L., Phethean, J.J., Jess, S. and Schiffer, C., 2024. Halokinetically Overprinted Tectonic Inversion of the Penobscot 3D Volume Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 181(5), pp.1541-1570.

  7. Jess, S., Enkelmann, E. and Matthews, W., 2023. The Effect of Sediment Storage in Glaciated Catchments on Multimineral Detrital Geochronology: Deciphering Conflicting Zircon and Apatite U‐Pb Dates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(1), p.e2022JF006738.

  8. Damant, K.A., Enkelmann, E. and Jess, S. 2023. Prolonged post-orogenic extension in the southeastern Canadian Cordillera: Miocene reactivation of the Columbia River Fault. Tectonophysics, 850, p.229763.

  9. Peace, A.L. and Jess, S., 2022. Microdrones in field-based structural geology: a photogrammetry and fracture quantification case study from the North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia, Canada. Drone Systems and Applications.

  10. Johns-Buss, E.G., Beranek, L.P., Enkelmann, E., Jess, S. and Matthews, W., 2022. Exhumation history and Early Cretaceous paleogeography of the Newfoundland margin revealed by detrital zircon U–Pb and fission-track studies of syn-rift Hibernia Formation strata. Marine and Petroleum Geology, p.106055.

  11. Jess, S., Enkelmann, E. and Matthews, W. 2022. Why are the Appalachians high? New insights from detrital apatite laser ablation (U-Th-Sm)/He dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 597, 117794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117794

  12. Schiffer, C., Peace, A.L., Jess, S. and Rondenay, S., 2022. The crustal structure in the Northwest Atlantic region from receiver function inversion–Implications for basin dynamics and magmatism. Tectonophysics, 825, p.229235. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229235

  13. Jess, S., Enkelmann, E., Grasby, S.E. and Fraser, K., 2021. Determining the Lifespan of Hydrothermal Systems Using Thermochronology and Thermal Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(11), p.e2021JF006286. doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006286.

  14. Fraser, K.I., Enkelmann, E., Jess, S., Gilbert, H. and Grieco, R., 2021. Resolving the Cenozoic History of Rock Exhumation Along the Central Rocky Mountain Trench Using Apatite Low‐ Temperature Thermochronology. Tectonics, 40(10), p.e 2021TC006847. doi.org/10.1029/ 2021TC006847.

  15. Arkle, J.C., Weber, J., Enkelmann, E., Owen, L.A., Govers, R., Jess, S., Denison, C., O'sullivan,

  16. P.B. and Donelick, R.A., 2021. Exhumation of the Coastal Metamorphic Belt Above the Subduction‐to‐Transform Transition, in the Southeast Caribbean Plate Corner. Tectonics, 40(8), p.e2020TC006414. doi.org/10.1029/2020TC006414

  17. Jess, S., Koehn, D., Fox, M., Enkelmann, E., Sachau, T. and Aanyu, K., 2020. Paleogene initiation of the Western Branch of the East African Rift: The uplift history of the Rwenzori Mountains, Western Uganda. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 552, p.116593. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116655

  18. Jess, S., Peace, A.L. and Schiffer, C., 2020. Sediment supply on the West Greenland passive margin: redirection of a large pre-glacial drainage system. Journal of the Geological Society, 177(6), pp.1149-1160. doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-028.

  19. Stephenson, R., Schiffer, C., Peace, A., Nielsen, S.B. and Jess, S., 2020. Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic basin inversion and palaeostress fields in the North Atlantic-western Alpine-Tethys realm: Implications for intraplate tectonics. Earth-science reviews, 210, p.103252. doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103252

  20. Jess, S., Stephenson, R.A., Roberts, D.H. and Brown, R., 2020. Reply to: Thermal history solutions from thermochronology must be governed by geological relationships: A comment on Jess et al. (2019), Geomorphology, 360, pp. 106971. dio.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106971

  21. Jess, S., Stephenson, R., Nielsen, S.B. and Brown, R., 2019. The source of topography across the Cumberland Peninsula, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada: differential exhumation of a North Atlantic rift flank. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(6), pp.1093-1106. doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-211

  22. Jess, S., Stephenson, R.A., Roberts, D.H. and Brown, R., 2019. Differential erosion of a Mesozoic rift flank: Establishing the source of topography across Karrat, central West Greenland, Geomorphology, 334, pp.138-150. doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.02.026

  23. Jess, S., Stephenson, R. and Brown, R., 2018. Evolution of the central West Greenland margin and the Nuussuaq Basin: Localised basin uplift along a stable continental margin proposed from thermochronological data. Basin Research, 30(6), pp.1230-1246. doi.org/10.1111/bre.12301

  24. Dempster, T. and Jess, S., 2015. Ikaite pseudomorphs in Neoproterozoic Dalradian slates record Earth’s coldest metamorphism. Journal of the Geological Society, 172(4), pp.459-464. doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-018

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