Jake Cammack -
Partner, Geochemist, Specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Jake meticulously created a database with over 17,000 gas-composition and helium analyses which likely comprises the most complete gas-geochemistry dataset ever assembled for Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Using this database he is developing and implementing predictive multivariate analysis and GIS to define prospects and to predict helium concentration, source, migration, accumulation and trap characteristics across the Colorado Plateau.
Jake designed and implemented a soil-gas study in SW Colorado and led a team to adapt a quadrupole mass spectrometer to make real-time gas-composition-analyses of soil-gasses collected in the field. He was among the first wellsite geochemists to utilize mass spectrometry on gasses from Mississippian, Devonian, and Precambrian rocks on a helium project in NW New Mexico.
His acuity with GIS computer-mapping was developed as an instructor at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. This software is crucial for integrating and relating complex datasets, including: lease information, geological structures, geophysical anomalies, topography, and gas composition trends.
Jake earned his MS in geochemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he used fieldwork, and carbon/oxygen isotopes to study 3.4-billion-year-old fossilized stromatolites from Australia, that are thought to be evidence of the oldest known lifeforms on earth. His MS-work is published in the Journal of Precambrian Research. Jake’s BS thesis from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado focused on the Navajo Volcanic Field in Northwestern New Mexico and Northeastern Arizona. His BS thesis used petrography, chlorine isotopes and fluorine trends to unravel the magma’s gas and fluid origins. Volcanics are likely factors in helium sourcing and migration.
Jake developed and maintains this website.