Postdoctoral Fellow
jflynn06@uoguelph.ca
Jessica is a professional geologist with over 15 years of experience in the environmental and oil and gas industries. She holds geoscience degrees from Brock University (B.Sc.), the University of Brighton (M.Sc.), and the University of Western Ontario (Ph.D). Her research applies interchangeable concepts in geological frameworks and controls inhibiting or promoting flow within sedimentary rock matrices to research in the fields of hydrogeology, petroleum geology, and critical mineral exploration. Using a high-resolution stratigraphic framework in conjunction with petrographic and organic geochemistry data, her PhD research shed light on the sedimentary response to tectonism in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin during the Late Cretaceous and provided essential context for predicting geographical, stratigraphic, and temporal limits of potential source rock facies in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In her professional career, Jessica focused on investigating petroleum systems within the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and the Williston Basin, as well as investigated controls on rare earth element and helium distribution within Phanerozoic rocks. In recent years she targeted her research efforts on studying reservoir characteristics and the caprock integrity of aquitards in support of regulatory reviews of CCUS projects within the province of Saskatchewan.