Chance Ronemus
Affiliations
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Science, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment
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M.Sc. and Ph.D. positions available: Funding provided, January or September 2027 start. Please reach out. Details at chanceronemus.com/join.
Funding
Opportunities for industry collaboration and partnership, built around the relevance of my research to subsurface energy and mineral exploration.
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Geoscience, University of Arizona, 2025
M.S. Geology, Montana State University, 2021
B.S. Geology (Highest Honors), Montana State University, 2019
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Energy & Environment at the University of Calgary. Before joining Calgary, I was an NSF Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Idaho State University, earned my Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and held a Fulbright scholarship in Mendoza, Argentina.
My research integrates field-based sedimentology with geo/thermochronology and geochemistry to reconstruct how tectonic processes shape continental margins, from the deep crust to the surface. I work primarily in the Andes of Argentina and Chile and the northern US/Canadian Rocky Mountains. More at chanceronemus.com.
Research
Areas of Research
How subduction-related mountain belts in North and South America grow and evolve, from the deep crust to the surface.
How flexural foreland basins interact with adjacent fold-thrust belts, and what forearc records tell us about the evolution of continental margins more broadly.
Zircon petrochronology as a proxy for Cordilleran arc evolution—extracting crustal thickness and oxygen fugacity information from the detrital record.
Using volcanic glass and lacustrine/pedogenic carbonate stable isotopes to explore the evolution of orogenic topography and continental hydroclimate.
Awards
- Earth Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, U.S. National Science Foundation. 2025
- Fulbright Research Scholarship, U.S. Fulbright Program. 2024
Publications
- Building the Andean Crust at ~35 °S: Arc Geochemistry Reveals Cretaceous Thinning and Rapid Neogene Thickening. Ronemus, C.B., Howlett, C.J., DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., Echaurren, A., Barrionuevo, M., Mosolf, J.G., Foley, M.L., and Ducea, M.N.. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. in press. (2026)
- The Manantiales Basin, southern Central Andes (~32 °S), preserves a record of Late Eocene–Miocene episodic growth of an east-vergent orogenic wedge. Ronemus, C.B., Howlett, C.J., DeCelles, P.G., Carrapa, B., and George, S.W.M.. Tectonics (cover article). v. 43, e2023TC008100. (2024)
- Orogens of Big Sky Country: Reconstructing the deep-time tectonothermal history of the Beartooth Mountains, Montana and Wyoming, U.S.A.. Ronemus, C.B., Orme, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., Cox, S.E., and Kussmaul, C.A.L.. Tectonics. v. 42, e2022TC007541. (2023)
- Mesoproterozoic–Early Cretaceous provenance and paleogeographic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains: Insights from the detrital zircon record of the Bridger Range, Montana, U.S.A.. Ronemus, C.B., Orme, D.A., Campbell, S., Black, S.R., and Cook, J.. GSA Bulletin. v. 133, p. 777–801. (2021)
- Increased moisture availability in the Central Andes during the Miocene Climatic Optimum. George, S.W.M., Carrapa, B., DeCelles, P.G., Jepson, G., Nadoya, H., Tabor, C., Howlett, C.J., Ronemus, C.B., Clementz, M.T., and Schoenbohm, L.. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. v. 663, 112732. (2025)
- Miocene construction of the High Andes recorded by exhumation of the Frontal Cordillera, La Ramada Massif of western Argentina (32 °S). Howlett, C.J., Ronemus, C.B., Carrapa, B., and DeCelles, P.G.. Tectonics. v. 44, e2024TC008433. (2025)
- Age and provenance relationships between the basal Great Valley Group and its underlying basement: Implications for initiation of the Great Valley forearc basin, California, U.S.A.. Romero, M.C., Orme, D.A., Surpless, K.D., Ronemus, C.B., and Morrow, Z.. Journal of Sedimentary Research (cover article). v. 94, p. 641–662. (2024)
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