Jennifer Courtwright
Watershed Sciences
Research Associate
Expertise
Biography
Jennifer Courtwright is a broadly trained quantitative aquatic ecologist. Her research focuses on development and communication of ecological assessment tools for state and federal agencies. She uses large scale interagency stream monitoring datasets to understand how biological, chemical, and physical processes vary naturally across the western US and how anthropogenic stress may affect these gradients. She has a strong programing background in R, and additionally she has expertise in Access, SQL, and ESRI enterprise database design and management. She has been at the National Aquatic Monitoring Center (NAMC) since 2013. Her work at NAMC has included managing the macroinvertebrate identification service center, playing a lead role developing the Bureau of Land Management’s lotic Assessment Inventory and Monitoring program, and leading database management and analytical tool development. Prior to joining NAMC, she received her M.S. in biology from James Madison University focusing on foodwebs in intermittent streams. Her B.S. is in biology with a minor in statistics from Northland College, and as an undergraduate, she conducted research on tidal riverine wetlands of the Hudson River at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies.