Jennifer is a Senior Scientist with the Clean Water Program and Regional Monitoring Program, where she leads studies on emerging contaminants and bioaccumulation in the Bay. She previously earned her PhD as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Environmental Science & Engineering at Harvard University. Her research integrated environmental measurement and modeling to identify drivers of PFAS fate and bioaccumulation in aquatic ecosystems from regional to global scales, and also includes work applying machine learning approaches to predict drinking water quality in the US.

Prior to graduate school, she worked on a broad range of water quality management issues throughout California as an Environmental Analyst at SFEI and at a water management consulting firm in Southern California. She received her B.S. from Cornell University, where she studied environmental science and aquatic ecology.