Jennifer Stanton began her career with the USGS in 1994. She has studied a wide range of water-resource topics including groundwater quality, groundwater-age dating, groundwater/surface water interactions, groundwater-level changes, estimation of water-budget components, and development of groundwater flow models. She specializes in regional-scale groundwater resource assessments in agricultural settings. Other areas of interest include application of statistical methods and GIS to analyze groundwater data. She is the author or coauthor of more than 25 publications. Stanton is currently the project manager for the USGS National Brackish Groundwater Assessment.