Greg Boughton earned his Bachelor of Sciences degree in Watershed Sciences from Colorado State University in 1989. He began his career with the USGS Illinois Water Science Center upon graduation and transferred to the USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center in 1990. Boughton has worked on a variety of surface water, groundwater, and ecology projects and is currently a hydrologist in the groundwater and surface water section of the Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey.