usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:47:02.738390' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jennifer-m-cartwright profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: [] education: - Ph.D. in Biology, Tennessee State University email: jmcart@usgs.gov expertise_terms: - biodiversity - biogeography - ecosystems - island ecosystems - geospatial analysis - remote sensing - spatial analysis - topography - land use and land cover honors: [] intro_statements: - Dr. Jennifer Cartwright is the Science Coordinator for the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center. name: Jennifer M Cartwright, Ph.D. name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0003-0851-8456 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers organization_name: Climate Adaptation Science Centers personal_statement: Jennifer Cartwright is the Science Coordinator for the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC). She is an ecologist with a background in GIS and hydrology and a focus on supporting effective natural-resource management. Her research has concerned climate-change impacts on a variety of terrestrial, wetland, and freshwater ecosystems across North America. Jen has overseen studies of forest drought impacts on local-to-regional scales, modeling of wetland ecohydrology leveraging remote sensing and field observations, identification of refugia from climate change, and assessments of climate impacts to at-risk ecosystems and species. She has been affiliated with the USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center since 2009 and received her Ph.D. in Biology from Tennessee State University in 2014. professional_experience: [] title: Science Coordinator, Southeast CASC