Ashley Bussell

Ashley began her journey with the USGS in 2016 as a Pathways Student in Austin, TX studying groundwater quality as a part of the National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA). After graduating with her MS from St. Edward’s University she took a position as a physical scientist with the Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center in the Ruston, Louisiana office where she investigates groundwater use, availability, and water quality as a part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Regional Availability Study and the Integrated Water Availability Assessment of the Chicot Aquifer System in southwestern Louisiana.