Jenna L Shelton, Ph.D.
Jenna Shelton is the Deputy Program Coordinator and Senior Program Scientist for the STATEMAP component of the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program.
Jenna received a B.S. in Environmental Geology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2011, a M.S. in Hydrology and Water Resources from the University of Arizona in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from Colorado School of Mines in 2016. She joined the USGS as a student in 2011 and has been in her current position since 2021. Her areas of research and expertise are in subsurface hydrology, aqueous geochemistry, microbial methanogenesis, microbial ecology, bioinformatics, CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery, isotope geochemistry, and compositional data analysis.
Professional Experience
- August 2021 to present: Associate Program Coordinator, U.S. GeoFramework Initiative & STATEMAP, National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program, Reston, VA
- May 2016 to August 2021: Research Hydrologist, USGS Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, Reston, VA
- May 2013 to May 2016: Physical Scientist Technician, USGS Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, CO
- May 2011 to May 2013: Student Career Experience Program, USGS Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, Tucson, AZ
Education
- Ph.D. Environmental Engineering Science, Colorado School of Mines, 2016
- M.S. Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, 2013
- B.S. Environmental Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2011
Science and Products
Evaluation of portable Raman spectroscopic analysis for source-rock thermal maturity assessments on bulk crushed rock
The EDMAP Program: Training the next generation of geologic mappers
The National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s U.S. GeoFramework Initiative — Delivering a digital database of geologic map information by 2030
Dissolved organic matter within oil and gas associated wastewaters from U.S. unconventional petroleum plays: Comparisons and consequences for disposal and reuse
In situ enhancement and isotopic labeling of biogenic coalbed methane
National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources — Summary
National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources — Results
Machine learning can assign geologic basin to produced water samples using major ion geochemistry
The Preventing Harassment in Science workshop: Summary and best practices for planetary science and astrobiology
Utica shale play oil and gas brines: Geochemistry and factors influencing wastewater management
The Utica and Marcellus Shale Plays in the Appalachian Basin are the fourth and first largest natural gas producing plays in the United States, respectively. Hydrocarbon production generates large volumes of brine (“produced water”) that must be disposed of, treated, or reused. Though Marcellus brines have been studied extensively, there are few studies from the Utica Shale Play. This study presen
Repetitive sampling and control threshold improve 16S rRNA results from produced waters associated with hydraulically fractured shales
Compositional analysis of formation water geochemistry and microbiology of commercial and carbon dioxide-rich wells in the southwestern United States
The U.S. GeoFramework Initiative
Great Lakes Geologic Mapping Coalition (GLGMC)
Big Data and Data Visualization
Controls on Unconventional Oil and Gas Production
STATEMAP
EDMAP
U.S. Geological Survey National Produced Waters Geochemical Database (ver. 3.0, December 2023)
Portable Raman spectroscopic analysis of bulk crushed rock
Absorbance and Fluorescence Excitation-Emission Matrix Data for Produced Waters from Oil and Gas Producing Basins in the United States
National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources - data release
Microbiology of the Utica Shale
Injection of Deuterium and Yeast Extract at USGS Birney Field Site, Powder River Basin, Montana, USA, 2016-2020
Input Files and Code for: Machine learning can accurately assign geologic basin to produced water samples using major geochemical parameters
Geochemistry of Utica Shale Play and other Appalachian produced waters
Microbial Communities Associated with Hot Springs and other CO2-rich Waters, Rocky Mountain Plateau
Low biomass microbiology samples collected from a hydraulically fractured well producing from the Niobrara Shale in Colorado
Direct Trace Element Determination in Oil and Gas Produced Waters with Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES): Advantages of High Salinity Tolerance (2019)
Microbiology of the greater Bravo Dome region
Science and Products
Evaluation of portable Raman spectroscopic analysis for source-rock thermal maturity assessments on bulk crushed rock
The EDMAP Program: Training the next generation of geologic mappers
The National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s U.S. GeoFramework Initiative — Delivering a digital database of geologic map information by 2030
Dissolved organic matter within oil and gas associated wastewaters from U.S. unconventional petroleum plays: Comparisons and consequences for disposal and reuse
In situ enhancement and isotopic labeling of biogenic coalbed methane
National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources — Summary
National assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources — Results
Machine learning can assign geologic basin to produced water samples using major ion geochemistry
The Preventing Harassment in Science workshop: Summary and best practices for planetary science and astrobiology
Utica shale play oil and gas brines: Geochemistry and factors influencing wastewater management
The Utica and Marcellus Shale Plays in the Appalachian Basin are the fourth and first largest natural gas producing plays in the United States, respectively. Hydrocarbon production generates large volumes of brine (“produced water”) that must be disposed of, treated, or reused. Though Marcellus brines have been studied extensively, there are few studies from the Utica Shale Play. This study presen