Jenna Sanford serves as the Watershed Monitoring Specialist for JSWCD. Jenna provides planning and implementation of watershed-scale water quality monitoring projects related to JSWCD’s natural resource conservation projects and priority watersheds.

Jenna earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Conservation Biology and minor in Recreation Resource & Protected Area Management from the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science & Forestry at Syracuse University. Jenna has a broad range of career experience including wetland science & delineation, water quality monitoring, photo-point monitoring, complete environmental assessment, endangered and threatened species assessment and long-term monitoring, invasive species assessment and management, conservation easement assessment, biodiversity survey, project monitoring, and teaching primitive skills and ethnobotany.  

Jenna developed a deep appreciation of nature growing up in the Adirondack Mountains, and enjoys time camping, hiking, backpacking, kayaking, paddleboarding, gardening and foraging outdoors. Jenna is grateful to be working with the Jackson SWCD team since 2017.

Contact Jenna for questions about the District's monitoring programs.