Rate My Professor Jacque Kelly

Kelly served as principal investigator for the National Science Foundation-funded REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experiences in Coastal Plain Science from 2018 to 2024, mentoring undergraduate researchers. As co-principal investigator, she contributed to funded projects such as Investigation of Salt Water Intrusion on St. Catherines Island (St. Catherines Island Foundation, 2021-present), Impacts of submarine groundwater discharge on seagrass in Florida Bay (Environmental Protection Agency, 2021-2024), Response of Stressed Marsh to Hurricane Irma (Georgia Sea Grant, 2018-2019), and Is Groundwater a Potential Driver of Oyster Populations Within Georgia Creeks? (Georgia Sea Grant, 2018-2019). Notable publications include "Shallow Hydrostratigraphy Beneath Marsh Platforms: Insights from Electrical Resistivity Tomography" (Water, 2025, with C. M. Hladik), "Submarine groundwater discharge interacts with creek geomorphology to affect eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica growth rates in a coastal Georgia creek" (PeerJ, 2023, with J. M. Carroll et al.), "Integration of aerial infrared thermography and in situ radon-222 to investigate submarine groundwater discharge to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA" (Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2018), and "High-resolution aerial infrared mapping of groundwater discharge to the coastal ocean" (Geophysical Research Letters, 2013). In 2020, she received the Georgia Southern University Award of Excellence for Teaching. Affiliated with the James H. Oliver, Jr., Institute for Coastal Plain Science, Kelly teaches introductory and advanced geology courses including Data Management for Geologists, Isotope Geochemistry, and Senior Thesis Research, incorporating lectures, flipped classrooms, case studies, and student response systems.