Jacob is a hydogeologist with experience designing and implementing new technologies and approaches to contaminant geology in professional and academic settings. Once a staff Geologist with the Stone team, he returns with a wealth of experience in high-resolution site characterization, data collection, drilling techniques, managing complex, multifaceted projects, and developing new numerical groundwater models. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Hydrogeology at the University of South Carolina, where he created new technology and methodologies to model submarine groundwater discharge and groundwater models that ranged in application from coastal municipalities to continental shelf scales. Jacob brings significant equipment and software experience and technical skills in sampling, field surveying, and data maintenance.