Featured grants
- Dutton, Jessica (Principal). Trace element concentrations in sediment from the Alcoa (Point Comfort)/Lavaca Bay Superfund site, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $425289. (Submitted: October 2024, Funded: March 1, 2025 - February 28, 2028). Grant.
- Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Blasingame, Dale C (Co-Principal), Shields, Sara Michelle (Co-Principal). Mercury exposure through seafood consumption in the Matagorda Bay system: human health study and public education, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $474900. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2027). Grant.
- Liu, Zhanfei (Co-Principal), Lu, Kaijun (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal). Resuspension of contaminants in Matagorda Bay due to storms, ship traffic, and dredging activities, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $433113. (Submitted: October 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2027). Grant.
- Dutton, Jessica (Principal), Prothro, Lindsay (Co-Principal). Sediment mercury concentrations in the Closed Area of Lavaca Bay and the risk to wildlife from mercury remobilization during dredging, Matagorda Bay Mitigation Trust, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $497818. (Submitted: October 2022, Funded: March 1, 2023 - February 28, 2026). Grant.
- McFee, Wayne (Principal), Morton, Steven (Co-Principal), Dutton, Jessica (Co-Principal), Piwetz, Sarah (Co-Principal), Vazquez, Gabrielle (Co-Principal), Lovewell, Gretchen (Co-Principal). Innovative use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (EDS) to detect oil signatures in teeth of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), NOAA, Federal, $85490. (Funded: 2022 - 2024). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Cast, Hellcat: The True Story of an Unreasonable Texas Waterkeeper. 2025.
- Fielding, R., Brown, C., Dutton, J., Forde, M., Harewood, H., Hunt, L., … Zimmerman, K. (2025). Mercury concentrations, health, and marine food consumption across four eastern Caribbean populations: Insights from a novel community-based study. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 36(1), GCFI 36-GCFI 50.
- Dutton, J. (2025). Opinions related to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2025 Draft Validation Report and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Matagorda Ship Channel Improvement Project.
- Parker, M., Fritts, S., Weaver, S., Meierhofer, M., & Dutton, J. (2024). Inter- and intraspecific variability of total mercury concentrations in bats of Texas (USA). Environmental Research, 259, 119570.
- Dutton, J. (2023). Relationship between trace element concentrations and body length in dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(37), 87757–87767.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: College of Science and Engineering (CoSE) Research Millionaire, Texas State University. 2025
- Award / Honor Recipient: College of Science and Engineering (CoSE) Research Millionaire, Texas State University. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty Developmental Leave (2022-2023 academic year), Texas State University. September 2022 - May 2023
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Research Award (Developmental Leave), Texas State University. 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: College of Science and Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas State University. 2021
Featured service activities
- Member
Dr. Phillip M. Campbell Scholarship for Graduate Research
- Member
Review of tenure and promotion mentoring committee for Assistant Professors and formation of promotion mentoring committee for Associate Professors
- President
South-Central Regional Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Member
A.B. and Irene Rogers Aquatic Biology Scholarship Committee
- Editorial Review Board Member
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
- Editor
Frontiers in Marine Science