• IANTD Technical Cave Diver, 2009

• AAUS Scientific Diver, 2004

• NAUI Scuba Divemaster & Skin Diver Instructor, 2000

• Safe Boating Certificate, 1998

• Health and Safety for Hazardous Waste Site Activities, 2007

• Florida Association of Benthologists, Taxonomic Workshops:

• Marine Mollusca
• Echinodermata
• Peracarida Crustacea
• Amphipoda
• Marine Shrimps (2010)

• Florida Association of Benthologists
• Biological Society of Washington

• Annelida, zooplankton and other benthic invertebrate taxonomy
• Microalgal pigment analysis
• Field and laboratory data collection and analysis
• Parametric and nonparametric statistical analyses

• Bathymetric surveys

• Marine resource surveys

• Surface water sampling

• Research diving

Mrs. Davenport is responsible for the taxonomic identification of annelids and other invertebrates from benthic samples.  She supervises the rough sorting of these samples.  She also has conducted marine resource surveys, bathymetric surveys and water quality sampling.  She authored our Diving Safety Manual and currently serves as the Diving Safety Officer for Terra Environmental.

Prior to joining Terra Environmental, Mrs. Davenport was with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.  There, she participated in assessing health and recruitment of scallops and oysters and monitored biological and physical attributes of re-nourished beaches.  Before moving to Florida, Mrs. Davenport was employed by Texas A&M University at Galveston as a teaching assistant for Biology, Scientific Diving and Tropical Marine Ecology classes.  Additionally, Mrs. Davenport was employed as a turtle monitor for Galveston County and was responsible for observing turtle activity in construction zones along Galveston beaches.  Prior to living in Texas, Mrs. Davenport worked for Catalina Island Marine Institute as an environmental educator.

• Taxonomic identification of freshwater, estuarine, and marine Annelida and other benthic invertebrates from various projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and southeastern United States

• Taxonomic identification of Annelida and other invertebrates from benthic samples collected as part of a long-term hydrobiological monitoring program in Tampa Bay, Florida

• Biologist and research diver for marine resource surveys conducted for  environmental resource permits

• Field manager for a 24-hour water sampling program conducted on the Anclote River, Florida

• Magalhães, W. F., J. H. Bailey-Brock, & J. S. Davenport. In review. On the genus Raphidrilus Monticelli, 1910 (Polychaeta: Ctenodrilidae) with description of two new species.
• Davenport, J. S. & M. J. Wetzel. In prep. Pristina longidentata (Harman, 1965) (Annelida, Clitellata, Naididae, Pristininae): a rare aquatic oligochaete new to Florida, USA.

• Davenport, J. S. & C. J. Glasby. In prep. Redescription of Neanthes micromma (Polychaeta: Nereididae) based on type material and additional material from Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, with a discussion of the ontogenetic changes in parapodial morphology.

• Stone, J.S. 2006. The influence of physicochemical factors and wind-induced resuspension on microalgal and zooplankton community assemblages in a shallow coastal embayment, South Bay, TX, USA.  M. S. Thesis, Texas A&M University, 123 pp.