Jason Ramage is a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Gulf Coast Program and leads the groundwater, compaction, and subsidence studies in the Gulf Coast aquifer system. The majority of his work focuses on developing potentiometric surfaces of the three primary aquifers in the region and their short- and long-term changes as well as compaction and subsidence in the region. Jason also has been involved in groundwater quality sampling in production wells looking at a variety of constituents from major and minor ions, trace metals, radiochemical isotopes, and age dating isotopes. He has also been studying the development of the Catahoula aquifer in Montgomery County and the effect on depressurization and water quality with ongoing volumetric withdrawal. Jason graduated with a BS degree in Geology from the University of Houston.