Jennifer Bousselot is an assistant professor of horticulture and landscape architecture at Colorado State University. She studies all things green roofs, and together with her graduate students manages the operations and maintenance of five such facilities in Fort Collins and Denver.
Bousselot has studied everything from green roof plant-pollinator interactions to containerized native plants to stormwater capture to rooftop agrivoltaics. Two of the green roofs her team manages are part of the CSU Spur campus in Denver. Here, they function as a living laboratory of green roof research that is open to the public throughout the year.
Bousselot earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Iowa State University, and after a stint as a horticulture agent for the CSU Extension office in Douglas County, she followed her passion and pursued a doctorate of science in horticulture at CSU.
Her work has been published in the Journal of Living Architecture, Environmental International, Energies Journal and more.