Jennifer Lynn Bartlett is an American astronomer, the Kinnear Chair of Physics at the United States Naval Academy,[1] and former Chief of the Software Products Division in the Astronomical Applications Department of the United States Naval Observatory.
After beginning her undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, she transferred to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and earned a bachelor's degree in physics there, in 1990.
[5][6] After working in the computer and aerospace industries,[5] she returned to graduate study at the University of Virginia in 1997, and earned a Ph.D. there in 2007.
She began working for the United States Naval Observatory in 2007, and in 2010 became Chief of the Software Products Division in the Astronomical Applications Department.
[3][6] Bartlett is a coauthor of the book Solar System: Between Fire and Ice (with Thomas Hockey and Daniel C. Boice, CRC Press, 2021).