Jessica D. Lundquist | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | The pulse of the mountains : diurnal cycles in western streamflow (2004) |
Jessica D. Lundquist is a professor at the University of Washington who is known for her work on snow and weather climate forecasting in mountain regions. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2024.
Lundquist earned her B.S. from the University of California, Davis in 1999. She went on to receive an M.S. (2000) and a Ph.D. (2004) from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Following her Ph.D. Lundquist was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 2004 until 2006, when she moved to the University of Washington. [1] Lundquist was promoted to full professor in 2017. [2]
Lundquist is known for her work in snow science. Her early research examined changes in river flow in the United States [3] and used a network of sensors to track snowmelt in Yosemite National Park. [4] Subsequent work includes investigating the process where snow transitions directly from a solid to a gas, sublimation. [5] Lundquist's research examines predictions for the amount of snow a region will get over a season, [6] [7] and defines differences in the amount of snow areas receive across different years. [8] Her work on how forests impact the ability for mountains to retain snow [9] was selected for an editor's choice award from the journal Water Resources Research in 2014. [10]
In 2008 Lundquist received the Cryosphere Young Investigator Award from the American Geophysical Union. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2024. [1]