Jenna was a PhD student focused on developing methods to map inundation changes in forested, coastal wetland ecosystems and assessing the impact of inundation events on biogeochemical processes related to carbon storage and methane emissions. Her dissertation centered on three main questions: how well different satellite sensors can map inundation using machine learning; how spatial and Bayesian statistical methods can fuse multi-sensor data at high spatial and temporal resolution; and how improved inundation mapping affects estimates of wetland methane emissions. She graduated in Fall 2025, after which she joined Pacific Northwest National Lab as a Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow.
PhD in Geospatial Analytics, 2021–2025
North Carolina State University
BSc in Environmental Science/Geology, 2019
University of St. Thomas