Jessica Lundquist
American scientist
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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.
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| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego |
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| Thesis | The pulse of the mountains : diurnal cycles in western streamflow (2004) |
Education and career
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]
Research
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]
Selected publications
- Pepin, N. C.; Lundquist, J. D. (2008). "Temperature trends at high elevations: Patterns across the globe". Geophysical Research Letters. 35 (14). doi:10.1029/2008GL034026. ISSN 0094-8276. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- Neiman, Paul J.; Ralph, F. Martin; Wick, Gary A.; Lundquist, Jessica D.; Dettinger, Michael D. (2008-02-01). "Meteorological Characteristics and Overland Precipitation Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers Affecting the West Coast of North America Based on Eight Years of SSM/I Satellite Observations". Journal of Hydrometeorology. 9 (1): 22–47. doi:10.1175/2007JHM855.1. ISSN 1525-7541. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- Lundquist, Jessica D.; Dickerson-Lange, Susan E.; Lutz, James A.; Cristea, Nicoleta C. (2013). "Lower forest density enhances snow retention in regions with warmer winters: A global framework developed from plot-scale observations and modeling: Forests and Snow Retention". Water Resources Research. 49 (10): 6356–6370. doi:10.1002/wrcr.20504. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- Lundquist, Jessica; Abel, Mimi Rose; Gutmann, Ethan; Kapnick, Sarah (2019). "Our Skill in Modeling Mountain Rain and Snow is Bypassing the Skill of Our Observational Networks". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100 (12): 2473–2490. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0001.1. ISSN 0003-0007. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- Hock, Regine; Rasul, Golam; Adler, Carolina; Cáceres, Bolívar; Gruber, Stephan; Hirabayashi, Yukiko; Jackson, Miriam; Kääb, Andreas; Kang, Shichang (2019-09-25), Kaser, Georg; Mukherji, Aditi (eds.), High Mountain Areas, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), retrieved 2025-12-08
Awards and honors
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]