Jessica Lundquist

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.

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. Lundquist was promoted to full professor in 2017.

Research Lundquist is known for her work in snow science. Her early research examined changes in river flow in the United States and used a network of sensors to track snowmelt in Yosemite National Park. Subsequent work includes investigating the process where snow transitions directly from a solid to a gas, sublimation. Lundquist's research examines predictions for the amount of snow a region will get over a season, and defines differences in the amount of snow areas receive across different years. Her work on how forests impact the ability for mountains to retain snow was selected for an editor's choice award from the journal Water Resources Research in 2014.

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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.