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Jessica Lundquist is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington. She received her B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis in 1999, followed by an M.S. in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2000. She completed her Ph.D. in Oceanography at SIO in 2004, focusing on diurnal cycles in mountain streamflow. After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, she began her academic career at the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in 2006, where she advanced to the rank of Associate Professor in 2011. Dr. Lundquist has received several prestigious awards for her research, including the Cryosphere Young Investigator Award from the American Geophysical Union in 2008 and the Editor’s Choice Award from Water Resources Research in 2014 for her work on forest-snow interactions. Her research interests encompass hydrology, hydrodynamics, snow environment, and forest hydrology, with a specific focus on how climatic changes influence streamflow patterns. Outside of her professional commitments, she enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, and climbing, as well as playing the piano.
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