Jessica (Jessie) Cherry

affiliations: IARC/INE
location: 408 A Akasofu Building
email: jcherry iarc [dot] uaf [dot] edu
phone: 907-474-5730
website: http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~jcherry/

Projects

• Study of the Role of Snow in Land-Atmosphere Coupling (JAMSTEC)
• Remote Sensing of Rivers in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (BLM)
• Evaluation of the Total Precipitation Sensor (DOE)
• Southeast Alaska Hydroelectric Power Climate Impact Analysis (NOAA)
• Analysis and Attribution of Changes in Siberian Hydroclimate (NSF)
• Development of Improved Satellite-Based Snow Products for Alaska (NOAA)
• Regional Model Intercomparison for Alaska (Sandia)
• Regional Modeling for Arctic Transportation Networks (DOE)

Professional Interests

• Arctic hydrology and climate
• Large-scale snow physics
• Land-atmosphere interaction on synoptic and longer time-scales
• Frozen ground
• Water resources and economics

Education

2003-2006 Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory New York, NY PhD in Climate Science/Hydrology (Advisor: Bruno Tremblay, now at McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)

2002-2003 Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory New York, NY Master of Philosophy in Climate Science/Hydrology (Advisor: Marc Stieglitz, now at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA)

2000-2002 Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory New York, NY Master of Arts in Physical Oceanography (Advisor: Martin Visbeck, now at IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany)

1995-1999 Columbia College of Columbia University New York, NY Double major in Economics and Earth/Environmental Science