Jenna received her B.S. in Environmental Science from University of Oregon in 2013 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering at University of Colorado. During her undergraduate career, she was a member of the Environmental Leadership Program Stream Stewardship team, and completed an honors thesis on the effects of climate change on soil nitrogen storage in Pacific Northwest grasslands.

My primary research interest is in quantifying the hydrologic impacts of both climate change and land cover disturbance processes across multiple scales. The scientific community’s understanding of climate change continues to evolve, and so we need a flexible framework—models, observations, and communication—to evolve together with this understanding. The tools I use to address these challenges involve integrating observations with modeling and statistics, to attribute causes and improve process understanding.

Andrew received his B.S. in Meteorology from North Carolina State University.  During his time as an undergraduate, he twice interned with NASA researching the atmosphere of Mars for entry, descent and landing purposes.  He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics from George Mason University, where his work focused on understanding the role that large-scale land-use change has on the local and global climate, particularly studying Amazon deforestation.