Jessica Lundin
UW Graduate Student
jdrees @ u.washington.edu

  Research

I'm a graduate student in the Glaciology Group in the Earth and Space Science Department at the University of Washington. My academic interest is in ice sheet dynamics and paleoclimatology. My work is motivated by questions including past ice sheet volume and consequently how much ice sheets contributed to sea level rise since the Last Glacial Maximum.

These questions may be approached using ice cores for clues of past climates in the form of trapped atmospheric gas and other chemical markers. Numerical modeling is another tool I use to weave ice sheet dynamics into the picture of the whole ice sheet, that includes surface accumulation, ice sheet rheology, and ice sheet thickness. These problems are approached using inverse theory, a physically based method to determine initial and boundary conditions based on observable data and errors, and known physics.

Read more about this NSF funded research project and my advisor and project PI, Ed Waddington.

  Fieldwork