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Jessica Needham

Research Scientist

Building 084, Room 0122B

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-6724

jfneedham@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

I am currently a Research Scientist in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I am part of the E3SM and Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics projects, focussing on the global calibration of E3SM-FATES.

I received my PhD in forest ecology from the University of Oxford in 2016 and then spent two years as a ForestGEO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, conducting a global analysis of demographic rates in trees. I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at LBNL for two years as part of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics project where I worked on the representation of mortality and disturbance in FATES.

Education

  • DPhil, University of Oxford, UK, 2016, Modelling the dynamics of forest trees: from individual vital rates to population and community dynamics
  • BA Biological Sciences, University of Oxford, UK, 2012

Experience

  • Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2022-2021
  • Post Doctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2019-2021
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, 2016-2019
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, 2015
  • Undergraduate research project, University of Oxford, UK, 2011
  • Gatsby undergraduate studentship, University of Oxford, UK, 2011
  • Borneo field course, University of Oxford, UK, 2011
  • Nuffield studentship, University of Oxford, UK, 2009

Awards

  • The Land Model Working Group Andrew Slater Award for best student or postdoc performance at the 2020 LMWG meeting, 2020
  • Clarendon Scholarship, 2013-2016
  • New College Scholarship, 2013-2016
  • Gatsby undergraduate studentship - continued to supported PhD student, 2011-2016
  • Keble College undergraduate prize, 2010

Teaching Experience

  • SULI Intern Mentor, 2021
  • SAGE Summer School, Project Volunteer and Mentor, 2020; 2021
  • Volunteer with IntoUniversity, 2014
  • Demonstrator at the University of Oxford, 2014
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