Jessica Besnier
GRADUATE STUDENT
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Hello! I'm Jessica
I am currently in my third year of graduate school at the University of Virginia in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. I am studying hydrology, remote sensing, and cyber-physical systems. The current goal of my research is to utilize different remote sensing and machine learning technologies to improve food and water security in times of hydrological extremes (droughts and floods). I graduated from James Madison University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with minors in Spanish, Math, and Honors Interdisciplinary Studies with an Area of Emphasis in Leadership. Thanks for checking out my site and hope you learn some more about me and my passions!
Current Interests:
Remote sensing
Hydrological Extremes (droughts and floods)
Global water resource allocating
Machine Learning
Data Visualization
Science Communication
Data Visualization Presentation at EGU in Vienna, Austria 2023
Poster presentation at AGU in Chicago, IL 2022
NASA DEVELOP closeout presentation 2023
Projects:
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Characterizing the 2019-2021 Drought in La Plata River Basin with GLDAS and SMAP
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Using GRACE TWS to predict reservoir height in the Upper Parana River Basin
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Understanding the Inniscarra reservoir fluctuations to predict downstream flooding through hydrological modeling
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Earth observations give insight into the correlation between drought and food security
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Increasing communication and understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning outputs through Data Visualization