Jessica Needham
Dr. Jessica Needham is a Research Scientist in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is part of the E3SM and Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics projects, focussing on the global calibration of the vegetation demographic model ELM-FATES.
Jessica received her 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. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at LBNL for two years as part of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics project where she worked on the representation of mortality and disturbance in FATES.
Area of Interest
- Collaborative projects
- Community partnerships
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Ecology
- Plant Biology
- Forestry Sciences
Education
- DPhil|University of Oxford, United Kingdom|2016
- B.A. Biological Sciences|University of Oxford, United Kingdom|2012
