Jenna N. Abrahamson

jenna.abrahamson@pnnl.gov

I’m currently a Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. I’m formally trained as a remote sensing scientist—basically, I write code to wrangle giant piles of numbers that map the Earth, and use them to try to tackle some of the planet’s biggest questions.

Right now, I’m developing high-resolution monitoring methods to study water and carbon processes in wetland ecosystems using a fun mix of GeoAI foundation models, embeddings, and physics-based hydrologic models.

Outside of work, you can find me trying to hike and backpack my way across the Pacific Northwest and taking any chance I get to start a new craft project.

news

Apr 04, 2026	Paper on statistical data fusion for wetland inundation monitoring now available as a preprint on EarthArXiv
Jan 05, 2026	Started at PNNL as a Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Nov 07, 2015	Defended my PhD dissertation 🎓

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.