Jenna N. Abrahamson

PhD | Remote Sensing Scientist | @ PNNL | Tri-Cities, Washington

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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 massive amounts of numbers that map the Earth, and use them to try to tackle some of our 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 commercial satellite data, 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

  1. U-Prithvi: Integrating a Foundation Model and U-Net for Enhanced Flood Inundation Mapping
    V Kostejn, Y Essus, J Abrahamson, and 1 more author
    In 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience), 2025
  2. Assessment of performance of tree-based algorithms to reduce errors of omission and commission in change detection
    P Rasmussen, J Abrahamson, X Tang, and 4 more authors
    In IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023
  3. Modeling Variable Inundation Dynamics in a Coastal Wetland Using Heterogeneous Satellites and Data Fusion: A Focus on Spatial and Temporal Scales
    JN Abrahamson, J Gray, MG Tulbure, and 1 more author
    In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2024
  4. Monitoring Ephemeral Inundation Dynamics in Coastal Wetlands Using Time Series of Sentinel and PlanetScope Data
    JN Abrahamson and J Gray
    In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2023