Jenna N. Abrahamson
PhD | Remote Sensing Scientist | @ PNNL | Tri-Cities, Washington
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 |
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| Jan 05, 2026 | Started at PNNL as a Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Nov 07, 2015 | Defended my PhD dissertation 🎓 |
selected publications
- U-Prithvi: Integrating a Foundation Model and U-Net for Enhanced Flood Inundation MappingIn 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience), 2025
- Assessment of performance of tree-based algorithms to reduce errors of omission and commission in change detectionIn IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2023
- Modeling Variable Inundation Dynamics in a Coastal Wetland Using Heterogeneous Satellites and Data Fusion: A Focus on Spatial and Temporal ScalesIn AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2024
- Monitoring Ephemeral Inundation Dynamics in Coastal Wetlands Using Time Series of Sentinel and PlanetScope DataIn AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2023