Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson
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Graduate Student, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
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Affiliated with: Ocean and Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
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USA
BIOGRAPHY:
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences working with Richard Seager. My research focuses on better understanding hydroclimate variability and change in the western U.S. and similar regions around the world under climate change. Currently, I'm studying the effect of climate on wildfires in the West. I graduated from Princeton University in 2019 with an A.B. in Physics and a certificate in Environmental Studies. My undergraduate work explored the impacts of hemispherically asymmetric volcanic eruptions on Sahel hydroclimate. I continued this research in Gabe Vecchi's group after graduating while also working as an Outward Bound instructor for middle- and high-school students in New York City public schools.
2 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS
Only select publications listed belowPUBLICATIONS
- Jacobson, T. W., Seager, R., Williams, A. P., Simpson, I. R., McKinnon, K. A., & Liu, H. (2024). An unexpected decline in spring atmospheric humidity in the interior Southwestern United States and implications for forest fires. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 25(3), 373-390.
- Jacobson, T. W., Seager, R., Williams, A. P., & Henderson, N. (2022). Climate dynamics preceding summer forest fires in California and the extreme case of 2018. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 61(8), 989-1002.
- Jacobson, T. W., Yang, W., Vecchi, G. A., & Horowitz, L. W. (2020). Impact of volcanic aerosol hemispheric symmetry on Sahel rainfall. Climate Dynamics, 55(7), 1733-1758.
- Edmond, K. V., Jacobson, T. W., Oh, J. S., Yi, G. R., Hollingsworth, A. D., Sacanna, S., & Pine, D. J. (2021). Large-scale synthesis of colloidal bowl-shaped particles. Soft Matter, 17(25), 6176-6181.