Jennifer Jacobs

Jennifer Jacobs
Alma mater	Cornell University

Jennifer Jacobs is a civil and environmental engineer at the University of New Hampshire. Her research addresses hydrology, remote sensing of soil moisture and snow, and the effects of climate change on transportation infrastructure, particularly pavement performance and coastal roadways.

Education

Jacobs received a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, completing her degree between 1993 and 1997.

Career

Jacobs is a faculty member at the University of New Hampshire.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Jacobs has authored 185 papers that have been cited a total of 5,303 times, giving her an h-index of 41.

Her most cited work includes studies on drought index evaluation using remotely sensed data, nitrogen removal in river networks, spatiotemporal analysis of soil moisture, snow water equivalent estimation from passive microwave data, and the use of system dynamics models to assess the long-term impact of climate change on pavement performance and maintenance costs.

National Science Foundation records list eight awards totaling $7,344,767 associated with the name Jennifer Jacobs, including a CAREER award for "Dynamic Control Systems for Manual-Computational Fabrication" ($291,906, University of California-Santa Barbara, awarded February 25, 2025); "Ethical and Responsible Research for Augmented Reality" ($399,998, University of California-Santa Barbara, awarded August 19, 2022); "Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-RM: Expanding Rural Ceramics Craft and Computational Fabrication: A Synergy" ($588,197, University of California-Santa Barbara, awarded September 3, 2020); "CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Dynamic Computer-Aided Machining: Supporting Interactive Workflows for Digital Fabrication and Manufacturing" ($249,224, University of California-Santa Barbara, awarded July 23, 2020); and "Collaborative Research: AccelNet: ICNet Global" ($601,329, University of New Hampshire, awarded August 8, 2019).

Selected publications

• "Evaluation of drought indices via remotely sensed data with hydrological variables" (2013)
• "Separation of river network–scale nitrogen removal among the main channel and two transient storage compartments" (2011)
• "Spatiotemporal analyses of soil moisture from point to footprint scale in two different hydroclimatic regions" (2011)
• "Use of System Dynamics to Understand Long-Term Impact of Climate Change on Pavement Performance and Maintenance Cost" (2014)
• "Comparison of passive microwave and modeled estimates of total watershed SWE in the continental United States" (2014)
• "Method for Evaluating Implications of Climate Change for Design and Performance of Flexible Pavements" (2012)
• "Recent and Future Outlooks for Nuisance Flooding Impacts on Roadways on the U.S. East Coast" (2018)
• "Assessing the Effects of Rising Groundwater from Sea Level Rise on the Service Life of Pavements in Coastal Road Infrastructure" (2017)
• "Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Flexible Pavement Performance and Lifetime in the United States," Transportation Research Record (2019)
• "Snow depth mapping with unpiloted aerial system lidar observations: a case study in Durham, New Hampshire, United States" (2021)

External links

• ORCID profile