Jessica Knezha

Jessica Knezha is an Associate Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder and NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, joining in 2022. She completed her Bachelor’s of Software Engineering at Auburn University in 2018, worked three years in industry as a Technical Software Engineer, and completed her Master’s of Science in Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of Bristol in 2022. Her work has included enabling collaboration and improving diagnostics through data and software resources for Earth System reanalysis development and evaluation. She is currently focused on enhancing AI/ML forecasting including the incorporation of observations and how to improve reanalysis products. She also manages the publicly available NOAA-NASA Joint Archive dataset.