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Professional History

2020	Principle Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2015	Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2015	Adjunct Faculty, Hydrologic Sciences University of Nevada, Reno
2014	National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada
2013	Adjunct Faculty, Physics Dominican University of California, San Rafeal, CA

Education

2013	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Earth & Planetary Science; Computational Science & Engineering
2010	M.S., University of California, Berkeley Mechanical Engineering
2008	B.S., University of Illinois, Chicago BioEngineering

Military Service

Officer of Meteorology and Oceanography, Lieutenant Junior Grade (O2), U.S. Navy Reserves
Command: Navy Operational Support Center, Reno, NV

Current Projects

At Sandia, I am a computational geoscientist and a PFLOTRAN developer. PFLOTRAN is an open source, massively parallel subsurface simulator for multiphase, multicomponent, and multiscale reactive flow and transport processes in porous media. PFLOTRAN is used to model geologic disposal systems for nuclear waste under the Spent Fuel and Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) Campaign, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy, and for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site in Carlsbad, NM.

I am also part of the Arctic Science and Security Initiative at Sandia, and am interested in Arctic-related research topics on permafrost-associated gas hydrate, terrestrial and submarine permafrost, Arctic coastal erosion, and Arctic regional climate models.

Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD)

FY2019	Forecasting Marine Sediment Properties On and Near the Arctic Shelf with Geospatial Machine Learning PI: Jennifer M. Frederick (08844) Research partnership with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Academic Alliance with the University of Texas, Austin
FY2019	Integrated Multiphysics Modeling of Environmentally Assisted Brittle Fracture PI: Jessica Rimsza (08865)
FY2018	A Predictive Model for Arctic Coastal Erosion PI: Diana Bull (02159) Research partnership with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Academic Alliance with the University of Texas, Austin
FY2018	Arctic Tipping Points Triggering Global Change PI: Kara Peterson (01442)

Research Interests

- Fluid mechanics applied to environmental and geological flows
- Multi-phase and variable-density flow and transport in porous media
- Heat transfer in the environment
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and numerical modeling
- Software engineering for scientific computing and applied mathematics
- Deep oceanic and permafrost-associated methane hydrates
- Cold regions hydrology/flows involving water/ice phase change (permafrost)
- Submarine groundwater discharge and geohydrology
- Arctic coastal erosion issues
- Performance assessment modeling of deep geologic nuclear waste repositories

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Jennifer M. Frederick, Ph.D.