Brenna Hatch is a Technologist in the Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems group at JPL. She works in the Thermal Calibration and Validation Laboratory maintaining field sites and building radiometer kits that are used to ground truth satellites. Additionally, she contributes to the Earth Science Spectroscopy Lab, measuring the reflectance and emissivity of both natural and man-made samples for the spectral library.
Education
B.S. Geoscience, University of Montana, Missoula (2021)
Certificate in GIS Sciences and Technologies, University of Montana, Missoula (2021)
Professional Experience
NASA DEVELOP Oregon Wildfire (2022)
NASA DEVELOP Mississippi Embayment Water Resources (2022)
NASA DEVELOP Fire Island Water Resource (2021)
Autonomous Aerial Systems Office, UAV’s pilot and GIS intern (2021)
Community Service
AmeriCorps VISTA (Summer 2018 and 2019)
Research Interests
Geospatial science, remote sensing, UAV, water resources, geoscience, wildfire, land surface temperature, evapotranspiration