Jessica Kendall-Bar

• Year

  2022

• Program

  AI in Sci

• Institution

  UC San Diego

• Field of Study

  Biological and agricultural sciences, "Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences", Engineering, Mathematics and computer sciences

Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar is a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Her research combines engineering, data science, ecology, and visualization to measure behavior and physiology of marine animals amidst a changing climate. For her dissertation, she developed a non-invasive system to record and visualize the first recordings of marine mammal sleep at sea, published in Science. As an award-winning science communicator, she designs data visualization courses, large-scale exhibits, immersive analytical tools, and decision support tools. Her data visualizations, published in The New York Times and The Atlantic, have informed international policy in domains ranging from marine mammal conservation to coral reef restoration.