Jessie Pearl

Jessie pursues research to inform freshwater conservation planning, strategies and priorities. Additionally, she develops scientific investigations that anticipate future changes in climate, hydrology and ecosystem resilience, and demonstrate impacts of conservation practices at regional scale. Ultimately, this research is used to catalyze policies, funding and partnerships.

Jessie’s academic background is in paleoclimate, geochronology, geohydrology and dendrochronology. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona, where her dissertation used tree-ring records to reconstruct climate and extreme events in the northeastern United States. Her postdoctoral work with the U.S. Geological Survey utilized her expertise in dendrochronology and geochronology to more precisely date past earthquake events in Cascadia. Read her blog.

Pearl, J.K., S. Angster, H. Kelsey, D. Caldwell, I. Pryor, B. L. Sherrod, Debris avalanches in the northern California Coast Range triggered by plate boundary earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, doi: 10.1785/0120240008, 2024.

Angster, S. J., B. L. Sherrod, W. Johns, and J.K. Pearl, Field Observations and Logs from the Rose Hip Trench Exposure Across a North-facing ScarpWithin the Seattle Fault Zone, Southern Bainbridge Island, Washington, USGS Scientific Investigations Map, doi: 10.3133/sim3520, 2024.

Dwivedi, R., J. Biederman, P. Broxton, J. K. Pearl, K. Lee, B. M. Svoma, W. J.D. van Leeuwen, M. Robles, How three-dimensional forest structure regulates the amount and timing of snowmelt across a climatic gradient of snow stability, Frontiers in Water, section Water and Critical Zone, doi: 10.3389/frwa.2024.1374961, 2024.

Atwater, Brian F., D. Yamaguchi, J.K. Pearl, Earthquake effects surveyed during the nineteenth century as ecological features of Chinookan tidelands, Northwest Science, doi: 10.3955/046.097.0109, 2024.

Black, B., J. K. Pearl, C. Pearson, P. Pringle, D. Frank, M.T. Page, B.M. Buckley, E.R. Cook, G.L. Harley, K.J. Heeter, J. F. Hughes, D.J. Reynolds and B.L. Sherrod, Mass tree mortality reveals a multi-fault earthquake threat for the Seattle metropolitan region, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh4973, 2023.

Dwivedi, R., J. A. Biederman, P. D. Broxton, K. Lee, W. J.D. van Leeuwen and J.K. Pearl, Forest density regulates root zone water stress and percolation at sites with contrasting ephemeral or stable seasonal snowpacks, Journal of Hydrology, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129915, 2023.

Tucker, Clay., J. K. Pearl, E. A. Elliott, J. C. Bregy, J. M. Friedman, M. D. Therrell, Baldcypress false ring formation linked to summer hydroclimatic extremes in the southeastern United States, Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9745, 2022.

Dye, Laura, J.K. Pearl, L. Smith, B. Coulthard, C. Butkiewicz, Z. Cooper, J. Degrand, J. Friedman, I. Homfeld, H. Howard, L. Ironcloud, S. Wray, Co-occurring Wyoming conifers have distinct climategrowth relationships, Tree Ring Research, doi: 10.3959/TRR2021-5, 2022.

Pearl, J. K., and L. Staisch (2021), Swipe left on the “big one": Better dates for Cascadia quakes, Eos,102, doi: 110.1029/2021EO162183, 2021.

Tucker, C. & Pearl, J.K., Coastal tree-ring records for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental applications in North America, Quaternary Science Reviews, 261, 107044, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107044, 2021.

Walton, M & Staisch, L, T. Dura, J.K. Pearl, B. Sherrod, J. Gomberg , S. Engelhart, A. Trehu, J. Watt, J. Perkins, N. Bartlow, C. Goldfinger, H. Kelsey, A. Morey, V. Sahakian, H. Tobin, R. Wells,

E. Wirth, R.Witter, Towards an integrative geological and geophysical view of Cascadia subduction zone earthquakes, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 41, 1 doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-071620-065605, 2021.

Pederson, N., C. Leland, D. A. Bishop, J. K. Pearl, K. J. Anchukaitis, T. Mandra1, M. Hopton-Ahmed, D. Martin-Benito, A framework for determining population-level vulnerability to climate: evidence for growth hysteresis in Chamaecyparis thyoides along its contiguous latitudinal distribution, 3, 39 Frontiers In Forests And Global Change, doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00039, 2020.

Pearl, J.K., J.R. Keck, W. Tintor, L. Siekacz, H. M. Herrick, Matthew D. Meko, C.L. Pearson, New frontiers in tree-ring research, The Holocene, doi: 10.1177/0959683620902230, 2020.

Pearl, J.K., K.J. Anchukaitis, J. Donnelly, C. Pearson, A. McNichol, N. Pederson, A.P. McNichol, M. L. Gaylord, E.R. Cook, G.L. Zimmerman, A late Holocene subfossil Atlantic white cedar tree ring record from the northeastern United States, Quaternary Science Reviews, 228, 106104, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106104, 2020.2

Pearl, J.K., K.J. Anchukaitis, N. Pederson, J. Donnelly, Multivariate climate field reconstructions using tree-rings for the northeastern United States, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres,125, e2019JD031619 doi: 10.1029/2019JD031619, 2019.

Anchukaitis, K.J., E.R. Cook, B.I. Cook, R. D’Arrigo, R., J.K.Pearl, R. Wilson, Coupled Modes of North Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere Variability and the origin of the Little Ice Age, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2019GL084350, 2019.

Minor, J., J.K. Pearl, M.L. Barnes, T.R. Colella, P. Murphy, S. Mann, G.A. Barron-Gafford, Critical Zone Science in the Anthropocene: Opportunities for Biogeographic and Ecological Theory and Praxis to Drive Earth Science Integration, Progress in Physical Geography, 0309133319864268, doi: 10.1177/0309133319864268, 2019.

Alexander, M. R., J.K. Pearl, D. A. Bishop, E.R Cook, K.J. Anchukaitis, N. Pederson, The potential to strengthen temperature reconstructions in ecoregions with limited tree line using a multispecies approach, Quaternary Research, 1-15, doi: 10.1017/qua.2019.33, 2019.

Amoroso, M., Speer, J. Daniels, L. D., Villalba, R., Cook, E.R., Stahle, D., Srur, A., Tardif, J., Conciatori, F., Aciar, E., Arco, J., Bonada, A., Coulthard, B., Haney, J., Isaac-Rentron, M., Magalhães, J., Marcotti, E., Meglioli, P., Sol Montepeluso, M., Oelkers, R., Pearl, J., Pompa Garcia, M., Robson, J., Rodriguez Catón, M., Soto, P., Young, A., South American Dendroecological Fieldweek 2016: Exploring Dendrochronological Research In Northern Patagonia, Tree-Ring Research, 74(1), doi: 10.3959/1536-1098-74.1.120, 2018.

Pearl, J.K., K. Anchukaitis, N. Pederson, J. Donnelly, Reconstructing Northeastern United States temperature using Atlantic white cedar tree-ring width, Environmental Research Letters, 12, 114012, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f1b, 2017.