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Jenna Abrahamson Develops Remote Sensing Methods to Predict Flooding

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Jenna Abrahamson Develops Remote Sensing Methods to Predict Flooding

This summer, Abrahamson worked at Pacific Northwest National Lab as a Ph.D. intern on its terrestrial and aquatic integration team.