Zoe Pierrat

Zoe Amie Pierrat is a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow in the Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems group at JPL. She uses a combination of field and satellite-based remote sensing in conjunction with modelling frameworks to understand terrestrial carbon and water cycles. 


Education: 
  • PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, UCLA, 2023
  • M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, UCLA, 2020
  • B.A. in Physics: Environmental Emphasis, minor in Chemistry, Colorado College, 2017 

Research Interests: 

Carbon and water cycles, solar-induced fluorescence, thermal infrared radiation, land-atmosphere feedbacks


Professional Experience: 
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, JPL, 2023-Present
  • Graduate Student, UCLA, 2018-2023
  • Paraprofessional, Colorado College, 2017-2018

Selected Awards: 
  • NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow 2023
  • NASA SCoPE AGU SciAct Affiliate 2023
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2020-2023)
  • Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Early Career Fellow and Leadership Facilitator, UCLA (2019-2023)
  • Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow, UCLA (2018-2023)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Top Cited Article (2021)
  • Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU Fall meeting (2020)
  • Brian Bosart Award, UCLA (2019)
  • Barbara Whitten Prize for Women in the Natural Sciences, Colorado College (2017)

Selected Publications: 
  1. Nehemy, M. F., Pierrat, Z. A., Maillet, J., Richardson, A. Stutz, J., Johnson, B., Helgason, W., Barr, A., Laroque, C. P., McDonnell, J. J. Phenological assessment of transpiration: The stem-sap approach for determining start and end of season. (2023). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109319 
  2. Poulter, B., Currey, B., Calle, L., Brookshire, J., Campbell, P., Chulus, A., Cawse-Nicholson, K., Huemmrich, K., Miller, C., Miner, K., Pierrat, Z. A., Schimel, D., Serbin, S., Shiklomanov, A., Stavros, N., Townsent, P., Thompson, D., Zhang, Z., Amaral, C., Raiho, A., Stutz, J. Simulating global dynamic surface reflectances for imaging spectroscopy spaceborn missions - LPJ-Prosail. (2023). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006935 
  3. Pierrat, Z. A., Bortnik, J., Johnson, B., Barr, A., Bowling, D.R., Magney, T., Parazoo, N., Frankenberg, C., Seibt, U., Stutz, J. Forests for Forests: Combining vegetation indices with solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence in random forest models improves gross primary productivity prediction in the Boreal Forest. (2022). Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aca5a0 
  4. Cheng, R., Magney, T., Orcutt, E., Pierrat, Z. A., Köhler, P., Bowling, D., Bret-Harte, M.S, Euskirchen, E.S., Jung, M., Kobayashi, H., Rocha, A.V., Sonnentag, O., Walther, S., Zona, D., Frankenberg, C. Evaluating photosynthetic activity across Arctic-Boreal land cover types using solar-induced fluorescence. (2022). Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9dae 
  5. Pierrat, Z. A., Magney, T., Parazoo, N., Grossmann, K., Bowling, D., Seibt, U., Johnson, B., Helgason, W., Barr, A., Bortnik, J., Norton, A., Maguire, A., Frankenberg, C., Stutz, J. Diurnal and seasonal dynamics of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, vegetation indices, and gross primary productivity in the boreal forest. (2022). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006588
  6. Nelson, P. & Maguire, A., Pierrat, Z. A., Orcutt, E., Yang, D., Serbin, S., Frost, G., Macander, M., Magney, T., Thompson, D., Wang, J., Oberbauer, S., Vargas Zesati, S., Davidson, S., Epstein, H., Unger, S., Campbell, P., Carmon, N., Velez,-Reyes, M., Huemmrich, F. Remote Sensing of Tundra Ecosystems using High Spectral Resolution Reflectance: Issues and Opportunities. (2022). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006697. Nelson, P. and Maguire, A. contributed equally to this study.
  7. Maguire, A.J., Eitel, J.U.H., Magney, T., Frankenberg, C., Köhler, P., Orcutt, E.L., Parazoo, N.C., Pavlick, R., & Pierrat, Z. A. (2021). Spatial covariation between solar-induced fluorescence and vegetation indices from Arctic-Boreal landscapes. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac188a
  8. Pierrat, Z. A, Nehemy, M. F., Roy, A., Magney, T., Parazoo, C., Laroque, C., Pappas, C., Sonnentag, O., Bowling, D. R., Seibt, U., *Ramirez, A., Helgason, W., Barr, A., & Stutz, J. (2021). Tower-based remote sensing reveals mechanisms behind a two-phased spring transition in a mixed-species boreal forest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG006191 Ladies of Landsat Manuscript Monday featured article, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Top Cited Article 2021-2022.

 

Address: 
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Email: 
zoe.a.pierrat@jpl.nasa.gov