RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Jane Wolken is a Research Scientist in CIRES and the University Deputy Director at the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. In this role, she works at the nexus of climate adaptation science research, program coordination and science communication. She is a forest ecologist that is passionate about collaborative solutions-focused research and knowledge sharing. Jane’s research experience includes climate adaptation, forest ecology, silviculture and forest health. She received her Ph.D.

• Instrument design and development for the solar chromosphere, transition region, and corona
• Solar image processing
• Data calibration, analysis, pipelining, and dissemination
• Machine learning

• Science education research
• Climate science education
• Data science education
• Assessment and evaluation in STEM
• Open educational resources
• Test and survey instrument development
• Online learning environments

I am a Research Scientist in Space Physics and Machine Learning, and I am working with the GOES-R MAG team and hope to have collaborations with other teams as well. My research area covers a wide range from long-term variations in solar activity levels from cosmogenic radionuclides and solar dynamos to short(er)-term variations from surface magnetograms of the Sun and solar differential rotation rates from global helioseismological inversions.