Download my full CV (updated September 2020).
Education
2021 (expected): PhD in Geosciences, Penn State University
Advisors: Demian Saffer and Tess Russo
2014: B.A. in Geosciences, cum laude, Williams College,
Senior Thesis: The sedimentology of storm-emplaced coastal boulder deposits in the northeastern Atlantic region
Honors and awards
2018 – 2020: Richard R. Parizek Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University
2016: The Pennsylvania State University Graduate Fellowship
2016: Anne C. Wilson Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University
2014: Freeman Foote Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis in Geosciences, Williams College
Grants
2019: Penn State Wastewater Management Committee Research Grant ($47,833)
Meeting abstracts
Jahn, K. L., T.A. Russo, C. Neill, P. Lefebvre (2018), Quantifying water and solute fluxes through deep tropical vadose zone soils, Abstract H43I-2583 presented at 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., 10-14 Dec.
Jahn, K. L., T.A. Russo, C. Neill, P. Lefebvre (2017), Preferential subsurface flow through deep tropical soils, presented at 2017 NGWA Summit, Nashville, TN, 4-7 Dec.
Jahn, K. L. and R. Cox (2014), Sedimentologic analysis of coastal boulder deposits in the northeast Atlantic region: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 46, No. 6, p.452.
Publications
Cox, R., K. L. Jahn, O. G. Watkins, P. Cox (2018), Extraordinary boulder transport by storm waves (West of Ireland, Winter 2013–2014), and criteria for analysing coastal boulder deposits. Earth-Science Reviews, 117, 623-636.
Cox, R., W. Lopes, and K. L. Jahn (2018), Quantitative roundness analysis of coastal boulder deposits. Marine Geology, 396, 114-141.
Service and outreach
Penn State Geosciences Safety Committee, 2018 – present
Penn State Geosciences Graduate Colloquium Committee, 2018 – present
Shake, Rattle, & Rocks – Geoscience Outreach for State College 5th graders, 2017 – 2018