Jeremy Benik
Research Scientist, NASA Earth eXchange (NEX)
Affiliation: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Earth eXchange (NEX)
Branch: Biospheric Science Branch (SGE)
Email: Jeremy.t.benik@nasa.gov
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=C3x1CtkAAAAJ
Personal Biography
Jeremy Benik is a research scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute and NASA Earth eXchange (NEX) at Ames Research Center. He received a M.S. in Meteorology from San José State University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Nevada, Reno. Jeremy’s interests are in modeling fires using WRF-SFIRE to study fire-atmosphere impacts and deploying WRF-SFIRE on various servers and systems such as the AWS cloud servers.
Education
M.S., 2023, Meteorology, San José State University, California, United States
B.S., 2021, Atmospheric Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States
Experience
2023 – Present: Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center / Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, CA, USA
2021 – 2023: Graduate Research Assistant, San José State University, California, United States
2020 – 2022: Weather Forecaster/Researcher, WeatherExtreme Ltd. Nevada, United States
Professional Activities
Presenter: 2023 American Meteorological Society (9A.2: Analysis of Fire-Induced Circulations During the FireFlux 2 Experimental Burn)
Publications
- Benik, Jeremy T., Angel Farguell, Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Craig B. Clements, and Adam K. Kochanski. 2023. “Analysis of Fire-Induced Circulations during the FireFlux2 Experiment” Fire6, no. 9: 332. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6090332
- Benik, Jeremy Tyler. “Analysis of Fire-Induced Circulations During the Fireflux2 Experimental Burn and Operational Rate of Spread Models.” MS diss., San Jose State University, 2023.