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Spotlight

Derek Jensen

Derek Jensen

Hometown: Sandy, Ut

Undergraduate: Brigham Young University

Program: PhD (Graduated 2016)

Current Position: Applied scientist at Amazon, formerly staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Key Contributions: Designed, deployed, and analyzed key parts of the flux stations that were part of the MATERHORN field campaign. Co-designed and deployed towers for a wind energy project in Belize. Developed UTESPac, software to analyze high-frequency atmospheric turbulence surface-layer data.

Contact: (801) 259-7837

EFD Lab in the News

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

March 3, 2015 - Large Eddy Simulation of Urban Areas for Microclimate

August 20, 2014 - Urban Heat Island in Salt Lake City interview

June 3, 2013 - Spring MATERHORN-X Field Campaign Press Release

December 10, 2012 - BLLAST Experiment Documentary

This is a documentary of the BLLAST experiment conducted in the Pyrénées of France during the summer of 2011. The experiment was a multi-national effort led by CNRS. The EFD Team participated in the project by deploying instruments for turbulent flux measurements as well as tethered balloon meteorological measurement.

June 26, 2012 - NVIDIA CUDA Spotlight

Computer Science researchers at the University of Minnesota, Duluth and EFD Lab the University of Utah Collaborate to create state of the art Green Infrastructure simulations on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

June 23, 2009 - Virtual Treadmill story on KSL news.

The full scale virtual Treadport Active Wind-Tunnel (TPAWT) becomes a reality.

June 22, 2009 - Virtual Treadmill story in the Desert News

June 30, 2008 - Urban Heat Island story on KSL news

This story discusses the urban heat island (UHI) in Salt Lake City. This is an important area of research for our research group over the last five years.

July 6, 2006 - SCERP snow fence research

This story describes a project to fight fugitive dust in arid environments. It is part of a binational (US/Mexico) research project funded by the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP)