M.S. in Data Science (expected 2023), B.A. in Environmental Sciences (2021), University of Colorado Boulder. Jacob is investigating how wind turbine wakes behave under differing atmospheric conditions using nacelle-mounted scanning lidar from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. As a SULI via the U.S. Department of Energy at NREL, he is further investigating the effects of wake steering on yawed wind turbines (Silverstein et al., 2022, in prep). With a robust statistics and environmental solutions background, he is interested in both the physical characteristics of energy production as well as the political and economic aspects of renewable energy. In his free time, Jacob enjoys skiing and recording music.