Nicole D. Jackson, Ph.D.

Nicole D. Jackson, Ph.D.

Publications

40 publications establishing methodological foundations and quantifying hazards-related risk across the energy, water, and food sectors. (Google Scholar Page)

Journal Articles | Conference Proceedings | Technical Reports & White Papers

Journal Articles

  1. H.H. Bokhari, F. Corsi, A. Miara, B.M. Fekete, S. Gangrade, S. Kao, N.D. Jackson, and C.J. Vörösmarty. (2025) An Integrated Hydroclimatic Assessment of Future Reservoir and Hydropower Operations in the U.S., Earth's Future, Vol 13, Issue 9 pp e2025EF006203 code and data
  2. T. Gunda, A. Moore, N.D. Jackson, S. Dhulipala, and S. Awara. (2025) A resource adequacy assessment of correlated wide-area outages in the power grid, Environmental Research: Energy, Vol 2, Issue 2 pp 025009 data
  3. P.M. Johnson, N.D. Jackson, H. Baroud, and A. Staid. (2024) Can socio-economic indicators of vulnerability help predict spatial variations in the duration and severity of power outages due to tropical cyclones?, Environmental Research Letters, Vol 19, Issue 4 pp 044048 data code
  4. K.L. Bonney, T. Gunda, M.W. Hopwood, H. Mendoza, and N.D. Jackson. (2023) pvOps: a Python package for empirical analysis of photovoltaic field data, Journal of Open Source Software, Vol 8, Issue 91 pp 5755
  5. S.D. Gilletly, N.D. Jackson and A. Staid. (2023) Evaluating the impact of wildfire smoke on solar photovoltaic production, Applied Energy, Vol 348, pp 121303 data
  6. N.D. Jackson and T. Gunda. (2021) Evaluation of Extreme Weather Impacts on Utility-scale Photovoltaic Plant Performance in the United States, Applied Energy, Vol 302, pp 117508 PDF data
  7. N.D. Jackson, M. Konar, P. Debaere, and J. Sheffield. (2021) Crop-specific Exposure to Extreme Temperature and Moisture for the Globe for the Last Half Century, Environmental Research Letters, Vol 16, Issue 6, pp 064006 PDF data
  8. R. von Gnechten, J. Wang, M. Konar, K. Baylis, P. Anderson, S. Giroux, N.D. Jackson, and T. Evans. (2020) A Gravity Model and Network Analysis of Household Food Sharing in Zambia, Environmental Research Letters, Vol 15, Issue 11, pp 115010 PDF
  9. N.D. Jackson, M. Konar, P. Debaere, and L. Estes. (2019) Probabilistic Global Maps of Crop-Specific Areas from 1961 to 2014, Environmental Research Letters, Vol 14, Issue 9, pp 094023 PDF data
  10. M. Niazi, C. Nietch, M. Maghrebi, N.D. Jackson, B.R. Bennett, M. Tryby, and A. Massoudieh. (2017) Storm Water Management Model: Performance Review and Gap Analysis, Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment, Vol 3, Issue 2, pp 04017002 PDF
  11. N.D. Jackson, M. Konar, and A.Y. Hoekstra. (2015) The Water Footprint of Food Aid, Sustainability, Vol 7, Issue 6, pp 6435-6456 PDF
  12. J.S. Popovics, G.P. Cetrangolo, and N.D. Jackson. (2006) Experimental Investigation of Impact-Echo Method for Concrete Slab Thickness Measurement, Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing, Vol 26, Issue 6, pp 427-439 PDF

Conference Proceedings

  1. N.D. Jackson, A. Sharma, and J.K. Skolfield (in press) Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Compound Threats to Power Systems Using Markov Random Fields, 2025 IEEE Resilience Week
  2. R.M. Alfant, J.K. Skolfield, N.D. Jackson, and T.R. Edwards (in press) Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning for Resilience to Compound Hazards, 2025 IEEE Resilience Week
  3. R.L. Valdez, T. Gunda, S.B. Ferencz, and N.D. Jackson (in press) Integrated Metrics for System Performance, Attributes, and Critical Threats for Resilience Analysis, 2025 IEEE Resilience Week
  4. R.L. Valdez, A.G. Moore, N.D. Jackson, and T. Gunda (in press) Evaluating Correlations between Risk Indices and Power Outages during Extreme Events, 2025 IEEE Resilience Week
  5. A.G. Moore, T. Gunda, and N.D. Jackson (in press) A Hazard-Informed Empirical Assessment of Floods and Snow Impacts to Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Systems, 2025 IEEE Resilience Week
  6. R. Piansky, D.K. Molzahn, N.D. Jackson, and J.K. Skolfield. (2025) Evaluating Undergrounding Decisions for Wildfire Ignition Risk Mitigation across Multiple Hazards, 2025 IEEE Kiel PowerTech Conference
  7. G. Zhao, X. Luo, S. Yoo, and N.D. Jackson. (2024) GAN-based Extreme Conditional Distribution Estimation for Renewable Energy Systems, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm)
  8. R.M. Reck, Y. Li, S. Thompson, N.D. Jackson, and S. Debetwar. (2023) Preparing Women in STEM for Faculty Careers through a Job Search Workshop Series, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Conference Proceedings, Baltimore, Maryland
  9. S. Gilletly, N.D. Jackson, and A. Staid. (2021) Quantifying Wildfire-Induced Impacts to Photovoltaic Energy Production in the Western United States, 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists (PVSC), virtual
  10. N.D. Jackson, K.I. Tyler, Y. Li, W. Chen, C. Liu and R. Bhargava. (2017) Keeping Current: An Update on the Structure and Evaluation of a Program for Graduate Women Interested in Engineering Academia, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Conference Proceedings, Dayton, Ohio
  11. K.I. Tyler, Y. Li, N.D. Jackson, W. Chen, C. Liu and R. Bhargava. (2017) Overcoming Difficulties in Research Statement Preparation for the Academic Job Search: Expansion of a Peer-Focused Professional Development Program, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Conference Proceedings, Dayton, Ohio
  12. N. Jackson, Y. Malave, C.L. Roberts-Wollmann, S. Case, and J. Lesko. (2005) Reliability-based Uniform Flexural Resistance Factors for GFRP Reinforced Concrete Members, Third International Conference for Composites in Construction, Lyon, France

National Laboratory Reports and White Papers

Note: National laboratory documents are subject to internal peer review before publication. Entries without links remain distribution-limited and are available only for official use.

  1. N.D. Jackson, M. Brown, and N.S. Rao. (2025) Reinforcement Learning for Water-Energy Infrastructure Resilience and Evolution, SAND2025-13783O
  2. N.D. Jackson, S. Conrad, and N.S. Rao. (2025) Operational Flexibility for Integrated Energy-Water Resilience, SAND2025-13749O
  3. P. Bhowmik, K. Cafferty, K. Klise, J.K. Skolfield, and N.D. Jackson. (2025) Water Energy Planning Strategies to Meet Emerging Load from Data Centers, SAND2025-13692O
  4. R.L. Valdez, N.D. Jackson, S. Ferencz, and A. Wachtel. (2025) Resilience by Design: Advanced Metrics and Comprehensive Methods for Energy-Water Systems Analysis, SAND2025-13704O
  5. T. Gunda, N.D. Jackson, Z. Kilwein, K. Klise, and J.K. Skolfield. (2025) Opportunities to Address Gaps in Atmospheric Phenomena for Energy Operations and Planning, SAND2025-13655O
  6. J.K. Skolfield, T. Gunda, and N.D. Jackson. (2025) Flexible and Module Superstructure Optimization for Rapid Computational Advancements in Power Systems Expansion Planning, Sandia National Laboratories
  7. T. Gunda, R. Valdez, N. Jackson, R. Cooper, A. Sorensen, and E. Sproul. (2024) Historical and Future Extreme Weather Conditions: A Case Study of Southeast China Provinces, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2024-15880
  8. T. Gunda, R. Valdez, N. Jackson, S. Price, and S. Goodnight. (2024) Potential Climate Change Impacts to Crop Production: Case Study of Rice and Winter Wheat in China, Sandia National Laboratories
  9. A. Walker, J. Desai, T. Gunda, and N. Jackson. (2023) Operation and Maintenance of PV Systems: Data Science, Analysis, and Standards, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL/TP-5C00-85819
  10. T. Lowry, R. Garrett, T. Gunda, N. Jackson, K. Klise, C. Smallwood, K. Stamber, R. Taylor, S. Kuzio, and J. Zimmerman. (2023) Climate Impacts on National Critical Infrastructure Strategic Initiative: A White Paper, Sandia National Laboratories
  11. N. Jackson, T. Gunda, N. Gayoso, J. Desai, and A. Walker. (2022) Operations, maintenance, and cost considerations for PV+ Storage in the United States, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2022-16312
  12. A. Nelson, N. Jackson, J. Wingard, S. Paik, and T. Gunda. (2022) Resilience of Global Chemical Facilities to Climate Change, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2022-14347R
  13. N. Jackson and H. Mendoza. (2022) Predictive Modeling of Weather Impacts on Utility-scale Photovoltaic Systems, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2022-14215R
  14. A. Staid, E.S. Fleming, T. Gunda, and N.D. Jackson. (2021) Critical Infrastructure Decision-Making Under Long-Term Climate Hazard Uncertainty: The Need for an Integrated, Multidisciplinary Approach, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2021-11394R
  15. T. Gunda, N.D. Jackson, D. Sanchez, K. Klise, K. Ruehl, and S. Kuzio. (2021) Advanced Data Analytics in Renewable Energy: Review of Capabilities, Needs, and Opportunities, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2021-6297R
  16. T. Gunda, A. Neal, P. Carlson, C. Richardson, J.A. Perez, M. Aamir, B. Anderson, and N.D. Jackson. (2020) TAOS: A Tool for Assisting Organization Selections for Security Integrated Assessments, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2020-10751