Staff information

Biography

Jennie Rice is a senior research scientist with a background in decision sciences, economics, and systems engineering. She joined PNNL in 2009 with twenty years of private and public sector experience providing scientific leadership and project management for the development of quantitative decision support methods and tools for environmental and economic risk management. Her experience includes climate change mitigation and adaptation, electric utility planning and operations, water resource management, weather risk management, urban and land use planning, waste management, and public health.

She is currently leading the scientific integration and numerical experiments for the Platform for Regional Integrated Modeling and Analysis (PRIMA). The framework couples a dynamically downscaled regional climate model with a regional integrated assessment model and highly spatially resolved models of hydrology, demography, crop productivity, land use, water management, energy demand, and electricity infrastructure siting and operations. PRIMA simulates the interactions, conflicts, and synergies between energy policy, economic growth, demographic change, future climate, and regional decisions about land use, energy systems, and water management. In the numerical experiments, her research focuses on developing stakeholder decision-focused uncertainty characterization methods and processes for evaluating regional mitigation and adaptation alternatives.

Research Interests

• Uncertainty Characterization
• Decision Analysis and Risk Analysis
• Natural Resource Management
• Sustainability Planning
• Influence Diagrams

Education and Credentials

• M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• B.A., Values, Technology, Science and Society with Honors in Humanities, Stanford University

PNNL Publications

2012

• Rice JS, RH Moss, PJ Runci, KL Anderson, and EL Malone. 2012. "Incorporating Stakeholder Decision Support Needs into an Integrated Regional Earth System Model ." Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 17(7):805-819.  doi:10.1007/s11027-011-9345-3
• Skaggs R, KA Hibbard, P Frumhoff, T Lowry, R Middleton, R Pate, VC Tidwell, JG Arnold, K Averyt, AC Janetos, RC Izaurralde, JS Rice, and SK Rose. 2012. Climate and Energy-Water-Land System Interactions Technical Report to the U.S. Department of Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment. PNNL-21185, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2011

• Unwin SD, RH Moss, JS Rice, and MJ Scott. 2011. Characterizing Uncertainty for Regional Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Decisions. PNNL-20788, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2010

• Rice JS, PJ Runci, RH Moss, and KL Anderson. 2010. iRESM INITIATIVE UNDERSTANDING DECISION SUPPORT NEEDS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION --US Midwest Region- . PNNL-20104, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.