Jessica is a Higher Scientist at NPL where she has five years’ experience working in the Emissions and Atmospheric Metrology group. She is a technical lead in the fugitive emissions area where she manages various commercial and research-based field campaigns focused on improving methane emissions metrology in the natural gas sector. Jessica is also part of the science team of the UK Deriving Emissions linked to Climate Change (DECC) network measuring boundary layer greenhouse gases in order to improve UK and global emissions estimates.
Jessica has a wide range of involvement at NPL where her current interests include expanding EAM’s greenhouse gas metrology capabilities into the agricultural sector as well as leading the work in hydrogen metrology should this be incorporated into the natural gas supply chain. She also leads various tasks in collaborative European Metrology Research projects; Radon Metrology for use in Climate Change Observation and Radiation Protection at the Environmental Level and Metrology for Decarbonising the Gas Grid.
Jessica obtained her MSc in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2016 where her research focused on the development of a novel lab-on-a-chip for the detection of inorganic ions in the atmosphere using microfluidics. She received her BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of Ireland, Galway in 2012 where her research focused on the potential of 2-methylfuran as a potential biofuel. She is the scientific coordinator for the international Industrial Methane Measurement Conference where she represents NPL as an expert in methane emissions metrology and she sits on an international technical advisory panel for the development of a new methane leak quantification instrument. Jessica is currently a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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