Jessie Paskoski, EIT

Staff Engineer

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Jessie Paskoski acquired her Coastal and Ocean Engineering Master’s degree from Oregon State University (OSU) in 2022. As a research assistant, her focus was studying the influence of heterogeneous sediment properties on munition mobility patterns in the nearshore. Through this she also developed a strategy for monitoring beach transformation and estimating runup. Her research was performed in collaboration with Dr. Meagan Wengrove at OSU, Dr. Gabriel Garcia Medina from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Seattle, and University of Delaware professor Dr. Jack Puleo.

She is originally from the landlocked mountains of Utah, but her father taught her early on about ocean engineering through his company designing underwater acoustic transducers used for research worldwide. This early exposure led her to attain a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and minor in Ocean Engineering from the University of New Hampshire (2016). Prior to attending OSU, she worked as an electrical engineer at the Naval Oceanographic Office mapping the sea floor, as an underwater acoustic transducer production engineer at Transonic Inc, and as an engineer for Chiniche Engineering & Surveying in Mississippi. It was in Mississippi where she dove into surveying, drafting, dredging & beach nourishment, permitting, and was first introduced to pier design.

Throughout the years, Jessie’s most valuable experiences have come from her mentors who range from floormen, navy techs, oceanographers, engineers, surveyors, and professors; all of whom exhibit the same value for accuracy and honesty in their work as she does. To this day, if Jessie isn’t looking at data related to coastal processes, you can find her on the water fishing, diving, clamming, or rowing.