Dr. Jager is a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Fisheries Society. She also serves on the leadership team for the ORNL Climate Change Science Institute. As an ecological modeler, Dr. Jager has published >15 scientific papers on a wide range of climate-related topics to understand effects of water temperature, flow, hypoxia, and wildfire on biodiversity. Her collaborative research seeks to understand how evolving renewable energy portfolios can reduce threats posed by climate change to ensure that we sustain ecosystem services for future generations. Dr. Jager is currently studying climate effects and feedbacks in reservoirs through two EERE-funded projects. For one project, she and coworkers developed a conceptual model to understand relationships between reservoir operation at sub-daily and seasonal scales and methane emissions from reservoirs. She also serves as the ORNL lead of a multi-lab project that uses future climate projections to quantify thermal risk to US hydropower and thermoelectric generation. ORNL’s role has been to integrate physical models of water temperature in rivers and reservoirs with ecological models to project shifts in species habitat under future climate.