PNNL

Jennifer Mendez is a software engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Since joining the Measurement, Analysis, and Control Systems team in 2008, Mendez has focused on control software and data analysis for noble gas collection systems. Mendez provides critical software support including instrument communication, data acquisition, testing, and web-based user interface development. More recently, she has been developing data management policies and infrastructure for a multi-lab project.

• C++
• Radiation Detection Equipment

• BS in computer science, Washington State University

2025

• Strickland C.E., D.C. Linneman, J.M. Knox, D. Sirota, S.C. Myers, G. Abbott, and T.R. Alexander, et al. 2025. Low Yield Nuclear Monitoring Physics Experiment 1 - Integrated Data Acquisition System Design and Initial Observations. PNNL-37567. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Low Yield Nuclear Monitoring Physics Experiment 1 - Integrated Data Acquisition System Design and Initial Observations

2023

• Eslinger P.W., H.S. Miley, J.L. Burnett, L.S. Lidey, J.M. Mendez, B.T. Schrom, and M. Sharma. 2023. "Projected Network Performance for Next Generation Aerosol Monitoring Systems." Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 257. PNNL-SA-179400. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.107088

2021

• Borders T., M.F. Glenski, T.F. Grimes, J.M. Mendez, B.N. Seiner, A. Sheffield, and A. Shields, et al. 2021. Report on Next-Gen AI for Proliferation Detection Workshop: Domain-Aware Methods. PNNL-31699. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Report on Next-Gen AI for Proliferation Detection Workshop: Domain-Aware Methods

2020

• Hayes J.C., C.E. Aalseth, T.R. Alexander, H.O. Back, E.D. Church, M.P. Foxe, and T.W. Hossbach, et al. 2020. "High Throughput Argon-37 Field System." Pure and Applied Geophysics. PNNL-SA-149601. doi:10.1007/s00024-020-02584-z

2019

• Eslinger P.W., J.M. Mendez, and B.T. Schrom. 2019. "Source Term Estimation in the Presence of Nuisance Signals." Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 203. PNNL-SA-140511. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2019.03.022

2016

• Foxe M.P., I.M. Cameron, M.W. Cooper, D.A. Haas, J.C. Hayes, A.A. Kriss, and L.S. Lidey, et al. 2016. "Radioxenon detector calibration spike production and delivery systems." Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 307, no. 3:2021-2027. PNNL-SA-109217. doi:10.1007/s10967-015-4668-2

2011

• Suarez R., C.W. Hubbard, J.C. Hayes, T.R. Heimbigner, J.M. Mendez, and B.T. Schrom. 2011. "Linux-Based Software Control for Xenon Systems." In Proceedings of the 2011 Monitoring Resesarch Review: Ground-Based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Technologies, September 13-15, 2011, Tucson, Arizona, 2; LA-UR-11-04823, 725-730. Washington, District Of Columbia:National Nuclear Security Administration. PNNL-SA-81430.