Bridging her experience in professional practice and academia, Jessica investigates new ways of adapting to future unknown conditions in extreme landscapes, with a focus on infrastructure, materiality, and ephemerality. Recent research work catalogs land-based water, fire, and land infrastructures, exploring indigenous, historic, and low-tech infrastructural methodologies and construction methods as ways of speculating on design responses to climate change and urban landscape systems. She teaches in landscape construction, infrastructure and systems, advanced planning and design, digital representation, and graduate design studios.