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Jean Jacoby
Office: E 525
Phone: (206) 296-5526
Email: jacoby@seattleu.edu
Jean Jacoby is an Associate Dean in the College of Science and Engineering at Seattle University. She received a B.S. in Water Resources Management from the University of Wisconsin and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering-Environmental Engineering and Science from the University of Washington.
She has worked at several civil and environmental engineering consulting firms where she managed studies of toxic pollution in urban bays of Puget Sound, watershed and water quality investigations, and lake restoration projects.
In 1991, she was appointed the Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Environmental Engineering at Seattle University and she was named the first Thomas J. Bannan Chair in Engineering at Seattle University in 1996.
Dr. Jacoby has taught courses in environmental engineering and science, and has conducted research in lakes and streams, specializing in the ecology and management of toxic and nuisance algae. She is active in several professional organizations, serving as the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers for fourteen years, a board member of the North American Lake Management Society, and an associate editor for the journal Lake and Reservoir Management.