Her research on fossil eggs spans five continents, and has been foundational to our views of dinosaur nesting behavior.
She was the first doctoral student granted a PhD in Earth Sciences at Montana State University.
[1] Jackson uses Scanning Electron Microscopy, histology, calculation of water vapor conductance rates, and other analytical techniques to identify eggshell and make paleoecological inferences.
[7] She has led important work on the reproductive behavior of living animals such as turtles and crocodylians[8] Jackson has used her dinosaur and avian reproductive research as the launching point for educational initiatives, including an NSF grant partnering undergraduate students with fossil egg researchers in China.
[9] She was featured in Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus' book about the discovery of sauropod nesting sites in Argentina, "Walking on Eggs".