Jenny Baeseman is an American polar researcher who studies the survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold environments.

[2] Baeseman is the executive director of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

[1][3][4] Previously, she was the executive director of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Climate and Cryosphere,[2] and the founding director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).

[5] Baeseman's research concerns the survival mechanisms of bacteria in cold environments and possible applications of their biochemistry.

She has spent three summer seasons in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica and periods living in Fairbanks, Alaska and Tromsø, Norway.