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Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lee and Kitty Price Center Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University

Sarah is an Assistant Professor at Stanford studying water resources and climate change adaptation from a socio-technical systems perspective. She integrates methods from hydrology, policy analysis, and data science to inform decision-making around critical environmental challenges. Recent and planned projects in her group include: adaptive water infrastructure planning under uncertainty; irrigation planning for agricultural climate adaptation; assessing water resource constraints to negative emissions technologies; and integrating equity and justice measures into water resource systems analysis.

Sarahs holds a PhD in Engineering Systems from MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. Before starting her PhD, she worked as a researcher and consultant on issues at the intersection of water, energy, and environment. Sarah has an S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT and a B.A. in Physics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

In her free time, Sarah enjoys rock climbing, playing the violin, baking bread, and reading novels. She is originally from Baltimore, MD.