Fletcher, Sarah

Sarah Fletcher
Former Postdoctoral Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Office: 

E17-451

Bio

Sarah's research interests include water resource system planning, risk and uncertainty analysis, decision making under uncertainty, water and energy infrastructure, flexibility and engineering options analysis. In 2018 she worked with Prof. Dara Entekhabi on a J-WAFS project on "Assessing climate vulnerability of West African food security using remote sensing observations".

She is an alumna of MIT's IDSS (PhD) and TPP (MS) programs and was a postdoctoral associate in CEE. Her doctoral committee included: Dr. Kenneth Strzepek (advisor), Prof. Olivier de Weck (chair), Prof. Dara Entekhabi, Prof. James Wescoat, Dr. Afreen Siddiqi.

Education + Credentials
Ph.D. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT, 2018
S.M. Technology and Policy, MIT, 2012
B.A. Physics and Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Recent Publications

Joint Program Reprint, Journal Article
Fletcher, S., M. Lickley and K. Strzepek (2019). Nature Communications, 10:1782 (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-096) [PDF]
Student Dissertation or Thesis
Fletcher, S.M. (2018). PhD Thesis, MIT Institute for Data, Systems and Society [PDF]
Journal Article
Fletcher, S., M. Miotti, J. Swaminathan, M. Klemun, K. Strzepek and A. Siddiqi (2017). Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 143(10): 04017061

News + Media

News Release
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Apr 18, 2019
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Mar 11, 2019
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Feb 20, 2018
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Feb 01, 2018
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Jan 25, 2018
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Dec 21, 2017