Dr. Sarah (Sari) Lucille Blakeley

BIOGRAPHY:

Sarah (Sari) Lucille Blakeley is an Associate Research Scientist at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP). Formerly, she was part of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University. Her research focuses on understanding how global climate change impacts human and natural systems across multiple spatiotemporal scales, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, this research focuses on food security, gendered impacts of climate shocks, financial risk management to natural disasters, climate variability, and climate change. Her research heavily focuses on application- finding solutions to real-world problems. Blakeley's research examines how vulnerable populations make decisions under climate shocks and climate variability. She uses innovative technologies, spatial statistics, climate science, demography, and economic methods to analyze questions about food security, heat stress, and climate impacts. Blakeley received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Geography, her MA from Columbia University in Climate and Society, and her BS in Economics, Interdisciplinary Studies, and French from Michigan State University.