About Sarah Wright
Sarah Wright is a junior researcher/advisor in the field of climate change adaptation and water management. She holds a masters degree in International Land and Water Management from Wageningen University and Research and a bachelors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with double majors in Environmental Science and Mathematics. Before joining Deltares, Sarah worked as a researcher applying Natural Language Processing methods to the UNFCCC National Communications, tracking how different countries self-reported on climate adaptation.
At Deltares, she primarily focuses on connecting science to policy and decision-making in the field of climate adaptation via climate services such as decision support tools and adaptive planning workshops. Skilled in facilitation and stakeholder engagement, Sarah enjoys working with clients and partners to bring together different perspectives and knowledge, helping to deal with future uncertainty and handle the inherent complexity and interconnectedness of climate adaptation in practice.
Example Projects
- REACHOUT, researcher & project manager
- Horizon 2020 consortium working to bridge the last mile in climate service delivery in European cities
- Generic Adaptation Modelling Framework for Destination Earth, work package lead
- Co-developed a framework, using input from hundreds of stakeholders, to support modellers in developing quantitative decision support tooling for climate adaptation utilizing DestinE data and services
- Pathways Generator, product owner
- Leading the development of an updated tool used to generate, visualize and analyse adaptation pathways