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Sarah Null

Dr. Null is a 2024 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow as well as a professor in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University. Her work focuses on environmental water management, and includes improving environmental objectives in water resources systems modeling, evaluating tradeoffs between human and environmental water uses with uncertainty, identifying climate adaptations for water systems, and environmental water management for saline lake preservation. Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in international economics at UCLA, master’s degree in physical geography from UC Davis, and PhD in physical geography from UC Davis. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards, including an NSF CAREER award, EPA STAR Fellowship, and a California CalTrout Ecosystem Fellowship through the Public Policy Institute of California.