Sarah is a Researcher and Program Manager for the Institute for Global Change Biology at the
University of Michigan. Sarah studied a BSc in Botany and Zoology followed by a BSc honors in Biodiversity and Conservation in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. She later earned a PhD from Rhodes University in South Africa in plant physiological responses to climate change. Sarah then worked as Instrument Scientist and Researcher at the Rhodes University Elevated CO 2 Facility, Africa’s first large-scale plant climate change experiment facility, focusing on the effect of climatic changes on the valuable savanna regions of southern Africa. Her recent work has focused on how grassland and savannas are changing with climate change across the globe. When not working on science, Sarah can be found hiking and running in any mountains and forests to be found, from the Drakensberg to the Himalayas.