Mofan Zhang received the 2025–2026 Leavell Fellowship to advance adaptive planning tools that integrate learning into water and energy infrastructure decisions, enabling cost-effective, flexible pathways to net-zero in a changing climate.
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On April 28, Jenny Skerker successfully defended her PhD on “Planning for Affordable Water Access under Climate Change” — a landmark as the Fletcher Lab’s first PhD defense. She will continue with us as a short-term postdoc
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The Fletcher and WE3 labs have been awarded a Stanford Sustainability Accelerator grant to advance PLANWater, a tool for adaptive water infrastructure planning under climate uncertainty. This funding will support new modeling features and market exploration to enhance water resilience strategies in California communities.
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We’re pleased to share that the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment has highlighted our work in a new article: “Beyond Drought: A New Approach to Water Security in a Changing Climate”. The piece features research from the Fletcher Lab, led by PhD Candidate Keani Willebrand, that challenges traditional drought management frameworks
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In a recent Water Resources Research article, authors Marta Zaniolo, Megan Mauter, and Sarah Fletcher introduce a visual-analytics framework to support robust urban water planning under uncertainty, with an application to Santa Barbara’s desalination expansion.
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At a recent Cornell EWRS seminar, PhD candidate Mofan Zhang presented BayesianDPS, a new framework for integrating climate learning into a multi-objective, scalable adaptive water infrastructure planning framework
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Keani Willebrand, PhD candidate in the Fletcher Lab, presented her work on climate-adaptive drought management in glacier-fed river basins at Stanford's Joint Hydro Seminar on February 28, 2025. Her talk sparked engaging discussion on adapting drought indicators and actions in the face of changing hydrologic dynamics.
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Fletcher lab PhD students Jennifer (Jenny) Skerker and Keani Willebrand attended the 11th Annual Conference for the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) last month in Denver, Colorado.
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In a recent Environmental Research Letters article, authors Jenny Skerker, Aniket Verma, Morgan Edwards, Benjamin Rachunok, and Sarah Fletcher quantify and compare household water affordability metrics.
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Fletcher Lab PhD Candidates Keani Willebrand and Jenny Skerker recently presented at the Technology, Data, and Policy (TDP) Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts!
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Congratulations to Fletcher Lab PhD Candidate Jenny Skerker for receiving the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s 2024 Excellence in DEI Award!
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In a recently published article, authors Keani Willebrand, Jenny Skerker, Marta Zaniolo, and Sarah Fletcher evaluate the value of combining flexible planning, design, and operations in water supply infrastructure projects.
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Prof. Fletcher was recently awarded the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award!
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Fletcher Lab PhD Candidate Jenny Skerker participated in the California Science on Science & Technology’s Science Translators (CCST) Showcase!
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In a recently published Earth’s Future article, authors Megan Lickley and Sarah Fletcher develop a new methodology to help decision makers estimate how and when future precipitation regimes may shift due to climate change.
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In a recently published Environmental Research Letters article, authors Benjamin Rachunok, Aniket Verma, and Sarah Fletcher apply interpretable machine learning to examine the key drivers of residential water use.
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In a recently published article, authors Marta Zaniolo, Sarah Fletcher, and Meagan Mauter propose a new open-source synthetic weather generator named FIND to generate plausible future drought conditions.
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The AGU Fall Meeting 2023 was held December 11th-15th in San Francisco, California. Read this post to learn more about Fletcher Lab member presentations and relevant conference sessions that were chaired by Dr. Sarah Fletcher!
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In a recently published paper, authors Adam Nayak, Benjamin Rachunok, Barton Thompson, and Sarah Fletcher propose a socio-hydrological modeling framework to assess the impacts of water rate designs on household water affordability.
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On November 6-7, 2023, Fletcher Lab PhD student Clara Medina gave presentations to English and Spanish focus groups of Nuestra Casa in East Palo Alto.
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