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.
Read MoreAt 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
Read MoreKeani 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.
Read MoreFletcher 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreFletcher Lab PhD Candidates Keani Willebrand and Jenny Skerker recently presented at the Technology, Data, and Policy (TDP) Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts!
Read MoreCongratulations to Fletcher Lab PhD Candidate Jenny Skerker for receiving the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s 2024 Excellence in DEI Award!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreProf. Fletcher was recently awarded the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award!
Read MoreFletcher Lab PhD Candidate Jenny Skerker participated in the California Science on Science & Technology’s Science Translators (CCST) Showcase!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe 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!
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreOn 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.
Read MoreIn a recently published PNAS article, authors Sarah Fletcher, Marta Zaniolo, Mofan Zhang and Megan Lickley propose a new approach to investigate which forms of water supply augmentation are most reliable and cost-effective to address different common climate oscillation patterns.
Read MoreCongratulations to PhD candidate Jenny Skerker who was recently named a 2023 TomKat Graduate Fellow for Translational Research!
Read MoreIn April, Professor Fletcher presented a TEDX-style talk at this year’s Faculty Forum held by the new Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. Read this blog post to learn more about the event and watch a recording of her talk!
Read MoreIn a recently published Water Resources Research article, authors Jenny Skerker, Marta Zaniolo, Keani Willebrand, Megan Lickley, and Sarah Fletcher analyze how the rate of learning about climate change influences the value of flexibility in water supply infrastructure projects.
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