Natural Climate Solutions Scientist
Climate & Land Use
sarah.skikne@TNC.ORG
Sarah is the Natural Climate Solutions Scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s California Chapter, providing science leadership to the Climate Program. Her work supports the integration of nature into climate adaptation and mitigation, with a focus on demonstration projects.
Prior to joining TNC, Sarah was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley and a TNC NatureNet Fellow at the University of Minnesota, where she studied climate and topographic impacts on forest ecosystems. She has also studied climate-induced range shifts in California deserts, and climate-adapted conservation practices such as assisted migration. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from University of California Santa Cruz and a B.S. and M.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.
What Sarah is working on now:
I am currently involved in projects to understand the climate mitigation and adaptation benefits of coastal and deltaic wetland restoration, urban nature-based solutions, and solar energy siting.