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Sarah Optiz Stapleton

Senior Associate Scientist

LLC in Boulder, CO, USA

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PhD in Environmental Studies and an MS in Hydrology (Civil Engineering)

staplets@i-s-e-t.org

Staff Profile: Sarah has worked with ISET-International on a number of projects from ACCCRN to Risk to Resilience since 2006. Her work focuses on the intersection of climate science, vulnerability, and risk assessments at various scales, communication, and appropriate usage of information in climate resilience and disaster risk reduction initiatives. Sarah combines work in various downscaling techniques and hydrologic models with vulnerability and risk assessments in her role as an information broker between science and development/DRR communities. She received a PhD in Environmental Studies and an MS in Hydrology (Civil Engineering) from the University of Colorado. 

Projects

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Adaptation & Livelihood Resilience

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Adaptation to Climatic Variability and Change: The Role of Climate Information in Coastal and Other High Vulnerability Regions of South Asia

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Analysis of Global and Regional Climate Change Models, Identification of Hazards and Its Socioeconomic Implications For The City of Jijiga, Ethiopia

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Climate Variability & Social Transition

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Climate Vulnerability of the Health Sector in Quito: Making Technical Data Accessible to Policy Makers

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From Risk to Resilience

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Protecting Urban Livelihoods from Climate Change - Building Heat Stress Resilience amongst Da Nang City's most Vulnerable Workers

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Sheltering From a Gathering Storm

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Technical Assistance Support to Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group

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Understanding the Cross-Scale Implications of Forest and Water Management for Adaptation and Mitigation in the Nepal Himalaya

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Water Transitions: Urban Water Market

Profile Summary

  • Downscaling techniques and hydrologic models

  • Vulnerability and risk assessments

Publication

2017

Sub-Component Study: Precipitation and Temperature Shifts Due to Climate Change in Northwest Quito Canton, Ecuador

2014

Da Nang: Extreme Rainfall, and Climate Change by the 2020s &2050s (Technical Report)

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Da Nang: Typhoon Intensity, and Climate Change (Policy Brief)

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Da Nang, Vietnam: Climate Change Impacts on Heat Stress by 2050

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Da Nang, Vietnam: Heat Stress and Climate Change (Policy Brief)

2013

Da Nang: Extreme Rainfall, Climate Change, and Flooding (Policy Brief)

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Gorakhpur: Extreme Rainfall, Climate Change, and Flooding (Policy Brief)

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Gorakhpur: Extreme Rainfall, Climate Change, and Flooding (Technical Report)

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Jorhat: Simple Climate Change Projections by the 2030s (Technical Brief)

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Mehewa Ward, Gorakhpur, India: Extreme Rainfall, Climate Change and Flooding (Policy Brief)

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Simple Scaled Climate Projections & Their Potential Implications for Jijiga, Ethiopia

2012

Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials, Series 1: Establishing Resilience Principles

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Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials, Series 2: Understanding Vulnerability and Risk

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Climate Resilience Framework: Training Materials, Series 3: Building Resilience

2011

Building Resilience to Climate Change in Aisan Cities

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Climate Change and Urbanisation: Building Resilience in the Urban Water Sector—A Case Study of Indore, India

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The Uncomfortable Nexus: Water, Urbanization and Climate Change in Jaipur, India

2010

A Non-Parametric, Statistical Down Scaling Algorithm Applied to the Rohini River Basin, Nepal, Theoretical and Applied Climatology

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Climate Resilience in Concept and Practice: ISET Working Paper 2: Only Death is Certain, Yet You Still Get Out of Bed in the Morning: Or Observations on the Use of Climate Information in Adaptation and Resilience Practice

2009

Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN): Responding to the Urban Climate Challenge

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Proceedings of the Scientific and Technical Conference on Adapting to Climate Change in Asia

Shifting the Response Terrain

2008

From Research to Capacity, Policy and Action: Enabling Adaptation to Climate Change for Poor Populations in Asia through Research, Capacity Building and Innovation

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From Risk to Resilience #8: Moving from Concepts to Practice: A Process and Methodology Summary for Identifying Effective Avenues for Risk Management Under Changing Climatic Conditions

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From Risk to Resilience #3: Downscaling: Potential Climate Change Impacts in the Rohini Basin, Nepal and India

2007

Water, Climate, Risk and Adaptation

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