Sarah Myhre

Sarah E. Myhre is an American climate scientist, science communicator, and environmental justice activist. She is known for her feminist approach to climate change mitigation, specifically calling for more women to lead on climate change.

Sarah Myhre
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
AwardsMost Influential Seattlite, 2017; Women of 2018, Seattle Met
Scientific career
Fieldsclimate change, feminist leadership

Education

Myhre earned her PhD in ecology at the University of California, Davis in 2014, studying paleoceanography.[1] Her advisor was Tessa M. Hill.

Science: climate and ocean scientist

Mhyre began research on Caribbean coral reef ecosystems and ecological response from events disease and phase-shifts.[2] She also demonstrated that global climate change disturbed the zonation of entire continental margins and it take millennia of ecological recovery after abrupt warming to build back the same ecosystems.[3] Further combining information from both Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) and sediment cores allowed Myhre and her colleagues to reconstruct the vertical compression of oxygenated upper ocean waters through deglacial warming, showed that oxygenated habitat compress by hundreds of vertical meters towards the ocean surface during climate warming.[4]

Career

Myhre is the founder and Executive Director of the Rowan Institute, a Washington-based non-profit focused on climate change leadership.[1][5]

Myhre also worked as a senior fellow at Project Drawdown, where she researched carbon drawdown in the ocean[6] and as a research associate at the University of Washington.[7]

In addition to her research in climate science, Myhre advocates for including human experiences and using empathy when talking about climate change, arguing that humanist perspectives are important for addressing climate change.[8][9][10] She also advocates for a feminist approach to climate science, calling for more leadership from women scientists and activists.[6][10][7][11][12][13] She was a founding board member of 500 Women Scientists.[7] Myhre argues that science has never been apolitical, and can't be treated as such.[14]

Selected honors and awards

References
  1. "Sarah E. Myhre". Drawdown. 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  2. Myhre, Sarah; Acevedo-Gutiérrez, Alejandro (11 January 2007). "Recovery of sea urchin Diadema antillarum populations is correlated to increased coral and reduced macroalgal cover". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 329: 205–210. Bibcode:2007MEPS..329..205M. doi:10.3354/meps329205.
  3. Moffitt, Sarah E.; Hill, Tessa M.; Roopnarine, Peter D.; Kennett, James P. (14 April 2015). "Response of seafloor ecosystems to abrupt global climate change". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (15): 4684–4689. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.4684M. doi:10.1073/pnas.1417130112. PMC 4403169. PMID 25825727. S2CID 25973215.
  4. Myhre, Sarah E.; Pak, Dorothy; Borreggine, Marisa; Kennett, James P.; Nicholson, Craig; Hill, Tessa M.; Deutsch, Curtis (1 April 2018). "Oxygen minimum zone biotic baseline transects for paleoceanographic reconstructions in Santa Barbara Basin, CA". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 150: 118–131. Bibcode:2018DSRII.150..118M. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.12.009.
  5. "What We Do". Rowan Institute. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  6. "DRILLED: An Intersectional Approach on Climate, Part 5: Dr. Sarah Myhre on the Feminist Approach to Climate Science". drilled.libsyn.com. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. "Perspectives of Scientists Who Become Targets: Sarah Myhre". Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. 2018-05-30. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  8. "Woman, scientist, climate advocate: Can you be all three?". Grist. 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  9. "Most Influential: UW's Sarah Myhre Breaks the Buttoned-Up Scientist Mold to Make Her Voice Heard". Seattle Magazine. 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  10. "Meet scientist, feminist, activist Sarah Myhre » Yale Climate Connections". Yale Climate Connections. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  11. Sarah Myhre, Ph D. "Why Women's Climate Leadership Is Vital". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. "Climate Scientist Dr. Sarah Myhre on the UN Climate Change Report". The Slot. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  13. "The trials of women in climate science". MPR News. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  14. Andrews, Eve. "She spoke out about climate change—and they tried to make her pay for it". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  15. "Most Influential: UW's Sarah Myhre Breaks the Buttoned-Up Scientist Mold to Make Her Voice Heard". Seattle Magazine. 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
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