Sarah Myhre

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

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]

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]

• Most Influential Seattleites, Seattle Magazine, 2017[15]
• Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2018[5]

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