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Member Since 2020
Sarah Worden
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
2024 - Present
University of California Los Angeles
Graduate Student Researcher
2019 - 2024
Education
University of California Los Angeles
Doctorate
2024
University of California Los Angeles
Masters
2021
University of California Los Angeles
Bachelors
2019
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Honors & Awards
Edmond M Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship
Received June 2023
Current Roles
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Early Career Committee
Publications
Where Does Moisture Come From Over the Congo Basin?
August 21, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Water and Carbon Fluxes are Weakly Coupled Across Equatorial Africa
FOREST EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND ECOHYDROLOGY UNDER A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: PROCESSES AND QUANTIFICATIONS I ORAL
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Sarah Worden, Sassan S. Saatchi
Evapotranspiration (ET) and gross primary productivity (GPP) are often assumed to be tightly coupled processes. However, we show that within the tropi...
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The Role of Evapotranspiration in Initiating the Rainy Season in the Southern Congo Basin
TROPICAL ISLANDS, MOUNTAINS, AND FORESTS: UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEM, CLIMATE, AND HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES IN VULNERABLE REGIONS POSTER
biogeosciences | 11 december 2023
Sarah Worden, Rong Fu
The Congo Basin faces large changes to its rainfall regime; as such, many previous studies have focused on the mechanisms that control rainfall during...
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Estimating Evapotranspiration in the Congo Basin Using Remotely-Sensed Measurements to Constrain a Terrestrial Ecosystem Model
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ET): ADVANCES IN IN SITU ET MEASUREMENTS AND REMOTE-SENSING-BASED ET ESTIMATION, MAPPING, AND EVALUATION II ORAL
hydrology | 15 december 2022
Sarah Worden, Rong Fu, A. Anthony Bloom, Paul A. L...
Tropical rainforests are under immense stress due to forest disturbance from human activities and climate variability. However, while the Amazon and I...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Early Career Committee
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