Sara is the Southern Appalachians Freshwater Director with The Nature Conservancy where she is currently focused on freshwater projects in priority watersheds to improve habitat quality and connectivity for the outstanding aquatic biodiversity found in the Southern Appalachian region’s rivers and streams while balancing the needs of human communities for resilient water supplies and floodplains. From 1999-2005, she was a Principal Investigator and data manager on multiple projects to monitor federally endangered species of fish in the Rio Grande in New Mexico and San Juan River in Colorado and Utah.
