Georgina Sanchez
Bio
Georgina leads the Center’s engaged research initiatives, communication strategy, and stakeholder partnerships to foster high-impact, interdisciplinary collaboration. With a background in engineering, natural resources, and geospatial analytics, her research explores the dynamic interactions between land and climate change.
Her work focuses on scenario-based modeling of urbanization, climate-induced migration, and human adaptation, assessing social and environmental impacts across scales and applying decision science to inform urban planning and conservation efforts. Committed to knowledge co-production, she works closely with community leaders, practitioners, and end-users to co-develop actionable solutions to pressing societal challenges.
Georgina holds a Ph.D. in Forestry and Environmental Resources from NC State University, an M.S. in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University, and a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Costa Rica.
Publications
- Compounded resilience: a step towards achieving climate mitigation and adaptation in the U.S. built environment , Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change (2025)
- Simulation of groundwater flow in Wake County, North Carolina, 2000 through 2070 , Scientific investigations report (2025)
- Creating spatially complete zoning maps using machine learning , Computers Environment and Urban Systems (2024)
- Global patterns in river water storage dependent on residence time , Nature Geoscience (2024)
-
Projecting the long‐term effects of large‐scale human influence on the spatial and functional persistence of extant longleaf pine ecosystems in the
Florida Flatwoods Pyrome , Conservation Science and Practice (2024) - The safe development paradox of the United States regulatory floodplain , PLoS ONE (2024)
- Simulation of future streamflow and irrigation demand based on climate and urban growth projections in the Cape Fear and Pee Dee River Basins, North Carolina and South Carolina, 2055–65 , Scientific investigations report (2023)
- Spatially interactive modeling of land change identifies location-specific adaptations most likely to lower future flood risk , Scientific Reports (2023)
- Value-aligned planning objectives for restoring North Carolina aquatic resources , Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World (2023)
- Integrating principles and tools of decision science into value‐driven watershed planning for compensatory mitigation , Ecological Applications (2022)