Climate Modeling

To learn more about my research using climate and ice sheet models to project future climate conditions and quantify impacts traced to industrial fossil fuel producers click here.

Climate Justice

To learn about my work exploring climate justice in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and in regards to multispecies impacts, please click here.

Upcoming conference talks and panels

At the American Association of Geographers 2025 Annual Meeting I will be convening a panel on "Legal and political geographies of international law", giving a research talk about my latest paper "Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers", and speaking on a panel "Do We Keep Each Other Safe?: Organizing COVID-Safer Counter-Spaces."

Publications

  • Sadai, S., Ranganathan, M., Nauels, A., Nicholls, Z., Merner, D., Dahl, K., Licker, R., Ekwurzel, B. (2025).
    Estimating the sea level rise responsibility of industrial carbon producers. Environmental Research Letters,
    20(4), 044012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adb59f 
  • Gomez, N., Yousefi, M., Pollard, D., DeConto, R., Sadai, S. Lloyd, A., Nyblade, A., Wiens, D.A., Aster, R.C. and Wilson, T. (2024) The influence of realistic 3D mantle viscosity on Antarctica’s contribution to future global sea levels. Science Advances 10, eadn1470. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adn1470.
  • Karmalkar, A. V., S. Sadai, A. Chaughule, M. Staudinger, 2024: Chapter 1: Climate Change in the Northeast United States. In: A regional synthesis of climate data to inform the 2025 State Wildlife Action Plans in the Northeast U.S. [Staudinger, M.D., A. Karmalkar, K. Terwilliger, K. Burgio, A. Lubeck, H. Higgins, T. Rice, T. Morelli, A. D’Amato (eds.)]. DOI Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Cooperator Report, 2024. Read here.
  • Sadai, S., Spector, R. A., DeConto, R., Gomez, N. 2022. The Paris Agreement and Climate Justice: Inequitable Impacts of Sea Level Rise Associated with Temperature Targets. Earth's Future, 10, e2022EF002940. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002940.
  • Dong, Y., Pauling, A. G., Sadai, S., Armour, K. C. 2022. Antarctic ice-sheet meltwater reduces transient warming and climate sensitivity through the sea-surface temperature pattern effect. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101249. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101249. 
  • DeConto, Pollard, Alley, Velicogna, Gasson, Gomez, Sadai, Condron, Gilford, Ashe, and Kopp. 2021. The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica. Nature 593, 83–89 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03427-0.
  • Sadai, S., Condron, A., DeConto, R., Pollard, D. 2020. Future climate response to Antarctic Ice Sheet melt caused by anthropogenic warming. Sci. Adv.6,eaaz1169(2020).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aaz1169.
  • Yun, M., et al. 2015. Early Science with the Large Millimeter Telescope: CO and [C II] Emission in the z=4.3 AzTEC J095942.9+022938 (COSMOS AzTEC-1), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454 (4): 3485-3499. DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1963.
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration. 2014. Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors, Physical Review D, 89: 122004. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.122004.
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration. 2010. Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors, Classical Quantum Gravity. 27: 173001. DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/173001.