Sally Archibald

Sally Archibald is a South African scientist and Professor at the University of Witwatersrand. Her research primarily focuses on savanna ecosystems within the context of global climate change as well as the exploration of fire ecology and earth-system feedbacks. Archibald was the recipient of the 2012 Mercer Award for her co-authorship of the paper "Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states".

Early life and education Sally Archibald attended the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, Western Cape from 2000 to 2002 where she received her MSc in botany. In 2010, Archibald received her PhD in ecology from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Gauteng. From 2007 to 2009, Archibald served as the Visiting Student Research Collaborator in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

Awards and honors Sally Archibald and one of her co-authors, Carla Staver, were the 2012 recipients of the George Mercer Award for their paper "Tree cover in sub-Saharan Africa: Rainfall and fire constrain forest and savanna as alternative stable states" which was published in Ecology in 2011. Some of Archibald's most cited works are listed here.