Dr. Dale was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Joint Program circa 2016-2017. Her research integrated crop models, hydrological models, and water resource allocation models with global predictions of future climate change from general circulation models in order to assess the impact of climate change uncertainty on food security in Africa, with a focus on both rain-fed crop production and the benefits and limitations of irrigation as a climate change adaptation strategy.  Her broader research interests are (1) the development of integrated computer simulations to better inform water quality management planning and policy decision-making under uncertainty, from the watershed to the global scale, and (2) (as an extension of her doctoral research on the environmental fate of engineered nanoparticles) model development to better describe the mechanisms of particle transport and transformation in environmental systems.