Dr. Strutz has contributed to the most recent 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report. She served as a chapter scientist and contributing author on “Chapter 2: Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and Their Services” and multiple Cross Chapter Boxes.
She received her doctoral degree in biology: ecology, evolution, and behavior from The University of Texas at Austin and has proficiencies in field study design and project management with an expertise in vector-borne diseases, computational modeling, surveying, and laboratory diagnostics. She is a subject matter expert in cutaneous leishmaniasis and its geographic range dynamics in the United States.
Early in her career, she recognized the lack of species occurrence data necessary for the construction of computational habitat models so she put on her muddy boots and trapped rodents and blood-sucking sand flies for pathogen screening.
Scientific Publications
Parmesan, C., M.D. Morecroft, Y. Trisurat, R. Adrian, G.Z. Anshari, A. Arneth, Q. Gao, P. Gonzalez, R. Harris, J. Price, N. Stevens, and G.H. Talukdarr; Contributing Authors S. Strutz et al. (2022). Chapter 2: Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and Their Services. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Loeschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, pp. 197–377, doi:10.1017/9781009325844.004.
Racoult, M-F, S Strutz, C Parmesan, R Adrian, G Cissé, S Cooley, M Dhimal, LE Escobar, A Gemeda, NJM Hilmi, SE Lluch-Cota, E Mordecai, G Pecl, AT Peterson, J Rocköv, M Romanello, D Schoeman, JC Semenza, MC Tirado, GH Talukdar, Y Trisurat. (2022). Cross-Chapter Box ILLNESS: Infectious diseases, biodiversity and climate: Serious risks by vector-and water-borne diseases. IN: Parmesan et al. [Chapter 2, pp 291-295], in Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D. C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E., Mintenbeck, K., Nicolai, M., Okem, A., Petzold, J., & Rama, B. (eds.). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). DOI:10.1017/9781009325844.004
Harris, R, P Boyd, R Adrian, J Birkmann, S Cooley, S Donner, M Mauritzen, G Midgley, C Parmesan, D Piepenburg, M-F Racault, B Rost, D Schoeman, S E Strutz, M van Aalst. (2022) Cross-Chapter Box EXTREMES: Ramifications of Climatic Extremes for Marine, Terrestrial, Freshwater and Polar Natural Systems. IN: Parmesan et al. [Chapter 2, pp. 215-218], in Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D. C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E., Mintenbeck, K., Nicolai, M., Okem, A., Petzold, J., & Rama, B. (eds.). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). DOI:10.1017/9781009325844.004
Parmesan, C, G Anshari, P Buotte, D Campbell, E Castellanos, A Cowie, M R Ferre, P Gonzalez, E L Gunn, R Harris, J Hicke, R B Kerr, R Lasco, R Lempert, B Mackey, P Martinetto, R Matthews, T McPhearson, M Morecroft, A Mukherji, G-J Nabuurs, H Neufeldt, R Pedace, J Postigo, J Price, J Pulhin, J Rogelj, D Schmidt, D Schoeman, P K Singh, Pete Smith, N Stevens, SE Strutz, R Sukumar, G Talukdar, M C Tirado, C Trisos. (2022). Cross-Chapter Box NATURAL: Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. IN: Parmesan et al. [Chapter 2, pp. 303-309], in Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D. C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E., Mintenbeck, K., Nicolai, M., Okem, A., Petzold, J., & Rama, B. (eds.). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). DOI:10.1017/9781009325844.004
van Aalst, M, G Cissé, A Ayanlade, L Berrange-Ford, R Bezner-Kerr, R Biesbroek, K Bown, MA Caretta, S-M Cheong, W Chow, MJ Costello, K Ebi, E Gilmore, B Glavovic, W Leal, S Langsdorf, E Lopez-Gunn, R Morgan, A Mukherji, C Parmesan, M Pelling, E Poloczanska, M-F Racault, D Reckien, JC Semenza, PK Singh, SE Strutz, MC Tirado, C Schuster-Wallace, A Woodward, Z Zommers. (2022). Cross-Chapter Box COVID: COVID-19. IN: G Cissé et al. [Chapter 7, pp. 1067-1070], in Pörtner, H.-O., Roberts, D. C., Tignor, M., Poloczanska, E., Mintenbeck, K., Nicolai, M., Okem, A., Petzold, J., & Rama, B. (eds.). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). doi:10.1017/9781009325844.009.
Augot D, Hadj-Henni L, Strutz S, Slama D, Millot C, Depaquit J, Millot J. (2017) Association between host species choice and morphological characters of main sensory structures of Culicoides in the Palaeartic region. Peer J. 5: e3478.
Depaquit J, Hadj-Henni L, Bounamous A, Strutz S, Boussaa S, Morillas-Marquez, Pesson B, Gállego M, Delécolle JC, Afonso MO, Alves-Pires C, Capela RA, Couloux A, Léger N. (2015). Mitochondrial DNA Intraspecific Variability in Sergentomyia minuta (Diptera: Psychodidae). J Med Ent 52(5), 819-828. J Med Ent. doi:dx.doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjv075.
Sarkar S, Strutz SE, Frank DM, Rivaldi C-L, Sissel B, et al. (2010). Chagas Disease Risk in Texas. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(10): e836. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000836.
González C, Wang O, Strutz SE, González-Salazar C, Sánchez-Cordero V, et al. (2010). Climate Change and Risk of Leishmaniasis in North America: Predictions from Ecological Niche Models of Vector and Reservoir Species. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4 (1). doi:e585.doi:10.1371/journal.pntd. 0000585.
Moffett A, Strutz S, Guda N, González C, Ferro MC, Sánchez-Cordero V, and Sarkar S. (2009). A Global Public Database of Disease Vector and Reservoir Distributions. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(3): e378. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000378.
Scientific Presentations
A Review of Geohelminth Distributions and Prevalence in Texas and the Effects of Climate Change (poster), James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible To Man, June 2022
Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) of Texas, United States (oral presentation), International Symposium on Phlebotomine Sandflies IX, Reims, France, June 2016
Sand Flies of Texas: Vectors of Leishmania (oral presentation), James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible To Man, San Antonio, Texas, May 2016
Cutaneous leishmaniasis emergence: the role of climate change associated vector range expansions (poster), Species on the Move Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, February 2016
The effects of climate change on the eco-epidemiology of leishmaniasis in the southern United States and tips from the field (oral presentation), Integrative Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Austin, Texas, April 2015
The role of anthropogenic climate change and landscape change as drivers of leishmaniasis expansion (oral presentation), Impact of Environmental Change on Infectious Diseases, Sitges, Spain, March 2015
The role of rodents in Texas plague, Yersinia pestis, expansion (poster), James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible To Man, Irving, Texas, June 2014
Species distribution and circuit-based dispersal models of vector-borne disease: is cutaneous leishmaniasis expanding due to environmental change in the southern United States (oral presentation), Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon, August 2012
The northward trek of cutaneous leishmaniasis in Texas (oral presentation), James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible To Man, San Antonio, Texas, July 2012
Uniting the Past and Present: Species distribution models of leishmaniasis expansion (oral presentation), Integrative Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Austin, Texas, April 2012
Ecology and the Spread of Leishmaniasis: Results from Theoretical Models for Texas (oral presentation), Chagas Disease Risk in Texas (poster), James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible To Man, Austin, Texas, June 2010
The Use of Species Distribution Modeling in Predicting Vector-Borne Disease Risk (oral presentation), Integrative Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Austin, Texas, April 2010
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