# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sally-archibald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:06.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sally-archibald"
name: "Sally Archibald"
slug: "sally-archibald"
description: "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\"."
tagline: "South African scientist"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           34.21
  momentum:             3
  historical:           5.067926666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump