Erinanne Saffell is a climatologist interested in understanding risk, vulnerability, and resilience associated with extreme weather and climate events. Saffell develops courses and upper-division seminars on these topics, and directs K-12 outreach and training programs in meteorology and climatology.

Saffell is director of the SWIFT Weather Camp, a collaboration with the National Weather Service, Arizona State University, and the Arizona Science Center. SWIFT engages middle and high school students through active-learning experiments in one of only two national middle-school weather camps.

Saffell is currently a lecturer with the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning where she currently teaches: Introduction to Physical Geography, Society and Environment, Extreme Weather, among other courses.