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Publications and Presentations
Publications
Blumberg, J., Goemans, C. and Manning, D. (2021). “Changing Climate, Changing Institutions: Implications of Drought and Litigation for Colorado Agriculture.” Colorado Water, vol. 38, no. 2.
Blumberg, J., Goemans, C. and Manning, D., 2022. Producer Beliefs and Conservation: The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption (No. w30080). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Boisrame, Gabrielle and Rosemary Carroll. Exploring Climate-Driven Agricultural Water Shortages in a Snow-Fed Basin Using a Water Allocation Model and Machine Learning. Journal of Hydrology.
Gordon, B., Brooks, P., Krogh, S., Boisrame, G., Carroll, R., McNamara, J., Harpold, A., (2022). A data-driven review to understand streamflow risk to climate induced changes in snow dynamics. Environmental Research Letters. 17. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac64b4.
Gordon, B. L., Brooks, P. D., Krogh, S. A., Boisrame, G. F., Carroll, R. W., McNamara, J. P., & Harpold, A. A. (2022). Why does snowmelt-driven streamflow response to warming vary? A data-driven review and predictive framework. Environmental Research Letters, 17(5), 053004.
Gordon, B. L., Crow, W. T., Konings, A. G., Dralle, D. N., & Harpold, A. A. (2022). Can we use the water budget to infer upland catchment behavior? The role of data set error estimation and interbasin groundwater flow. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR030966. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030966 View Abstract Here
Gordon, B., Harpold, A. A., Ajami, N. K., Albano, C., Boisrame, G., Carroll, R. W., & Leonard, B. (2022, December). Headwater Reservoir Management Must Consider Hydrological Supply and Agricultural Demand In a Future With Less Snowpack. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. H43A-07).
Koebele, E., Singletary, L, Hockaday, S., Ormerod, K.J. (2021). What role can water markets play in adapting to climate change? Evidence from two river basins in the western United States. In John C. Duerk (Ed.) Environmental Philosophy, Politics, and Policy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 978-1-7936-1763-7, hardback available March 2021; 978-1-7936-1764-4, eBook, available March 2021.
Koebele, E.A., Singletary, L., Hockaday, S., and Ormerod K.J. (2022). A role for water markets in enhancing water security in the western United States? Lessons from the Walker River Basin. Water Policy, 24(11):1757-1771. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2022.071. Available online at: https://iwaponline.com/wp/article/24/11/1757/91336/A-role-for-water-markets-in-enhancing-water
Singletary, L., Koebele, E., Evans, W. et al. Evaluating stakeholder engagement in collaborative research: co-producing knowledge for climate resilience. Socio Ecol Pract Res 4, 235–249 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-022-00124-8
Singletary, L., Koebele, E., Evans, W., Copp, C., Hockaday, S., and Rego, J.J. (2022). Evaluating stakeholder engagement in collaborative research: co-producing knowledge for climate resilience. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 4:235-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-022-00124-8. Available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42532-022-00124-8
York, A.M.; Eakin, H.; Bausch, J.C.; Smith-Heisters, S.; Anderies, J.M.; Aggarwal, R.; Leonard, B. and Wright, K. (2020). Agricultural water governance in the desert: Shifting risks in central Arizona. Water Alternatives 13(2): 418-445.
Theses and Dissertations
Cornachione, E. (2021). Efficiency of Water Markets under Prior Appropriation: Evidence from Permanent Water Rights Sales in Nevada. [Master’s Thesis] University of Nevada, Reno. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2561939187?parentSessionId=wt8TK0O%2Fuaz8QIgDtNBMB%2FUCLulhtiVc5wR8RZW50qM%3D&pq-origsite=primo&accountid=452
Gordon, B. L. (2022). A Socio-Hydrologic Assessment of Mountain Water Supply Vulnerability to Changing Snowmelt (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno)
Hockaday, S. (2021). Stakeholder Perceptions of Water Rights Transfer Programs and Prior Appropriation in the Western United States: Case Study of the Walker River Basin. Thesis, Master of Science Degree, Geography. University of Nevada, Reno. Available online: https://scholarworks.unr.edu/bitstream/handle/11714/7706/Hockaday_unr_0139M_13365.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Rego, J.J. (2023). Assessing Stakeholders’ Perception of Water Sharing Arrangements in the South Platte River Basin. Master of Science in Hydrology thesis. UNR. Thesis defense, April 19 2023.
Wright, K. (2023). Analyzing Policy Approaches to Water Scarcity in the Western United States (Order No. 30423758). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2813815258). https://unr.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/analyzing-policy-approaches-water-scarcity/docview/2813815258/se-2
Presentations
(* indicates presenter)
Boisrame, G., Carroll, R.W.H. (2021). Using machine learning to reduce computational time in a dynamically coupled water allocation and groundwater model. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. New Orleans, LA. December 13-17
Cornachione, E. and M. Taylor. “Efficiency of Water Markets under Prior Appropriation: Evidence from Permanent Water Rights Sales in Nevada.” Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Annual Meeting. Virtual. June 3rd, 2022.
Cornachione, E. and M. Taylor. “Efficiency of Water Markets under Prior Appropriation: Evidence from Permanent Water Rights Sales in Nevada.” Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas. August 2nd, 2022
Dobrowolski, J., Brasier, K., Leahy, J., Colletti J., Gagnon, V., Halsover, K., Robertson, T., & Singletary, L.* (Invited Panelist). Water for Agriculture Webinar Series. Water for Agriculture Workshop: Organizing, Funding, and Doing Transdisciplinary and Team Science. The Pennsylvania State University sponsored by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Water for Agriculture grant no. 2017-68007-26584/project accession no. 1013079 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Virtual, May 2022. https://water4ag.psu.edu/files/2022/04/W4Ag-May-Workshops-general.pdf
“Double Trouble: The Impact of Drought and Litigation on Colorado’s Agricultural Practices” Selected Presentation, 41st Annual AGU Hydrology Days, Virtual Meeting, March 30-31, 2021
Eaton, W.*, Manheim, M.*, Smutko, S.*, Edwards, J., Robertson, T., Ryder, S., Singletary, L., Urcuqui-Bustamante, A.M.* (Accepted workshop). A facilitated workshop on advancing stakeholder engagement* in socio-ecological systems. International Association for Society of Natural Resources Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 2022.
Gharib, A., Arabi, M., Manning, D., Goemans, C. (2021). Changes in water delivery to agricultural and municipal sectors under current institutions in response to climate change, population growth and rapid urbanization. 41st Annual AGU Hydrology Days. 30-31 March 2021. Fort Collins, CO.
Gharib, A., Arabi, M., Manning, D., Goemans, C. (2021). When can Additional Storage and Demand Reductions Facilitate Adaptation to Increasing Water Scarcity? Lessons from the South Platte River Basin of Colorado. AGU Fall Meeting 2021. 13-17 December 2021. New Orleans, LA.
Gharib, A., Arabi, M., Blumberg, J., Manning, D., Goemans, C. (2021). Can Investment in Storage Infrastructure Reduce Water Shortages?. 42nd Annual AGU Hydrology Days. 25-27 April 2022. Fort Collins, CO.
Gharib, A., Arabi, M., Manning, D., Goemans, C. (2023). The value of demand reduction and storage capacity in alleviating predicted water shortage in semi-arid river basins. The 2023 UCOWR/NIWR Annual Water Resources Conference. June 13-15, 2023. Fort Collins, CO.
Gordon, B., Harpold, A. A., Koebele, E., Ajami, N., Boisrame, G., & Andrade, M. A. (2021, December). Adapting index-based vulnerability assessments in rapidly changing coupled upland-agricultural systems in the western US. In AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU.
Gordon, B.L., Harpold, A., Carroll, R., Ajami, N. (2021) Accounting for built and natural storage is necessary to estimate the true vulnerability of downstream water supplies. American Geophysical Union Fall meeting. New Orleans, LA. December 13-17.
Gordon, B., Harpold, A. A., & Crow, W. T. (2020). Using triple collocation of precipitation and evapotranspiration products to reduce uncertainty and improve inferences of catchment-scale water budgets. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts(Vol. 2020, pp. H017-04). December 2020.
Gordon, B., Harpold, A. A., & Dralle, D. (2019). The role of plant available water storage capacity in modulating the value of snow accumulation for upland ecosystems. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts(Vol. 2019, pp. H11P-1739). December 2019
Grumstrup, Ethan, K. Rollins, K. Pram and S. Koirala, “The Effect of Climate Change on Agricultural Production with Priority Water Rights,” American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting July 2021.
“Interdisciplinary Modeling of Water Resource Climate Sensitivity in the Walker River Basin.” Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference. January 2023.
“Interdisciplinary Modeling of Water Resource Climate Sensitivity in the Walker River Basin.” 2023 World Environmental and Water Resources Congress. EWRI. May 2023.
Koebele, E.*, Singletary, L., Hockaday, S., Ormerod, K.J. (Accepted presentation). Water markets as governance innovations: A comparative institutional analysis. Western Policy Science Association Annual Meetings, Virtual, March 2021.
Koebele, E., Singletary, L.*, Rego, J.J., Wright, K., York, A. (2023, June). Water Market Design Features and Transaction Costs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Snowfed River Basins in the Arid Western United States. University Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, Fort Collins, CO. June 15, 2023. Accepted abstract/presentation. https://ucowr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preliminary-Program-042623.pdf
Koebele, E., York, A., Singletary, L., and Hockaday, S. April (2021). Stakeholder Perceptions of Water Markets as an Adaptation Strategy to Changing Water Supply and Demand in the Western United States. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (virtual).
Koebele, E.A.*, Singletary, L., Hockaday, S., & Ormerod K.J. (2023, February). A Role for Water Markets in Enhancing Water Security in the Western United States? Lessons From the Walker River Basin. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference, Reno, NV. February 1, 2023. Accepted abstract/presentation. Available online at: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AIt%2DhIXTQd%2DihlQ&cid=16BA3DB0E0CE6624&id=16BA3DB0E0CE6624%2110855&parId=16BA3DB0E0CE6624%2110412&o=OneUp
Koebele, E.*, Hockaday, S.* (Invited presentation). Adapting Water Governance Institutions to Cope with Water Supply Challenges in Snow-Dependent River Basins. Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior, U. of California, Davis, September 2020.
Koebele, E.*, Wright, K., Singletary, L., Rego, J.J., York, A. (Accepted presentation). Assessing the design and viability of water markets in the western United States via stakeholder perceptions. Western Policy Science Association Annual Meetings, Portland OR, March 2022.
Koebele, E., Wright, K., York, A., and Singletary, L. September-October (2021). Water Markets as Governance Innovations: A Comparative Institutional Analysis. Sept-Oct 2021. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Lee, Gi-Eu, Kimberly Rollins, and Loretta Singletary, “Temporary Transfers and Water Use Efficiency for Prior Appropriations Agricultural Surface Water Rights: Empirical Evidence from Northwestern Nevada,” American Economic Association Virtual Annual Meeting January 2021.
“Producer Beliefs and Conservation: The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption” NBER: Economic Perspectives on Water Resources, Climate Change, and Agricultural Sustainability, Virtual Meeting, May 12-13, 2022
“Producer Beliefs and Conservation Decisions: The Impact of Perceived Water Security on Irrigation Technology Adoption” Selected Paper, AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, August 1-3, 2021
Rego, J.J., Koebele, E.A., Singletary, L. (2022, November). Assessing Stakeholder Perceptions of Alternative Transfer Mechanisms in the South Platte River Basin. Student World Water Forum, Reno, NV.
Rego, J.J.*, Singletary, L., Koebele, E. (2023, June). Assessing Stakeholder Perceptions of Water Sharing Arrangements in the South Platte River Basin. University Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, Fort Collins, CO. June 14, 2023. Accepted abstract/presentation. https://ucowr.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preliminary-Program-042623.pdf
Rego, J.J.*, Singletary, L., Koebele, E. (2023, February). Assessing Stakeholder Perceptions of Alternative Transfer Methods in the South Platte River Basin. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference, Reno, NV. February 1, 2023. Accepted abstract/presentation. https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AIt%2DhIXTQd%2DihlQ&cid=16BA3DB0E0CE6624&id=16BA3DB0E0CE6624%2110852&parId=16BA3DB0E0CE6624%2110412&o=OneUp
Singletary, L.*, Koebele, E., Evans, W., Copp, C., Hockaday, S., & Rego, J.J. (2022, June). A Collaborative Research Framework for Co-Producing Knowledge to Enhance Climate Resilience. University Council on Water Resources Annual Conference, Greenville, SC. June 14, 2022. Accepted abstract/presentation. Available online at: https://ucowr.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022_UCOWR_NIWR_Conference_Abstracts.pdf
Singletary, L.* Koebele, E., Evans, W., Copp, C., Hockaday, S., & Rego, J.J. (2023, February). Evaluating Stakeholder Engagement in Collaborative Research: Co-Producing Knowledge for Climate Resilience. Nevada Water Resources Association Annual Conference, Reno, NV. February 2, 2023. Accepted abstract/presentation. Available online at: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AIt%2DhIXTQd%2DihlQ&cid=16BA3DB0E0CE6624&id=16BA3DB0E0CE6624%2110868&parId=16BA3DB0E0CE6624%2110412&o=OneUp
Singletary, L.*, Koebele, E.*, & Alejandro Andrade-Rodriquez (Invited Panelists) International Visitor Leadership Program, Egypt Group, Water Policy, Modern Irrigation, and Desert Farming Panel with UNR Faculty. Reno NV, May 2022.
Book Chapters
Blumberg, J., Goemans, C. and Manning, D. (2022) “Perceived Water Scarcity and Irrigation Technology Adoption.” American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change, ed. Gary D. Libecap and Ariel Dinar. University of Chicago Press. URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c14698 (forthcoming)