Journal Articles

• Cliburn, C., B. L. Schumacher, K. Z. Waldman, et al. 2026. “Cultivating Collaborative Water Leaders: The Power of Experiential Learning.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 62, no. 3: e70123. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.70123.

Newsletter

• Invisible Waters, Substack

Selected Journalism Work

• Well into the future (Daily Yonder/KNPR’s Desert Companion)

• As the Colorado River shrinks, California is embracing water recycling (Reasons to Be Cheerful)

• The Boring Company is tunneling beneath Las Vegas with little oversight (ProPublica)

• How an epic bird migration hinges on just one tiny insect (Vox)

• Lightweight (in Water Bodies for Torrey House Press)

• Wing spotting (Desert Companion)

• Nevada tribes push for a monument to commemorate massacres (High Country News)

• Lithium companies fight over water in the arid Great Basin (InsideClimateNews)

• Las Vegas goes all in on its water conservation plan (Smithsonian Magazine)

• Dam bypass to open endangered fish spawning grounds (The Nevada Independent)

• Near the Colorado River, a landscape held sacred gets protection (The Nevada Independent)

• The coming crisis along the Colorado River (The New York Times)

• Gold country (High Country News and the Nevada Independent)

• ‘We’re just somebody little:’ Lithium and the energy transition (The Nevada Independent)

• Could Las Vegas’ grass removal polices alter the West’s drought-scape (Sierra Magazine)

• In Nevada, investors eye underground storage (The Nevada Independent/KUNC/KJZZ)