Our Lab’s wide range of published works is a direct result of our shared mission to produce community-centered research for a more just and resilient future. These papers showcase the partnerships we’ve built, methods we’ve used, and the data-driven results we’ve used to inform local policies and advocacy programs. Through collaboration, we are continuously learning and producing new work for water and climate justice.
California
Segura, R. L., Stewart, I. T., DeCosse, D. E., Young, E. R., Young, S. T., Tatum, P., ... & Krebs, A. N. (2025). A multidisciplinary approach to understanding vulnerability and building climate resilience to levee failures and flooding in historically marginalized communities. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 1-17.
Stewart, I. T., Dialesandro, J., Lei, S., & Foster, L. (2025). Toward the human right to water for vulnerable communities: The effectiveness of stakeholder processes to control regional shallow groundwater contamination by nitrates. Water Resources Research, 61(10), e2025WR040896.
Abdollahi, A., Segura, R. L., Stewart, I. T., & Veylon, G. (2025, September). AI and Soft Computing in Levee Risk Management: Balancing Opportunities, Challenges, and Social-Environmental Impacts. In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
Stewart, I. T., Healey, L., LaBarbera, K., Li, H., Scullen, J. C., Wang, Y., & Wenny, D. (2022). Long term progress in riparian restoration with concurrent avian declines in the southern San Francisco Bay Area (CA). Ecological restoration, 40(3), 203-217.
Stewart, I. T., Rogers, J., & Graham, A. (2020). Water security under severe drought and climate change: Disparate impacts of the recent severe drought on environmental flows and water supplies in Central California. Journal of Hydrology X, 7, 100054.
Walton, D., Berg, N., Pierce, D., Maurer, E., Hall, A., Lin, Y. H., ... & Cayan, D. (2020). Understanding differences in California climate projections produced by dynamical and statistical downscaling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(19), e2020JD032812.
Stewart, I. T., Engh, M. K., & Parchem, C. P. (2020). Effect of climate warming and drought on urban stream temperatures in a Semiarid, seasonal system. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 56(4), 551-567.
Central America
Stewart, I. T., Baez Morales, A., Maurer, E. P., Li, Q., Díaz, R. S., Guingona, B., & Torres Torres Landa, A. (2026). Challenges and opportunities in building community-driven adaptive capacity under climate change for smallholder farmers in the Global South. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 18(1), 20-41.
Maurer, E. P., & Stewart, I. T. (2026). Including hydrologic impact definition in climate projection uncertainty partitioning: a case study of the Central American mid-summer drought. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 30(2), 421-432.
Morales, A. B., Li, Q., Musurlian, A., Stewart-Frey, I., & Gibson, N. (2025, October). Beyond Coding: Human-Centered Design in Computer Engineering Senior Projects: Lessons from the NicaAgua App. In 2025 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) (pp. 207-214). IEEE.
Maurer, E. P., Stewart, I. T., Joseph, K., & Hidalgo, H. G. (2022). The Mesoamerican mid-summer drought: the impact of its definition on occurrences and recent changes. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(5), 1425-1437.
Bacon, C. M., Kelley, L. C., & Stewart-Frey, I. (2021). Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua.
Wolf, C., Gurdak, J. J., Lauffenburger, Z., Nanus, L., & Maurer, E. (2022). Controls on recharge in thick vadose zones under climate variability and change. Hydrogeology Journal, 30(5), 1637-1655.
Stewart, I. T., Maurer, E. P., Stahl, K., & Joseph, K. (2021). Recent evidence for warmer and drier growing seasons in climate sensitive regions of Central America from multiple global datasets. International Journal of Climatology, 42(3), 1399-1417.
Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart, I. T., Maurer, E., & Kelley, L. C. (2021). Towards smallholder food and water security: Climate variability in the context of multiple livelihood hazards in Nicaragua. World Development, 143, 105468.