Works

Article
March 2017
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Journalism Fellow

The second article in a series on solving water challenges in the American West. Phoenix reduced its residential water...

Article
March 2017
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Journalism Fellow

Electric utilities are seeking a new power mix, as shifts in precipitation diminish the role that dams have long played...

Article
February 2017
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Journalism Fellow

A report by the Center's 2016 media fellow Zack Colman of the Christian Science Monitor.

Safety concerns at the...

Article
February 2017
Zack Colman, Western Enterprise Journalism Fellow
A controversial proposal would send a big chunk of rural Nevada's water southward, through a 250-mile pipeline that...
Audio
January 2017

Two days before the presidential inauguration, we took a look at the contentious relationship between Donald Trump and...

Article
January 2017
Tammy Frisby

The most recent Golden State Poll had a lot of ground to cover. For the fourth January in a row, we asked Californians...

Report
December 2016
Casey Danielson, Matthew Decker, Sarah Hirshorn, Gabriella Johnson, Mark Verso

Due to major economic and population growth in the Mid-Peninsula, communities are struggling with increased traffic...

Book
December 2016
Vanessa Casado Pérez

While water is an increasingly scarce resource, most existing methods to allocate it are neither economically nor...

Video
November 2016

What does this historic election mean for democratic norms and institutions in America? A post-election panel discussion...

Image Gallery
November 2016

The Jack London Symposium at Stanford on Sept. 19, included a a curated pop-up exhibit of Jack London's books, objects...

Image Gallery
October 2016

At the Jack London symposium at Stanford University on Sept. 19, the scholars Sara Hodson and Jeanne Reesman presented...

Video
October 2016

Scholars working with Water in the West discussed their latest research on groundwater and the implications for the...

Video
October 2016

Scholars talked about the life and legacy of novelist, journalist, photographer, and social activist Jack London. They...

Book
September 2016
Mary Ellen Hannibal, Center Media Fellow

Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning science writer. Hannibal traces...

Report
June 2016
Tara Moran, Amanda Cravens, Janet Martinez, Leon Szeptycki

After decades of dysfunction that have exacerbated chronic water problems, historic groundwater legislation has brought...

Book
May 2016
Richard Alatorre with Marc Grossman
The memoir of former Assemblymember and L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alatorre, chronicling his extraordinary role as...
Book
May 2016
Nicholas Bauch

Every year, a staggering five million visitors flock to the Grand Canyon to view its sweeping vistas. One of the most...

Paper
May 2016
Dan Reineman

This study investigates the local knowledge of surfers through two surveys of more than one thousand California surfers...

Article
April 2016
Todd Holmes

A historical look at the Coastal Commission reveals these fluctuating tides of tension, a perspective that provides a...

March 2016
Commissioned for the 2016 Eccles Rural West Conference, the Rural West Conference Montana Survey was designed by Christopher Muste of the University of Montana, who presented initial survey findings to the conference on March 18.