This is an internationally collaborative research project centered on better understanding how coastal communities have responded to, are currently addressing, and will continue to adapt to environmental disruptions affecting their

Art plays a role of communication in public spaces, disrupting the sameness of accepted dominant narratives in written historic accounts. This research seeks to better identify and understand how publicly facing art is used to process grief, assert presence, transfer intergenerational story and learning, as well as grappling with inclusion and exclusion following environmental disruption.

From transboundary rivers and international diplomacy to water terrorism to riverine communities' displacement from development, this research includes case studies of impacts that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Xayaburi Dam, and Dakota Access Pipeline assert on international, national, and local communities.

Women have a gendered relationships with water that is too often framed by male dominated spaces of power and knowledge. This research seeks to explore these deeper  water relationships to identify connections, responsibilities, and community shaped by women's decision making with and about water.