Water Security
For over twenty years my research has centered on water security in a variety of geographies and subtopics that include transboundary rivers, dam construction, terrorism, water rights disputes, pipeline development, and water protectors. Each project and related publications are listed below.
Indigenous Water Security: Spotlight on Min Sosa (Missouri River Basin) Water Security
Missouri River Threats from the so-called Dakota Access Pipeline
Collaborative research project looking at privately funded, publicly secured, oil development throughout the transboundary watershed scale of the Missouri River, especially centered on Indian Country.
Terrorism threats to water security - a global assessment
Using the Global Terrorism Database out of the University of Maryland, this research identifies, codifies, categorizes, and geosnatially analyzes longitudinal trends in water-related terrorist acts.
Women Relationships with Water
Investigating relational acts and knowledge of women and water.
Scales of human security in the cases of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance and Xayaburi dams
Doctoral research on punctuated environmental disruption of transboundary rivers by the construction of large-scale dams and impacts at three scales: international, national, and local communities.
Global freshwater changes
Geospatial analysis of country-scale water use and international agreements through case studies.