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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · 3d

I think it was Reusser who said she legit wanted to do this the other day 💯

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · 27d

Come 2 my party 2morrow 🍾

** note, my first post should have said Friday, not Saturday.

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you going to @apsa.bsky.social Vancouver and working on issues of science/technology/environmental politics (STEP)? If so, please attend the STEP reception on Saturday night! Details and RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/q27fRYT60G

Microsoft Forms

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Sep 5

Read the press release: www.edf.org/Z6re

New Journal Article Highlights Multibenefit Land Repurposing as an Innovative Approach to Strengthen Rural Resilience

A new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Water outlines how multibenefit land repurposing can serve as an strategy to respond to water scarcity.

www.edf.org

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW! What a pleasure to work with folks who are implementing the MLRP in California on this article, especially lead author Gopal Penny! It's critical that we come up with more creative solutions to protect people, agriculture, and the environment in a drying world.

doi.org/10.3389/frwa...

Frontiers | Enhancing water security and landscape resilience through multibenefit land repurposing

Achieving water sustainability in many water-scarce regions will require reducing consumptive water use by converting irrigated agricultural land to less wat...

doi.org

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Sep 5

New fun water rights challenge: who owns freshwater trapped in shallow offshore aquifers? And, assuming there is zero natural recharge, is it a good idea to tap it? How do we govern that?

apnews.com/article/fres...

Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world

Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.

apnews.com

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Sep 2

Are you going to @apsa.bsky.social Vancouver and working on issues of science/technology/environmental politics (STEP)? If so, please attend the STEP reception on Saturday night! Details and RSVP here: forms.office.com/r/q27fRYT60G

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now out in an issue of @epa-journal.bsky.social: "Estimating the effect of policy entrepreneurship on individual vaccination behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic." Thanks to fearless leader Kristin Taylor for making this one happen.

dx.doi.org/10.1002/epa2...

European Policy Analysis | PSO Policy Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

Most studies of policy entrepreneurship seek to understand how entrepreneurs influence the behavior of policy-makers in the agenda-setting or decision-making phases of the policy process. Recent scho...

dx.doi.org

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 26

I deleted my previous post bc it had a news headline that has now thankfully been taken down for being false.

All I will say (if you saw it) is that I have no idea what’s going on behind closed doors in the Colorado River negotiations, and agreeing to conserve does not equal taking cuts!

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 25

happy first day of school to me for the 35th consecutive year 🤓

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maybe I’m being optimistic, but is CO is strategically using the compact call threat to get political cover/constituent support for giving up some water in a collaborative proposal, esp. w/ the plan to do more public engagement? 👀👀

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 23

…or the UB could collaborate with the LB on a plan where they share some cuts in the driest times and don’t face compact compliance threats?

watereducationcolorado.org/fresh-water-...

Is Colorado ready for forced Colorado River cuts? State official says it might be time for a plan. - Water Education Colorado

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Colorado water officials announced Wednesday a rough plan to figure out how the state would handle an unwelcome specter in the Colorado River Basin: forced water cuts. Mandatory wa...

watereducationcolorado.org

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 17

"The Colorado River is remarkable in and of itself, it lays the foundation for remarkable habitats, and, apparently, can precipitate remarkable political alliances." - @sammyherdman.bsky.social

coloradonewsline.com/2025/08/12/a...

A paradigm shift on the Colorado River is the only way to confront the water crisis | Colorado Newsline

A paradigm shift and bold policies are needed to preserve the remarkable Colorado River and life in the West.

coloradonewsline.com

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 17

I so feel this recovering from a concussion (May 12th). Like three weeks ago a switch flipped. Now I’m like ohhh so this what it feels like to have a working brain again wtf was all of that other stuff.

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 16

I kind of love the geometric mtns on Nevada’s, though I wish they took up more of the space.

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 16

the homeland 😍

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Aug 16

Arizona: 10/10. Another banger. You look at this and you're like "yep, that's a desert horizon".

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of...

Flag of Arizona - Wikipedia

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 15

It absolutely is 🤣🤣🤣

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 5

Enjoyed working on this edited volume with my @policy-politics.bsky.social colleagues and all of the amazing contributing authors. Check it out here: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transformati...

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 2

Can’t open this app anymore without singing this song, and I think that’s actually a good thing (plus, amazing Nevada shots in the vid).

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtIz...

Momma - Welcome to My Blue Sky (Music Video)

YouTube video by Momma

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 1

We integrate cognitive science, hydrology, & policy design to investigate how cognitive & institutional constraints influence information feedback processes in urban water coupled infrastructure systems during the development of climate-adaptive policies. Grateful for such a cool & smart team!!

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Aug 1

We've got a new one out this Friday @psjeditor.bsky.social:
"Understanding the Impact of Institutions on Climate-Adaptive Policy Designs: A Study of Collective Action Inference in Urban Water Systems" led by the great Aaron Deslatte, w/ @jesselbarnes.bsky.social & others!

doi.org/10.1111/psj....

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Feedback is ubiquitous in complex systems and critical to the process of designing public policies to solve problems such as climate adaptation. However, well-known cognitive and institutional constr....

doi.org

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · Jul 31

Deep in the Nevada desert, a huge lithium mine could fuel electric vehicles and help slow global warming. But conservationists say it would drive an endangered wildflower to extinction.

I visited Rhyolite Ridge and wrestled with a high-stakes climate dilemma: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Commentary: A climate-saving lithium mine could doom an endangered desert flower

The dilemma at Nevada's Rhyolite Ridge offers a preview of the hard choices ahead.

www.latimes.com

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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · Jul 29

We do not talk enough about groundwater, the quiet water crisis playing out across the globe.

“Groundwater is the most precious natural resource in the dry parts of the world," said ASU's Jay Famiglietti. “And it is probably the least protected.” www.westernwaternotes.com/p/q-and-a-gr...

Q&A: Groundwater loss on a global scale

ASU's Jay Famiglietti on the alarming drying of Earth's land surface.

www.westernwaternotes.com

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Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Jun 21

Really excited to see new work that pushes the collaborative governance literature to be more realistic about how collaboration happens in practice and over time (by Carstensen & Sørensen in @policy-politics.bsky.social)

policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/18/u...

Using bricolage and robustness theory to explain the dynamism of collaborative governance

by Martin B. Carstensen and Eva Sørensen In a recent article published in Policy & Politics, Martin B. Carstensen and Eva Sørensen explore how collaborative governance can be understood as a se…

policyandpoliticsblog.com

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Jun 20

This has also been characterized as an "amicable divorce" between the UB and LB... which does give me several concerns, but hey, maybe a little separation is the only way to move forward at this point?

www.fox13now.com/news/colorad...

An 'amicable divorce' proposed in Colorado River negotiations

New details are emerging of what's being negotiated between the seven states who rely on the Colorado River — an "amicable divorce" between the Upper and Lower Basins.

www.fox13now.com

Elizabeth A. Koebele @eakoebele.bsky.social · Jun 20

Basing Powell releases on some rolling average of the river's flow sounds familiar (from a lot of the scoping comments!).

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