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Divergent Perspectives on Water Resource Sustainability in a Public–Policy–Science Context - 2009-11-06

Fulbright Scholar Joins DCDC - 2009-09-30

Assessing Stakeholder Evaluation Concerns: An Application to the Central Arizona Water Resources System - 2009-08-19

NOAA Phoenix & Portland Study - 2009-07-14

Stockholm Water Front Article - 2009-07-13

Workshop: Water and Energy - 2009-06-30

Space–time forecasting using soft geostatistics: a case study in forecasting municipal water demand for Phoenix, Arizona - 2009-06-08

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities - 2009-04-07

Gober garners Faculty Achievement Research Award - 2009-02-27

Sensitivity of residential water consumption to variations in climate: An intraurban analysis of Phoenix, Arizona - 2009-01-23

Climatic controls and hydrologic impacts of a recent extreme seasonal precipitation reversal in Arizona - 2008-12-08
Research has revealed a trend of increasing variability in Arizona winter precipitation from year to year. This study develops a methodology for calculating extreme seasonal precipitation reversals and tying them to particular large-scale climate forces, such as El Niño and La Niña.

Estimating Future Runoff Levels for a Semi-arid Fluvial System in Central Arizona - 2008-11-05
Researchers developed a water budget model for the Salt and Verde River basins and validated it using historical data. They then ran the model through a number of possible emissions scenarios described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, using six different global climate models to estimate future runoff in the various cases.

The Impact of the Phoenix Urban Heat Island on Residential Water Use - 2007-10-03
Subhrajit Guhathakurta and Patricia Gober’s article, The Impact of the Phoenix Urban Heat Island on Residential Water Use, has been published in the September 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association (vol. 73, issue 3, pages 317-329).

Phoenix Area Social Survey Report - 2007-10-01

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