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  1. Spearing, L., Mehendale, P., Albertson, L., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Improving Water Infrastructure Systems in Alaska: Identifying Vulnerabilities at the Intersection of Social, Natural, and Physical Systems.” Journal of Cleaner Production. 379 (Part 1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134596 
  2. Spearing, L., Bakchan, A., Hamlet, L., Stephens, K., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Comparing Qualitative Analysis Techniques for Construction Engineering and Management Research: The Case of Arctic Water Infrastructure.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Special Collection on Research Methodologies. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0002313
  3. Stephens, K., Powers, C., Robertson, B., Spearing, L., Collier, J., Tich, K., and Smith, W.R. (2022). “Building More Resilient Communities: Communication and Organizing Practices in a Community-Wide Wildfire Evacuation Drill in the U.S.” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12402
  4. Tiedmann, H., Spearing, L., Sela, L., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Kirisits, M., and Faust, K. (2022). “Modeling in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overcoming the Water Sector’s Data Struggles to Realize the Potential of Hydraulic Models.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001561
  5. Berglund, E. Z., Buchberger, S… Spearing, L…Yang, E. (2022). “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Water Utility Operations and Vulnerability.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001560
  6. Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Sela, L., Nagy, Z., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Kirisits, M., and Faust, K. (2021). “Human-Infrastructure Interactions during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Water and Electricity Demand Profiles at the Building-Level.” Environmental Science and Technology Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00176
  7. Berglund, E. Z., Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L.… and Kadinski, L. (2021). “Water and Wastewater Systems and Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147 (5). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001373 *Editor’s Choice, Issue 147(5)
  8. Spearing, L., Stephens, K., and Faust, K. (2021). “Shelter Shopping: Where the Built Environment and Social Systems Meet.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102161
  9. Spearing, L., Thelemaque, N., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Sela, L. and Faust, K. (2020). “Implications of Social Distancing Policies on Drinking Water Infrastructure: An Overview of the Challenges to and Responses of US Utilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Environmental Science and Technology Water, 1. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00229
  10. Spearing, L., Dias, F., Faust, K., and Bhat, C. (2020). “Determining Multi-level Drivers of Perceiving Undesirable Taste and Odor in Tap Water: A Joint Modeling Approach.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147 (3). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001326
  11. ​Spearing, L., and Faust, K. (2020). “Cascading System Impacts of the 2018 Camp Fire in California: The Interdependent Provision of Infrastructure Services to Displaced Populations.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101822 

Conference Proceedings Heading link

  1. Spearing, L., Thelemaque, N., Araya, F., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Connecting Pre-existing Characteristics of Water Utilities to Impacts during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Construction Research Congress, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  2. Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K. and Kaminsky, J. (2022). “Water Utilities and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Pandemic-Related Research.” Construction Research Congress, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  3. LaPatin, M., Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Kavvada, O., Giorda, M., Daniélou, J., Hacker, M. and Faust, K. (2022). “A Framework for Measuring the Cost of Controversy Surrounding Energy Construction Projects.” Construction Research Congress, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
  4. LaPatin, M., Spearing, L., Tiedemann, H., Kavvada, O., Giorda, M., Daniélou, J., Hacker, M. and Faust, K. (2021). “Why Do Energy Projects Fail? Understanding How Controversy Impacts Construction Projects.” Int. Construction Specialty Conference, Virtual. 
  5. Spearing L., Osman, K., Faust, K.M., and Armanios, D. (2020). “Systems Vary, Affordability Should Not: Trends of Water Sector Affordability Based on City Attributes.” Construction Research Congress, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
  6. Stephens, K. K., Powers, C. J., Spearing, L., Collier, J., Tich, K., & Robertson, B.W. (2020).  “Building more resilient communities: Communication and organizing practices in disaster preparedness.” Int. Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
  7. Araya, F., Osman, K., Spearing, L., and Faust, K.M. (2019). “Assessing the Influence of Household Characteristics on Water Conservation Behaviors in Austin, Texas.” Int. Construction Specialty Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  8. Faure, J., Faust, K., Khwaja, N., O’Brien, W., Hale, W., Spearing, L. (2019). “Construction Engineering and Inspection (CE&I) Costs in the Texas Department of Transportation.” Int. Construction Specialty Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.