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  1. Spearing, L., Tariq, M., Safarpour, H., Abia, T., Mallory, M., Guild, J., Katz, L., and Faust, K. (2023). “Moving Beyond Techno-Economic Considerations: Incorporating Organizational Constraints into Fit-for-use Technologies.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100950 
  2. Gosavi, A., Sneed, L., and Spearing, L. (2023). “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Policy Iteration: Convergence Analysis and A Post-Earthquake Disaster Response Case Study” Optimization Letters. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-023-02062-0 
  3. LaPatin, M., Barrens, S., Vaziri, B., Spearing, L., Padgett-Walsh, K., Feinstein, S., Rutherford, C., Nguyen, L., and Faust, K. (2023). “Engineering in a Crisis: Observing Students’ Perceptions of Macroethical Responsibilities during Pandemics and Natural Disasters.” Journal of Civil Engineering Education. https://doi.org/10.1061/JCEECD.EIENG-1909
  4. Toland, J., Wein, A., Wu, A., and Spearing, L. (2023). “A Conceptual Framework for Estimation of Initial Emergency Food and Water Resource Requirements in Disasters Corresponding.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103661
  5. Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K., and Kaminsky, J. (2023). “Small Drinking Water Utilities’ Resilience: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Environmental Science and Technology Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00641
  6. LaPatin, M., Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Hacker, M., Kavvada, O., Giorda, M., Danielou, J., and Faust, K. (2023). “Controversy in Wind Energy Construction Projects: How Social Systems Impact Project Performance.” Energy Policy.
  7. Tiedmann, H., Spearing, L., Stephens, K., Castellanos, S., and Faust, K. (2023). “Tracking the Post-Disaster Evolution of Water Infrastructure Resilience: A Study of the 2021 Texas Winter Storm.” Sustainable Cities and Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104417
  8. 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 
  9. Brown, M., Spearing, L., Roy, A., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Drivers of Declining Water Access in Alaska.” Environmental Science and Technology Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00167
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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)
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. ​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