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Publications Details for Grant Number R835867

Preparing for Water Scarcity: Learning from California’s Recent Drought

RFA: National Priorities: Systems-Based Strategies to Improve The Nation’s Ability to Plan And Respond to Water Scarcity and Drought Due to Climate Change (2014)

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Article/Press Release Hanak E, Jezdimirovic J. Water marketing that Helps Nature. Public Policy Institute of California. September 13, 2016 R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release Lund J. Lessons we should learn from the drought. Sacramento Bee, Op-Ed, 2 November, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release Lund J., What California Should Learn From a Decade of Water Extremes. Water Deeply. April 11, 2017 R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release Lund J. The Coming Droughts of California in 2017. Water Deeply. 1 December, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release Lund J. After drought, California urgently needs to focus on big picture of water management. Sacramento Bee, Op-Ed, 29 January 2017. R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release Lund J. Why the Environment Needs Water Markets. Water Deeply. 17 January 2017. R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release McCann H, Escriva-Bou A: Three Lessons on Water Accounting for California. August 8, 2016 R835867 (2017)
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Article/Press Release Henry McCann, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Better Information Can Help the Environment, April 26, 2017, San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California,. R835867 (2017)
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Book Lund J. Book Review: Water is for Fighting Over, and Other Myths about Water in the West. by John Fleck, Water Economics and Policy. 2:2016 R835867 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis Adams L. Optimized reservoir management for downstream environmental purposes. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Arnold B. Probabilistic optimization model for allocating regulated groundwater supplies to agricultural water management districts in California. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, June 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Buck I. Managing to end groundwater overdraft in California's Central Valley with climate change. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2016. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Gailey RM. Approaches for groundwater management in times of depletion and regulatory change. Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Jankowski J. Consumptive water use in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta:a comparison of estimation methods and field data, with implications for water right diversion reporting. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Kwon A. Declining groundwater level effects on supply well operations. M.S. Thesis. Department of Hydrologic Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2017. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Laird J. Drought water rights allocation tool: Eel River Model update and pyWRAT application. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Pavicic J. Uncertainty in water rights analysis: overpromising vs. over curtailing. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, December 2017. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Sanchez NA. Changes in evapotranspiration of agricultural crops in Kern County during the 2014-2015 drought years. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, December 2017. R835867 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis Tweet A. Water right curtailment analysis for California's Sacramento River:effects of return flows. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis Walker W. Drought water right allocation tool applied to the San Joaquin River Basin. M.S. Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, December 2017. R835867 (Final)
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Dissertation/Thesis Whittington C. Russian River Drought Water Right Allocation Tool (DWRAT). M.S. Masters Thesis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis • Buck, I. 2016 MS thesis, "Managing to End Groundwater Overdraft in California’s Central Valley with Climate Change," Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Dissertation/Thesis Magnuson-Skeels, B. MS (Geography), “Using Machine Learning to Predict Natural Flow:The Sacramento Watershed under Dry Conditions,”. R835867 (2017)
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Journal Article Escriva-Bou A, McCann H, Hanak E, Lund J, Gray B, Blanco E, et al. Water Accounting in Western US, Australia, and Spain:Comparative Analysis. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 2020;146(3). R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Gailey RM, Lund JR, Medellin-Azuara J. Domestic well reliability:evaluating supply interruptions from groundwater overdraft, estimating costs and managing economic externalities. Hydrogeology Journal 2019;27(4):1159-82. R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Lund J, Medellin-Azuara J, Durand J, Stone K. Lessons from California's 2012 - 2016 drought. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 2018;144(10):04018067 (13 pp.). R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Szeptycki LF, Gray BE. California's drought and the environment:an introduction. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 2017; 23:(1):51-55. R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Ugai, J. Conjunctive use on the Yuba: lessons from drought management in the Yuba watershed. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 2017;23(1):57-81. R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Ugai J. Regulating with reasonable use: lessons from drought management in the Russian River watershed. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 2017;23:(1):83-113. R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Ullrich PA, Xu Z, Rhoades AM, Dettinger MD, Mount JF, Jones AD, Vahmani P. California's drought of the future: a midcentury recreation of the exceptional conditions of 2012‐2017. Earth's Future 2018;6(11):1568-1587. R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Vissers E. Low flows, high stakes: lessons from fisheries management on Mill, Deer, and Antelope Creeks during California's historic drought. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 2017;23(1):153-179. R835867 (Final)
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Journal Article Womble P. Ad-hoc drought management on an overallocated river: the Stanislaus River, water years 2014-15. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 2017;23(1):115-152. R835867 (Final)
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Meeting Building Drought Resilience in California’s Cities and Suburbs, June 16, 2017, Sacramento, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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Meeting Building Bay Area Drought Resilience, July 18, 2017, San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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Meeting Improving the Health of California’s Headwater Forests, September 20, 2017, Sacramento, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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Meeting Water Stress and a Changing San Joaquin Valley, March 7, 2017, Clovis, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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Paper Medellin-Azuara J. MacEwan D, Howitt RI. Sumner DA, Lund JR, Economic Analysis of the 2016 California Drought on Agriculture: A report for the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis, August, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Paper Medellin-Azuara J, Paw KT, Jin UY, Hart Q, Kent E, Clay J, Wong A, Bell A, Anderson M, Howes D, Melton F, Kadir T, Orang M, Leinfelder-Miles MM, Lund JR. Estimation of Crop Evapotranspiration in the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta R835867 (2017)
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Paper Ugai, John. Conjunctive Use on the Yuba: Lessons from Drought Management in the Yuba Watershed. Hastings W.-Nw. J. Envt'l L. & Pol'y 23 (2017): 57. R835867 (2017)
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Paper Ugai J., Regulating with Reasonable Use: Lessons from Drought Management in the Russian River Watershed. Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 23:(1):2017 R835867 (2017)
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Paper Womble P., Ad-hoc Drought Management on an Overallocated River: The Stanislaus River, Water Years. West & Northwest 23(1): 2017 R835867 (2017)
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Paper • Lord, B., B. Magnuson-Skeels, A. Tweet, C. Whittington, L. Adams, R. Thayer, and J. Lund, “Drought water rights analysis for California,” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE, in press. R835867 (2017)
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Paper Adams, L., J. Lund, P. Moyle, R. Quiñones, J. Herman, and T. O'Rear, “Environmental Hedging:A Theory and Method for Reconciling Reservoir Operations for Downstream Ecology and Water Supply,” Water Resources Research, in press. R835867 (2017)
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Paper Results for the 2014-2015 Water Year, report for the Office of the Delta Watermaster-State Water Resources Control Board, Center for Watershed Sciences, UC Davis. 38 pp, September, 2016. R835867 (2017)
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Presentation Escriva-Bou A. Improving California's water accounting. Presented at the Public Policy Institute of California Public Briefing, Sacramento, CA, July 21, 2016. R835867 (2016)
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Report Butsic V, McCann H, Axelson J, Gray B, Jin Y, Mount J, Stephens S, Stewart W. Improving the Health of California's Headwater Forests. San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California, September 2017, 36 pp. R835867 (2017)
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Report Chappelle C, McCann H, Jassby D, Schwabe K, Szeptycki L. Managing wastewater in a changing climate. Public Policy Institute of California. 2019. R835867 (Final)
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Report Escriva-Bou A, McCann H, Hanak E, Lund J, Gray B. Accounting for California's Water. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Institute of California, PPIC Water Policy Center, July 2016. R835867 (2016)
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Report Hanak E, Mount J, Chappelle CP. California's Latest Drought. San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California, July 2016. R835867 (2016)
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Report Hanak E, Jezdimirovic J. California's Water Market. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Institute of California, March 2016. R835867 (2016)
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Report Hanak E, Lund J, Arnold B, Escriva-Bou A, Gray B, Green S, Harter T, Howitt R, MacEwan D, Medellin-Azuara J, Moyle P, Seavy N. Water Stress and a Changing San Joaquin Valley. San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California, March 2017. R835867 (2017)
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Report Hanak E, Escriva-Bou A, Gray B, Green S, Harter T, Jezdimirovic J, Lund J, Medellín-Azuara J, Moyle P, Seavy N. Water and the future of the San Joaquin Valley. Public Policy Institute of California. 2019. R835867 (Final)
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Report McCann H, Escriva-Bou A, Schwabe K. Alternative Water Supplies. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Instute of California, February 5, 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Report Mitchell D, Hanak E, Baerenklau K, Escriva-Bou A, McCann H, Perez-Urdiales M, Schwabe K. Building Drought Resilience in California's Cities and Suburbs. San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California, June 2017. R835867 (2017)
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Report Mount J, Gray B, Chappelle C, Doolan J, Grantham T, Seavy N. Managing water for the environment during drought: lessons from Victoria, Australia. San Francisco, CA: Public Policy Institute of California, PPIC Water Policy Center, June 2016. R835867 (2016)
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Report Mount J, Hanak E, Baerenklau K, Butsic V, Chappelle C, Escriva-Bou A, Fogg G, Gartrell G, Grantham T, Gray B, Green S, Harter T, Jassby D, Jezdimirovic J, Jin Y, Lund J, McCann H, Medellin-Azuara J, Mitchell D, Moyle P, Rhoades A, Schwabe K, Seavy N, Stephens S, Swain D, Szeptycki L, Thompson B, Ullrich P, Viers J, Xu Z. Managing Drought in a Changing Climate:Four Essential Reforms. San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California, September 2018. R835867 (Final)
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Report Alvar Escriva-Bou, Henry McCann, Ellen Hanak, Jay Lund, Brian Gray Accounting for California’s Water. R835867 (2017)
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Report Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Caitrin Chappelle, Greg Gartrell, Ted Grantham, Peter Moyle, Nathaniel Seavy, Leon Szeptycki, Barton “Buzz” Thompson | November 2017, Managing California’s Freshwater Ecosystems:Lessons from the 2012-16 Drought, San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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Report July 2016 San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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Report Greg Gartrell, Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Brian GrayA, New Approach to Accounting for Environmental Water:Insights from the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, November 2017, San Francisco, CA:Public Policy Institute of California. R835867 (2017)
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