selected publications

peer-reviewed

(*asterisks denote student authors I have mentored)

2024

• Kroepsch, A. (2024). Monitored But Not Metered: How groundwater pumping has evaded accounting (and accountability) in the Western United States. Water Alternatives. Special issue on The Politics of Water Quantification.

• *Holmes, R., Kroepsch, A., Singha, K. (2024). River Communities, Disaster Science, and the Politics of Water Safety: Understanding Water Quality Debates in the Aftermath of the Gold King Mine Spill. Environmental Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2024.2390064

2023

• Seitz, D., Cockayne, D., Good, R., Hannum, K., Kroepsch, A., Rhodes, M., Swab, J., Worth, N. (2023). Navigating STEMification for Critical Geography Educators: Finding Leverage in Classroom and Institutional Pedagogies. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2023.2261863

• *Landahl, P., Kroepsch, A. (2023). Adaptive Co-Management and Hydroclimatic Change: Examining the Voluntary Flow Management Program in the Upper Arkansas River Basin, Colorado. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2174089

2022

• Kroepsch, A., Clifford, K. (2022). On Environments of Not-Knowing: How Some Environmental Spaces and their Circulations are Made Inscrutable. Geoforum, 132: 171-181. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.009

2021

• Kroepsch, A., *Ring, C., *Clark, J. (2021). Source-to-sea river journeys and their politics of scale and knowledge production: examining Colorado River expeditions from the United States through Mexico. Water Alternatives 14(2): 469-490. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol14/v14issue2/624-a14-2-2/file

• Kroepsch, A. (2021). When Oil Meets Water: Debating the Hydraulic Fracturing Energy-Water Nexus in Colorado. In Cortesi, L. & Joy, K.J. (Eds.), Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-37175-3

• Jacquet, J., Pathak, R., Haggerty, J., Theodori, G., Kroepsch, A. (2021). Research Fatigue in Unconventional Oil and Gas Boomtowns: Perceptions, Strategies, and Obstacles Among Social Scientists Collecting Human Subjects Data. Energy Research & Social Science, 73: 101918. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.101918

2020

• Taylor, S., Walsh, K.B., Theodori, G.L., Jacquet, J., Kroepsch, A., Haggerty, J. (2020). Addressing Research Fatigue in Energy Communities: New Tools to Prepare Researchers for Better Community Engagement. Society & Natural Resources. doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1866724

• Walsh, K.B., Haggerty, J., Jacquet, J., Theodori, G., Kroepsch, A. (2020). Uneven Impacts and Uncoordinated Studies: A Systematic Review of Research on Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science, 66: 101465. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101465

2019

• *Blount, W.K., Kroepsch, A. (2019). Improving the Resilience of Water Resources after Wildfire through Collaborative Watershed Management: A Case Study from Colorado. Case Studies in the Environment, 3(1): 1-11. doi.org/10.1525/cse.2019.sc.960306

• Kroepsch, A. (2019). Irrigating Underground: Assembling, Disassembling, and Reassembling the Hydraulic Fracturing Energy-Water Nexus. Geoforum, 104: 201-211. doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.028

• Kroepsch, A., Maniloff, P., Adgate, J., McKenzie, L., Dickinson, K. (2019). Environmental Justice in Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Production: A Critical Review and Research Agenda. Environmental Science & Technology. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b00209

• Martin, J., Epstein, K., Bergmann, N., Kroepsch, A., Gosnell, H., Robbins, P. (2019). Revisiting and Revitalizing Political Ecology in the American West. Geoforum. doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.006

2018

• Haggerty, J., Kroepsch, A., Bills Walsh, K., Smith, K., Bowen, D.W. (2018). Geographies of Impact and the Impacts of Geography: Unconventional Oil and Gas in the American West.  The Extractive Industries and Society, 5(4): 69-633. doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2018.07.002 

• Kroepsch, A.  (2018). Horizontal Drilling, Changing Patterns of Extraction, and Piecemeal Participation: Urban Hydrocarbon Governance in Colorado.  Energy Policy, 120: 469-480. 

• Kroepsch, A.  (2018). Groundwater Modeling and Governance: Contesting and Building (Sub)Surface Worlds in Colorado's Northern San Juan Basin. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 4: 43-66. DOI:10.17351/ests2018.208

2017

• Kroepsch, A., Koebele, E. Crow, D., Berggren, J., Dixon, L., Huda, J. (2017).  Remembering the Past, Anticipating the Future: Community Learning & Adaptation Discourse in Media Commemorations of Catastrophic Wildfires in Colorado. Environmental Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2017.1371053

• Crow, D., Lawhon, L., Berggren, J., Huda, J., Koebele, E., Kroepsch, A. (2017). A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Wildfire Policy Discussions in Two Colorado Communities.  Politics & Policy, 45(4): 626-656.

2016

• Kroepsch, A.  (2016).  New Rig On the Block: Spatial Policy Discourse and the New Suburban Geography of Energy Production on Colorado's Front Range.  Environmental Communication, 10:3, 337-351. 

• D. Crow, Berggren, J., Lawhon, L., Koebele, E., Kroepsch, A., Hudi, J. (2016). Local Media Coverage of Wildfire Disasters: An Analysis of Problems and Solutions in Policy Narratives.  Environment and Planning C, 35(5): 849-871. 

2015 & Prior

• Crow, D., Lawhon, L.A., Koebele, E., Kroepsch, A., Schild, R., Huda, J. (2015).  Information, Resources, and Management Priorities: Agency Outreach and Mitigation of Wildfire Risk in the Western United States.  Risk, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy, 6(1), 69-90. 

• Kobele, E., Crow, D.A., Dixon, L., Kroepsch, A., Schild, R., Clifford, K.  (2015).  Wildfire Outreach and Citizen Entrepreneurs in the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Cross-Case Analysis in Colorado.  Society & Natural Resources, 28: 918-923.  

• Nisbet, M.C., Brossard, D., and Kroepsch, A. (2003). Framing Science: The Stem Cell Controversy in an Age of Press/Politics.  The International Journal of Press/Politics, 8: 36-70.

public engagement & Outreach

• Haggerty et al. (2020). Engaging in Energy Communities: The Role of the Researcher. A Workbook and Planning Guide. Montana State University.

• A.Kroepsch. (2018). Traversing The Mighty Colorado River. High Country News. 

• A.Kroepsch. (2017). Chasing the flame: Does media coverage of wildfires probe deeply enough? The Conversation.

• A.Bernier, Kroepsch, A., *Rempel, W., & Limerick, P. (2016). Spanish translation of A Glossary for Citizen-Explorers Bravely Entering the Controversy over Hydraulic Fracturing. Boulder, CO: Center of the American West and the AirWaterGas-Sustainability Research Network.

• Kroepsch, A., Rempel, W., Limerick, P. (2014). A Glossary for People Bravely Entering the Controversy over Hydraulic Fracturing. Boulder, CO: Center of the American West and the AirWaterGas-Sustainability Research Network.

• Kroepsch, A., Williams, M.W. (2014).  Monitoring Water Quality and Quantity in Areas of Oil and Natural Gas Development: A Guide for Water Well Users.  Boulder, CO: Colorado Water & Energy Research Center.

white papers & REPORTS

• *Major, K., Kroepsch, A. (2020). Wildfire Planning and Risk Mitigation: Increasing the Resilience of Public Drinking Water Systems.

• Barkow, L., Ferguson, M., Hanson, J.L., Kroepsch, A., Limerick, P.  (2013).  The Nation Possessed: The Conflicting Claims on America’s Public Lands and the Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Founding of the General Land Office. Boulder, CO: Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation.

• Williams, M., Kroepsch, A., Nydick, K., Gianniny, G., Vansickle, J., Peltz, C. (2010).  Isotopic and Geochemical Analysis of Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions at the Fruitland Outcrop:  An Addition to the 4M Project.  A study commissioned by the San Juan Public Lands Center (BLM/USFS), Durango, CO.   

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