Publications 2022-2026
Adhikari, P., Geerts, B., Rahimi, S., Shuman, B., Smith, K., & Day, K. (2025). Global warming induced changes in extreme precipitation in the western United States: Projections from dynamically downscaled CMIP6 GCMs. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116113. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116113
Adhikari, P., & Geerts, B. (2025). Climatology of cold-season supercooled cloud liquid water in the western United States, according to a 4 km resolution climate reconstruction. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
Adhikari, P., B. Geerts, S. Rahimi-Esfarjani, K. Smith, B. N. Shuman, and T. L. Schneider,
2024: Evaluation of the Mountain Hydroclimate across the Western United States in Dynamically
Downscaled Climate Models. J. Hydrometeor., 25, 1877–1894, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-24-0063.1.
Albeke SE, Case NG, Ewers S, Hamerlinck JD, Kirkpatrick W, Merkle JA, Todd L. 2023.
Geospatial Data Integration Middleware for Exploratory Analytics Addressing Regional
Natural Resource Grand Challenges in the US Mountain West. In: HARNESSING THE GEOSPATIAL DATA REVOLUTION FOR SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS. Vol.
15. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Baldock, J. R., Al-Chokhachy, R., & Walters, A. (2025). Groundwater structures fish growth and production across a riverscape. Freshwater Biology, 70(11).
Bukovsky, M. S., et al. (2026). Wind energy futures: Which locations across the western U.S. are most resilient to
environmental change? Earth’s Future.
Collins, S., Cook, L., Gunshenan, C., Inouye, M., Kohli, M., & Olson, J. (2025). Braiding partner interests into a youth water quality monitoring program. Parks Stewardship Forum.
Dixit, A., Rahimi, S., Huang, L., Musselman, K. N., Vano, J. A., Addor, N., & Lehner,
F. (2025). High-resolution models better simulate historical snowpack declines in the Upper Colorado
River Basin. Environmental Research Letters, 21(5), 054012.
Furniss, T. J., Hessburg, P. F., Churchill, D., Wigmosta, M., Povak, N., Duan, Z.,
et al. (2024). Wildfire and forest treatments mitigate—but cannot forestall—climate-driven changes
in streamflow regimes in a western US mountain landscape. Environmental Research Letters, 20(8), 084039.
Clare I. Gunshenan, Martha C. Inouye, Sarah Collins, Leslie Cook, Megan Kohli, Julia Olson. (2025). Braiding Partner Interests into a Youth Water Quality Monitoring Program. PSF Park Stewardship Forum. Vol. 41, #2 (May 2025)
Andrea Hagadorn, Martha Inouye, Clare Gunshenan, Nicholas W. Case, Luke Todd
Empowering Students’ Earth System Sensemaking Through Data-Driven, Place-Relevant
Learning
The Earth Scientist Winter 2025
Hofstedt, P., Hansen, K., & Bastian, C. (2025, August 25). How climate may affect angler trips and expenditures in Teton County, Wyoming (Extension Bulletin No. B-1407). University of Wyoming Extension.
Povak, N. A., Prichard, S. J., Hessburg, P. F., Griffey, V., Salter, R. B., Furniss, T. J., et al. (2024). Evidence for strong bottom-up controls on fire severity during extreme events. Fire Ecology, 21(1), 27.
Rahimi, S., et al. (2026). Assessing the resolution-dependency of simulated snowpack trends in the Upper Colorado
River Basin. Environmental Research Letters.
Rahimi, S., et al. (2026). Examining the robustness of weakened orographic influence on precipitation in downscaled
climate projections over the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters.
Rahimi-Esfarjani, S. R., et al. (2024). Bias correction choices strongly shape California's projected megaflood risk. ESS Open Archive.
Rock, L.A., Shoup, B., Ajowele, J.A. et al. Watershed Responses to Climate Change-Driven Disturbances in Temperate Montane Ecosystems of the Western United States. Ecosystems 27, 1123–1142 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-024-00942-9
Schollaert, C. L., Camponuri, S., Couper, L., Head, J. R., Heaney, A., Rahimi, S., et al. (2025). Choice of downscaled climate product matters: Projections of valley fever seasonality in a warming climate. GeoHealth, 10(1), e2025GH001624.
Shuman, B., & Stefanescu, I. (2025). A North American “warming hole” and extreme Europe heat during abrupt Holocene cooling
events in the North Atlantic. Nature Communications.
Siler, N., Koszuta, M., Rahimi, S., Norris, J., Hall, A., & Ullrich, P. (2025). Examining the robustness of weakened orographic influence on precipitation in downscaled
climate projections over the western US. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(1), e2025GL119251.
Wang, B., Bass, B., Hall, A., Rahimi, S., & Huang, L. (2025). Disentangling climate and policy uncertainties for the Colorado River post-2026 operations.
Nature Communications, 16(1), 8625.
Willard, S., Gennet, S., Anderson, T., Knapp, C., Lavallee, J., Ritten, J., Feldman,
E., et al. (2025). Examining climate benefits from rangeland and pasture management practices in the
United States: Opportunities, tradeoffs, and information gaps. npj Sustainable Agriculture, 3(1), 63.
Rebecca Witinok-Huber, Corrine N. Knapp, Jewell Lund, Weston Eaton, Brent E. Ewers, Anderson R. de Figueiredo, Bart Geerts, Clare I. Gunshenan, Martha C. Inouye, Mary L. Keller, Nichole M. Lumadue, Caitlin M. Ryan, Bryan N. Shuman, Tarissa Spoonhunter, David G. Williams, Does knowledge co-production influence adaptive capacity?: A framework for evaluation, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 164, 2025, 104008, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104008
Witinok-Huber, R., Peters, E., Hansen, K., Kelley, W., Daniels, J., & Most, M. (2026). Agricultural Technical Service Providers and Rural Resilience: Adapting to Weather, Climate, and Water Challenges. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education, 33(1), 62-88.
Adhikari, P., Rahimi, S., Geerts, B., & Smith, K. (submitted). Evaluation of CONUS404 cold-season precipitation and snowpack over the mountainous western United States. Journal of Hydrometeorology.
Baldock, J., et al. (submitted). Accounting for groundwater in daily spatial stream temperature models: Implications for native cold-water fish. Regional Environmental Change.
Baldock, J., T. Cline, W. Fetzer, and A. Walters. In review. Changing climate and water management drive cold-water fish productivity across a river network. Journal of Applied Ecology
Bastian, C., Hansen, K., & Hofstedt, P. (submitted). Climate change impacts on fishing trip preferences and expenditures in the Intermountain West. North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
de Figueiredo, A.R., Keller, M., Knapp, C., Witinok-Huber, R., Ryan, C., Hamerlinck, J. (submitted). Adapting in the "Billionaire Wilderness:" How Immigrants and Farmers in the Snake River Headwaters Interpret Climate Futures and Envision Adaptation. Regional Environmental Change
Finnoff, D., & Fletcher, I. (submitted). Dynamic adjustments of Jackson Lake dam releases in response to climate change. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Hagadorn, A., Inouye, M., & Ewers, B. E. Rahimi, S., Bourque, M. (submitted). Navigating scientific uncertainty in secondary science classrooms: A case study with three teachers. Frontiers in Education.
Hansen, K., Peters, E., & Witinok-Huber, R. (submitted). Agricultural technical service providers and rural resilience: Adapting to weather, climate, and water challenges. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education.
Knapp, C., & Pokharel, P. (submitted). Relational values of water: Community perspectives and water policy in Wyoming. Regional Environmental Change.
Knapp, C. (submitted). Climate change in the cowboy state: Risk perceptions in disadvantaged Wyoming counties. Climatic Change.
Rahimi, S., et al. (submitted). Anthropogenic warming intensifies the most extreme wind-driven fire danger in southern California. Earth’s Future.
Rahimi, S., et al. (submitted). Bias correction reshapes the future risk of California's megaflood. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Rahimi, S., et al. (submitted). Snow-eater heatwaves of the western United States. Science Advances. Preprint
Baldock, Jeffrey R (2024). Biocomplexity of Yellowstone cutthroat trout: from individuals to metapopulations, Ph.D., Program in Ecology and Evolution, May 2024.
Hagadorn, A. (2026). Navigating Scientific Uncertainty in High School Classrooms: A Case Study of Three Intermountain West Teachers. Master's thesis, University of Wyoming
Hofstedt, P. (2024). Angler preferences under alternative climate scenarios in northwestern Wyoming. Master’s thesis, University of Wyoming.
Pokharel, P. (2024). Using storytelling to understand recreationists’ and farmers’ relation to water in the Snake and Green River watersheds. Master’s thesis, University of Wyoming.
Surber, C. N. (2025). Navigating the River of Change: Rancher perceptions and responses to social-ecological changes in Wyoming's Wind River Basin. Master’s thesis, University of Wyoming.
Loss, P. (2025). Integrating climate projections and economic models to assess adaptive ranching strategies in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. Master’s thesis, University of Wyoming.
Albeke SE, Case NW, Ewers S, Hamerlinck JD, Kirkpatrick W, Merkle JA, Todd L. Geospatial Data Integration Middleware for Exploratory Analytics Addressing Regional Natural Resource Grand Challenges in the US Mountain West. In: I-GUIDE Forum 2023: Harnessing the Geospatial Data Revolution for Sustainability Solutions. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Libraries; 2023.
Albeke SE, Case NW, Ewers SL, Todd L. 2023. Navigating the Future: Lessons Learned During Development of a Climate Dashboard for Wyoming. OFWIM 2023 Annual Meeting
Albeke SE, Case NW, Ewers SL, Todd L. 2023. Navigating the Future: Lessons Learned During Development of a Climate Dashboard for Wyoming. WyGEO 2023 Annual Meeting
Albeke, Shannon E., and Jason K. Hawes. 2025. “Spatial Science and Data Sharing across Disciplines: Insights from the Wyoming Adapting to Climate-Water Transitions Project.” UCGIS Annual Symposium. June
Albeke, Shannon E., and Peyton Loss. 2026. “Using WyAdapt to Understand Potential Shifts in Water Availability.” Fremont County Farm and Ranch Days. February.
Albeke, Shannon E., Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck, Nicholas W. Case, Samantha L. Ewers, Luke Todd, Bart Geerts, Stefan R. Rahimi-Esfarjani, et al. 2024. “Communicating Quantitative Climate Change Information to Stakeholders and the Public: Opportunities and Challenges of a Regional Web Portal for Wyoming.” University Consortium of Geographic Information Science 2024 Annual Meeting. June.
Albeke, Shannon E., Nicholas W. Case, Samantha Ewers, William Kirkpatrick, and Luke Todd. 2026. “Open Raster Data: Methods and Examples for Democratizing Climate Related Data.” Wyoming Open Science Data Summit. January.
Albeke, Shannon E., Nicholas W. Case, Samantha L. Ewers, Luke Todd, Bart Geerts, Stefan R. Rahimi-Esfarjani, Bryan N. Shuman, et al. 2023. “Communicating Quantitative Climate Change Information to Stakeholders and the Public: Opportunities and Challenges of a Regional Web Portal for Wyoming.” AGU 2023 Annual Meeting. December.
Geerts, B., Albeke, S. E., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S., Shuman, B. N., Adhikari, P., Williams, D. G., ... & Bukovsky, M. S. (2023, December). Communicating quantitative climate change information to stakeholders and the public: opportunities and challenges of a regional web portal: a case study for Wyoming. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, No. 1011, pp. SY31E-1011).
Inouye, M., Gunshenan, C., Cook, L., Collins, S. M., & Peacock, K. (2024, June). Emergent, Co-produced Community Science Projects Resulting from a Teacher-Researcher Knowledge Exchange. In Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon24) (pp. 228-02).
Loss, Peyton, Kristiana M. Hansen, Chris Bastian, Stefan R. Rahimi-Esfarjani, and Shannon E. Albeke. 2026. “Potential Production Risks from Climate Change on Intermountain West Ranches.” Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting. May 1.
Lund, J., Bukovsky, M. S., Ewers, B. E., Geerts, B., Knapp, C. N., Konrad, S. K., ... & Witinok-Huber, R. (2024). Empowering transdisciplinary research integration: perspectives from the Wyoming Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition (WyACT) project. AGU24.
Lund, Jewell, Corrine N. Knapp, Rebecca Witinok-Huber, Wes Eaton, Martha C. Inouye, Shannon E. Albeke, Brent E. Ewers, et al. 2024. “Operationalizing Knowledge Co-Production to Support Western Wyoming’s Headwaters Communities to Understand, Anticipate, and Prepare for Future Changes in Water Availability.” American Geophysical Union WaterSciCon24.
Walters, A., J. Baldock, E. Rieger, and N. Clancy, R. Sando, R. McShane, and J. Lund. 2024. Co-produced research to understand climate change effects and adaptive capacity of native stream fishes. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting.
Williams DG, Knapp CN, Shuman BN, Geerts B, Ewers BE, Albeke SE, Bukovsky MS, Collins SM, Hamerlinck JD, Lund J. 2023. Wyoming socio-environmental systems observatory network (WY-SEaSON): Detecting climate change impacts in Wyoming’s mountains. American Geophysical Union
Williams, D. G., Knapp, C. N., Shuman, B. N., Geerts, B., Ewers, B. E., Albeke, S. E., ... & Lund, J. (2023, December). Wyoming Socio-Environmental Systems Observatory Network (WY-SEaSON): Detecting Climate Change Impacts in Wyoming's Mountains. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2023, pp. GC51D-08).
Williams, D., Knapp, C., Shuman, B., Geerts, B., Bukovsky, M., Ewers, B., ... & Paige, G. (2024). Detecting Climate Change Impacts on Socio-Hydrological Systems in the Rocky Mountains, USA. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024 (EGU24), 20504.
Williams, David G., Corrine N. Knapp, Bryan N. Shuman, Bart Geerts, Melissa S. Bukovsky, Brent E. Ewers, Shannon E. Albeke, et al. 2024. “Detecting Climate Change Impacts on Socio-Hydrological Systems in the Rocky Mountains, USA.” EGU General Assembly 2024.
Teacher Research Knowledge Exchange. (2026). Teacher researcher knowledge exchange educational resources. WY-Adapt.
Ryan, Caitlin M. 2024. "The Upper Snake River’s Climate Future: Scenario Planning for Uncertainty." Research Brief. University of Wyoming, Laramie: Wyoming Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition. DOI: 10.15786/wyoscholar/9899
Adhikari, P., Rahimi, S., Geerts, B., & Shuman, B. (2024). How Much Warmer Will Jackson Hole Become in the 21st Century?
Adhikari, P., Rahimi, S., Geerts, B., & Shuman, B. (2024). What Will Happen to Snow Around Jackson Hole in the 21st Century?
Shuman, B. (2024). How Are Jackson Hole Temperatures Changing?
