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Adrianne C. Kroepsch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, where she also serves as the NREP Graduate Program Co-Director. Her work centers on environmental governance in the American West, with a focus on water, unconventional oil and gas, and wildfire. She is deeply engaged in interdisciplinary research that bridges environmental policy, political ecology, and science and technology studies.
- PhD in Environmental Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder
- MS in Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder
- BS in Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
Her research explores the politics of environmental knowledge, particularly in hydrosocial systems. She investigates how decisions are made under uncertainty, how expertise is claimed and contested, and how governance adapts to climate change and resource extraction. Key themes include groundwater monitoring, cloud seeding, hydraulic fracturing, and post-wildfire water resilience. She employs qualitative methods such as interviews, discourse analysis, and ethnography.
Her recent publications span journals like Water Alternatives, Geoforum, Environmental Communication, and Energy Research & Social Science. The articles reflect a consistent focus on environmental governance, scalar politics, and the interplay between science and policy. Trends include the institutionalization of uncertain technologies (e.g., cloud seeding), the politics of measurement (e.g., unmonitored groundwater), and community responses to energy and wildfire risks.
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Fellowship
- Edna Bailey Sussman Fellowship
- Hydrologic Science & Engineering Fellowship
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Dr. Kroepsch actively mentors graduate and undergraduate students, particularly in the Hydrology, Policy, and Management and Natural Resources & Energy Policy programs. She has secured significant external funding from the National Science Foundation, USDA, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her outreach includes public writing for High Country News and The Conversation, and she co-developed a citizen science groundwater monitoring guide. She is involved in interdisciplinary collaborations across engineering, hydrology, and social sciences.
She leads a dynamic research group focused on environmental governance, with current projects on dead pool scenarios in hydropower systems, the politics of cloud seeding, and collaborative watershed management for wildfire resilience. Her lab emphasizes interdisciplinary training and public engagement.
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