• Safarpour, H. and Spearing, L. (2024). “Temporal Public Perceptions and Experiences during Water Service Disruptions: The Case of Jackson, MS.” Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ad1bb8 
• Sutradhar, U., Spearing, L., and Derrible, S. (2024). “Depopulation and associated challenges for US cities by 2100.” Nature Cities. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-023-00011-7
• 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
• 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 
• 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 
• 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 
• Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K., and Kaminsky, J. (2023). “Small Drinking Water Utilities’ Resilience: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” ES&T Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.2c00641 
•  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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113507 
•  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
• 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 
•  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
• 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. 148 (7). https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0002313 
• 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
• 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, 148 (6). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001561 
• 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. 148 (6). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001560
• 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. 1 (11). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00176
• Berglund, E. Z., Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K. M.,… 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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