Sarah Bardeen
Senior Center Communications Manager
Sarah Bardeen is the senior center communications manager at the PPIC Water Policy Center. She helps develop and implement effective programs and products that expand the audience for PPIC’s water, land, and air research. Previously she worked for International Rivers, where she was communications director. She has also consulted for a variety of organizations, including Urban Habitat, The Sunrise Project, Reclaim Finance, and East Bay Housing Organizations. She holds an MA/MFA in English and creative writing from San Francisco State University and a BA in comparative literature from Oberlin College.
Blog Post · August 14, 2024
The Chumash Tribe’s Long Struggle to Protect California’s Coastal Waters
Blog Post · August 5, 2024
How Have California’s Water Issues Changed in the Past Thirty Years?
Blog Post · July 22, 2024
Rethinking Stormwater—From Waste to Treasure
November 2023
Priorities for California’s Water
July 22, 2024
Rethinking Stormwater—From Waste to Treasure
April 23, 2024
What Are Baseflow Droughts—and Why Should We Care?
April 8, 2024
The Holy Grail of a Zero-Carbon Home
April 1, 2024
The Future of Fog
March 18, 2024
What’s Worse Than a Flood? A Debris Flow
February 12, 2024
Video: Eel River—Reconnecting Salmon and People
February 6, 2024
Were December’s Coastal Floods a Harbinger of Things to Come?
January 30, 2024
Making Sense of the Floods in San Diego
January 22, 2024
Slowing Climate Change by Capturing Carbon
December 5, 2023
New Progress in California Water Rights Reform
November 20, 2023
Video: Stewarding California’s Wet Years
November 15, 2023
Are Carbon Offsets Actually Working?
October 23, 2023
How to Keep Buildings Cool in California’s Warming Climate
October 16, 2023
Seasonal Weather Predictions Are Elusive in California
October 11, 2023
Navigating the Hope (and Hype) around Solar Canals
October 3, 2023
Is Agrivoltaics Right for California?
September 26, 2023
Video: Managing Water and Farmland Transitions in the San Joaquin Valley
September 5, 2023
Exploring the Yurok Tribe’s Management of the Klamath River
August 21, 2023
Educating the Judiciary on Water and Climate Change
August 15, 2023
Fostering Fairness in Flood Risk Management
July 10, 2023
Defining Community Is Slippery on the Eel River
June 28, 2023
Saving Steelhead—and Stitching a Community Back Together
June 21, 2023
Renewing California’s Groundwater: Ready, Set, Recharge!
June 5, 2023
Restoring Rivers, Restoring Community
May 1, 2023
Video: Making the Most of a Wet Year
April 26, 2023
The Toll of the San Joaquin Valley Floods: “It’s Not Pretty”
April 24, 2023
The Mad Dash to Save Dairy Cattle as Tulare Basin Flooded
March 28, 2023
Saving Precious Water in the Colorado River’s Upper Basin
February 24, 2023
New Horizons for Senior Fellow Alvar Escriva-Bou
February 6, 2023
Can Nine Atmospheric Rivers Recharge California’s Groundwater?
January 19, 2023
Tackling “Forever Chemicals” in the Water Supply
January 17, 2023
Can We Capture More Water in the Delta?
December 12, 2022
California’s 2022 Fire Season: “A Remarkably Different Year”
November 28, 2022
Video: Surplus and Shortage—California’s Water Balancing Act
November 22, 2022
The Troubled History—and Uncertain Future—of the Salton Sea
November 9, 2022
Video: Solar Development in the San Joaquin Valley
October 24, 2022
Beavers: The Unlikely Climate Hero
October 10, 2022
Introducing the 2022–23 PPIC CalTrout Ecosystem Fellows
September 20, 2022
Water for Wildlife Refuges: 30 Years of the CVPIA
September 12, 2022
A New Tool Could Help Protect 30% of the State’s Waters by 2030
July 19, 2022
Our Experts Weigh In on the Drought
June 21, 2022
Making Water Affordable for Low-Income Households
April 26, 2022
Video: Farming in a State of Extremes
March 22, 2022
What Every Californian Should Know About Groundwater
February 28, 2022
Reforming Water Rights in California
February 8, 2022
Standing at the Cusp: The Klamath River Edges Closer to Dam Removals
January 24, 2022
A Shrinking River Inspires Growing Collaboration
January 18, 2022
A Freezer Full of Eyeballs (and Other Oddities) Animate the Quest to Save California’s Salmon
January 10, 2022
Dangers Lurk in the San Joaquin Valley’s Dust
December 8, 2021
What’s Really Important? Putting Recent Water News into Perspective
November 29, 2021
After Wildfire, How Do We Rebuild for a “Resilient Recovery”?
November 22, 2021
Video: Seizing the Drought
November 15, 2021
Consolidating Small Water Systems Is a Springboard to Water Justice
October 18, 2021
Video: Managing Water in a Changing Climate
October 5, 2021
Video: Groundwater and Urban Growth in the San Joaquin Valley
September 28, 2021
Video: Improving California’s Water Market
September 27, 2021
A Culture of Innovation: Moulton Niguel
August 23, 2021
Video: Advancing Ecosystem Restoration with Smarter Permitting
August 9, 2021
Why Is the Delta Starving?
July 26, 2021
What It Means to Store Water for the Environment
June 28, 2021
How Does Cannabis Cultivation Affect California’s Water?
June 1, 2021