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Correa, L. L., Pierce, S. A., Bennett, P. C., & Franks, M. A. (2010). Geothermal Exploration and Community Perception: Episodic Change and Science-based Communication in a Chilean Case Paper presented at the ISSRM 2010: 16th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management Tyranny of ‘Or’: Conservation or Development? Preservation or Utilization?

Dunckel, A. E., Cardenas, M. B., Sawyer, A. H., & Bennett, P. C. (2009). High-resolution in-situ thermal imaging of microbial mats at El Tatio Geyser, Chile shows coupling between community color and temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, 5.

Landrum, J. T., Bennett, P. C., Engel, A. S., Alsina, M. A., Pasten, P. A., & Milliken, K. (2009). Partitioning geochemistry of arsenic and antimony, El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile. Applied Geochemistry, 24(4), 664-676.

Phoenix, V. R., Bennett, P. C., Engel, A. S., Tyler, S. W., & Ferris, F. G. (2006). Chilean high-altitude hot-spring sinters: a model system for UV screening mechanisms by early Precambrian cyanobacteria. Geobiology, 4(15), 1472-4669.

Pierce, S. A. (2006). Groundwater Decision Support: Linking causal narratives, numerical models, and combinatorial search techniques to determine available yield for an aquifer system. Unpublished Doctoral, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin.

Pierce, S. A. (2008, September 20-24, 2008). Pieces of a Puzzle: Why Transdisciplinary Socio‐technical Tools are Necessary to Address Water Resource Policy. Paper presented at the Meeting of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, Arizona Hydrological Society, and 3rd International Professional Geology Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Pierce, S. A. (2009).

Geothermal Exploration and Community Perception: Episodic Change and Science-based Communication in a Chilean Case (Vol. $12,000). II Region Chile: Geology Foundation, Jackson School of Geosciences.