[1] She worked with ecologists, design professionals, engineers, communities, and policy-makers on water remediation/public art projects for parks, wetlands, rivers, and urban stormwater runoff.

In the early 1980s at Oscarsson Hood Gallery in New York, Brookner exhibited cast bronze sculptures that were based on the movement of water and growth in plants.

Accompanying the installation was a video documenting Brookner's conversations and forty Farm Security Administration photographs from the 1930s (selected by Susan Harris Edwards)[7] depicting the living and working conditions of cotton farmers during the Depression.

[9] This sound, sculpture, and drawing installation explored the corporeality of speech in the context of Catalonia where regional languages, prohibited and politicized under Franco's regime, intersect with homeland, territory, and power.

[3] This research led Brookner to develop her Biosculptures: living water filtration systems that unite the conceptual and aesthetic capacities of sculpture with ecological function.

[13] The first Biosculpture, Prima Lingua, was commissioned in 1995 by Appalachian State University for the exhibition "Views From Ground Level, Art and Ecology in the Late Nineties."

I’m You, commissioned in 2000 by Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, for the exhibition "Abundant Invention," resembles human hands but is based on microscopic moss structures.

These landscape-scale public projects demonstrate how stormwater and other polluted waters can be reclaimed and used to restore habitat in parks, wetlands, rivers, former sewage treatment lagoons, and other contexts.

[15] Veden Taika consists of three floating islands that provide safe habitat for nesting birds, improve water quality through phytoremediation with native wetland plants and subsurface aeration, and create an aesthetic focal point in a former sewage treatment lagoon.

[16] Brookner's work at this LEED gold-certified building captures stormwater runoff from the roof with two sculptural rock filtration systems: the Coyote Creek and Thumbprint Filters.

[17] Brookner and Ciotti were part of the design team to enhance water flow, flood control systems, and recreational facilities for the redesign of Dreher Park.

[20] This project consists of over 100 Biosculptures in constructed wetlands that treat stormwater runoff from 3 acres of ballfields and parking lots to lessen pollutant impact on the adjacent endangered Mill Creek.