Submissions from 2023
Assessing Three Decades of Urban Garden Bee Studies, Nicole Bell
Native Seed Germination Trials at the Rae Selling Berry Seed Bank, Gabriel E. Campbell, Roxy Olsson, April Hersey, Stephanie Meikle, and Kris Freitag
Climate Change Policies and Older Adults: An Analysis of States’ Climate Adaptation Plans, Bryant Carlson, Jacklyn N. Kohon, Paula Carder, Dani Himes, Eiji Toda, and Katsuya Tanaka
The Project‑Partnership Cycle: managing city‑university partnerships for urban sustainability and resilience transformations, Liliana Elizabeth Caughman, Fletcher Beaudoin, and Lauren Withycombe Keeler
Spatial Analysis of Streamflow Trends in Burned Watersheds across the western contiguous United States, Heejun Chang and Will B. Long
Urban sustainability Implementation and Indicators in the United States: A systematic review, Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadka, and Idowu Ajibade
Reduced Fire Severity offers Near-term Buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States, Kimberly T. Davis, Marcos D. Robles, Kerry B. Kemp, Teresa Chapman, Philip E. Higuera, Kerry L. Metlen, Jamie L. Peeler, Andres Holz, and multiple additional authors
Uneven Distribution of Biodiversity is Shaped by Inequality and Racial Segregation in the Age of Digital Information, Diego Soto Ellis
Multicopter Drone Mass Distribution Impacts on Viability, Performance, and Sustainability, Miguel Figliozzi
Homelessness, Water Access, and Environmental Justice in an Urban Environment, Alicia Gamble
Participatory Mapping of Tree Equity, Preferences, and Environmental Justice in Portland, OR, Katharine Vezin Gregory
Wildfire Risk Governance from the bottom up: linking local planning processes in fragmented landscapes, Matthew Hamilton, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Cody Evers
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium (2023), Lori Hennings
Why Didn’t the Salmon Cross the Road? Occurrence and Treatment of a Newly Discovered Tire Chemical, Katie A. Holzer
Creating a Resilient Regional Food System, Megan Horst, Meg Grzybowski, Carol Chang, Sonja McCormick, Malcolm Shabazz Hoover, Michelle Week, Kimberly Zueli, Stephanie Clark Haynes, Gloria Lee, and Jacobsen Valentine
Perspectives from Frontline Organizations in the Portland Metro Region On Addressing Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Megan Horst, Meg Grzybowski, and Huijun Tan
Indigenous Water Justice: Theory, Gaps, and Opportunities for Application, Ruby Howard
Cultivating Joy: Play, Rest, and Connection in Regenerative Cycles, Tim D. Howe
A West Coast Estuarine Case Study: A Novel, Predictive Approach to Monitor Estuarine Eutrophication, Vedant V. Janapaty
Drivers and Dynamics of Phytoplankton Communities and Harmful Algal Blooms in Mountain Lakes, Lara Stephanie Jansen
Exploring and Testing Wildfire Risk Decision-Making in the Face of Deep Uncertainty, Bart R. Johnson, Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, David Hulse, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and John P. Bolte
Lightning-Ignited Wildfires in the Western United States: Ignition Precipitation and Associated Environmental Conditions, Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov, John T. Abatzoglou, Paul Loikith, Nicholas J. Nauslar, Yianna Sotirios Bekris, and Deepti Singh
Social Dimensions of Landscape Sustainability: Lessons from Diverse U.S. Cities, Kelli L. Larson
Climate Change Proposal: Coupling Equity and Scientific Rigor in Facing Global Warming, Rebecca McNicholas
Leaving Kindergarten Well: First-grade Readiness in Outdoor Waldorf Kindergartens, Garry H. Oak
An Integrated Analysis of Urban Sustainability in Portland: Issues, Indicators, Stakeholders, and Geospatial Assessment, Arun Kumar Pallathadka
Dam Removal, Habitat Restoration, & Community Engagement on Kellogg Creek, Neil Schulman and Amy van Riessen
Contextualizing Patterns in Short-term Disaster Recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change, Jeremy Spoon, Drew Gerkey, and Alisa Rai
Developing and Testing Low-Cost Air Cleaners for Safer Spaces During Wildfires, Brett William Stinson
Submissions from 2022
Introduction: Climate Change and Planned Retreat, Idowu Jola Ajibade and A. R. Siders
Heat, Wildfire and Energy Demand: An Examination of Residential Buildings and Community Equity, Chrissi Argyro Antonopoulos
Fire Effects on Diversity Patterns of the Understory Communities of Araucaria-Nothofagus Forests, Paola Arroyo-Vargas, Andres Holz, and Thomas T. Veblen
Feeling the Heat: Climate Change is Becoming a Big Factor in Business Decision-making, Risk Assessment, Candace Beeke, Sahan Dissanayake, Jennifer Price, and Moss Adams
Environmental Decision Support Systems as a Service: Demonstration on CE-QUAL-W2 Model, Yoav Bornstein, Ben Dayan, Amir Cahn, and Scott A. Wells
Spreading Information not Invasive Species: Oregon Invasive Species Council’s online information hub to inform, share, and collaborate, Nicole L. Brooks, Alexander Staunch, and Jalene Littlejohn
Climate Justice and Racial and Gender Equity: Creating and Promoting Featured Collections, Sherry Buchanan
Fostering Resiliency and Care Integrating Self-Compassion Into a Graduate Course, Heather L. Burns
The Water-Energy Nexus with Alida Cantor, Alida Cantor
Extreme Winds Alter Influence of Fuels and Topography on Megafire Burn Severity in Seasonal Temperate Rainforests under Record Fuel Aridity, Cody Evers, Andres Holz, Sebastian Upton Busby, and Max Nielsen-Pincus
Whitaker Ponds Wild! A High School Interdisciplinary Urban Wildlife Ecology Project, Joe Ferguson
Mutually beneficial collaborations between residential conservation programs and academic researchers: Lessons from St. Louis, Nina S. Fogel, Nicole E. Miller-Stuttmann, Dan R. Pearson, and Sacha K. Heath
Houseless Water Insecurity During COVID-19 Pandemic, Alicia N. Gamble
Forest Fire Effects on Landscape Snow Albedo Recovery and Decay, Max Gersh, Kelly E. Gleason, and Anton Surunis
Is Strategic Energy Management (SEM) a Holistic Approach?, Dave Hall
Focusing the Lens: Recognizing U.S. Prisons as Fortresses of Environmental Injustice, Elijah R. Hart
Natives and Nativars: Understanding Pollinator Preference for Native Plants and Their Cultivated Counterparts in the Pacific Northwest, Jen Hayes and Gail Langellotto
Metro’s Bond Refinement: Identifying acquisition priorities in the Urban Target Area, Lori Hennings, Katy Weil, Olena Turula, Isabel LaCourse, Judy Skelton, Renea Perry, and Tommy Albo
Reduce, Reuse and Deny: How Sustainability is Judged by Consumers, Madison E. Hill
Media Portrayals of Wildfire Displacement and Homelessness with Maude Hines and Janet Cowal, Maude Hines and Janet Cowal
Hemp-lime Insulation: A Climate Friendly Building Material, Ginger Rose Jensen
Equilibria: Sustainability and Eco-Awareness in Music Production, Ashley A. Kahl-Placek
UERC 2022 Symposium Day 1 Recording, Jane Tesner Kleiner, Matt Krueger, Adela C. Miller, Nina S. Fogel, Joe Skalicky, Hunter Storm, Tom Liptan, Joe Ferguson, and Alan Yeakley
UERC 2022 Symposium Day 2 Recording, David G. Lewis, Garett Pignotti, Amy Johnson, Jacob Swanson, Emma Russell, Guen DiGioia, Dominic Maze, Lori Hennings, Rebecca Talbot, and Laura Guderyahn
Event Scale Analysis of Streamflow Response to Wildfire in Oregon, 2020, Will B. Long and Heejun Chang
Building Resistance and Sustainability to Improve Population Health in Tokyo, Japan., Ma'Adjoa N. Manu
Quantifying Impacts to Water Quality from the Introduction of an Invasive Wood-boring Insect, Dominic Maze and Julia Bond
Racial Justice as Climate Justice, Julius Mcgee
Engagement in Local and Collaborative Wildfire Risk Mitigation Planning across the Western U.S.—Evaluating Participation and Diversity in Community Wildfire Protection Plans, Emily Palsa, Cody Evers, Matt Hamilton, and Max Nielsen-Pincus
Never Ask for a Lighter Rain but a Stronger Umbrella, Anurag Pande, Melissa Haeffner, Günter Blöschl, Mohammad Faiz Alam, Cyndi Castro, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky, Rick Hogeboom, Heidi Kreibich, and multiple additional authors
Creating a Just Climate Future: A Community Dialogue, Stephen Percy; Cynthia Carmina Gomez; Lindsay Romasanta; Ira Cuello Martinez; Misha Beldon; Nikita Daryanani; Carmen Rubio; Margi Bradway; John Wasiutynski; Alli Miller; Jules Roth; Pavithra Prasad; Heifara Wheeler; Jennifer H. Allen; Todd Rosenstiel; Jenny McNamara; and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
A Possible Role for River Restoration Enhancing Biodiversity through Interaction with Wildfire, Brittany E. Pugh, Megan Colley, Stephen J. Dugdale, Patrick Edwards, Rebecca Flitcroft, Andres Holz, Mathew Johnson, Michela Mariani, Mickey Means-Brous, and multiple additional authors
The Consequential Role of Aesthetics in Forest Fuels Reduction Propensities: Diverse Landowners’ Attitudes and Responses to Project Types, Risks, Costs, and Habitat Benefits, Robert G. Ribe, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Chris Enright, Bart R. Johnson, and David Hulse
Voices on Food: Food in Time, Place, and Community, Todd Rosenstiel, Keri Behre, Joseph Bohling, and Rik Lemoncello
Understanding Water Security in Portland, Oregon: Using Newspapers as Tools for Science Communication and Education, Julian Roth
Reimagine Fire Science for the Anthropocene, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Jennifer K. Balch, Rebecca T. Barnes, Philip E. Higuera, Andres Holz, and multiple additional authors
On Native Horror and the Terrors of Settler Colonialism, Kali Simmons
The Savage Screen: Vengeful Indigeneity in the Modern American Horror Film, Kali Simmons
Erasure through Engagement: The Community Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, Meghan Elizabeth Sullivan
Geochronological and Geochemical Investigation into Rhyolite Volcanism of the High Lava Plains and Columbia River Basalt Group Provinces of Eastern Oregon, USA, Vanessa Marie Swenton
Raleigh Hills Medical Center, Raleigh Hills, Oregon, Andrew Tucker, Anthony Bertenelli, Dan Noyes, Karisa Caracol, and Matthew Koenigs
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium (2022), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver
Spatial Validation of Agent-Based Models, Kristoffer Wikstrom and Hal T. Nelson
Submissions from 2021
Planning for Future Fire: Scenario Analysis of an Accelerated Fuel Reduction Plan for the Western United States, Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, Michelle A. Day, Fermin J. Alcasena, and Rachel Houtman
The Role Of Neighborhood and Social Determinants of Health: Investigating Health-Related Social Needs Among The Portland Metropolitan Area in Oregon, Roselie Agulto and Bruce Goldberg
Separating the Wheat from the Weeds: Resilience Fixes and Transformative Resilience in Response to Climate Disasters AND Resilience: An Evaluation Thinking Perspective, Idowu Ajibade and Eric Einspruch
Nature-Based Solutions in Environmental Planning: Ecosystem-Based Adaptations, Green Infrastructures, and Ecosystem Services to Promote Diversity in Urban Landscapes, Lorena Alves Carvalho Nascimento
Gardener Perceptions of Native Pollinator Plants, Aaron G. Anderson, Isabella Messer, and Gail A. Langellotto
The Influence of Microsite Conditions on Early Performance of Planted Nothofagus Nitida Seedlings when Restoring Degraded Coastal Temperate Rain Forests, Jan R. Bannister, Manuel Acevedo, German Travieso, Andres Holz, and Nicole Galindo
Combating Ecosystem Collapse from the Tropics to the Antarctic, Dana M. Bergstrom, Barbara C. Wienecke, John van den Hoff, Lesley Hughes, David B. Lindenmayer, Tracy D. Ainsworth, Christopher M. Baker, Lucie Bland, David M J S Bowman, Shaun T. Brooks, Josep G. Canadell, Andrew J. Constable, Katherine A. Dafforn, Michael H. Depledge, Catherine R. Dickson, Norman C. Duke, Kate J. Helmstedt, and Andrés Holz
Rock Glaciers and Related Cold Rocky Landforms: Overlooked Climate Refugia for Mountain Biodiversity, Stefano Brighenti, Scott Hotaling, Debra S. Finn, Andrew G. Fountain, Masaki Hayashi, David Herbst, Jasmine E. Saros, Lusha M. Tronstad, and Constance I. Millar
Geodisaster Resilience – Quakes, Floods, Slides and More, Scott F. Burns
Post-Fire Tree Mortality and Regeneration Patterns as Proxies of Conifer Forest Resilience, Sebastian Upton Busby
Fire Archaeology: Heritage, Cultural and Tribal Resources and Wildland Fire Suppression, Paul Claeyssens
Marine Debris and Human Health: An Exposure Pathway of POPs?, Katie Conlon
Plastic Roads: Not All They’re Paved Up to Be, Katie Conlon
Circular Economy: Waste-to-Wealth, Jobs the Global South, Katie Conlon, Randika Jayasinghe, and Ranahansa Dasanayake
A Successful Monitoring and Mitigation Project to Address Bird Window Collisions at the City of Portland’s Columbia Building, 2015-2019, Mary Coolidge, David Helzer, and Jade Ujcic-Ashcroft
Urban Lakes: Ecosystem Services and Management, Laura Costadone
The Amungme and the Environment: Environmental Justice History and Consumerism, Kole A. Dawson
Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk, Tom Dawson
Why Intersectionality in Fiction Matters, Grace L. Dillon
Indigenous Futurism, Grace L. Dillon, Jesse Dillon, and Priscilla Cohen
A Community of Fear: Emotion and the Hydro-Social Cycle in East Porterville, California, Michael Egge and Idowu Ajibade
Glaciers of the Olympic Mountains, Washington - The Past and Future 100 Years, Andrew G. Fountain, Christina Gray, Bryce Allen Glenn, Brian Menounos, Justin Pflug, and Jon L. Riedel
Data From: Glaciers of the Olympic Mountains, Washington – The Past and Future 100 Years, Andrew G. Fountain, Christina Gray, Bryce Glenn, Brian Menounos, Justin Pflug, and Jon L. Riedel
Spatial Analysis of Landscape Characteristics, Anthropogenic Factors, and Seasonality Effects on Water Quality in Portland, Oregon, Katherine Gelsey and Daniel Ramirez
Collaborating for Impact in the Environment, Kelly E. Gleason, Sylas Daughtrey, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, and Kim Strassburg