Submissions from 2021
Collaborating for Impact in the Environment, Kelly E. Gleason, Sylas Daughtrey, Judy BlueHorse Skelton, and Kim Strassburg
Teasing Apart Impacts of Human Activity and Regional Drought on Madagascar’s Large Vertebrate Fauna: Insights from New Excavations at Tsimanampesotse and Antsirafaly, Laurie R. Godfrey, Brooke Crowley, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Stephen J. Burns, Nick Scroxton, Zachary S. Klukkert, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana, Jamie Alumbaugh, Matthew Borths, and Natalie Vasey
Population Density of Free-Roaming Cats in Relation to Feeding Stations on Hayden Island, Olivia Helback, Joe Liebezeit, and Olyssa Starry
Agency, Sense of Place, and Knowledge on the Zumwalt Prairie: A Social Study of Place-Based Conservation and Resilience, Dana Elyse Hellman
Stories from the Outside: Oregon Wildfires 2020, Maude Hines; Marta Petteni; Stefanie Knowlton; Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative, Portland State University; and Street Roots
Tadpoles Survive Urban Pollutants and Cages to Show Conservation Value of Altered Landscapes, Katie A. Holzer, Max Lambert, Lauren Chan, Marissa Eckman, Laura Guderyahn, and Kelly Smalling
Ecological Exposure and Effects of Microplastics in Crabs Along the Pacific Coast, Dorothy A. Horn
Exploring Connections Between Food Sovereignty, Cultural Food Access and Urban Health Promotion: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Stephanie L. Kenyon
Macrofungi in urban and rural forests, Jordan Leis, Trinity Ronk-Degraffenreid, and Nancy Broshot
Assessing the Impact of Changing Drought Conditions on Wildfire Emissions in Washington and Oregon, Maggie Liu
Pulling at the Thread: Why Climate Change Driven Relocation is such a Difficult Problem to Solve, Elizabeth Marino and Dennis Davis
Community Engagement in Oregon Water Governance: Evaluating a State Water Policy and a Collaborative Q Methodology Research Project, Clare T. McClellan
Broad-Scale Surface and Atmospheric Conditions During Large Fires in South-Central Chile, David B. McWethy, René D. Garreaud, Andres Holz, and Gregory T. Pederson
Learn from Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Crisis, Masami Nishishiba and Hiro Ito
Mopping Up or Turning Off the Tap? Environmental Injustice and the Ethics of Plastic Pollution, Katharine A. Owens and Katie Conlon
Socio-Ecological Perceptions of Wildfire Management and Effects in Greece, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Kostas Kalabokidis, Andreas Troumbis, Michelle A. Day, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Alan A. Ager
Enhancing Grassland Habitat in The Middle of the Columbia River, Matt Paroulek and Sarah Wilson
The Imperative for Climate Action at Portland State University, Stephen Percy
Pacific Northwest Littoral Data, Curt D. Peterson and Kara E. P. Kingen
Comparing Heavy Metal Content Found in Spinach (Spinacia Oleracea) Grown on the Roof And Ground Sites At Portland State University, Tyler Robin, Gwynn R. Johnson, and Olyssa Starry
Exploring Linkages Between Landscape Patterns and Freshwater and Estuarine Bivalves in the Coast Range of Oregon, Kaegan Michael Scully-Engelmeyer
Fahrenheit 911: Heat, Cities, and Climate Literacy from the Ground Up, Vivek Shandas
Toward a Resilient Urban Forest, Vivek Shandas
‘The Environment is Us’: Settler Cartographies of Indigeneity and Blackness in Prophecy (1979), Kali Simmons
Regional Characteristics and Variability of Extreme Precipitation and Atmospheric Rivers in Past, Present, and Future Climates Over the Contiguous United States, Emily Anne Slinskey
Forest Fires Reduce Snow-Water Storage and Advance the Timing of Snowmelt across the Western U.S., Emily E. Smoot and Kelly E. Gleason
A New Agent-Based Model Provides Insight Into Assumptions in Modeling Forest Management Under Deep Uncertainty, Garry Sotnik, Robert M. Scheller, Brooke Alyce Cassell, and Matthew Joshua Duveneck
Lessons from Rural Disaster Recoveries in Nepal, Jeremy Spoon
Communicating Science and Risk / Communicating Health and Risk, Jeremy Spoon, Brianne Suldovsky, and Lauren Frank
Getting a Grip on Global Warming Quickly via a Specialized Emissions Money, Steve Staloff
Nest Preferences of solitary cavity nesting bees in Portland, OR, Stefanie Steele
Current Stormwater Practices and Future Implementation at Portland State University with the Uncertainty of Climate Change, Evan Suemori and Alexandra Vargas Quiñones
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium (2021), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver
Biological Invasions in Coastal Marine Ecosystems: How Changes in Trade Are Linked to Ballast Water Delivery of Nonindigenous Species, Danielle Elizabeth Verna
Before Beachie Creek, Raine Welterlen
Submissions from 2020
Food Waste Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavioral Intentions Among University Students, Manar Arica Alattar, James DeLaney, Jennifer L. Morse, and Max Nielsen-Pincus
Which native plants should home gardeners grow for pollinators?, Aaron G. Anderson and Gail Langellotto
Exploring Food Deserts and Environmental Impacts on Health in Chicago and Oregon, Sivasomasundari Arunarasu and Paulina Grzybowicz
Social Movements in Iran: Lessons for Activism, Robert Asaadi
Microplastics in Pacific Northwest Bivalves: Ecological Prevalence, Harvester-Consumer Exposure, and Aquarium Exhibit Outcomes, Britta Rahel Baechler
Seeds for Change: preserving oak prairie species for an unknown future, Adrienne Basey
The Oregon Connectivity Assessment and Mapping Project (OCAMP), Leslie L. Bliss-Ketchum, Rachel E. Wheat, Catherine de Rivera, Martin Lafrenz, Andrea V. Hanson, Daniel Taylor-Rodríguez, and Arthur H. Rodriguez
The Bridges at Beaverton Creek, Beaverton, Oregon, Alex Bullington, Angela Parada, Channa Kim, Wyatt Redfern, Monique Lum, and Brandi Small
The Trailhead, Tigard, Oregon, Freddie Bulzan, Melvin Sharp, Aurora Charouhas, Alex Lovre, Zoe Johnson, and Tyler Reeves
Wildland Fire Reburning Trends Across the US West Suggest Only Short-Term Negative Feedback and Differing Climatic Effects, Brian Buma, Shelby A. Weiss, K. Hayes, and Melissa S. Lucash
High-severity and Short-interval Wildfires Limit Forest Recovery in the Central Cascade Range, Sebastian Upton Busby, Kevan B. Moffett, and Andres Holz
Distribution, Geochronology, and Petrogenesis of the Picture Gorge Basalt with Special Focus on Petrological Relationships to the Main Columbia River Basalt Group, Emily Bogdan Cahoon
STARS Annual Report, 2020, Campus Sustainability Office
Utility Summary Fiscal Year 2020, Campus Sustainability Office
Collaboration and Evaluation in Urban Sustainability and Resilience Transformations: the Keys to a Just Transition?, Liliana Elizabeth Caughman
Real-Time Evaluation of City–University Partnerships for Sustainability and Resilience, Liliana Elizabeth Caughman, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, and Fletcher Beaudoin
Are the Goals of Sustainability Interconnected? A Sociological Analysis of the Three E’s of Sustainable Development Using Cross-Lagged Models with Reciprocal Effects, Matthew Thomas Clement, Nathan Pino, Patrick Greiner, and Julius A. McGee
Adaptive Injustice: Responsibility to Act in the Plastics Economy, Katie Conlon
Waste Management in the Global South: an Inquiry on the Patterns of Plastic and Waste Material Flows in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Katie Ann Conlon
Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Biodiversity Conservation, Richard T. Corlett, Richard B. Primack, Vincent Devictor, Bea Mass, Varun Goswami, Amanda Bates, Lian Pin Koh, Tracey Reagan, Rafael Loyola, Robin J. Pakeman, Graeme S. Cumming, Anna Pidgeon, David Johns, and Robin Roth
Promoting Environmental Justice Populations’ Access to Opportunities with Suburban Boomtowns: An Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Approach to Addressing Infrastructure Needs, Jandel Crutchfield, Courtney Cronley, Kate Hyun, Erin Findley, and Mehrdad Arabi
Re-Story Our Future With Your Creativity, Mary DeMocker
Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant-Gathering Traditions in America’s National Parks, Douglas Deur and Justine E. James Jr.
Urban nesting biology of a threatened subspecies of Willow Flycatcher, Stephanie Doorly, Samantha Gillette, and Michael Murphy
Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecosystems: Spatial Variation, Organism Effects, and Consumer Perspectives, Amy Lynne Ehrhart
Tending the Fire: Wildfire Risk Management at the Interface, Cody Randolph Evers
Incorporating Local Foods into Low-income Families’ Home-cooking Practices: The Critical Role of Sustained Economic Subsidies, Jennifer Gaddis, Amy K. Coplen, Molly Clark-Barol, Allea Martin, Claire K. Barrett, and Lauren Lubowicki
Data From: Forest Density Intensifies the Importance of Snowpack to Growth in Water-Limited Pine Forests, Kelly E. Gleason, John B. Bradford, Anthony W. D’Amato, Shawn Fraver, Brian J. Palik, and Michael A. Battaglia
Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action - Version 2.0, Frank Granshaw
Dynamic Response of Highway Bridge Superstructures Subjected to Wave Action: Experimental Analysis and Numerical Modeling, Alaa Waleed Hameed
Pollinator Preference for Pacific Northwest Native Plants and Native Cultivars, Jen Hayes
Using wildlife fright information to inform trail planning, Lori Hennings
The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat: A Study of 108 US Urban Areas, Jeremy Hoffman, Vivek Shandas, and Nicholas Pendleton
E-Grocery Home Delivery and the Freight & Travel Demands of Multifamily Dwellings, Katherine Keeling and Gabby Abou-Zeid
Transformative Sustainability Education for Juvenile Detention Officers: Empowering Incarcerated Youth Through Holistic Programming, Chantal Krystiniak
Transforming Innovation for Decarbonisation? Insights from Combining complex Systems and Social Practice Perspectives, Nicola Labanca, Ângela Guimarães Pereira, Matt Watson, Kristian Krieger, Dario Padovan, Laura Watts, Mithra Moezzi, Grégoire Wallenborn, Rebecca Wright, Erik Laes, and multiple additional authors
Portland Christmas Bird Count – An 80-year review of species trends (1938-2017), Joe Liebezeit, Tim Meehan, Jay Withgott, and Bob Sallinger
Green Infrastructure Research - Ecoroof Soil Comparisons, ‘which is the best’, Tom Liptan
Spatial Statistical Approaches to Water Quality Modelling, Janardan Mainali
Projected Impact of Mid-21st Century Climate Change on Wildfire Hazard in a Major Urban Watershed outside Portland, Oregon USA, Andy McEvoy, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Andres Holz, Arielle J. Catalano, and Kelly E. Gleason
How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?, Julius McGee and Patrick Greiner
On Capitalist Power, Energy Markets and Climate Crisis at the End of Neoliberalism, Julius McGee and Patrick Greiner
Racial Justice is Climate Justice: Racial Capitalism and the Fossil Economy, Julius McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner
Fire and land Cover Change in the Palouse Prairie–Forest Ecotone, Washington and Idaho, USA, Penelope Morgan, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Eva K. Strand, Stephen C. Bunting, James P. Riser II, John T. Abatzoglou, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Mara Johnson
Electrify Everything? Heat and Light in Deep Decarbonization Policies, Hal T. Nelson
The Role of Warm, Dry Summers and Variation in Snowpack on Phytoplankton Dynamics in Mountain Lakes, Isabella A. Olesky, Whitney S. Beck, Roderick W. Lammers, Cara E. Steger, Codie Wilson, Kyle R. Christianson, Kim Vincent, Gunnar Forrest Johnson, Pieter T.J. Johnson, and Jill S. Baron
The Collective Contemplation: How a Global Pandemic Offers an Invitation to Dance with the Abundant Divine, Skyler Pestle
Predicted Responses of Beaches, Bays, and Inner-Shelf Sand Supplies to Potential Sea Level Rise (0.5-1.0 m) in Three Small Littoral Subcells in the High-Wave-Energy Northern Oregon Coast, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Debra Lee Doyle, Charles L. Rosenfeld, and Kara E. P. Kingen
Emociones, Semillas Nativas y Cambio Climático: El Movimiento de Soberanía de las Semillas en Chiapas, México, Carol Hernández Rodríguez, Hugo Perales Rivera, and Daniel Jaffee
Assessing Adaptive Capacity to Climate and Population Change at the Urban-Rural Interface: Human-Water System Dynamics in the Hood River Valley, Oregon, Alexander Reid Ross
A Survey of the Bees of Portland and Their Floral Preferences, Erica Rudolph, Stefanie Steele, Joshua Page, Diandra Diamond, and Susan Masta
The Oregon Zoo Partnership: A Model for Empowering Urban Wildlife Conservation, Leah Schrodt and Rachel Fort
Housing and Food Insecurity at Portland State University, Greg Townley, Katricia Stewart, Jacen Greene, and Marta Pettini
Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2020: 18th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver
Modeling Post-fire Successional Trajectories under Climate Change in Interior Alaska using Landis II, Shelby A. Weiss
Songs, Saws, and Sustainability: Forestry for the Birds comes to Washington County, Oregon, Gregor Yanega
Marketing Ecosystem: An Outside-In View for Sustainable Advantage, Jonathan C. Zhang and George F. Watson
Submissions from 2019
Spatial Analysis of Landscape and Sociodemographic Factors Associated With Green Stormwater Infrastructure Distribution in Baltimore, Maryland and Portland, Oregon, Ashley Baker, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang, Lauren McPhillips, and Marissa Matsler
Modeling Climate Driven Urban Migration in the United States, Julia Beckwith
Survivorship and growth of seedlings and saplings in urban forests, Nancy Broshot, William W. McCuen, and Austen F. Bassler
Teaching Sustainability: Recommendations for Best Pedagogical Practices, Heather L. Burns, Sybil S. Kelley, and Heather E. Spalding
Insights from Alumni: A Grounded Theory Study of a Graduate Program in Sustainability Leadership, Heather Burns and Megan Schneider
Forest Structure, Composition, and Regeneration after High-Severity and Rapidly Repeated Wildfires in the Central Cascade Range, Sebastian Upton Busby