Submissions from 2017
PSU Green Building Summer Internship Final Presentation, 2017, Campus Sustainability Office
Quantifying Resilience of Multiple Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in a Temperate Forest Landscape, Elena Cantarello, Adrian C. Newton, Phillip A. Martin, Paul M. Evans, Arjan Gosal, and Melissa S. Lucash
Plans and Living Practices for the Green Campus of Portland State University, Yoon Jung Choi, Minjung Oh, Jihye Kang, and Loren Lutzenhiser
Tidal Variability Related to Sea Level Variability in the Pacific Ocean, Adam Thomas Devlin, David A. Jay, Edward Zaron, Stefan A. Talke, Jiayi Pan, and Hui Lin
Competition Amplifies Drought Stress in Forests Across Broad Climatic and Compositional Gradients, Kelly E. Gleason, John B. Bradford, Alessandra Bottero, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shawn Fraver, Brian J. Palik, Michael A. Battaglia, Louis Iverson, Laura Kenefic, and Christel C. Kern
Developing a Representative Snow-Monitoring Network in a Forested Mountain Watershed, Kelly E. Gleason, Anne Nolin, and Travis R. Roth
Grassroots Resistance in the Sustainable City: Portland Harbor Superfund Site Contamination, Cleanup, and Collective Action, Erin Katherine Goodling
Accessing Blue Spaces: Social and Geographic Factors Structuring Familiarity With, Use of, and Appreciation of Urban Waterways, Melissa Haeffner, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Martin Buchert, and Jordan Risley
Divergent trends in ecosystem services under different climate-management futures in a fire-prone forest landscape, Joshua S. Halofsky, Jessica E. Halofsky, Miles A. Hemstrom, Anita T. Morzillo, Xiaoping Zhou, and Daniel C. Donato
Southern Annular Mode Drives Multicentury Wildfire Activity in Southern South America, Andrés Holz, Juan Paritsis, Ignacio A. Mundo, Thomas T. Veblen, Thomas Kitzberger, Grant J. Williamson, Ezequiel Aráoz, Carlos Bustos-Schindler, Mauro E. González, H. Ricardo Grau, and Juan M. Quezada
Finding Water Scarcity Amid Abundance Using Human–Natural System Models, William K. Jaeger, Adell Amos, Daniel P. Bigelow, Heejun Chang, David R. Conklin, Roy Haggerty, Christian Langpap, Kathleen Moore, Philip Mote, Anne W. Nolin, Andrew J. Plantinga, Cynthia L. Schwartz, Desiree Tullos, and David P. Turner
Caring, Killing, Euphemism and George Orwell: How Language Choice Undercuts Our Mission, David Johns and Dominick A. DellaSala
Transportation Access for the Food Insecure, Ann Joslin
Restoring Surface Fire Stabilizes Forest Carbon Under Extreme Fire Weather in the Sierra Nevada, Daniel J. Krofcheck, Matthew D. Hurteau, Robert M. Scheller, and E. Louise Loudermilk
The Influence of Recurrent Modes of Climate Variability on the Occurrence of Monthly Temperature Extremes over South America, Paul C. Loikith, Judah Detzer, Carlos R. Mechoso, Huikyo Lee, and Armineh Barkhordarian
Bending the Carbon Curve: Fire Management for Carbon Resilience under Climate Change, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert M. Scheller, Peter J. Weisberg, and Alec M. Kretchun
Spatial Resilience of Forested Landscapes Under Climate Change and Management, Melissa S. Lucash, Robert M. Scheller, Eric J. Gustafson, and Brian R. Sturtevant
Using Critical Physical Geography to Map the Unintended Consequences of Conservation Management Programs, Melanie Malone
Food Access Narratives in Southeast Portland, Oregon, Gwyneth Genevieve McKee Manser
Confronting Inequality in Metropolitan Regions: Realizing the Promise of Civil Rights and Environmental Justice in Metropolitan Transportation Planning, Richard Marcantonio, Aaron Golub, Alex Karner, and Louise Nelson
The Contribution of Sense of Place to Social-ecological Systems Research: a Review and Research Agenda, Vanessa A. Masterson, Richard C. Stedman, Johan Enqvist, Maria Tengö, Matteo Giusti, Darin Wahl, and Uno Svedin
Cultivating (a) Sustainability Capital: Urban Agriculture, Eco-Gentrification, and the Uneven Valorization of Social Reproduction, Nathan McClintock
Shifting Meanings of Health Impact Assessment in Pacific Northwest coal Export Proposals, Moriah McSharry McGrath
Multiple Methods of Public Engagement: Disaggregating Socio-spatial Data for Environmental Planning in Western Washington, USA, Rebecca J. McLain, David Banis, Alexa Todd, and Lee Cerveny
Using Stories, Narratives, and Storytelling in Energy and Climate Change Research, Mithra Moezzi, Kathryn B. Janda, and Sea Rotmann
LEED O+M Materials Audit: Blumel Hall, Emily Murkland, Taylor Stone, John Dea, and Kristen Purdy
PSU Urban Center Building LEED EB Materials Audit Report, Emily Murkland, Taylor Stone, John Dea, and Kristen Purdy
The Roots and Repercussions of Moroccan Soft Wheat Consumption, Production, and Import Patterns, Anna Murphy
Coastal Eolian Sand-Ramp Development Related to Paleo-Sea-Level Changes during the Latest Pleistocene and Holocene (21–0 ka) in San Miguel Island, California, U.S.A., Curt D. Peterson, Jon M. Erlandson, Errol Stock, Steve W. Hostetler, and David M. Price
Examination of Human Impacts on the Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichen and Moss Communities, Hannah Marie Prather
Green Leasing Internship: Final Presentation, 2017, Emily Quinton
Green Leasing Program Design for PSU, Emily Quinton
Travel to Food: Transportation Barriers for the Food Insecure in Tampa Bay, Kevin Salzer and Ann Joslin
Changing Attitudes Toward Sustainable Transportation: The Impact of Meta-Arguments on Persuasion, David M. Sanbonmatsu and David L. Strayer
Interactions Among Fuel Management, Species Composition, Bark Beetles, and Climate Change and the Potential Effects on Forests of the Lake Tahoe Basin, Robert M. Scheller, Alec M. Kretchun, E. Louise Loudermilk, Matthew D. Hurteau, Peter J. Weisberg, and Carl Skinner
Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2017: 15th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver
A Numerical Model Investigation of the Role of the Glacier Bed in Regulating Grounding Line Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Michael Scott Waibel
Continental-Scale Homogenization of Residential Lawn Plant Communities, Megan M. Wheeler, Christopher Neill, Peter M. Groffman, Meghan Avolio, Neil D. Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Lindsay Darling, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Meredith Steele, and Tara Trammell
Forecasted Range Shifts of Arid-Land Fishes in Response to Climate Change, James E. Whitney, Joanna B. Whittier, Craig Patrick Paukert, Julian D. Olden, and Angela L. Strecker
Deconstruction in Portland: Summary of Activity, Emma Willingham, Peter Hulseman, and Mike Paruszkiewicz
Watershed Response to Climate Change and Fire-Burns in the Upper Umatilla River Basin, USA, Kimberly Crystal Yazzie and Heejun Chang
Submissions from 2016
Winds of Change? Exploring Climate Change-Driven Migration and Related Impacts in the Pacific Northwest, Lara Whitely Binder and Jason R. Jurjevich
Learning Sustainability Leadership: An Action Research Study of a Graduate Leadership Course, Heather L. Burns
Self-Care as a Way of Being: Fostering Inner Work in a Graduate Sustainability Leadership Course, Heather L. Burns
Variation in Tussock Architecture of the Invasive Cordgrass Spartina Densiflora along the Pacific Coast of North America, Jesus M. Castillo, Brenda J. Grewall, Andrea Pickart, Enrique Figueroa, and Mark D. Sytsma
Watershed Management and Private Lands: Moving Beyond Financial Incentives to Encourage Land Stewardship, Matthew Thomas DeAngelo
On the Variability of Pacific Ocean Tides at Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales: Observed vs Modelled, Adam Thomas Devlin
Sustainable Drainage Systems: Helping People Live with Water, Glyn Everett, Jessica Lamond, Anita T. Morzillo, Faith Ka Shun Chan, and Annie Marissa Matsler
A Study on the Current State of Contaminants of Concern Research, with a Focus on Biosolids and Regulations, Maren Mariah Fulton
Green Roofs and Urban Biodiversity: Their Role as Invertebrate Habitat and the Effect of Design on Beetle Community, Sydney Marie Gonsalves
Trajectory Analysis of Black Carbon in the Arctic Region, Kimberly Gottschalk
Temporal Variations of Citizens’ Demands on Flood Damage Mitigation, Streamflow Quantity and Quality in the Korean Urban Watershed, Change-Yu Hong and Eun-Sung Chung
Disseminating the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) Education Model, Nico Larco and Marc Schlossberg
Ecosystem Services in Managing Residential Landscapes: Priorities, Value Dimensions, and Cross-Regional Patterns, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Peter M. Groffman, Neil D. Bettez, and Tara Trammell
Do Forest Commons Contribute to International Environmental Initiatives? A Socio-Ecological Analysis of Nepalese Forest Commons in view of REDD+, Harisharan Luintel
How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science and Policy, Audrey L. Mayer, Brian Buma, Amélie Davis, Sara A. Gagné, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert M. Scheller, Fiona K.A. Schmiegelow, Fiona Majorin, Yolanda F. Wiersma, and Janet Franklin
Getting Personal with Food Insecurity: Amelia Pape, Amelia Pape
The Economics of Residential Building Deconstruction in Portland, OR, Mike Paruszkiewicz, Jenny H. Liu, Rebecca Hanes, Eric Hoffman, Peter Hulseman, and Emma Willingham
Empowering through Entitlement? The Micro-politics of Food Access in Rural Maharashtra, India, Pronoy Rai and Thomas A. Smucker
Spatial, Temporal and Frequency Based Climate change Assessment in Columbia River Basin Using Multi Downscaled-Scenarios, Arun Rana and Hamid Moradkhani
Understanding the Joint Behavior of Temperature and Precipitation for Climate Change Impact Studies, Arun Rana, Hamid Moradkhani, and Yueyue Qin
Reduced Snow Cover Alters Root-microbe Interactions and Decreases Nitrification Rates in a Northern Hardwood Forest, Patrick O. Sorensen, Pamela H. Templer, Lynn M. Christenson, Jorge Durán, Timothy J. Fahey, Melany C. Fisk, Peter M. Groffman, Jennifer L. Morse, and Adrien C. Finzi
Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2016: 14th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver
The Village Market: New Columbia Goes Shopping for Food Justice, Jane Therese Waddell
Watershed Response to Climate Change and Fire-Burns in the Upper Umatilla River Basin Using the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System, Kimberly Crystal Yazzie
Submissions from 2015
Re-Envisioning Community-Wildfire Relations in the U.S. West as Adaptive Governance, Jesse B. Abrams, Melanie Knapp, Travis B. Paveglio, Autumn Ellison, Cassandra Moseley, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Matthew S. Carroll
Multi-Criteria Evaluation of CMIP5 GCMs for Climate Change Impact Analysis, Ali Ahmadalipour, Arun Rana, Hamid Moradkhani, and Ashish Sharma
Developing Key Sustainability Competencies through Real-World Learning Experiences: Evaluating Community Environmental Services, Erin Lorene Anderson
Rock Creek Restoration Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Report, Daniel Bedell
Utilizing Humidity and Temperature Data to Advance Monitoring and Prediction of Meteorological Drought, Ali Behrangi, Paul C. Loikith, Eric J. Fetzer, Hai M. Nguyen, and Stephanie L. Granger
Localized Ecological and Educational Effects of Environmental Service-Learning in Portland, Oregon, Steven Matthew Braun
Leadership for Sustainability: Theoretical Foundations and Pedagogical Practices that Foster Change, Heather Burns, Heather Diamond-Vaught, and Corin Bauman
Going Deep: Reflections on Teaching Deep Ecology in Costa Rica, Heather L. Burns and Jeffrey Briley
Dissolved: Lessons Learned from the Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council, Amy K. Coplen and Monica Cuneo
Mobility and Accessibility in Shrinking Cities, Joanna Ganning
The Effects of Global Change Upon United States Air Quality, Rodrigo Gonzalez-Abraham, Serena H. Chung, Jeremy C. Avise, Brian Lamb, Eric P. Salathé Jr., Christopher G. Nolte, Dan Loughlin, Alex Guenther, Christine Wiedinmyer, Tiffany Duhl, Yang Zhang, and David G. Streets
Environmental Sustainability in a Sraffian Framework, Robin Hahnel
Living Systems Immersion: Sustainability and PDC in the Peruvian Andes, David E. Hall
Exploring, Exploiting and Evolving Diversity of Aquatic Ecosystem Models: a Community Perspective, Annette B.G. Janssen, George B. Arhonditsis, Arthur Beusen, Karsten Bolding, Louise Bruce, Jorn Bruggeman, Raoul-Marie Couture, Andrea S. Downing, J. Alex Elliott, Marieke A. Frassl, Gideon Gal, Daan J. Gerla, Matthew R. Hipsey, Fenjuan Hu, Stephen C. Ives, Jan H. Janse, Erik Jeppesen, Klaus D. Jöhnk, David Kneis, Xiangzhen Kong, Jan J. Kuiper, Moritz K. Lehmann, Carsten Lemmen, Deniz Özkundakci, Thomas Petzoldt, Karsten Rinke, Barbara J. Robson, René Sachse, Sebastiaan A. Schep, Martin Schmid, Huub Scholten, Sven Teurlincx, Dennis Trolle, Tineke A. Troost, Anne A. Van Dam, Luuk P.A. Van Gerven, Mariska Weijerman, Scott A. Wells, and Wolf M. Mooij
Building Social Sustainability from the Ground Up: The Contested Social Dimension of Sustainability in Neighborhood-Scale Urban Regeneration in Portland, Copenhagen, and Nagoya, Jacklyn Nicole Kohon
Comparison between Observed and Model-Simulated Atmospheric CirculationPatterns Associated with Extreme Temperature Days over North AmericaUsing CMIP5 Historical Simulations, Paul C. Loikith and Anthony J. Broccoli
Green Roofs Support a Wide Diversity of Collembola in Urban Portland, Oregon, Konrad Miziolek
Multi-Model Ensemble Analysis of Runoff Extremes for Climate Change Impact Assessments, Mohammad Reza Najafi and Hamid Moradkhani
All Politics are Spatial: Integrating an Agent-Based Decision Support Model with Spatially Explicit Landscape Data, Hal T. Nelson
Peripheral No More: Repositioning Narratives for Empowerment and Change in Sustainability Education, Rell G. Ohlson
Institute for Sustainable Solutions Annual Report (2013-2014), Portland State University. Institute for Sustainable Solutions
Democratizing the City Through the Colonization of Public Space: A Case Study of Portland Food Not Bombs, Trent Adam Saari
Improving Access to Food Systems Among Communities of Color: A Food Justice Issue, Alma M. O. Trinidad, Helen Camden, and Anne Coleman
Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2015: 13th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver
Household Food Security and Food Sovereignty : Framing the Future of Hunger and Agriculture, Andrea Wilson
Fire Modulates Climate Change Response of Simulated Aspen Distribution Across Topoclimatic Gradients in a Semi-Arid Montane Landscape, Jian Yang, Peter J. Weisberg, Douglas J. Shinneman, Thomas E. Dilts, Susan L. Earnst, and Robert M. Scheller
Submissions from 2014
Building Communities as a Necessary Tool for Sustainability, China G. Ageros
Pathways to Sustainability Careers: Building Capacity To Solve Complex Problems, Jennifer H. Allen, Fletcher Beaudoin, Elizabeth Lloyd-Pool, and Jacob Sherman
Sense of Place and Stakeholder Involvement in Rural Environmental Management, Jessica Lynn Beutler
Leadership for Sustainability: Pedagogical Practices that Empower Learners to Become Leaders, Heather Burns and JR Wolf
The Community Economic Impacts of Large Wildfires: A Case Study from Trinity County, California, Emily Jane Davis, Cassandra Moseley, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Pamela J. Jakes
Accessibility-Based Transportation Planning: Literature and Applications for Shrinking Cities, Joanna Ganning
Food Deserts and Migrant Farmworkers: Assessing Food Access in Oregon's Willamette Valley, Katie Grauel and Kimberlee J. Chambers
Ecological Homogenization of Urban USA, Peter M. Groffman, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Meredith K. Steele