This combined collection includes dissertations and theses from the School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES), which includes the departments of Anthropology, Environmental Science and Management, Geography, Geology and Complex Systems. Dissertations from the Ph.D. program in Earth, Environment and Society are also included in this collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Communities of Practice: Aging, Emergency Management, and Churches in Rural Clackamas County, Oregon, Lukas Robert Aberle
Shock Effects Including Maskelynite Formation in Three Shergottite Meteorites From Mars, George Ayeh Anim
Adapting to Southwest Idaho's Shifting Wildfire Regime: Sustainable Collaboration as a Means to Socioecological Resilience, Olivia Awbrey
Magma Evolution and Eruptive History of Three Fingered Jack: A Mafic Composite Volcano in the Central High Cascades of Oregon, Javaria Aziz
Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball
Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell
Identifying the Drivers Behind the Decline of Douglas-fir and True Fir Species in SW Oregon, Alexander Bryant Bentley
Occurrence of Pesticides in Oregon Coastal Waters and Effects on the Intertidal Sea Anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima, Gabriella Mae Bleil
Urban Wildlife in Your Backyard: Community Experiences With Coyotes and Outdoor Cats, Clarissa Emma Cressotti
Lacustrine and Terrestrial Paleoseismic Records of the Twin Lakes Fault near Mount Hood, Oregon, USA, Natalie K. Culhane
Forest Fires Increase Mid-Winter Snowmelt in the Western Oregon Cascades, Sage Ebel
Emergence of Norms in the Presence of Social Network Structure in a Stochastic Evolutionary Game Theory Model, Parker Foresman
Ecological Drivers and Temporal Dynamics of Daphnia in a Diverse Environmental and Spatial Landscape, Crysta A. Gantz
Urban Beavers at the Crossroads: How Ecological Knowledge, Sociodemographic, and Spatial Context Shape Public Perception and Coexistence Preferences, Matthew Guziejka
Development Scenarios and Wildfire Risk in Central Oregon, Samantha Hall
Impact of Black Shale Weathering on Stream Water and Sediment Quality in Eastern Kentucky, Brett Hopt
A Groundwater Flow System Investigation in the Upper Rowena Creek Drainage, Oregon, CateLee YaMei Kambur
Characterizing Rainfall Variability Within a Series of Storms Over Northern California in February 2017, Parker Jan Malek
The Geologic History of the Chehalis Forearc Basin, Washington State, USA, Rud Lamb Moe
From Model to Behavior: Methodological Challenges in Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps to Represent Mental Models, Catherine Elizabeth Moore
Estimated Amounts of Terrestrial Carbon Mobilized and Sequestered by the 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption, Washington State, USA, Lizzet G. Reyes
The Effect of Mesoscale Frontal Waves on Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation Over the Green River Watershed, Washington, Joseph Michael Riedl
Characterizing Meteorological Patterns for Oregon's Winter Elevated PM2.5 Concentrations from 2000-2023, Arielle Golda Sherbak
Hydrosocial Ocean Commons: Offshore Wind Energy in Oregon, Bryce Ashlyn Sprauer
Orphan Basalts: Understanding the Origins of Unassigned Eastern Oregon Basalts, Angela Rae Stetson
A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo
Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms, Alexandra Gabrielle Tissot
Investigating Environmental Controls on Temperature Dynamics in an Urban Stream, Matthew Cullen Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
"We're Going to Tear up the Caldera So We Can Have an Electric Car": Competing Perceptions and Spatial Dimensions of Open-Pit Lithium Mining in the McDermitt Caldera, Oregon, Elizabeth Bartholomew
2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns
Flood Vulnerability in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Hue Hong Duong
Uncovering the Dynamic Nature of Fire Refugia Across Landscapes in Oregon's Western Cascades, Alec Scott Dyer
Varecia rubra (Red Ruffed Lemur) Diel Activity and Calling at Andranobe, Masoala National Park, Madagascar, Hannah Elena Hilden-Reid
Bridging the Gap: Using Significance Modeling to Identify Data Gaps in Lithic Sites Within the Tualatin River Basin, Aaron James Reid Hood-Foster
Applying Decolonizing Theories and Methodologies in Archaeology to Two Collaborative Cultural Resource Management Projects, Cydney K. Lanthier
Thermal Regimes of Beaver Impacted Stream Reaches in the Tualatin River Basin, Miles Mayer
Synoptic Drivers of Extreme Precipitation in the Upper Yuba Watershed of California, Emma Nichole Russell
Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Steens and Monument Dike Swarm: Implications and Relationships to Magmatic Storage and to Lava Flows of the Picture Gorge and Steens Basalt, Rachel Anne Sweeten
Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Change, and Related Impacts Over the Western United States, Graham Patrick Taylor
Landslide Mapping, Characterization, and Hazard Assessment with 3D Slope Stability Modeling in White Bluffs, Washington State, Anna Tsitsivas
Taking Thermally Modified Rock Seriously: An Analysis of Use-Wear Attributes, Dianna Marie Wilson
Recovery of Black Carbon Concentrations in Burned Forests in Wyoming, USA, Monica Vanesa Zapata Villegas
Altered Disturbance Regimes and Novel Ecosystems: Understanding and Managing Ecosystem State Change in the Forest-Peatland Ecotone of Western Patagonia, Kyla Sara Zaret
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Postfire Effects and Regeneration Patterns in Araucaria-Nothofagus Forests in South-Central Chile, Paola A. Arroyo-Vargas
Phytoplankton Community as an Indicator of Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms in High Mountain Lakes, Victoria Elizabeth Avalos
Cultivating Equity: Harnessing School Garden Education as a Catalyst for Food Justice and Social Change, Maureen Madeleine Callahan
Structure-from-Motion Derived Snow Cover in Burned Forests of the Western Oregon Cascades, Siobhan Ciafone
Spatial Variations in Ancient Meteoric Water: An Investigation of the Rattlesnake Tuff, Julian Michael Cohen
Radical Urban Natures: Mitigating Urban Heat with Nature-Based Techniques in Portland, Oregon, Heather Day-Melgar
Tiny Drifters Amidst Global Change: Examining Environmental Drivers, Trophic Impacts, and Management Strategies of Estuarine Plankton Communities in the Anthropocene, Taylor Nicole Dodrill
Evaluation of the Slip History and Holocene Activity of the Strawberry Fault, Grant County, Oregon, Andrew Dunning
Exploring Nonprofit Views on Water Management and Conservation Strategies, Jillian Marie Farley
Participatory Mapping of Tree Equity, Preferences, and Environmental Justice in Portland, OR, Katharine Vezin Gregory
Forest Fire Effects on Snow Storage and Melt Across Scales of Forest Recovery in the Western Oregon Cascades, Megan Nicole Guinn
The Impact of Climate Change on Selected PNW Watersheds through the Lens of Western Red Cedar Habitat, Jordan T. Hamann
Graphical Models in Reconstructability Analysis and Bayesian Networks, Marcus Andrew Harris
"Suited to the Wants of the Country": Historical Ceramics from the Fort Vancouver Sutler's Store, Vancouver, Washington, Kaitlyn Nicole Hosken
Drivers and Dynamics of Phytoplankton Communities and Harmful Algal Blooms in Mountain Lakes, Lara Stephanie Jansen
A Field, Petrological, and Geochronological Investigation of the Chief Joseph Dike Swarm, Mary Joyce Mass
In the Hot Seat: Acquiring Kernel Density Heat Map Design Guidance through Delphi and Survey Methods, Lauren Eileen McKinney-Wise
Impacts of Floodplain Restoration on Water Temperature and Macroinvertebrates in Whychus Creek, Oregon, Wesley Nathan Noone
An Integrated Analysis of Urban Sustainability in Portland: Issues, Indicators, Stakeholders, and Geospatial Assessment, Arun Kumar Pallathadka
Disappeared Streams and Flood Risk in Atlanta, Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, Phoenix, Arizona, and Portland, Oregon, Gregory Chrisopher Post
Confronting Web3 Technology: Opportunities, Challenges and Community Formation, Christopher-John Rogers
Kurdish Filmmaking in Turkey: History and Narratives, Omar Sadik
Disentangling Groundwater Dynamics at Oregon's McKenzie River Headwaters, Taylor Nicole Salazar
Race and Income as Predictors of Trust in Flood Mitigation Strategies, Wendy Nathaly Sangucho Loachamin
Collaborative Action in Informal Social Networks of Wildfire Managers in Northwestern Wyoming, Hannah Lynn Spencer
Cementation and Groundwater Chemistry in Pleistocene Paleodune Deposits of the Central Oregon Coast, Adrienne Lynn Stephens
How Are Oregon's Rural Indigenous Communities Overcoming Water Access Issues?, Tyren John Thompson
Comparing True Maternal and Paternal Care in Pair-Living, Ex-Situ Varecia rubra (Red Variegated Lemurs) Contextualized Among Other Primate Cooperative Breeders, Payton Elizabeth Zuver
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Efficiency in the Upper Deschutes Basin: Understanding the Hydrosocial Implications of Irrigation Canal Piping, Rebecca Anderson
Short Warm-Side Wet-Bulb Temperature Distribution Tails Lead to Accelerated Increases in Extreme Threshold Exceedances Under Global Warming, Yianna Sotirios Bekris
Effects of Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) Across Variable Densities of Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Kimberly Alexis Brown
An Experimental Study of Norton and Thule Cooking Pot Performance, Caelie Marshall Butler
Temperature and Predator Effects on Green Crabs (Carcinus maenas) and Their Distribution in South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Elissa Connolly-Randazzo
Mapping Ecosystem Service Flows of Estuary Restoration Projects on the Oregon Coast to Identify Impacted Stakeholders, Shersten King Finley
Stratigraphic and Geochemical Evaluation of Distal Flows of the Columbia River Flood Basalts in the Greater Vale Area, Southeastern Oregon, Lena Marie Fox
Investigation of Basal Imnaha Basalt Flows and their Relationship to the Picture Gorge Basalt of the Columbia River Basalt Group, Luke James Fredenberg
Post-Fire Erosional and Hydrological Processes Promoting Debris Flow Initiation in a Douglas Fir and Western Hemlock Forest in the Riverside Burn Area, Oregon, Morena Nicole Hammer
"We've Created Cheap Energy off the Backs of Salmon": Dam Removal Politics and Alliances in the Lower Snake River Basin, Krista Harrington
Stoneware and Earthenware from the Beeswax Wreck: Classification of the Dubé Collection and Discussion of the Interpretation of the Materials in Protohistoric Sites, Vanessa Renee Litzenberg
Spatial Analysis of Burn Severity and Streamflow Response in the Western CONUS, Will Brendan Long
Coming to Know the Local Environment: Children's Experiences in Rautamai Gaunpalika, Nepal, Elsie Nicole Love
Linking Conservation and Environmental Justice: Exploring Relationship-Building Between a Land Trust and Four Pacific Northwest Tribes, C. Noel Plemmons
Dress and Identity: Using Sartorial Artifacts to Explore Identity at Fort Vancouver, Dana Marie Sukau
Erasure through Engagement: The Community Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, Meghan Elizabeth Sullivan
Modeling Postfire Effects on Snow Albedo and Forest Recovery Over a Chronosequence of Burned Forests in the Triple Divide Region of the Rocky Mountains, Anton J. Surunis
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
Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Microplastic Concentrations in Portland's Freshwater Ecosystems, Rebecca Talbot
More Than Words: Articulating the Multisensory Experiences of Protected Area Visitors in Southern Nevada, Sara Nicole Temme
Most Recent Rupture on the Boulder Creek Fault Triggered Bedrock Landsliding in the Nooksack Watershed, Whatcom County, Washington, Abigail Catherine Underwood
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonization Response to Dike Removal in the Salmon River Estuary, Elinore Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Rhyolite Stratigraphy Along Succor Creek: Insights into the Eruptive History of the Three Fingers and Mahogany Mountain Volcanic Field, Cassandra Caryl Black