This combined collection includes faculty works from the School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES), which includes the departments of Anthropology, Environmental Science and Management, Geography, Geology and Complex Systems.
Submissions from 2025
Who Bears the Burden? an Assessment of Vulnerability and Resilience to Consecutive Disasters in the Portland Metro Region, Idowu Ajibade, Jason Sauer, Matthew Walter, James M. Done, Ming Ge, Elliot Gall, Aswatha Raghunathasami, Paul C. Loikith, Chris Lower, Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadka, and E Mae Sowards
Disaster Vulnerability Hotspots in the Portland Metro-Region: Converging Indices for Equitable Resilience, Idowu Ajibade, Matthew Walter, Jason Sauer, Aswatha Raghunathasami, James M. Done, Paul Loikith, Chris Lower, Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadka, Mae E. Sowards, and Ming Ge
The Birnirk to Thule Transition As Viewed from Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Dating Within Two Adjacent Houses at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Alaska, Claire Alix, Lauren E. Y. Norman, Antony M. Krus, Juliette Taieb, Shelby L. Anderson, Dennis H. O'Rourke, and Owen K. Mason
Unshrouding Narratives, Beliefs, and Practices Related to the Aye-Aye (daubentonia Madagascariensis) in Eastern Madagascar, Alessio Anania, Fiona Besnard, Delaid C. Rasamisoa, Erito Andriantsitoherina, Jean Fidele Mosa, Marco Campera, Megan Phelps, Dean Gibson, Timothy M. Eppley, and Giuseppe Donati
The Hydro-Geomorphic Response of the Ephemeral Lower Nahal Tzalmon Stream to Experimental Flow Releases Towards Replenishment of the Sea of Galilee, NE Israel, Nathaniel Bergman, Noam Greenbaum, Eyal Weinberg, and Iyad Swaed
Explaining the 2022 Record Low Great Salt Lake Volume, Siiri Bigalke, Paul C. Loikith, and Nicholas Siler
Wind and Topography Underlie Correlation Between Seasonal Snowpack, Mountain Glaciers, and Late-Summer Streamflow, Elijah N. Boardman, Andrew G. Fountain, Joseph W. Boardman, Thomas H. Painter, Evan W. Burgess, Laura Wilson, and Adrian A. Harpold
Permafrost and Structural Controls on Holocene Bedrock Landslide Occurrence Around Eyjafjörður, North‐Central Iceland, Adam Booth and Halldór G. Pétursson
Documenting the Effects of Laboratory Sorting in Zooarchaeology: Lessons Learned from the Cixwicn Project, Kristine M. Bovy, Virginia L. Butler, Michael A. Etnier, and Sarah K. Campbell
Reining in Plasticulture from Land to Sea: Pacific Northwest (USA) Perspectives on Agriculture and Aquaculture, Susanne M. Brander, Gail A. Langellotto, Minal T. Mistry, Sebastian L. Singleton, MacKenna A. Hainey, Lauren M. Kashiwabara, Kelsey Arthur, Elise F. Granek, Kervelle Baird, Ricardo Palazuelos, and multiple additional authors
Patagonia's Late Holocene Lake Sediments Reveal No Major Black Carbon Sources for Antarctica, Sandra O. Brugger, David B. McWethy, Nathan Chellman, Oliver Heiri, Kyla Sara Zaret, Joseph R. Mcconnell, Andres Holz, and Joseph R. McConnell
Collaborative Governance and Hydrosocial Territorialization: Reaching Consensus on Salmon Restoration Goals in the Columbia River Basin, Thien-Kim Bui and Rebecca McLain
Unseen Connections: A Storymap Exploring Case Studies in Water-Energy Transitions and Environmental Justice, Alida Cantor, Elizabeth Bartholomew, Kate Berry, James Blair, Dustin Mulvaney, and Nancee Hunter
Exploring the Effects of Anthropogenic Habitat Change on Euplerid Carnivore Occupancy in a Humid Evergreen Forest, South-East Madagascar, C. Cardinal, Timothy M. Eppley, M. Andriamorasata, and G. Donati
Convergence Research for Microplastic Pollution at the Watershed Scale, Heejun Chang, Elise F. Granek, Amanda Gannon, Jordyn M. Wolfand, and Janice Brahney
A Case for Change: Flood Risk Management and Green Infrastructure, Heejun Chang and Arun Pallathadka
Convergence Research for Sustainable Regional Systems, Heejun Chang, Brian Roe, Murat Erkoc, Josiah Heyman, Katherine Foo, Debankur Sanyal, Debjyoti Banerjee, Richard Rushforth, and Jaishri Srinivasan
Predicting Post-Wildfire Stream Temperature and Turbidity: A Machine Learning Approach in Western US Watersheds, Junjie Chen and Heejun Chang
(de)centralized Water Futures: Key Dimensions of Infrastructure, Governance, and Operations, Alicia Dailey Cooperman, Jenny Linder Rempel, Ellis Adjei Adams, Alida Cantor, Manuela Muñoz Fuerte, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey, Nicole J. Wilson, Cassandra L. Workman, Melissa Beresford, Leila M. Harris, and multiple additional authors
Post-Fire Delayed Tree Mortality in Mesic Coniferous Forests Reduces Fire Refugia and Seed Sources, Alec S. Dyer, Sebastian Busby, Cody Evers, Matthew Reilly, Aaron Zuspan, and Andres Holz
Consumption Pressure in Estuaries Peaks at Intermediate Salinities, Catherine E. de Rivera, Amy A. Larson, Benjamin G. Rubinoff, Luna R. Soto, Seth L. Wright, Edwin D. Grosholz, Gregory M. Ruiz, and Andrew L. Chang
Future Vision and Action Recommendations, Sondoss Elsawah, Melissa Haeffner, and Anthony Jakeman
Poa Annua Ecology, Biology, and Integrated Weed Management Practices in Turfgrass, David Ervin
La Niña Effects on the MJO Modulation of North Pacific Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Western North American Precipitation, L. G. Fernandes, Paul C. Loikith, and M. Mora
Synthesis of Publications on the Anomalous June 2021 Heat Wave in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada, Erica Fleishman, David E. Rupp, Paul C. Loikith, Karin A. Bumbaco, and Larry W. O'Neill
“migration Craziness!” Financial Turbulence and Transnational Families in Sri Lanka, Michele R. Gamburd
Proper Conjugation of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants’ Families, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Perceptions About Potential Microplastic Interventions: a Study on Knowledge, Concerns, and Willingness to Pay, Amanda Gannon, Elise F. Granek, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Luke Harkins
Human-Drought Systems, Margaret Garcia, Elizabeth Koebele, Melissa Haeffner, Anne F. Van Loon, Newsha Ajami, Claudia Teutschbein, Marjolein Mens, Sylvain Massuel, Christopher White, and Burcu Tezcan
Global Patterns of Coseismic Landslide Runout Mobility Differ from Aseismic Landslide Trends, Alex R. R. Grant and Natalie K. Culhane
Plural Water Narratives: an Environmental Justice Lens on a Systematic Review of Q-Methodology Water Research, Melissa Haeffner, Alida Cantor, Janet Cowal, Andrea Bryant, Darius Mani Yaw, Kinna Je Palacios, Daniela Serna, Bryce Sprauer, and Abigail Tran-Gruver
Urban Heterogeneity Drives Dissolved Organic Matter Sources, Transport, and Transformation from Local to Macro Scales, Rebecca L. Hale, Kristina G. Hopkins, Krista A. Capps, John S. Kominoski, Jennifer L. Morse, Allison H. Roy, Shuo Chen, Annika Quick, Andrew J. Blinn, Liz Ortiz Muñoz, and Gwendolynn Folk
Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Captures Geometry and Slow-To-Fast Sliding Transition of the 2017 Mud Creek Landslide, Alexander L. Handwerger, Pascal Lacroix, Andrew F. Bell, Adam M. Booth, Mong-Han Huang, Simon M. Mudd, Roland Bürgmann, and Eric J. Fielding
Power and Planning: a Critical Discourse Analysis of Tribal and Non-Tribal Oregon Wildfire Protection Plans, Christian J. Heisler, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Douglas Deur, and Gabe Sheoships
Towards a Global Understanding of Tree Mortality, Andres Holz and International Tree Mortality Network
Overcoming Challenges in Mapping Hydrography and Heterogeneity in Urban Landscapes, Kristina G. Hopkins, Rebecca L. Hale, Krista A. Capps, John S. Kominoski, Jennifer L. Morse, Allison H. Roy, Andrew Blinn, Shuo Chen, Liz Ortiz Munoz, Annika Quick, and Jacob Rudolph
Recovering Population of the Southern Sea Otter Suppresses a Global Marine Invader, Rikke Jeppesen, Catherine E. de Rivera, Edwin D. Grosholz, M. Tim Tinker, Brent B. Hughes, Ron Eby, and Kerstin Wasson
Projections of Lightning‐ignited Wildfire Risk in the Western United States, Dmitri A. Kalashnikov, John T. Abatzoglou, Frances V. Davenport, Zachary M. Labe, Paul C. Loikith, Danielle Touma, and Deepti Singh
Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations, Surabhi Karambelkar, Alida Cantor, Thien-Kim Bui, Bethani Turley, Maryalice Fischer, and Shannon Ames
The First Thirty Years of Green Stormwater Infrastructure in Portland, Oregon, Michaela Koucka, Cara Poor, Jordyn Wolfand, Heejun Chang, Vivek Shandas, Adrienne Aiona, Henry Stevens, Tim Kurtz, Svetlana Hedin, Steve Fancher, Joshua Lighthipe, and Adam Zucker
Effects of Climate Change on Stream Temperature and Salmonid Habitats in a Cascades River Basin, Michael Krochta, Kara Anlauf-Dunn, Dave Bugni, and Heejun Chang
Short Communication: Multiscale Topographic Complexity Analysis with Pytopocomplexity, L. S.-H. Lai, Adam Booth, A. R. Duvall, and E. Herzig
The Petrology of the Ozerki Meteorite Constrained by Electron Backscatter Diffraction and X-Ray Computed Tomography, Alice Macente, Luke Daly, Sammy Griffin, Maria Gritsevich, Jarmo Moilanen, Josh Franz Einsle, Patrick Trimby, Chris Mulcahy, Jonathan Moffat, and Alexander M. Ruzicka
Thermal Regimes of Beaver-Impacted Stream Reaches in the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon, United States, Miles Mayer and Heejun Chang
Abiotic Variables Drive Different Aspects of Fish Community Trait Variation and Species Richness Across the Continental United States, Alicia Mcgrew, Crysta Gantz, Brigid Wills, Benjamin Baiser, Sydne Record, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, and Angela L. Strecker
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: Environmental Justice, Land Use Change, and Hydrosocial Dynamics of Solar Energy Transitions in the Imperial Valley, California, Dustin Mulvaney, James J. A. Blair, and Alida Cantor
Fueling Adaptation: Collaborative Wildfire Governance in the Colorado Front Range Landscape, Mahmood Muttaqee, Cody Evers, Lindsay K. Campbell, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Olivia Awbrey, Kathryn Hixson, Michelle Johnson, and Erika Svendsen
Collaborative Wildfire Governance within the Southwest Idaho Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscape: Survey Results 2025, Mahmood Muttaqee, Cody R. Evers, Lindsay K. Campbell, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Olivia Awbrey, Kathryn Hixson, Michelle Johnson, and Erika Svendsen
Expanding and Mainstreaming Sociohydrology Toward Transdisciplinary Praxis, Shinichiro Nakamura, Heidi Kreibich, Melissa Haeffner, Jenia Mukherjee, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Maiko Sakamoto, Mikiko Sugiura, Günter Blöschl, Taikan Oki, and Murugesu Sivapalan
Increasing Soil Respiration in a Northern Hardwood Forest Indicates Symptoms of a Changing Carbon Cycle, Angela R. Possinger, Charles T. Driscoll, Mark B. Green, Timothy J. Fahey, Chris E. Johnson, Mary Margaret K. Koppers, Lisa D. Martel, Jennifer L. Morse, Pamela H. Templer, Angelina M. Uribe, Geoffrey F. Wilson, and Peter M. Groffman
Climatic Controls on Soil Production, Transport and Chemical Erosion: Insights from Modelling Topography, Soils and Cosmogenic Nuclides at Little Lake, Oregon, Miles M. Reed, Ken L. Ferrier, Jill A. Marshall, Josh J. Roering, and J. Taylor Perron
Climatic Controls on Soil Production, Transport and Chemical Erosion: Insights from Modelling Topography, Soils and Cosmogenic Nuclides at Little Lake, Oregon, Miles M. Reed, Ken L. Ferrier, Jill A. Marshall, Josh J. Roering, and J. Taylor Perron
Towards an Explicit Understanding of Network Governance in Urban Forestry Management: A Case Study of Portland (OR), USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo and Vivek Shandas
State of the Climate in 2024: the Arctic, R. L. Thoman, T. A. Moon, M. L. Druckenmiller, Thomas G. Askjaer, Thomas J. Ballinger, Uma S. Bhatt, Logan T. Berner, Germar H. Bernhard, Siiri Bigalke, Jarle W. Bjerke, and multiple additional authors
The Effects of Imidacloprid and Polyester Microfibers on the Larval Development of the Endangered Sunflower Star, Alexandra G. Tissot, Elise F. Granek, Fiona Curliss, Augustin Kalytiak-Davis, Jason Hodin, and Michelle L. Hladik
Global Scale Assessment of the Human-Induced Extinction Crisis of Terrestrial Carnivores., Erik Joaquín Torres-Romero, Timothy M. Eppley, William J. Ripple, Thomas M. Newsome, Miha Krofel, Neil H. Carter, Andrés Ordiz, Tadeu G. de Oliveira, Nuria Selva, and Vincenzo Penteriani
Accelerated Human-Induced Extinction Crisis in the World's Freshwater Mammals, Erik Joaquín Torres-Romero, Jason T. Fisher, Vincent Nijman, Fengzhi He, and Timothy M. Eppley
The Geography of Rock Glaciers in the American West, Allison Reese Trcka, Andrew G. Fountain, and Bryce Allen Glenn
Book Review of, Participatory Engineering of Algorithmic Socialtechnologies: an Extended Book Review of David G. Robinson's Voices Inthe Code, Rajesh Venkatachalapathy
Population Genomic Investigation of the Oregon Slender Salamander (batrachoseps Wrighti) Reveals Suburban Populations Are Remnants, Not Recent Introductions, Clare Yang, Laura Guderyahn, Charlotte Corkran, Steven Wagner, and Lauren M. Chan
The Center Cannot Hold: Structures of Political Choice, Martin Zwick
“Tikkun” Viewed from the Perspective of Systems Philosophy, Martin Zwick
Submissions from 2024
Deep Structure of Siletzia in the Puget Lowland: Imaging an Obducted Plateau and Accretionary Thrust Belt With Potential Fields, Megan L. Anderson, Richard J. Blakely, Ray E. Wells, and Joe D. Dragovich
The Complexities of Irrigation Efficiency: Groundwater Data, Agro-Hydrology, and Water Decision-Making in Central Oregon, Rebecca Anderson and Alida Cantor
Impacts of a Short-Interval Severe Fire on Forest Structure and Regeneration in a Temperate Andean Araucaria-Nothofagus Forest, Paola Arroyo-Vargas, Sebastian Busby, Thomas T. Veblen, Mauro E. Gonzalez, and Andres Holz
Foreign Funding of U.S. Higher Education Relates to Sanctioning of Scholars and Antisemitism, Michael Bass, Alexander Reid Ross, Ben Wolfson, Joel Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Danit Finkelstein, Sean T. Stevens, Nathan Honeycutt, Pamela Paresky, Ayal Feinberg, and multiple additional authors
Lithium and Water: Hydrosocial Impacts Across the Life Cycle of Energy Storage, James J. A. Blair, Noel Vineyard, Dustin Mulvaney, Alida Cantor, Ali Sharbat, Kate Berry, Elizabeth Bartholomew, and Ariana Firebaugh Ornelas
Patterns, Drivers, and Implications of Postfire Delayed Tree Mortality in Temperate Conifer Forests of the Western United States, Sebastian Busby, Cody Evers, and Andrés Holz
Reflections on Zooarchaeology in East Polynesia: Human-Animal Interactions and Human Ecodynamics, Virginia L. Butler
Mantle Sources and Geochemical Evolution of the Picture Gorge Basalt, Columbia River Basalt Group, Emily B. Cahoon, Martin J. Streck, Richard W. Carlson, and Ilya N. Bindeman
Working (around/within/against) Prior Appropriation: Diverse Hydrosocial Practices to Secure Water for Rivers, Alida Cantor, Jillian Farley, Thien-Kim Bui, and Zachary Boyce
Beyond Environmental Harm: Industry Claims, Lived Experiences, and the Impacts of Gas Extraction, Martina Angela Caretta, Melissa Haeffner, Ryan Emanuel, Racheal Hood, and Julia Seydel
Women and Water: an Art-Based Academic-Community Partnership, Martina Angela Caretta and Bethani Turley
Volcanic Glass As a Proxy for Paleotopography Suggests New Features in Late-Miocene Oregon, Julian Cohen, John Bershaw, and Richard Hugo
Application of Participatory Process Mapping to Evaluate Environmental Decision-Making and Implementation, Karissa Courtney, Emily Rabung, Jennifer Brousseau, Antony S. Cheng, A. Paige Fischer, Harrison Fried, Matthew Hamilton, Federico Holm, Jordan Inskeep, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and multiple additional authors
Water Throughout the Green Energy Transition: Hydrosocial Dimensions of Coal, Natural Gas, and Lithium, Joshua J. Cousins, Alida Cantor, and Bethani Turley
Debris Fan Produced by Failure of Canyon-Blocking Pyroclastic Flows, Michael L. Cummings
On Fire and Water: The Intersection of Wetlands and Burning Strategies in Managing the Anthropogenic Plant Communities of Yosemite National Park, Douglas Deur and Rochelle Bloom
An Index of Biotic Integrity for Macroinvertebrate Stream Bioassessment Conducted by Community Scientists, Patrick M. Edwards, Daniel Bedell, Shannon Hubler, Chad A. Larson, Kate H. Macneale, Elisa Mickelson, Chris Prescott, Elinore Webb, and Jo Wilhelm
Reconnecting a Stream Channel to its Floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure, Patrick M. Edwards, Nicole C. Popp, Yangdong Pan, Christine L. Weilhoefer, Aspen Peterman, Lauren Mork, Matthew F. Johnson, Megan Colley, and multiple additional authors
Re-Evaluating Hypertragulid Diversity in the John Day Basin, Oregon, USA, Nicholas A. Famoso and Lana K. Jewell
Does El Niño affect MJO-AR connections over the North Pacific and associated North American precipitation?, Laís G. Fernandes and Paul Loikith
Book Review of, Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives, Michele Gamburd
Review of Sama in the Forest, Michele R. Gamburd
Participatory Mapping of Tree Equity, Preferences, and Environmental Justice in Portland, Oregon, Kate Gregory and Idowu Ajibade
The Water-Climate Nexus: Intersections Across Sectors, Thushara Gunda, Alida A. Cantor, Emily Grubert, Angela R. Harris, and Yolanda J. Mcdonald
When Overextended Surface Allocation Turns to Groundwater: a Q Methodology of Well Users in Oregon’s High Desert, Melissa Haeffner, Janet Cowal, Brandy Walker, and Clare McClellan
Editorial: Innovating a new knowledge base for water justice studies: hydrosocial, sociohydrology, and beyond, Melissa Haeffner, Jenia Mukherjee, Rebecca Lave, Jamie Linton, John Ndiritu, Raul Pacheco-Vega, Maria Ruska, and Margreet Zwarteveen
Matching the Scales of Planning and Environmental Risk: an Evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the Western US, Matthew Hamilton, Cody Evers, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Alan A. Ager
Urban Streetscape Changes in Portland, Oregon: A Longitudinal Virtual Audit, Tomoya Hanibuchi, David Banis, Hunter Shobe, Tomoki Nakaya, and Shohei Nagata
Evidence of Seattle Fault Earthquakes from Patterns in Deep-Seated Landslides, Erich Herzig, Alison Duvall, Adam Booth, Ian Stone, Erin Wirth, Sean LaHusen, Joseph Wartman, and Alex Grant
Introducing Isomad, a Compilation of Isotopic Datasets for Madagascar, Sean W. Hixon, Ricardo Fernandes, Antonin Andriamahaihavana, Andrea L. Baden, Marina B. Blanco, Guillaume Caulier, Melanie Dammhahn, Igor Eeckhaut, Timothy M. Eppley, Natalie Vasey, and multiple additional authors
Watershed, Lake, and Food web factors influence diazotrophic cyanobacteria in mountain lakes, Lara Jansen, Daniel Sobota, Yangdong Pan, and Angela Strecker
Rising Water Temperature in Rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience, Matthew F. Johnson, Lindsey K. Albertson, Adam C. Algar, Stephen J. Dugdale, Patrick Edwards, Judy England, Christopher Gibbins, and multiple additional authors
Predicting Cloud-To-Ground Lightning in the Western United States from the Large-Scale Environment Using Explainable Neural Networks, Dmitri A. Kalashnikov, Frances V. Davenport, Zachary M. Labe, Paul C. Loikith, John T. Abatzoglou, and Deepti Singh
Mapping Mental Models Through an Improved Method for Identifying Causal Structures in Qualitative Data, Erin S. Kenzie, Wayne Wakeland, Antonie Jetter, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Mellodie Seater, and Melinda M. Davis
Protocol for an Interview-Based Method for Mapping Mental Models Using Causal-Loop Diagramming and Realist Interviewing., Erin S. Kenzie, Wayne W. Wakeland, Antonie J. Jetter, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Mellodie Seater, Rose Gunn, and Melinda M. Davis
Provisioning Services Decline for Both People and Critically Endangered Wildlife in a Rainforest Transformation Landscape, Katherine J. Kling, Timothy M. Eppley, A. Catherine Markham, Patricia C. Wright, Be Noel Razafindrapaoly, Rajaona Delox, Be Jean Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Jeanne Mathilde Randriamanetsy, Pascal Elison, Natalie Vasey, and multiple additional authors
Scales of Connectivity within Stream Temperature Networks of the Clackamas River Basin, Oregon, Michael Krochta and Heejun Chang