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 2016
Scientifically Defensible Fish Conservation and Recovery Plans: Addressing Diffuse Threats and Developing Rigorous Adaptive Management Plans, Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner, Carl B. Schreck, Robert M. Hughes, J. Alan Yeakley, and Nancy Molina
ENSO Controls Interannual Fire Activity in Southeast Australia, Michela Mariani, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Andrés Holz, and Petter Nyman
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
Chiropractic Care in a System Dynamics Model for Minimizing Opioid Abuse for Chronic Non-Malignant Pain Patients, Marion McGregor, Alexandra Nielsen, Chadwick Chung, Mark Fillery, Wayne W. Wakeland, and Silvano Mior
Exploring Categorical Body Mass Index Trajectories in Elementary School Children, Geraldine Moreno‐Black, Shawn Boles, Deb Johnson‐Shelton, and Cody Evers
Resident Perceptions of Natural Resources between Cities and across Scales in the Pacific Northwest, Anita T. Morzillo, Betty J. Kreakie, Noelwah R. Netusil, and J. Alan Yeakley
Assessing Productive Efficiency and Operating Scale of Community Blood Centers, Alexandra E. Nielsen and Nathan D. Nielsen
Modeling the Thickness of Perennial Ice Covers on Stratified Lakes of the Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Maciej K. Obryk, Peter T. Doran, Jared A. Hicks, Christopher P. McKay, and John Charles Priscu
Water Quality Assessment of Benthic Diatom Communities for Water Quality in the Subalpine Karstic Lakes of Jiuzhaigou, A World Heritage Site in China, Li-li Ouyang, Yangdong Pan, Cheng-min Huang, Ya Tang, Jie Du, and Wei-yang Xiao
Variation of Benthic Algal Assemblages Among Habitats in Subalpine Karstic Lakes and Implications for Bioassessment, Yangdong Pan, Lizhu Wang, Yong Cao, Wanting Pang, Quanxi Wang, Zhongfu Zhu, Xiaoping Zhang, and Guiping Deng
Analysis of Long-Term Climate Change on Per Capita Water Demand in Urban Versus Suburban Areas in the Portland Metropolitan Area, USA, G. Hossein Parandvash and Heejun Chang
Using Systems Methods to Create a Dynamic Model of Concussion Recovery, Elle L. Parks, Erin S. Kenzie, and Wayne W. Wakeland
Long-Term Exposure to Fluoxetine Reduces Growth and Reproductive Potential in the Dominant Rocky Intertidal Mussel, Mytilus californianus, Joseph R. Peters and Elise F. Granek
Accommodation Space Controls on Incised-Valley Sediment Accumulation Rates During the Holocene Marine Transgression (0–11 ka) in Grays Harbor, a Large Meso-Tidal Estuary, Washington, USA, Curt D. Peterson and James B. Phipps
Accommodation Space in a High-Wave-Energy Inner-Shelf During the Holocene Marine Transgression: Correlation of Onshore and Offshore Inner-Shelf Deposits (0–12 ka) in the Columbia River Littoral Cell System, Washington and Oregon, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Dave C. Twichell, Michael C. Roberts, Sandy Vanderburgh, and Steve W. Hostetler
Effects of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products on Marine Organisms: From Single-Species Studies to an Ecosystem-Based Approach, Emma C. Prichard and Elise F. Granek
Using Transects to Understand Cyanobacterial Blooms, John Rueter
Worldview-Based Scenarios Highlight Stakeholder Values and Assumptions, John Rueter
Food Access and Affordability in the Foster Green EcoDistrict: Lessons from Student Engagement with Equity and Sustainability in Southeast Portland, Hunter Shobe and Gwyneth Genevieve McKee Manser
An Adaptive Paradigm for Human Space Settlement, Cameron Smith
An Atlas of Human Prehistory, Cameron Smith
The MarsCart: Simple, Reliable, Non-Powered, Field-Maintainable Transportation for Short-Range, Small-Payload Extravehicular Activity on Mars, Cameron Smith and Louis Loncke
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
An Exploratory Path Analysis of Attitudes, Behaviors and Summer Water Consumption in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Jonathan Straus, Heejun Chang, and Chang-yu Hong
Plant Nitrogen Concentration and Isotopic Composition in Residential Lawns Across Seven US Cities, Tara Trammell, Diane E. Pataki, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Peter M. Groffman, and Sharon J. Hall
Assessing Population Increase as a Possible Outcome to Management of Invasive Species, Brian C. Turner, Catherine E. de Rivera, Edwin D. Grosholz, and Gregory M. Ruiz
Assessing Mechanisms of Climate Change Impact on the Upland Forest Water Balance of the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, David P. Turner, David R. Conklin, Kellie B. Vache, Cynthia Schwartz, Anne Nolin, Heejun Chang, Eric Watson, and John P. Bolte
Chinookan Villages of the Lower Columbia, Henry B. Zenk, Yvonne P. Hajda, and Robert T. Boyd
Ecological Investigations to Select Mitigation Options to Reduce Vehicle-Caused Mortality of a Threatened Butterfly, Sara B. Zielin, Jalene Littlejohn, Catherine E. de Rivera, Winston P. Smith, and Sandra L. Jacobson
Mussar (a Short Historical Perspective) and Spinoza, Martin Zwick
Secondary Analysis of Concussion Data, Martin Zwick, Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner, Nancy Carney, Maya Balamane, Tracie Nettleton, and D. Wright
Exploratory Modeling of TBI Data, Martin Zwick, Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner, Sadie Carney, Maya Balamane, Tracie Nettleton, and D. Wright
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
Self-Reported Experiences of Climate Change in Nigeria: The Role of Personal and Socio-Environmental, Idowu Ajibade, Frederick Ato Armah, Vincent Kuuire, Isaac Luginaah, and Gordon McBean
Archéologie du Cap Espenberg où la question du Birnirk et de l’origine du Thulé dans le nord‐ouest de l’Alaska, Claire Alix, Owen K. Mason, Nancy H. Bigelow, Shelby L. Anderson, Jeffrey Rasic, and John F. Hoffecker
Stable Isotope and Ancient DNA Analysis of Dog Remains From Cathlapotle (45CL1), a Contact-Era Site on the Lower Columbia River, Kenneth M. Ames, Michael P. Richards, Camilla F. Speller, Dongya Y. Yang, R. Lee Lyman, and Virginia L. Butler
Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas, David Banis and Hunter Shobe
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
Empirical Evidence for the Scale Dependence of Biotic Interactions, Jonathan Belmaker, Phoebe Zarnetske, Sara Zonneveld, Sydne Record, Angela L. Strecker, and Lydia Beaudrot
Patterns and Processes of Salt Efflorescences in the McMurdo region, Antarctica, Kelsey M. Bisson, Kathleen A. Welch, Susan A. Welch, Julia Meyer Sheets, W. Berry Lyons, Joseph S. Levy, and Andrew G. Fountain
Cathlapotle and its Inhabitants, 1792-1860 : a Report Prepared for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 1, Robert T. Boyd
Metal and Prestige in the Greater Lower Columbia River Region, Northwestern North America, H. Kory Cooper, Kenneth Ames, and Loren G. Davis
Climate Change and Land Management Impact Rangeland Condition and Sage-Grouse Habitat in Southeastern Oregon, Megan K. Creutzburg, Emilie B. Henderson, and David R. Conklin
Discourses of Deflection: The Politics of Framing China’s South North Water Transfer Project, Britt Crow-Miller
Current State of Strain in the Central Cascadia Margin Derived from Changes in Distance between GPS Stations, Kenneth M. Cruikshank and Curt D. Peterson
Kwakwaka’wakw “Clam Gardens”: Motive and Agency in Traditional Northwest Coast Mariculture, Douglas Deur, Adam Dick, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, and Nancy J. Turner
Yakutat Tlingit and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve: An Ethnographic Overview and Assessment, Douglas Deur, Thomas Thornton, Rachel Lahoff, and Jamie Hebert
Climate-Suitable Planting as a Strategy for Maintaining Forest Productivity and Functional Diversity, Matthew Joshua Duveneck and Robert M. Scheller
Next-Generation Scientists Get a Taste of Their Future Careers, Patrick M. Edwards, Linda A. George, and Matthew McTammany
GC/MS Analysis of Some Extractives from Eichhornia crassipes, Héctor A. Fileto-Pérez, O. Miriam Rutiaga-Quiñones, Mark D. Sytsma, Isabelle M. Lorne, Wentai Luo, James F. Pankow, and José G. Rutiaga-Quiñones
Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing and Intergenerational Family Obligations in Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Information Needs Assessment for Coastal and Marine Management and Policy: Ecosystem Services Under Changing Climatic, Land Use, and Demographic Conditions, Kaitlin Goldsmith, Elise F. Granek, and Amy Lubitow
Convergence of Microclimate in Residential Landscapes Across Diverse Cities in the United States, Sharon J. Hall, J Learned, Benjamin Ruddell, Kelli L. Larson, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kristen Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Laura A. Ogden, Diane E. Pataki, William D. Pearse, Colin Polsky, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Meredith K. Steele, and Tara Trammell
Modeling Predator Habitat to Enhance Reintroduction Planning, Shiloh Michael Halsey, William J. Zielinski, and Robert M. Scheller
Interest in Nonsurgical Female Permanent Contraception Among Men in Portland, Oregon and Eastern Maharashtra, India, Elizabeth K. Harrington, Diane Gordon, Pramod Bahulekar, B.S. Garg, Isabel Osgood-Roach, Jeffrey T. Jensen, and Jennifer Aengst
Conceptualizing Risk and Effectiveness: A Qualitative Study of Women’s and Providers’ Perceptions of Nonsurgical Female Permanent Contraception, Elizabeth K. Harrington, Diane Gordon, Isabel Osgood-Roach, Jeffrey T. Jensen, and Jennifer Aengst
Coastal Sediment Elevation Change Following Anthropogenic Mangrove Clearing, Heather Lyn Hayden and Elise F. Granek
Type and Timing of Stream Flow Changes in Urbanizing Watersheds in the Eastern U.S., Kristina G. Hopkins, Nathaniel B. Morse, Daniel J. Bain, Neil D. Bettez, Nancy B. Grimm, Jennifer L. Morse, and Monica M. Palta
The Mechanisms of Information Integration in Experimental Prediction Markets, Richard Jolly, Martin Zwick, Wayne Wakeland, James Woods, and Barry Anderson
Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of NO, NO2 and PM2.5 Mass as a Function of Traffic Volumes Alongside an Urban Arterial, Christine M. Kendrick, Peter Koonce, and Linda A. George
Constructing a Dynamic Model of Concussion, Erin S. Kenzie, Elle L. Parks, and Wayne W. Wakeland
Riparian Wetland Plant Response to Livestock Exclusion in the Lower Columbia River Basin, S. A. Kidd and J. Alan Yeakley
The Bear Creek Site (45KI839), a Late Pleistocene–Holocene Transition Occupation in the Puget Sound Lowland, King County, Washington, Robert E. Kopperl, Amanda K. Taylor, Christian J. Miss, Kenneth M. Ames, and Charles M. Hodges
Holocene Settlement History of the Dundas Islands Archipelago, Northern British Columbia, Bryn Letham, Andrew Martindale, Duncan McLaren, Thomas Brown, Kenneth M. Ames, David J.W. Archer, and Susan Marsden
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
Short-tailed temperature distributions over North America and Implications for Future Changes in Extremes, Paul C. Loikith and J. David Neelin
Surface Temperature Probability Distributions in the NARCCAP Hindcast Experiment: Evaluation Methodology, Metrics, and Results, Paul C. Loikith, Duane E. Waliser, Huikyo Lee, Jinwon Kim, J. David Neelin, Benjamin R. Lintner, Seth McGinnis, Chris A. Mattmann, and Linda O. Mears
Evaluation of Large‑Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Temperature Extremes in the NARCCAP Regional Climate Model Simulations, Paul C. Loikith, Duane E. Waliser, Huikyo Lee, J. David Neelin, Benjamin Lintner, Seth McGinnis, Linda Mears, and Jinwon Kim
Combining and Aggregating Environmental Data for Status and Trend Assessments: Challenges and Approaches, Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner, Michael Harte, Nancy Molina, Robert M. Hughes, Carl B. Schreck, and J. Alan Yeakley
A Systems Approach to Stress, Stressors and Resilience in Humans, Barry S. Oken, Irina Chamine, and Wayne W. Wakeland
Core Evolution Driven by Mantle Global Circulation, Peter Olson, Renaud Deguen, Maxwell L. Rudolph, and Shijie Zhong
Comparison of Fish Assemblages in Restored and Natural Mangrove Habitats Along an Urban Shoreline, Joseph R. Peters, Lauren A. Yeager, and Craig A. Layman
Origins of Quaternary Coastal Dune Sheets in San Francisco and Monterey Bay, Central California Coast, U.S.A.: Reflecting Contrasts in Shelf Depocenters and Coastal Neotectonics, Curt D. Peterson, Errol Stock, Jack Meyer, Philip Kaijankoski, and David M. Price
Increased Taxonomic and Functional Similarity Does Not Increase the Trophic Similarity of Communities, Thomas K. Pool, Julien Cucherousset, Stéphanie Boulêtreau, Sébastien Villéger, Angela L. Strecker, and Gaël Grenouillet
Glacier Status and Contribution to Streamflow in the Olympic Mountains, USA, Jon L. Riedel, Steve Wilson, William Baccus, Michael Larrabee, T.J. Fudge, and Andrew G. Fountain
Beyond the Angle of Repose: A Review and Synthesis of Landslide Processes in Response to Rapid Uplift, Eel River, Northern Eel River, Northern California, Joshua J. Roering, Benjamin H. Mackey, Alexander L. Handwerger, Adam M. Booth, David A. Schmidt, Georgina L. Bennett, and Corina Cerovski-Darriau
Viscosity Jump in Earth’s Mid-Mantle, Maxwell L. Rudolph, Vedran Lekic, and Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
Shock-Induced Mobilization of Metal and Sulfide in Planetesimals: Evidence From the Buck Mountains 005 (L6 S4) Dike-Bearing Chondrite, Alexander M. Ruzicka, Ryan Brown, Jon Friedrich, Melinda Hutson, Richard Hugo, and Mark Rivers
Deformation and Thermal Histories of Ordinary Chondrites: Evidence for Postdeformation Annealing and Syn-Metamorphic Shock, Alexander M. Ruzicka, Richard Hugo, and Melinda Hutson
Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances: Vegetation Dynamics and Biogeochemistry, Robert M. Scheller and Mark E. Swanson
Key Data Gaps Regarding the Public Health Issues Associated with Opioid Analgesics, Teresa Schmidt, J. David Haddox, Alexandra E. Nielsen, Wayne W. Wakeland, and John Fitzgerald
Cascadia Rising: Soccer, Region and Identity, Hunter Shobe and Geoff Gibson
Incidence of an Astronaut Not Closing the Pressure Garment Visor on Reentry, Cameron M. Smith
Pressure Test Results Regarding Convolute Elbow Segments and Biomedical Monitoring, Cameron M. Smith
Evaluating User Interaction with a Web-Based Group Decision Support System: A Comparison Between Two Clustering Methods, Martin Swobodzinski and Piotr Jankowski
Introduction to the Special Section on Marine Cultivation among Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast, Thomas Thornton and Douglas Deur
Cultivation of Salmon and other Marine Resources on the Northwest Coast of North America, Thomas Thornton, Douglas Deur, and Herman Kitka
Neoliberal and Neo-Communal Herring Fisheries in Southeast Alaska: Reframing Sustainability in Marine Ecosystems, Thomas F. Thornton and Jamie Hebert
Bubble Mobility in Mud and Magmatic Volcanoes, Aaron Tran, Maxwell L. Rudolph, and Michael Manga
Prediction -- The Quintessential Policy Model Validation Test, Wayne Wakeland
Gaining Policy Insight with a System Dynamics Model of Pain Medicine Prescribing, Diversion and Abuse, Wayne Wakeland, Alexandra E. Nielsen, and Teresa D. Schmidt
Dynamic Model of Nonmedical Opioid Use Trajectories and Potential Policy Interventions, Wayne W. Wakeland, Alexandra Nielsen, and Peter Geissert
Dendrochronology and Middle Miocene Petrified Oak: Modern Counterparts and Interpretation, William E. Wright, Martin J. Streck, Christopher Baisan, W. Walton Wright, and Paul Szejner
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
Modeling Vegetation Mosaics in Sub-Alpine Tasmania Under Various Fire Regimes, Gabriel I. Yospin, Samuel W. Wood, Andrés Holz, David M.J.S. Bowman, Robert E. Keane, and Cathy Whitlock
On the Temporal Evolution of Long-Wavelength Mantle Structure of the Earth Since the Early Paleozoic, Shijie Zhong and Maxwell L. Rudolph
Exploratory Data Modeling of Traumatic Brain Injury, Martin Zwick
Freedom as a Natural Phenomenon, Martin Zwick
Mind and Life: Is the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature False?, Martin Zwick