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 2014
High Latitude Coastal Settlement Patterns: Cape Krusenstern, Alaska, Shelby L. Anderson and Adam Freeburg
Impact of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions on Surface Temperature Distribution, Alexis Berg, Benjamin R. Lintner, Kirsten L. Findell, Sergey Malyshev, Paul C. Loikith, and Pierre Gentine
Mapping Landscape Values: Issues, Challenges and Lessons Learned from Field Work on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, Diane Besser, Rebecca J. McLain, Lee Cerveny, Kelly Biedenweg, and David Banis
Force Chains as the Link Between Particle and Bulk Friction Angles in Granular Material, Adam M. Booth, Ryan Hurley, Michael P. Lamb, and José E. Andrade
Phenotypic Plasticity of Invasive Spartina Densiflora (Poaceae) Along a Broad Latitudinal Gradient on the Pacific Coast of North America, Jesus M. Castillo, Brenda J. Grewall, Andrea Pickart, Alejandro Bortolus, Carlos Pena, Enrique Figueroa, and Mark D. Sytsma
Development of Future Land Cover Change Scenarios in the Metropolitan Fringe, Oregon, U.S., with Stakeholder Involvement, Heejun Chang and Roberrt W. Hoyer
Relationships Between Environmental Governance and Water Quality in a Growing Metropolitan Area of the Pacific Northwest, USA, Heejun Chang, Paul R. Thiers, Noelwah R. Netusil, J. Alan Yeakley, Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, Steve Bollens, and Sonia Singh
How Will Climate Change and Bioenergy Harvest Affect Carbon Storage in the Oregon Coast Range, Megan K. Creutzburg, Robert M. Scheller, Melissa S. Lucash, Stephen D. LeDuc, Louisa B. Evers, and Mark G. Johnson
Hydrogeology of Pumice-Hosted Fens in the Winema-Fremont National Forest, Oregon, USA, Michael L. Cummings, Jonathan Michael Weatherford, and Leslie A. Mowbray
Damage and Alteration of Mangroves Inhabited by a Marine Wood-Borer, Timothy Mathias Davidson, Catherine E. de Rivera, and Hwey-Lian Hsieh
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
Pacific Northwest Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Alaska Blueberries to Wild Hazelnuts, Douglas Deur
Assessing Possible Cruise Ship Impacts on Huna Tlingit Ethnographic Resources in Glacier Bay, Douglas Deur and Thomas Thornton
Earthquake and Tsunami Forecasts: Relation of Slow Slip Events to Subsequent Earthquake Rupture, Timothy H. Dixon, Yan Jiang, Rocco Malservisi, Robert McCaffrey, Nicholas Voss, Marino Protti, and Victor Gonzalez
Winter Climate Change Affects Growing-Season Soil Microbial Biomass and Activity in Northern Hardwood Forests, Jorge Durán, Jennifer L. Morse, Peter M. Groffman, John L. Campbell, Lynn M. Christenson, Charles T. Driscoll, Timothy J. Fahey, Melany C. Fisk, Mryon J. Mitchell, and Pamela H. Templer
Climate Change Effects on Northern Great Lake (USA) Forests: A Case for Preserving Diversity, Matthew Joshua Duveneck, Robert M. Scheller, Mark A. White, Stephen D. Handler, and Catherine Ravenscroft
Book Review of, Akhil Gupta. Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Book Review of, Dhana Hughes. Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror, and Gordon Weiss. The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Chronology and Ecology of Late Pleistocene Megafauna in the Northern Willamette Valley, Oregon, Daniel McGowan Gilmour, Virginia L. Butler, Jim E. O'Conner, Edward Byrd Davis, Brendan J. Culleton, Douglas J. Kennett, and Gregory Hodgins
GPS Constraints on the Mw = 7.5 Ometepec Earthquake Sequence, Southern Mexico: Coseismic and Post-Seismic Deformation, Shannon E. Graham, Charles DeMets, Enrique Cabral-Cano, Vladimir Kostoglodov, Andrea Walpersdorf, Nathalie Cotte, Michael Brudzinski, Robert McCaffrey, and Luis Salazar-Tlaczani
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
Sampling for Effective Ex Situ Plant Conservation, Edward O. Guerrant Jr., Kayri Havens, and Pati Vitt
Getting Plant Conservation Right (or Not): The Case of the United States, Kayri Havens, Andrea T. Kramer, and Edward O. Guerrant Jr.
Near-Surface Internal Melting: a Substantial Mass Loss on Antarctic Dry Valley Glaciers, Matthew J. Hoffman, Andrew G. Fountain, and Glen E. Liston
A Review of Urban Water Body Challenges and Approaches: (1) Rehabilitation and Remediation, Robert M. Hughes, Susie Dunham, Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner, J. Alan Yeakley, Carl B. Schreck, Michael Harte, Nancy Molina, Clinton C. Shock, Victor W. Kaczynski, and Jeff Schaeffer
Effect of Reducing Maximum Cycle Length on Roadside Air Quality and Travel Times on a Corridor in Portland, OR, Christine M. Kendrick, David Urowsky, Willie Rotich, Peter Koonce, and Linda Acha George
Predicted Effects of Gypsy Moth Defoliation and Climate Change on Forest Carbon Dynamics in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Alec M. Kretchun, Robert M. Scheller, Melissa S. Lucash, Kenneth L. Clark, John Hom, and Steve Van Tuyl
A Data Set of Worldwide Glacier Length Fluctuations, Paul W. Leclercq, Johannes Oerlemans, Hassan J. Basagic, Christina Bushueva, A. J. Cook, and Raymond Le Bris
Hyperspectral Measurements of Wet, Dry and Saline Soils from the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Soil Moisture Properties from Remote Sensing, Joseph S. Levy, Anne Nolin, Andrew G. Fountain, and James W. Head
The Influence of Recurrent Modes of Climate Variability on the Occurrence of Winter and Summer Extreme Temperatures over North America, Paul C. Loikith and Anthony J. Broccoli
Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments for Mitigating Wildfire Risk and Sequestering Forest Carbon: A Case Study in the Lake Tahoe Basin, E. Louise Loudermilk, Alison Stanton, Robert M. Scheller, Thomas E. Dilts, Peter J. Weisberg, Carl Skinner, and Jian Yang
Impacts of Fire and Climate Change on Long-Term Nitrogen Availability and Forest Productivity in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Melissa S. Lucash, Robert M. Scheller, Alec M. Kretchun, Kenneth L. Clark, and John Hom
Interseismic Locking on the Hikurangi Subduction Zone: Uncertainties from Slow-Slip Events, Robert McCaffrey
Archaeological Data Provide Alternative Hypotheses on Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Distribution, Abundance, and Variability, Iain McKechnie, Dana Lepofsky, Madonna L. Moss, Virginia L. Butler, Trevor J. Orchard, Gary Coupland, Frederick Foster, Megan Caldwell, and Ken Lertzman
Where Do Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest Visitors Go and Which Roads Do They Use To Get There? An Analysis of the Spatial Data from the 2013 Sustainable Roads Workshops, Rebecca J. McLain, David Banis, Alexa Todd, and Mike Psaris
Spatial Analysis of Graffiti in San Francisco, Veronika Margaret Megler, David Banis, and Heejun Chang
Small Tidal Channels Improve Foraging Opportunities for Calidris Shorebirds, Aileen K. Miller and Catherine E. de Rivera
Searching for Biogeochemical Hot Spots in Three Dimensions: Soil C and N Cycling in Hydropedologic Settings in a Northern Hardwood Forest, Jennifer L. Morse, S F. Werner, Cody P. Gillin, Christine L. Goodale, Scott W. Bailey, Kevin J. McGuire, and Peter M. Groffman
Dynamic Simulation of the Effect of Tamper Resistance on Opioid Misuse Outcomes, Alexandra E. Nielsen and Wayne Wakeland
Geodesy- and Geology-Based Slip-Rate Models for the Western United States (Excluding California) National Seismic Hazard Maps, Mark D. Petersen, Yuehua Zeng, Kathleen M. Haller, Robert McCaffrey, William C. Hammond, Peter Bird, Morgan Moschetti, Zheng-kang Shen, Jayne Bormann, and Wayne R. Thatcher
Geologic Records of Net Littoral Drift, Beach Plain Development, and Paleotsunami Runup, North Sand Point, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Virginia L. Butler, James K. Feathers, and Kenneth M. Cruikshank
Late Pleistocene coastal loess deposits of the central west coast of North America: Terrestrial facies indicators for marine low-stand intervals, Curt D. Peterson, Georg H. Grathoff, Frank Reckendorf, David Percy, and David M. Price
Large-Scale Fluidization Features from Late Holocene Coseismic Paleoliquefaction in the Willamette River Forearc Valley, Central Cascadia Subduction Zone, Oregon, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Kurt Kristensen, and Rick Minor
Late Holocene Chronology and Geomorphic Development of Fluvial-Tidal Floodplains in the Upper Reaches of the Lower Columbia River Valley, Washington and Oregon, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Michael C. Roberts, Sandy Vanderburgh, Rick Minor, and David Percy
Assessing the Homogenization of Urban Land Management With an Application to US Residential Lawn Care, Colin Polsky, J. Morgan Grove, Chris Knudson, Peter M. Groffman, Neil D. Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Meredith K. Steele
History and Dynamics of Net Rotation of the Mantle and Lithosphere, Maxwell L. Rudolph and Shijie Zhong
Central Cascadia Subduction Zone Creep, Gina M. Schmalzle, Robert McCaffrey, and Kenneth C. Creager
Data Sources Regarding the Nonmedical Use of Pharmaceutical Opioids in the United States, Teresa D. Schmidt, Amanuel Zimam, Alexandra Nielsen, and Wayne Wakeland
Efficacy of Plastic Mesh Tubes in Reducing Herbivory Damage by the Invasive Nutria (Myocastor coypus) in an Urban Restoration Site, Trevor R. Sheffels, Mark D. Sytsma, Jacoby Carter, and Jimmy D. Taylor
Zero Graffiti for a Beautiful City: The Cultural Politics of Urban Space in San Francisco, Hunter Shobe and David Banis
Flight Test of Pacific Spaceflight Pressure Garment Mark II in Bell 206 Jet Ranger, Cameron M. Smith
Improving the Representation of Roots in Terrestrial Models, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Melissa S. Lucash, M. Luke McCormack, and Gajan Sivandran
Quantitative, Qualitative, and Collaborative Methods: Approaching Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Heterogeneity, Jeremy Spoon
Convergent Surface Water Distributions in U.S. Cities, Meredith K. Steele, James B. Heffernan, Neil D. Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Laura A. Ogden, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Fish Species Introductions Provide Novel Insights into the Patterns and Drivers of Phylogenetic Structure in Freshwaters, Angela L. Strecker and Julian D. Olden
Paleoseismic Evidence of the 1890 and 1838 Earthquakes on the Santa Cruz Mountains Section of the San Andreas Fault, near Corralitos, California, Ashley Streig, Timothy E. Dawson, and Ray J. Weldon II
Spring Thaw Ionic Pulses Boost Nutrient Availability and Microbial Growth in Entombed Antarctic Dry Valley Cryoconite Holes, Jon Telling, Alexandre M. Anesio, Martyn Tranter, Andrew G. Fountain, Thomas H. Nylen, Jon Hawkings, Virendra B. Singh, Preeti Kaur, Michaela Musilova, and Jemma L. Wadham
Riparian Vegetation Assemblages and Associated Landscape Factors Across an Urbanizing Metropolitan Area, Christa Von Behren, Andrew Evans Dietrich, and J. Alan Yeakley
Four Decades of Systems Science Teaching and Research in the USA at Portland State University, Wayne Wakeland
Multimodel Simulations of Forest Harvesting Effects on Long-Term Productivity and CN Cycling in Aspen Forests, Fugui Wang, David J. Mladenoff, Jodi A. Forrester, Juan A. Blanco, Robert M. Scheller, Scott D. Peckham, Cindy Keough, and Melissa S. Lucash
Systems Theory and the Metaphysics of Composition, Martin Zwick
Levels of Altruism, Martin Zwick and Jeffrey Alan Fletcher
Submissions from 2013
The Politics of Fertility: Population and Pronatalism in Ladakh, Jennifer Aengst
Houses and Households, Kenneth M. Ames and Elizabeth A. Sobel
Daily Temperature Fluctuations Unpredictably Influence Developmental Rate and Morphology at a Critical Early Larval Stage in a Frog, Juliana M. Arrighi, Ezra S. Lencer, Advait Jukar, Daesik Park, Patrick C. Phillips, and Robert H. Kaplan
Do Cryoconite Holes Have the Potential to be Significant Sources of C, N, and P to Downstream Depauperate Ecosystems of Taylor Valley, Antarctica?, Elizabeth A. Bagshaw, Martyn Tranter, Andrew G. Fountain, Kathleen A. Welch, Hassan J. Basagic, and W. Berry Lyons
Landslide Velocity, Thickness, and Rheology from Remote Sensing; La Clapiere Landslide, France, Adam M. Booth, Michael P. Lamb, Jean-Philippe Avouac, and Christophe Delacourt
Topographic Signatures and a General Transport Law for Deep-Seated Landslides in a Landscape evolution model, Adam M. Booth, Joshua J. Roering, and Alan W. Rempel
Lower Chinookan Disease and Demography, Robert T. Boyd
Lower Columbia Chinookan Ceremonialism, Robert T. Boyd
Supplemental Content: Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River, Robert T. Boyd, Kenneth Ames, and Tony A. Johnson
Aboriginal Fisheries of the Lower Columbia River, Virginia L. Butler and Michael A. Martin
Impact and Signatures of Deglaciation on the Cryosphere, Landscape, and Habitability of Earth and Mars, Nathalie A. Cabrol, Andrew G. Fountain, and J. S. Kargel
Review of "Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia" by Yew-Foong Hui, Sharon A. Carstens
Urban Water as a Coupled System: Interactions and Feedbacks Among Climate, Land Cover, Water Governance, Heejun Chang
Engaging Stakeholders in Ecosystem Service Assessment Under Climate Change and Urban Development Scenarios, Heejun Chang, David E. Ervin, Wes Hoyer, Mike Psaris, Ken Lyons, Emily D. Dietrich, Samantha Hamlin, John Lambrinos, Tammy Winfield, and Bobby Cochran
Water Supply, Demand, and Quality Indicators for Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Water Resource Vulnerability in the Columbia River Basin, Heejun Chang, Il-Won Jung, Angela L. Strecker, Daniel Wise, Martin Lafrenz, Vivek Shandas, Hamid Moradkhani, J. Alan Yeakley, Yangdong Pan, Robert Allen Bean, Gunnar Johnson, and Mike Psaris
Climate Change and Fire Management in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Kenneth L. Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Heidi Renninger, and Robert M. Scheller
Strain Energy Release from the 2011 9.0 Mw Tōhoku Earthquake, Japan, Kenneth M. Cruikshank and Curt D. Peterson
A Study of Traditional Activities in the Exit Glacier Area of Kenai Fjords National Park, Douglas Deur, Karen Brewster, and Rachel Mason
An Evaluation of the Effects of Tourism on Traditional Activities: An Ethnographic Study for the Alagnak Wild River Area, Douglas Deur and Karen Evanoff
Collaborative Research to Assess Visitor Impacts on Alaska Native Practices along Alagnak Wild River, Douglas Deur, Karen Evanoff, Adelheid Hermann, and AlexAnna Salmon
Subsistence and Resistance on the British Columbia Coast: Kingcome Village’s Estuarine Gardens as Contested Space, Douglas Deur, Nancy J. Turner, Adam Dick, Daisy Sewid-Smith, and Kim Recalma-Clutesi
Book Review of, Geraldine Pratt. Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Book Review of, Patrick Daly, R. Michael Feener, and Anthony Reid, editors. From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh, Michele Ruth Gamburd
Getting Salmon Back in Salmon Creek: Systematizing Comparative Water Quality Analysis for Targeted Restoration, Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Sarah Janjua, Michael Swamer, Heejun Chang, and Eric Watson
Emerging Contaminants in Oregon Coastal Waters: Hotspots, Landscape Drivers and Synergistic Effects on Bivalves, Elise F. Granek, William Fish, and Angela L. Strecker
The Value and Propriety of Reintroduction as a Conservation Tool for Rare Plants, Edward O. Guerrant Jr.
Book Review of, Fields and Steams, Melissa Haeffner
Late Holocene Tsunami Deposits at Salt Creek, Washington, USA, Ian Hutchinson, Curt D. Peterson, and Sarah L. Sterling
Wood Microsites at Timberline-Alpine Meadow Borders: Implications for Conifer Seedling Regeneration and Alpine Meadow Conifer Invasion, Adelaide C. Johnson and J. Alan Yeakley
Lower Columbia River Art, Tony A. Johnson, Adam McIsaac, Kenneth M. Ames, and Robert T. Boyd
Effects of Runoff Sensitivity and Catchment Characteristics on Regional Actual Evapotranspiration Trends in the Conterminous US, Il-Won Jung, Heejun Chang, and John Risley
WiLLOW: Reaching HIV-Positive African-American Women Through a Computer-Delivered Intervention, Charles H. Klein
An Evaluation of Data Collected by Middle School and College-Level Students in Stream Channel Geomorphic Assessment, Martin D. Lafrenz
Accelerated Thermokarst Formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Joseph S. Levy, Andrew G. Fountain, James L. Dickson, James W. Head, Marianne Okal, David R. Marchant, and Jaclyn Watters
Water track modification of soil ecosystems in the Lake Hoare basin, Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Joseph S. Levy, Andrew G. Fountain, Michael N. Gooseff, John E. Barrett, Robert Vantreese, Kathleen A. Welch, W. Berry Lyons, Uffe N. Nielsen, and Diana H. Wall
Classifying Reanalysis Surface Temperature Probability Density Functions (PDFs) over North America with Cluster Analysis, Paul C. Loikith, Benjamin R. Lintner, Jinwon Kim, and Huikyo Lee
Carbon Dynamics in the Future Forest: the Importance of Long-Term Successional Legacy and Climate–Fire Interactions, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert M. Scheller, Peter J. Weisberg, Jian Yang, Thomas E. Dilts, Sarah L. Karam, and Carl Skinner