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 2024
Russian Views of the Unknown Coast: Shvetsov's Accounts of the Oregon and Northern California Coastline During the Sea Otter Trade, 1808-09, Cameron La Follette, Douglas Deur, and Andrei Grinev
Altitude-Driven Variations in Chrysophycean Stomatocyst Assemblages: Implications for Climate Reconstructions in the Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Area, China, Yanling Li, Qi Liu, Yangdong Pan, and Wanting Pang
"non-Flavor" Flavors: What Are the Implications of Derived Psychoactive Cannabis Product Marketing?, Cassidy R. LoParco, Doug Henry, Zachary Prater, Carlton Bone, Matthew E. Rossheim, and Carla J. Berg
Projected Loss of Rock Glacier Habitat in the Contiguous Western United States with Warming, Abigail C. Lute, John T. Abatzoglou, Andrew G. Fountain, and Timothy C. Bartholomaus
Regiongrow3D: A Deterministic Analysis for Characterizing Discrete Three-Dimensional Landslide Source Areas on a Regional Scale, Nicolas W. Mathews, Ben A. Leshchinsky, Benjamin B. Mirus, Michael J. Olsen, and Adam M. Booth
Where the Rubber meets the Road: Emerging environmental impacts of Tire Wear particles and their chemical cocktails, Paul M. Mayer, Kelly D. Moran, Susanne Brander, Stacey L. Harper, Manuel Garcia-Jaramillo, Elise F. Granek, and multiple additional authors
The Reddit Cannabis Subjective Highness Rating Scale: Applying Computational Social Science to Explore Psychological and Environmental Correlates of Naturalistic Cannabis Use, Meredith C. Meacham, Alicia L. Nobles, Carlton ‘CB’ Bone, Michael Gilbert, and Johannes Thrul
Brief communication: Recent estimates of glacier mass loss for western North America from laser altimetry, Brian Menounos, Caitlyn Forentine, Alex A. Gardner, and Andrew G. Fountain
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Soil Quality Degradation and Emissions in the State of Iowa (USA), Elena A. Mikhailova, Hamdi A. Zurqani, Lili Lin, Zhenbang Hao, Christopher J. Post, Mark A. Schlautman, and Gregory C. Post
Inefficiencies in Water Supply and Perceptions of Water Use in Peri-Urban and Rural Water Supply Systems: Case Study in Cali and Restrepo, Colombia, Diana Carolina Callejas Moncaleano, Saket Pande, Melissa Haeffner, Juan Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez, and Luuk Rietveld
Mass Capture Fishing in the Marquesas Islands, Reno Nims, Patricia Pillay, and Melinda S. Allen
Floodplain Restoration and Its Effects on Summer Water Temperature and Macroinvertebrates in Whychus Creek, Oregon (USA), Wesley N. Noone, Patrick M. Edwards, Yangdong Pan, and Colin R. Thorne
Drivers of Tree Canopy Loss in a Mid-Sized Growing City: Case Study in Portland, OR (USA), YunJae Ock, Vivek Shandas, Fernanda Ribeiro, and Noah Young
Information-Theoretic Modeling of Categorical Spatiotemporal GIS Data, David Percy and Martin Zwick
Scale-Dependent Effects of Urban Canopy Cover, Canopy Volume, and Impervious Surfaces on Near-Surface Air Temperature in a Mid-Sized City, Carson Ralls, Anne Y. Polyakov, and Vivek Shandas
Development and Application of an Algae Multi-Metric Index to Inform Ecologically Relevant Nitrogen Reduction Targets, Scott L. Rollins, Charles Ritz, Pam Krone, R. Jan Stevenson, Yangdong Pan, Nadia Gillett, and Marc Los Huertos
Unbalanced or Absent: Assessing Indigenous Representation in Interpretive Materials at Government Administered Heritage Sites in Cascadia and Hawai‘i, Leah Marie Rosenkranz, Jeremy Spoon, and Douglas Deur
The Meteorology and Impacts of the September 2020 Western United States Extreme Weather Event, Emma N. Russell, Paul Loikith, Idowu Ajibade, James Done, and Chris Lower
Accretion of Warm Chondrules in Weakly Metamorphosed Ordinary Chondrites and Their Subsequent Reprocessing, Alex M. Ruzicka, Richard C. Hugo, Jon M. Friedrich, and Michael T. Ream
Estimating Combined Effects of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Water Regulation Services of Urban Wetlands in Valdivia, Chile, Jason Sauer, N. B. Grimm, Olga Barbosa, Elizabeth M. Cook, A. Mustafa, K. Kunkel, T. McPhearson, and A. Ballinger
The Evolution of Agrarian Landscapes in the Tropical Andes, Courtney Shadik, Mark B. Bush, Bryan G. Valencia, Angela Rozas-Davila, Daniel Plekhov, Robert D. Breininger, and multiple additional authors
Extreme Heat & Public Perception in Portland, Oregon: Evidence of a Compounding Vulnerability Effect for Climate Hazards, Brianne Suldovsky, Molly Baer Kramer, and Jonathan Fink
How Does Herbicide Resistance Change Farmer’s Weed Management Decisions? Evidence from the Roundup Ready Experiment, Huichun Sun, Terrance Hurley, George B. Frisvold, Katherine Dentzman, David Ervin, Wesley Everman, Jeffrey Gunsolus, Jason Norsworthy, and Micheal Owen
Modelling Postfire Recovery of Snow Albedo and Forest Structure to Understand Drivers of Decades of Reduced Snow Water Storage and Advanced Snowmelt Timing, A. Surunis and K. E. Gleason
Non-native Rhizophora mangle as Sinks for Coastal Contamination on Moloka’i, Hawai’i, Geoffrey Szafranski, Elise F. Granek, Michelle L. Hladik, and Mia Hackett
Reintegrating Cultural and Natural Landscapes: Indigenous Homelands of the Alsek-Dry Bay Region, Alaska, Thomas F. Thornton, Douglas Deur, and Bert Adams
From the Ocean to Our Kitchen Table: Anthropogenic Particles in the Edible Tissue of U.S.. West Coast Seafood Species, Summer D. Traylor, Elise F. Granek, Marilyn Duncan, and Susanne Brander
“To Get More Harvest”: Natural Systems, Cultural Values, and Indigenous Resource Management in Northwestern North America, Nancy J. Turner and Douglas Deur
Interannual Variations in Stable Isotopes of Atmospheric Water in Arid Central Asia Due to Changes in Atmospheric Circulation, Shengjie Wang, Gahong Yang, John Bershaw, Xiaokang Liu, Kei Yoshimura, Yanqiong Xiao, and Mingjun Zhang
Exploration of Large-Scale Vegetation Transition in Wet Ecosystems: a Comparison of Conifer Seedling Abundance Across Burned Vs. Unburned Forest-Peatland Ecotones in Western Patagonia, Kyla Zaret and Andres Holz
A Systems Theoretic View of Speculative Realism, Martin Zwick
Mussar and Esotericism in Revolutionary Russia, Martin Zwick
The Basic Dualism in the World: Object-Oriented Ontology and Systems Theory, Martin Zwick
The Universal and the Unique, Martin Zwick
Why Is This Book (Elements and Relations) Different From All Other Books?, Martin Zwick
Submissions from 2023
Place for Sociohydrology in Sustainable and Climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward, Soham Adla, Mohammad Faiz Alam, Melissa Haeffner, and Murugesu Sivapalan
Canary in the Forest?—Tree mortality and canopy dieback of western redcedar linked to drier and warmer summers, Robert A. Andrus, L. R. Peach, A. R. Cinquini, Joseph Hulbert, J. T. Yusi, Andres Holz, M. Fischer, Kevan B. Moffett, and multiple additional authors
Reviewing the Risk of Ketene Formation in Dabbing and Vaping Tetrahydrocannabinol-O-Acetate, Carlton Bone, Charles H. Klein, Kaelas Munger, Robert M. Strongin, Daniel J. Kruger, Meredith C. Meacham, and Jessica S. Kruger
Effects of Landslides on Terrestrial Carbon Stocks With a Coupled Geomorphic-Biologic Model: Southeast Alaska, United States, Adam M. Booth, Brian Buma, and S. Nagorski
Portland’s Response to the Western North American Heatwave: A Brief Report, Athanasios Burlotos, Caleb Dresser, and Vivek Shandas
Picture Gorge Basalt: Internal stratigraphy, eruptive patterns, and its importance for understanding Columbia River Basalt Group magmatism, Emily Bogdan Cahoon, Martin J. Streck, and Anthony A.P. Koppers
Mitigating Wildfire Smoke Inside Homes: Evidence from Oregon, September 2020., Charles Castillo, Ruth Dittrich, Vivek Shandas, Elliott T. Gall, and Olyssa S. Starry
Spatial Analysis of Streamflow Trends in Burned Watersheds across the western contiguous United States, Heejun Chang and Will B. Long
Urban sustainability Implementation and Indicators in the United States: A systematic review, Heejun Chang, Arun Pallathadka, and Idowu Ajibade
A Review of Wildfire Impacts on Stream Temperature and Turbidity Across Scales, Junjie Chen and Heejun Chang
Enrichment-Planting with Pines Alters Fuel Amount and Structure in Endangered Araucaria Araucana Forests in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina, Sofia Cingolani, Ignacio A. Mundo, Ivan Barbera, Andrés Holz, Thomas T. Veblen, and Juan Paritsis
Reduced Fire Severity offers Near-term Buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States, Kimberly T. Davis, Marcos D. Robles, Kerry B. Kemp, Teresa Chapman, Philip E. Higuera, Kerry L. Metlen, Jamie L. Peeler, Andres Holz, and multiple additional authors
The House Full of Otters: Recalling Human–Sea Otter Relationships on an Indigenous Oregon Coast, Douglas Deur, Peter Hatch, and Hannah Wellman
Water Struggles and Contested Use: A Capabilities Assessment of Household Water Security in Marginalized Communities., Michael Egge and Idowu Ajibade
Ppcps in Coastal Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluent and Uptake by Pacific Oysters (crassostrea Gigas): Findings from a Laboratory Experiment, Amy L. Ehrhart and Elise F. Granek
Climate Change and Coastal Megacities: Adapting through mobility, Susan S. Ekoh, Lemir Teron, and Idowu Ajibade
A Habitat Stronghold on the Precipice: A call‐to‐action for supporting lemur conservation in northeast Madagascar, Timothy M. Eppley, Cortni Borgerson, Natalie Vasey, and multiple additional authors
Lessons Learned from the 1980-1986 Eruption of the Mount St. Helens Composite Lava Dome, Jonathan Fink and Steven Anderson
Looking backward and forward: volcanology in the years 2000, 2010, 2020, and beyond, Jonathan Fink and Katharine Cashman
Systems thinking activities used in K-12 for up to two decades, Diana Fisher and Systems Thinking Association
Inventory of Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields of the Conterminous USA, Andrew G. Fountain, Bryce Glenn, and Christopher McNeil
Rift-induced Disruption of Cratonic Keels Drives Kimberlite Volcanism, Thomas M. Gernon, Stephen M. Jones, Sascha Brune, Thea K. Hincks, Martin Palmer, John C. Schumacher, Rebecca M. Primiceri, Matthew Field, William L. Griffin, Suzanne Y. O'Reilly, Derek Keir, Christopher J. Spencer, Andrew S. Merdith, and Anne Glerum
Application of Aerial InSAR to Measure Glacier, Bryce Glenn, Andrew G. Fountain, and Delywn Moller
Legal Geographies, Caroline Griffith, Sarah Klosterkamp, Alida Cantor, and Austin Kocher
Evapotranspiration of Residential Lawns Across the United States, Noortje H. Grijseels, Elizaveta Litvak, Meghan Avolio, Anika R. Bratt, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Peter M. Groffman, Sarah E. Hobbie, Susannah B. Lerman, Jennifer L. Morse, and multiple additional authors
Long-term Phosphorus Reduction and phytoplankton responses in an urban lake (USA), Yuan Xiao Grund, Yangdong Pan, Mark Rosenkranz, and Eugene Foster
Categorizing Relative Water Use Perception Bias Using Household Surveys and Monthly Water Bills., Melissa Haeffner, Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Matthew J. Barnett
Wildfire Risk Governance from the bottom up: linking local planning processes in fragmented landscapes, Matthew Hamilton, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Cody Evers
Machine Learning Predictions of Electricity Capacity, Marcus Harris, Elizabeth Kirby, Ameeta Agrawal, Rhitabrat Pokharel, Francis Puyleart, and Martin Zwick
At the Interfaces of the Hydrologic Sciences: Connecting Water, Elements, Ecosystems, and People Through the Major Contributions of Dr. Emily Bernhardt, Ashley M. Helton, Jennifer L. Morse, Elizabeth B. Sudduth, Marcelo Ardon, Raven Bier, Kristofor A. Voss, Matthew R. V. Ross, Joanna R. Blaszczak, Jessica E. Brandt, Marie Simonin, Jennifer D. Rocca, Alice Carter, Jacqueline R. Gerson, Emily A. Ury, and Michael J. Vlah
Forest Landscape Dynamics After Intentional Large-Scale Fires in Western Patagonia Reveal Unusual Temperate Forest Recovery Trends, Angela Hernandez-Moreno, Daniel P. Soto, Alejandro Miranda, Andres Holz, and Dolors Armenteras-Pascual
Exploring and Testing Wildfire Risk Decision-Making in the Face of Deep Uncertainty, Bart R. Johnson, Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, David Hulse, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and John P. Bolte
Lightning-Ignited Wildfires in the Western United States: Ignition Precipitation and Associated Environmental Conditions, Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov, John T. Abatzoglou, Paul Loikith, Nicholas J. Nauslar, Yianna Sotirios Bekris, and Deepti Singh
Plantation Pasts, Plantation Futures: Resisting Zombie Water Infrastructures in Maui, Hawai'i, Kelly Kay, Chris Knudson, and Alida Cantor
System Dynamics Modeling for Cancer Prevention and Control: A systematic review, Erin S. Kenzie, Mellodie Seater, Wayne Wakeland, Gloria Coronado, and Melinda M. Davis
Coastal Wetland Restoration through the lens of Odum's theory of ecosystem development, Friedrich W. Keppeler, Annette S. Engel, Linda M. Hooper-Bùi, Paola C. López-Duarte, Charles W. Martin, Jill A. Olin, Katelyn J. Lamb, Michael J. Polito, Nancy N. Rabalais, and multiple additional authors
The Magmatic Origin of the Columbia River Gorge, USA, Nathaniel Klema, Leif Karlstrom, Charles Cannon, Chengxin Jiang, Jim O'Connor, Ray E. Wells, and Brandon Schmandt
Thc-O-Acetate: Scarce Evidence for a Psychedelic Cannabinoid., Daniel J. Kruger, Carlton CB. Bone, Meredith C. Meacham, Charles Klein, and Jessica S. Kruger
A Content Analysis of Social Media Discussions on THC-OAcetate, Daniel J. Kruger, Amila Karahmet, Sydney M. Kaplan, Taylor Stacy, John Redfield, Vitush Agarwal, Mutaz Faqqouseh, and Carlton CB. Bone
Glimpses of Oregon’s Sea Otters, Cameron La Follette and Douglas Deur
The Invisible Slaughter: Local Sea Otter Hunters on the Oregon Coast, Cameron La Follette, Richard Ravalli, Peter Hatch, Douglas Deur, and Ryan Tucker Jones
Short Warm Distribution Tails Accelerate the Increase of Humid-Heat Extremes Under Global Warming, Paul Loikith, Yianna Sotirios Bekris, and J. D. Neelin
Meteorological Analysis of the Pacific Northwest June 2021 Heatwave, Paul C. Loikith and Dmitri A. Kalashinikov
Woody Plant-Soil Relationships in Interstitial Spaces Have Implications for Future Forests Within and Beyond Urban Areas, Gisselle A. Mejia, Peter M. Groffman, Meghan L. Avolio, Anika R. Bratt, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Noortje H. Grijseels, Sharon J. Hall, James Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Susannah B. Lerman, Jennifer L. Morse, Desiree L. Narango, Christopher Neill, Josep Padulles Cubino, and Tara L. E. Trammell
Enhancing the Definitions of Climate-Change Loss and Damage Based on Land Conversion in Florida, U.S.A., Elena A. Mikhailova, Zhenbang Hao, Hamdi A. Zurqani, Mark A. Schlautman, Gregory C. Post, George B. Shepherd, and Sarah J. Kolarik
Quantifying Damages to Soil Health and Emissions from Land Development in the State of Illinois (USA), Elena A. Mikhailova, Hamdi A. Zurqani, Zhenbang Hao, Mark A. Schlautman, Gregory C. Post, George B. Shepherd, Christopher C. Post, and Renee M. Dixon
Editorial: Solutions to water crises (related to actual interventions), Jenia Mukherjee, Saket Pande, Melissa Haeffner, Sara Marks, Pieter van Oel, Matthew Sanderson, and Adriana Allen
What Explains Spatial Cariations of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy?: a social-ecological-technological systems approach, Arun Pallathadka, Heejun Chang, and Daikwon Han
Umm Huwaiwitat: a Neolithic site near Petra, Jordan, Daniel Plekhov, Cristiano Nicosia, Luiza Osorio G. Silva, Sarah Newman, and Felipe Rojas
Response of Gap Wind-Driven Freezing Rain and Ice Accretion in the Willamette Basin, Oregon, to Global Warming, David E. Rupp, Larry W. O'Neill, Erica Fleishman, Paul C. Loikith, and Dan Loomis
People, Place, and Planet: Global review of use-inspired research on water-related ecosystem services in urban wetlands, Jason Sauer and Heejun Chang
Relating Social, Ecological, and Technological Vulnerability to future flood exposure at two spatial scales in four U.S. cities, Jason Sauer, Arun Pallathadka, Idowu Ajibade, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Heejun Chang, Elizabeth M. Cook, Nancy B. Grimm, David Iwaniec, Robert Lloyd, and Gregory C. Post
Evaluating How Well Active Fault Mapping Predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations, Chelsea Scott, Ramon Arrowsmith, Rachel Adam, Christopher Madugo, Joseph Powell, John Ford, Brian Gray, Ashley Streig, and multiple additional authors
Subseasonal Clustering of Atmospheric rivers over the western United States, Emily Slinskey, Paul Loikith, Naomi Goldenson, Jesse Norris, and Jesse Hall
Book Review of: Climate and Society: Transforming the Future, Rachel Slocum
Contextualizing Patterns in Short-term Disaster Recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change, Jeremy Spoon, Drew Gerkey, and Alisa Rai
Province-Wide Tapping of a Shallow, Variably Depleted, and Metasomatized Mantle to Generate Earliest Flood Basalt Magmas of the Columbia River Basalt, Northwestern USA, Martin J. Streck, Luke James Fredenberg, Lena M. Fox, Emily B. Cahoon, and Mary J. Mass
Columbia River Rhyolites: Age-Distribution Patterns and Their Implications for Arrival, Location, and Dispersion of Continental Flood Basalt Magmas in the Crust, Martin J. Streck, Vanessa M. Swenton, William C. McIntosh, and Matt Heizler
Contamination in Mangrove Ecosystems: A Synthesis of Literature Reviews Across Multiple Contaminant Categories., Geoffrey T. Szafranski and Elise F. Granek
Human-Modified Landscapes Driving the Global Primate Extinction crisis, Erik Joaquín Torres-Romero, Vincent Nijman, David Fernández, and Timothy M. Eppley
GlacialWater: A Dynamic Microbial Medium, Gilda Varliero, Pedro H. Lebre, Andrew G. Fountain, Beat Frey, Alexandre M. Anesio, and Don A. Cowan
Placing Stakeholder Formation in Central Oregon's Deschutes Basin, Noel Vineyard and Alida Cantor
Large-scale, Collaborative Imagery Survey in Archaeology: the Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History and Archaeology (GeoPACHA), Steven A. Wernke, Parker Van Valkenburgh, James Zimmer-Dauphinee, Bethany Whitlock, Giles Spence Morrow, Ryan Smith, Douglas Smit, Daniel Plekhov, and multiple additional authors
An Overview of Elements and Relations: Aspects of a Scientific Metaphysics, Martin Zwick
CSBII Seminar on Elements and Relations: Aspects of a Scientific Metaphysics, Martin Zwick