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.

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Submissions from 2020

Translational Molecular Ecology in Practice: Linking Dna-Based Methods to Actionable Marine Environmental Management., Eva Aylagas, Angel Borja, Xavier Pochon, Anastasija Zaiko, Nigel Keeley, Kat Bruce, Peiying Hong, Gregory M. Ruiz, Eric D. Stein, and multiple additional authors

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Microplastic Exposure by Razor Clam Recreational Harvester-Consumers Along a Sparsely Populated Coastline, Britta Baechler, Scott J. Mazzone, Elise F. Granek, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Susanne Brander

A Multilevel Analysis of the Drivers of Household Water Consumption in a Semi-arid Region, Matthew J. Barnett, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Joanna Endter-Wada, and Melissa Haeffner

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The Seasonal Evolution of Albedo across Glaciers and the Surrounding Landscape of Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Anna Bergstrom, Michael N. Gooseff, Peter T. Doran, and Julian M. Cross

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Deuterium excess and 17O-excess variability in meteoric water across the Pacific Northwest, USA, John Bershaw, Dougal Hansen, and Andrew Schauer

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An Integrated Feasibility Study of Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage (RTES) in Portland, OR, USA, John Bershaw, Alison E. Horst, Ashley Streig, Darby Patrick Scanlon, Ellen Elizabeth Svadlenak, Jenny Liu, Peter Hulseman, Ray E. Wells, and multiple additional authors

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Reframing Native Knowledge, Co-Managing Native Landscapes: Ethnographic Data and Tribal Engagement at Yosemite National Park, Rochelle Bloom and Douglas Deur

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"Through a Forest Wilderness:” Native American Environmental Management at Yosemite and Contested Conservation Values in America’s National Parks, Rochelle Bloom and Douglas Deur

Multi-Year, Three-Dimensional Landslide Surface Deformation From Repeat Lidar and Response to Precipitation: Mill Gulch Earthflow, California, Adam M. Booth, Justin Craig McCarley, and Joann Nelson

Large Wood Inhibits Debris Flow Runout in Forested Southeast Alaska, Adam M. Booth, Christian Sifford, Bryce Vascik, Cora Siebert, and Brian Buma

Studying Pre-colonial Gendered Use of Space in the Arctic: Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska, Katelyn Elizabeth Braymer-Hayes, Shelby L. Anderson, Claire Alix, Christyann M. Darwent, John Darwent, Owen K. Mason, and Lauren Y.E. Norman

The World's Southernmost Tree and the Climate and Windscapes of the Southernmost Forests, Brian Buma, Andres Holz, Ivan Diaz, and Ricardo Rozzi

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Wildland Fire Reburning Trends Across the US West Suggest Only Short-Term Negative Feedback and Differing Climatic Effects, Brian Buma, Shelby A. Weiss, K. Hayes, and Melissa S. Lucash

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Using Saline or Brackish Aquifers as Reservoirs for Thermal Energy Storage,with Example Calculations for Direct-use Heating in the Portland Basin, Oregon, USA, Erick R. Burns, John Bershaw, Colin F. Williams, Ray E. Wells, Matt Uddenberg, Darby Patrick Scanlon, Trenton Cladouhos, and Boz van Houten

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High-severity and Short-interval Wildfires Limit Forest Recovery in the Central Cascade Range, Sebastian Upton Busby, Kevan B. Moffett, and Andres Holz

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Reshuffling the Columbia River Basalt chronology — Picture Gorge Basalt, the Earliest- and Longest-erupting Formation, Emily B. Cahoon, Martin J. Streck, Anthony A.P. Koppers, and Daniel P. Miggins

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The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for Empirical Modeling of Individual Tree Mortality after Fire, C. Alina Cansler, Sharon M. Hood, J. Morgan Varner, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Michelle C. Agne, Matthew Ayres, Robert A. Andrus, Jonathon D. Bakker, Michael A. Battaglia, Shelby A. Weiss, and multiple additional authors

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Hydrosocial Hinterlands: An Urban Political Ecology of Southern California’s Hydrosocial Territory, Alida Cantor

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Legal Geographies and Political Ecologies of Water Allocation in Maui, Hawai'i, Alida Cantor, Kelly Kay, and Chris Knudson

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Evaluating CMIP6 Model Fidelity at Simulating Non-Gaussian Temperature Distribution Tails, Arielle J. Catalano, Paul Loikith, and J. David Neelin

Seasonal Variation in Hydrologic Performance of Ecoroofs of Multiple Depths – A Case Study in Portland, Oregon, USA, Heejun Chang, Ashley M. Baker, Olyssa Starry, and Junjie Chen

A Community-Engaged Approach to Transdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Urban Ecosystem Services, Heejun Chang, Elise F. Granek, David Ervin, J. Alan Yeakley, Veronica Dujon, and Vivek Shandas

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Conceiving of “Them” When Before There Was Only “Us”, Melanie Chang and April Nowell

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From Forests to Fish: Mercury in Mountain Lake Food Webs Influenced by Factors at Multiple Scales, Ariana M. Chiapella, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, and Angela L. Strecker

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Fatty Acid Stable Isotopes Add Clarity, but Also Complexity, to Tracing Energy Pathways in Aquatic Food Webs, Ariana M. Chiapella, Martin J. Kainz, and Angela L. Strecker

Contributors to Independent Research Funding Success from the Perspective of K12 BIRCWH Program Directors, Esther Choo, Shammarie Mathis, Tabria Harrod, Katherine E. Hartmann, Karen M. Freund, Marie Krousel-Wood, Thomas E. Curry Jr., and Jeanne-Marie Guise

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Diverse Autonomic Nervous System Stress Response Patterns in Childhood Sensory Modulation, Jacquelyn Christensen, Heather Wild, Erin S. Kenzie, Wayne Wakeland, Deborah Budding, and Connie Lillas

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Dropsonde Observations of the Ageostrophy within the Pre-Cold-Frontal Low-Level Jet Associated with Atmospheric Rivers, Rueben Demirdgian, Joel R. Norris, Andrew Martin, and F. Martin Ralph

Making Sense of Food System Transformation in Mexico, Diana Denham and Fiona Joy Gladstone

Sustaining Future Environmental Educators: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Students, Diana Denham, Mary Ann Rozance, Melanie Malone, and Erin Goodling

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Fire, Native Ecological Knowledge, and the Enduring Anthropogenic Landscapes of Yosemite Valley, Douglas Deur and Rochelle Bloom

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“Their Markers as they Go”: Modified Trees as Waypoints in the Dena’ina Cultural Landscape, Alaska, Douglas Deur and Jamie Hebert

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Walking Dena’ina: A Cultural Landscape Report for the Telaquana Trail, Douglas Deur, Jamie Hebert, John Branson, and Tricia Brown

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Cultivating the Imagined Wilderness: Contested Native American Plant-Gathering Traditions in America’s National Parks, Douglas Deur and Justine E. James Jr.

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Balance on Every Ledger: Kwakwaka’wakw Resource Values and Traditional Ecological Management, Douglas Deur, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, and Chief Adam Dick

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BENEDICTION: The Teachings of Chief Kwaxsistalla Adam Dick and the Atla’gimma (“Spirits of the Forest”) Dance, Douglas Deur, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, and William White

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EPILOGUE: Native Plants, Indigenous Societies, and the Land in Canada’s Future, Douglas Deur, Nancy J. Turner, and Kim Recalma-Clutesi

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Using Diatoms to Assess River Restoration: A Pilot Study in Whychus Creek, Oregon, USA, Patrick M. Edwards, Yangdong Pan, Lauren Mork, and Colin R. Thorne

Leftover Drug Disposal: Customer Behavior, Pharmacist Recommendations, and Obstacles to Drug Take-Back Box Implementation, Amy L. Ehrhart, Elise F. Granek, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Dorothy Horn

Digital City Testbed Center: Using Campuses As Smart City Testbeds in the Binational Cascadia Region, Jonathan H. Fink

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Onset and Cause of Increased Seismic Activity Near Pecos, West Texas, United States, From Observations at the Lajitas TXAR Seismic Array, Clive Frohlich, Chris Hayward, Julia Rosenblit, Chastity Aiken, Peter Henning, Alexandros Savvaidis, Casee Lemons, Elizabeth Horne, and multiple additional authors

A Cognitive Transition Underlying Both Technological and Social Aspects of Cumulative Culture., Liane Gabora and Cameron M. Smith

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Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd

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Migrant Emplacement: Gendered Subjects, State Regulations, and the Discursive Erasure of Elders in Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd

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Proper Conjugation of Bodies: Chastity, Age, and Care Work in Sri Lankan Migrants’ Families, Michele Ruth Gamburd

20th Century Retreat and Recent Drought Accelerated Extinction of Mountain Glaciers and Perennial Snowfields in the Trinity Alps, California, Justin M. Garwood, Andrew G. Fountain, Kenneth T. Lindke, Micheal G. van Hattem, and Hassan J. Basagic

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Forest Density Intensifies the Importance of Snowpack to Growth in Water-Limited Pine Forests, Kelly E. Gleason, John B. Bradford, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shawn Fraver, Brian J. Palik, and Michael A. Battaglia

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Microplastics in Aquatic Organisms: Improving Understanding and Identifying Research Directions for the Next Decade, Elise F. Granek, Susanne Brander, and E. B. Holland

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Potential Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Natural Climate Solutions in Oregon, USA, Rose A. Graves, Ryan D. Haugo, Andres Holz, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Aaron Jones, Bryce Kellogg, Cathy MacDonald, Kenneth Popper, and Micheal Schindel

Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Stakeholders for Conservation, Steven Gray, Payam Aminpour, Caitie Reza, Steven Scyphers, Jonathan Grabowski, Robert Murphy Jr., Alison Singer, David Baltaxe, Rebecca Jordan, Antoine J. Jetter, and Joshua E. Introne

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Vulnerability of Small Forest Patches to Fire in the Paraiba do Sul River Valley, Southeast Brazil: Implications for restoration of the Atlantic Forest biome, Betina J. Guedes, Klecia G. Massi, Cody Evers, and Max Nielsen-Pincus

The Social Geometry of Collaborative Flood Risk Management: a Hydrosocial Case Study of Tillamook County, Oregon, Melissa Haeffner and Dana E. Hellman

From Gray Copycats to Green Wolves: Policy and Infrastructure for Flood Risk Management, Samantha L. Hamlin and Max Nielsen-Pincus

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Associations of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Conditions with Self-Rated Health, Mental Distress, and Health Behaviors: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in Japan, Tomoya Hanibuchi and Tomoki Nakaya

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Central Tokyo’s Low Response Rate to the 2015 Population Census and Its Related Factors, Tomoya Hanibuchi and Masakazu Yamauchi

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Joint Lattice of Reconstructability Analysis and Bayesian Network General Graphs, Marcus Harris and Martin Zwick

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Book Review: Blue Infrastructures: Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata, Dana E. Hellman and Melissa Haeffner

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Population Collapse and Retreat to Fire Refugia of the Tasmanian Endemic Conifer Athrotaxis Selaginoides Following the Transition from Aboriginal to European Fire Management, Andres Holz, Samuel W. Wood, Carly Ward, Thomas T. Veblen, and David M.J.S. Bowman

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A Dynamic Model of the Opioid Drug Epidemic with Implications for Policy, Jack Homer and Wayne W. Wakeland

Residents' Perception of Flood Risk and Urban Stream Restoration Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Chang-yu Hong and Heejun Chang

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The Right to Urban Streams: Quantitative Comparisons of Stakeholder Perceptions in Defining Adaptive Stream Restoration, Chang-yu Hong, Eun-Sung Chung, and Heejun Chang

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Neotectonic and Paleoseismic Analysis of the Northwest Extent of Holocene Surface Deformation along the Meers Fault, Oklahoma, Kristofer Tyler Hornsby, Ashley R. Streig, Scott E.K. Bennett, Jefferson Chang, and Shannon Mahan

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A Digital Archive of Human Activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Adrian Howkins, Stephen M. Chignell, Poppie Gullett, Andrew G. Fountain, Melissa Carrie Brett, and Evelin Preciado

The Relationships Between Social Capital and Concerns for Climate Change with Increasing Wildfire Risks in Rural = Communities in Central Oregon, Derric B. Jacobs and Lori A. Cramer

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Hypergraph Analysis of Structure Models, Cliff A. Joslyn, Teresa D. Schmidt, and Martin Zwick

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A 30-Yr Climatology of Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Days in the Interior Western United States, Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov, Paul Loikith, Arielle J. Catalano, Duane E. Waliser, Huikyo Lee, and John T. Abatzoglou

Formation, Origin and Geographic Typing of Corundum (ruby and Pink Sapphire) from the Fiskenaesset Complex, Greenland, Nynke Keulen, Tonny B. Thomsen, John C. Schumacher, Majken D. Poulsen, Per Kalvig, Torsten Vennemann, and Rita Salimi

Predators Associated with Marinas Consume Indigenous over Non-Indigenous Ascidians, Erin Suzanne Kincaid and Catherine E. de Rivera

State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care Under Chavez, Charles H. Klein

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Between “Us” and “Them”: Political Subjectivities in the Shadows of the 2018 Brazilian Election, Charles H. Klein, Milena Mateuzi Carmo, and Alessandra Tavares

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Associations of Built Environment Attributes with Bicycle Use for Transport, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Rachel Cole, Koichiro Oka, Ai Shibata, Akitomo Yasunaga, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Neville Owen, and Takemi Sugiyama

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Disturbance Refugia within Mosaics of Forest Fire, Drought, and Insect Outbreaks, Meg A. Krawchuk, Garrett W. Meigs, Jennifer M. Cartwright, Jonathan D. Coop, Raymond Davis, Andres Holz, Crystal Kolden, and Arjan JH Meddens

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Rainfall Triggers More Deep-Seated Landslides than Cascadia Earthquakes in the Oregon Coast Range, USA, Sean R. LaHusen, Alison R. Duvall, Adam M. Booth, A. Grant, Ben A. Mishkin, David R. Montgomery, Will Struble, Joshua J. Roering, and J. Wartman

Endowment, Investment, and the Transforming Coast: Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions and Territorial Proprietorship in the Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada, Bryn Letham, Andrew Martindale, and Kenneth Ames

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Environmental and Spatial Factors Affecting Surface Water Quality in a Himalayan Watershed, Central Nepal, Janardan Mainali and Heejun Chang

Putting Space into Modeling Landscape and Water Quality Relationships in the Han River Basin, South Korea, Janardan Mainali and Heejun Chang

Sensitivity and Reliability of Diatom Metrics and Guilds in Detecting the Impact of Urbanization on Streams, Evance Omondi Mbao, Jin Gao, Yu Wang, Lewis Sitoki, Yangdong Pan, and Beixin Wang

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Centering Equity in Oregon’s 100 Year Water Vision: A Student-led Policy Paper Prepared by the Oregon Water Stories Team at Portland State University, Clare T. McClellan, Sadie Boyers, Victoria Cali de Leon, Tony Cole, Laura Cowley-Martinson, Shersten Finley, Dustin Lanker, Julia Seydel, Aakash Nath Upraity, Janet Cowal, and Melissa Haeffner

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Projected Impact of Mid-21st Century Climate Change on Wildfire Hazard in a Major Urban Watershed outside Portland, Oregon USA, Andy McEvoy, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Andres Holz, Arielle J. Catalano, and Kelly E. Gleason

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Fire and land Cover Change in the Palouse Prairie–Forest Ecotone, Washington and Idaho, USA, Penelope Morgan, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Eva K. Strand, Stephen C. Bunting, James P. Riser II, John T. Abatzoglou, Max Nielsen-Pincus, and Mara Johnson

Columnar-Jointed Bentonite Below a Doleritic Sill, Tideswell Dale, Derbyshire, UK: Formation During Prograde Contact Metamorphism, S Mullineux, RSJ Sparks, MD Murphy, C MacNiocaill, D Barfod, J Njorka, and John C. Schumacher

A Holocene History of Monkey Puzzle Tree (pehuen) in Northernmost Patagonia, William Nanavati, Cathy Whitlock, Valeria Outes, and Gustavo Villarosa

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Sensitivity Analysis of an Agent-Based Simulation Model Using Reconstructability Analysis, Andey M. Nunes, Martin Zwick, and Wayne Wakeland

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Climate From the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, 1986–2017: Surface Air Temperature Trends and Redefined Summer Season, Maciej K. Obryk, Peter T. Doran, Andrew G. Fountain, M. Myers, and Christopher P. McKay

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The Role of Warm, Dry Summers and Variation in Snowpack on Phytoplankton Dynamics in Mountain Lakes, Isabella A. Olesky, Whitney S. Beck, Roderick W. Lammers, Cara E. Steger, Codie Wilson, Kyle R. Christianson, Kim Vincent, Gunnar Forrest Johnson, Pieter T.J. Johnson, and Jill S. Baron

Characterizing Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Algal Biological Condition Gradient Models for California Wadeable Streams, USA, Michael J. Paul, Ben Jessup, Larry R. Brown, James L. Carter, Marco Cantonati, Donald F. Charles, Jeroen Gerritsen, David B. Herbst, Rosalina Stancheva, Yangdong Pan, and multiple additional authors

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Predicted Responses of Beaches, Bays, and Inner-Shelf Sand Supplies to Potential Sea Level Rise (0.5-1.0 m) in Three Small Littoral Subcells in the High-Wave-Energy Northern Oregon Coast, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Debra Lee Doyle, Charles L. Rosenfeld, and Kara E. P. Kingen

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Late-Holocene Shoreline Responses to Competing Shelf, Bay, and Beach Accommodation Spaces Under Conditions of Relative Sea Level Change, and the Potential for Future Catastrophic Beach Retreat in the Columbia River Littoral Cell, Washington and Oregon, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Tamara C. Linde, and Sandy Vanderburgh

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Understanding Transmission and Control of the Pork Tapeworm with CystiAgent: A Spatially Explicit Agent‑Based Model, Ian W. Pray, Wayne Wakeland, William Pan, William E. Lambert, Hector H. Garcia, Armando E. Gonzalez, Seth E. O'Neal, and Cysticercosis Working Group Peru

Proceed with Caution: the Need to Raise the Publication Bar for Microplastics Research., Jennifer F. Provencher, Garth A. Covernton, Rhiannon C. Moore, Dorothy Horn, Jeremy L. Conkle, and Amy L. Lusher

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Marine Reservoir Effects in Seal (Phocidae) Bones in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, Northwestern Alaska, Joshua Reuther, Scott Shirar, Owen Mason, Shelby L. Anderson, Joan B. Coltrain, Adam Freeburg, Peter Bowers, Claire Alix, Christyann M. Darwent, and Lauren Y.E. Norman

Socio-Hydrology with Hydrosocial Theory: Two Sides of the Same Coin?, Alexander Ross and Heejun Chang

Contesting Neoliberal Knowledge Politics in Restoration Governance: the Restorationist's Dilemma, Mary Ann Rozance, Diana Denham, and Sarah Ann Kidd

Shock Compaction Heating and Collisional Processes in the Production of Type 3 Ordinary Chondrites: Lessons from the (nearly) Unique L3 Chondrite Melt Breccia Northwest Africa 8709, Alexander Ruzicka, Jon M. Friedrich, Melinda Hutson, Juliette W. Strasser, Robert J. Macke, Mark L. Rivers, Richard C. Greenwood, Karen Ziegler, and Richard N. Pugh

Base-Hurricane: A New Extension for the Landis-Ii Forest Landscape Model, Paul Schrum, Robert M. Scheller, Matthew Joshua Duveneck, and Melissa S. Lucash

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Examining the Complex Relationship Between Innovation and Regulation Through a Survey of Wastewater Utility Managers, Luke Sherman, Alida Cantor, Anita Milman, and Michael Kiparsky

A Climatology of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation for the Seven US National Climate Assessment Regions, Emily A. Slinskey, Paul C. Loikith, Duane E. Waliser, Bin Guan, and Andrew Martin

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Navigating Multidimensional Household Recoveries Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes, Jeremy Spoon, Drew Gerkey, Ram Bahadur Chhetri, Alisa Rai, and Umesh Basnet

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Anatomy of Disaster Recoveries: Tangible and Intangible Short-Term Recovery Dynamics Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes, Jeremy Spoon, Chelsea E. Hunter, Drew Gerkey, Ram Bahadur Chhetri, Alisa Rai, Umesh Basnet, and Anudeep Dewan

New Insights into Paleoseismic Age Models on the Northern San Andreas Fault: Charcoal Inbuilt Ages and Updated Earthquake Correlations, Ashley Streig, Ray J. Weldon II, Glenn Biasi, Timothy E. Dawson, Daniel G. Gavin, and Tom P. Guilderson