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

Detained Settlements: the Infrastructures and Temporalities of Digital Financial Transactions Between the United States and Cuba, Mrinalini Tankha

Mapping the Intermediate: Lived Technologies of Money and Value, Mrinalini Tankha and Ursula Dalinghaus

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Urban Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Converge at a Continental Scale, Tara Trammell, Diane E. Pataki, Richard Pouyat, Peter M. Groffman, Carl Rosier, Neil D. Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Morgan J. Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, and Meredith Steele

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Making a Place for Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Environmental Values in Land-Use Planning and Decision Making, Nancy J. Turner, Pamela Spalding, and Douglas Deur

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A basilosaurid archaeocete (Cetacea, Pelagiceti) from the Late Eocene of Oregon, USA, Mark D. Uhen and David Taylor

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Microplastic Prevalence in Four Oregon Rivers Along a Rural to Urban Gradient Applying a Cost-Effective Validation Technique, Amy Valine, Ashley Peterson, Dorothy Horn, Kaegan M. Scully‐Engelmeyer, and Elise F. Granek

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Hydrochorous Seed Dispersal in Riparian Forests Altered by Urbanization, Christa von Behren and J. Alan Yeakley

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Assessment of Multi-Stressors on Compositional Turnover of Diatom, Invertebrate and Fish Assemblages Along an Urban Gradient in Pacific Northwest Streams (USA), Ian Waite, Yangdong Pan, and Patrick M. Edwards

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Addressing Parameter Uncertainty in SD Models with Fit-to-history and Monte-Carlo Sensitivity Methods, Wayne Wakeland and Jack Homer

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Northward Migration of the Oregon forearc on the Gales Creek fault, Ray E. Wells, Richard J. Blakely, and Sean Bemis

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Geologic Map of the Greater Portland Metropolitan Area and Surrounding Region, Oregon and Washington, Ray E. Wells, Ralph Haugerud, Alan Niem, Wendy A. Niem, Russell Evarts, J. E. O’Connor, Ian Madin, Marvin Beeson, and multiple additional authors

Improving Inferences About Private Land Conservation by Accounting for Incomplete Reporting., Matthew A. Williamson, Brett G. Dickson, Mevin B. Hooten, Rose A. Graves, Mark N. Lubell, and Mark W. Schwartz

Snowpack Affects Soil Microclimate Throughout the Year, Geoffrey Wilson, Mark Green, John Brown, John Campbell, Peter M. Groffman, Jorge Duran, and Jennifer L. Morse

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Socio-Hydrology: An Interplay of Design and Self-Organization in a Multilevel World, David J. Yu, Heejun Chang, Taylor T. Davis, Vicken Hillis, Landon T. Marston, Woi Sok Oh, Murugesu Sivapalan, and Timothy M. Waring

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"The People's Commune is Good": Precarious Labor, Migrant Masculinity, and Post-Socialist Nostalgia in Contemporary China, Xia Zhang

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Reconstructability Analysis and Its Occam Implementation, Martin Zwick

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Words and Diagrams about Rosenzweig's Star, Martin Zwick

Submissions from 2019

The Wildfire Problem in Areas Contaminated by the Chernobyl Disaster, Alan A. Ager, Richard Lasko, Viktor Myroniuk, Sergiy Zibtzev, Michelle A. Day, Uladzimir Usenia, Vadym Bogomolov, Ivan Kovalets, and Cody Evers

Wildfire Exposure to the Wildland Urban Interface in the Western US, Alan A. Ager, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Cody Evers, Michelle A. Day, Chris Ringo, and Karen C. Short

Planning Principles and Assessment of Transformational Adaptation: Towards a Refined Ethical Approach, Idowu Ajibade and Ellis Adjei Adams

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Performance of Genetic Distance Metrics in Gravity and General Mixed Effects Models, Nathan B. Alexander, Crysta Gantz, Jane L. Remfert, and Melanie A. Murphy

Associations of Neighborhood Walkability with Intensity- and Bout-specific Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior of Older Adults in Japan, Shiho Amagasa, Shigeru Inoue, Noritoshi Fukushima, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Tomoki Nakaya, Tomoya Hanibuchi, James F. Sallis, and Neville Owen

Book Review of, Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences, Kenneth M. Ames

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Building Wooden Houses: The Political Economy of Plankhouse Construction on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America, Kenneth M. Ames and Emily E. Shepard

Optimal Energy Resource Mix for the US and China to Meet Emissions Pledges, John G. Anasis, M. A. K. Khalil, Christopher L. Butenhoff, Randall Bluffstone, and George G. Lendaris

Demographic Fluctuations and the Emergence of Arctic Maritime Adaptations, Shelby L. Anderson, Thomas Brown, Justin Andrew Junge, and Jonathan Duelks

Applying Luminescence Dating of Ceramics to the Problem of Dating Arctic Archaeological Sites, Shelby L. Anderson and James K. Feathers

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Classification of Aerosol Population Type and Cloud Condensation Nuclei Properties in a Coastal California Littoral Environment Using an Unsupervised Cluster Model, Samuel A. Atwood, Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Paul J. DeMott, Markus D. Petters, Gavin Cornwell, Andrew C. Martin, and Kathryn A. Moore

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Microplastic Concentrations in Two Oregon Bivalve Species: Spatial, Temporal, and Species Variability, Britta Baechler, Elise F. Granek, Matthew V. Hunter, and Kathleen E. Conn

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Microplastic Occurrence and Effects In Commercially Harvested North American Finfish and Shellfish: Current Knowledge And Future Directions, Britta Baechler, Cheyenne Stienbarger, Dorothy Horn, Jincy Joseph, Allison Taylor, Elise F. Granek, and Susanne Brander

Urbanization and Floods in the Seoul Metropolitan Area of South Korea: What Old Maps Tell Us, Sunhak Bae and Heejun Chang

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Spatial Analysis of Landscape and Sociodemographic Factors Associated With Green Stormwater Infrastructure Distribution in Baltimore, Maryland and Portland, Oregon, Ashley Baker, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang, Lauren McPhillips, and Marissa Matsler

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A Recent Systematic Increase in Vapor Pressure Deficit over Tropical South America, Armineh Barkhordarian, Bahareh Saatchi, Ali Behrangi, Paul C. Loikith, and Carlos R. Mechoso

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Volcanic Glass as a Proxy for Cenozoic Elevation and Climate in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon, USA, John Bershaw, Elizabeth J. Cassell, Tessa Boe Carlson, Ashley R. Streig, and Martin J. Streck

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The Isotopic composition of Meteoric Water Along Altitudinal Transects in the Tian Shan of Central Asia, John Bershaw and Alex R. Lechler

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The Alt-Right and Global Information Warfare, Emmi Bevensee and Alexander Ross

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Using Bone Fragmentation Records to Investigate Coastal Human Ecodynamics: A Case Study From Čḯxwicən (Washington State, USA), Kristine M. Bovy, Michael A. Etnier, Virginia L. Butler, Sarah K. Campbell, and Jennie Deo Shaw

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Western Oregon Klikatats (Klickitats), Robert T. Boyd, R. Scott Byram, and David Lewis

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The Radiocarbon Record of the Western Stemmed Tradition on the Southern Columbia Plateau of Western North America, Thomas Brown, Daniel McGowan Gilmour, Paul S. Solimano, and Kenneth Ames

Synthesis and Analysis of the Early to Middle Holocene Radiocarbon Record for the Northern Northwest Coast of North America: A Gap in Dated Components Between Similar to 9000 and 8300 cal BP, Thomas J. Brown and Kenneth Ames

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From Nativism to White Power: Mid-Twentieth-Century White Supremacist Movements in Oregon, Shane Burley and Alexander Ross

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The Čḯxwicən Project of Northwest Washington State, U.S.A.: Opportunity Lost, Opportunity Found, Virginia L. Butler, Kristine M. Bovy, Sarah K. Campbell, Michael A. Etnier, and Sarah L. Sterling

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Exploring Ecodynamics of Coastal Foragers Using Integrated Faunal Records from Čḯxwicən Village (Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, U.S.A.), Virginia L. Butler, Sarah K. Campbell, Kristine M. Bovy, and Michael A. Etnier

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Building a Landscape History and Occupational Chronology at Čḯxwicən, a Coastal Village on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington State, U.S.A., Sarah K. Campbell, Sarah L. Sterling, and Dennis E. Lewarch

Conversational Code Switching Languaging Chinese Identities in Multilingual Malaysia, Sharon Carstens and Lay Hoon Ang

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Widespread Severe Wildfires Under Climate Change Lead to Increased Forest Homogeneity in Dry Mixed-Conifer Forests, Brooke Alyce Cassell, Robert M. Scheller, Melissa S. Lucash, Matthew Hurteau, and E. Louise Loudermilk

High-Impact Extratropical Cyclones along the Northeast Coast of the United States in a Long Coupled Climate Model Simulation, Arielle J. Catalano, Anthony J. Broccoli, Sarah B. Kapnick, and Tyler P. Janoski

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Spatiotemporal Variability of Twenty‐First‐Century Changes in Site‐Specific Snowfall Frequency Over the Northwest United States, Arielle J. Catalano, Paul C. Loikith, and C. M. Aragon

Dreams and Migration in South Korea's Border Region: Landscape Change and Environmental Impacts, Heejun Chang, Sunhak Bae, and Kyunghyun Park

Dynamics of Wet-season Turbidity in Relation to Precipitation, Discharge, and Land Cover in Three Urbanizing Watersheds, Oregon, Junjie Chen and Heejun Chang

Concordance in Biological Condition and Biodiversity Between Diatom and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Chinese Arid-zone Streams, Kai Chen, Dandan Sun, Abdul R. Rajper, Mahati Mulatibieke, Robert M. Hughes, Yangdong Pan, Aletai Tayibazaer, Qiuwen Chen, and Beixin Wang

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Toxic Chemical Governance Failure in the United States: Key Lessons and Paths Forward, Ariana M. Chiapella, Zbigniew Grabowski, Mary Ann Rozance, Ashlie D. Denton, Manar A. Alattar, and Elise F. Granek

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Remote Characterization of Dominant Wavelengths From Surface Folding on Lava Flows Using Lidar and Discrete Fourier Transform Analyses, Nicholas Deardorff, Adam M. Booth, and Katharine Cashman

Characterizing Monthly Temperature Variability States and Associated Meteorology Across Southern South America, Judah Detzer, Paul C. Loikith, Luana Albertani Pampuch, C. Roberto Mechoso, Armineh Barkhordarian, and Huikyo Lee

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When God Put Daylight on Earth We Had One Voice': Kwakwaka'wakw Perspectives on Sustainability and the Rights of Nature, Douglas Deur, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, and Adam Dick

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Farmer Attitudes Toward Cooperative Approaches to Herbicide Resistance Management: A Common Pool Ecosystem Service Challenge, David E. Ervin, Elise H. Breshears, George B. Frisvold, Terrance M. Hurley, Katherine E. Dentzman, Jeffrey L. Gunsolus, Raymond A. Jussaume, Micheal D. K. Owen, Jason Norsworthy, Mustofa Mahmud Al Mamun, and Wesley Everman

Spatial Analysis of Urban Flooding and Extreme Heat Hazard Potential in Portland, OR, Benjamin Fahy, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang, and Vivek Shandas

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Human Ecodynamics: A Perspective for the Study of Long-Term Change in Socioecological Systems, Ben Fitzhugh, Virginia L. Butler, Kristine M. Bovy, and Michael A. Etnier

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Four-fold Increase in Solar Forcing on Snow in Western U.S. Burned Forests Since 1999, Kelly E. Gleason, Joseph R. McConnell, Monica M. Arienzo, Nathan Chellman, and Wendy M. Calvin

Trade-Offs by Whom for Whom? A Response to Calow, Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Ariana Martos Chiapella, Manar A. Alattar, Ashlie Denton, Mary Ann Rozance, and Elise F. Granek

A Case Study of OregonWaterStories.com: Exploring Agency with Water Justice, Activist Applied Linguistics, and a Community Partner, Melissa Haeffner and Janet Cowal

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Virtual Audits of Streetscapes by Crowdworkers, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Tomoki Nakaya, and Shigeru Inoue

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Globally Detected Volcanic Lightning and Umbrella Dynamics During the 2014 Eruption of Kelud, Indonesia, Kirstin A. Hargie, Alexa R. Van Eaton, L. G. Mastin, Robert H. Holzworth, John W. Ewert, and Michael Pavolonis

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Floodplains Provide Important Amphibian Habitat Despite Multiple Ecological Threats, Meredith Holgerson, Adam Duarte, Marc P. Hayes, Michael J. Adams, Julie A. Tyson, Keith A. Douville, and Angela L. Strecker

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Effects of Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Microplastic Fibers on Pacific Mole Crab (Emerita analoga) Mortality and Reproduction, Dorothy Horn, Elise F. Granek, and Clare Steele

Visualizing Ecological Data in Virtual Reality, Jiawei Huang, Melissa Lucash, Robert M. Scheller, and Alexander Klippel

Visualizing Natural Environments from Data in Virtual Reality: Combining Realism and Uncertainty, Jiawei Huang, Melissa Lucash, Mark B. Simpson, Casey Helgeson, and Alexander Klippel

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Impacts of Resource Fluctuations and Recurrent Tsunamis on the Occupational History of Čḯxwicən, a Salishan Village on the Southern Shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington State, U.S.A, Ian Hutchinson, Virginia L. Butler, Sarah K. Campbell, Sarah L. Sterling, Michael A. Etnier, and Kristine M. Bovy

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Nutrients Mediate the Effects of Temperature on Methylmercury Concentrations in Freshwater Zooplankton, Meredith P. Jordan, A. Robin Stewart, Collin A. Eagles-Smith, and Angela L. Strecker

Flipping the City: Space and Subjectivity in the Sao Paulo Periphery, Charles H. Klein

"I Never Thought This Could be for Me": Aspirational Capital, Identities, and Political Engagement Among First-generation College Students in Sao Paulo, Charles H. Klein and Milena Mateuzi Carmo

Evaluation Of Cmip5 Ability To Reproduce Twentieth Century Regional Trends In Surface Air Temperature And Precipitation Over Conus, Jinny Lee, Duane Waliser, Huikyo Lee, Paul Loikith, and Kenneth Kunkel

Assessing Local Attitudes and Perceptions of Non-Native Species to Inform Management of Novel Ecosystems, Casey L. Lewis, Elise F. Granek, and Max Nielsen-Pincus

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When Pets become Pests: The Role of the Exotic Pet Trade in Producing Invasive Vertebrate Animals, Julie I. Lockwood, Dustin J. Welbourne, Christina M. Romagosa, Phillip Cassey, Nicholas E. Mandrak, Angela L. Strecker, Brian Leung, Oliver C. Stringham, Bradley Udell, Diane J. Episcopio-Sturgeon, Michael F. Tlusty, James Sinclair, Michael R. Springborn, Elizabeth F. Plenaar, Andrew L. Rhyne, and Reuben Keller

Macroecological Drivers of Zooplankton Communities Across the Mountains of Western North America, Charlie J. G. Loewen, Angela L. Strecker, Gary L. Larson, Allan Vogel, Janet M. Fischer, and Rolf D. Vinebrooke

Non-Gaussian Cold-Side Temperature Distribution Tails and Associated Synoptic Meteorology, Paul C. Loikith and J. David Neelin

A Climatology Of Daily Synoptic Circulation Patterns And Associated Surface Meteorology Over Southern South America, Paul C. Loikith, Luana Albertani Pampuch, Emily Slinskey, Judah Detzer, Carlos Mechoso, and Armineh Barkhordarian

Post-fire Management Affects Species Composition but not Douglas-fir Regeneration in the Klamath Mountains, Maria J. Lopez Ortiz, Terry Marcey, Melissa Lucash, David Hibbs, Jeffrey P.A. Shatford, and Jonathan R. Thompson

Complex Interactions Among Successional Trajectories and Climate Govern Spatial Resilience After Severe Windstorms in Central Wisconsin, USA, Melissa Lucash, Kelsey L. Ruckert, Robert E. Nicholas, Robert M. Scheller, and Erica Smithwick

A Review of Spatial Statistical Approaches to Modeling Water Quality, Janardan Mainali, Heejun Chang, and Yongwan Chun

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A Mixed-Methods Approach to Determine how Conservation Management Programs and Techniques have Affected Herbicide Use and Distribution in the Environment Over Time, Melanie Malone and Eugene Foster

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Contrasting Local and Long-Range-Transported Warm Ice-Nucleating Particles During an Atmospheric River in Coastal California, USA, Andrew C. Martin, Gavin Cornwell, Charlotte M. Beall, Forest Cannon, Sean Reilly, Bas Schapp, Dolan Lucero, Jessie Creamean, F. Martin Ralph, Hari T. Mix, and Kimberly Prather

Rapid Cyclogenesis from a Mesoscale Frontal Wave on an Atmospheric River: Impacts on Forecast Skill and Predictability during Atmospheric River Landfall, Andrew C. Martin, F. Martin Ralph, Anna Wilson, Laurel DeHaan, and Brian Kawzenuk

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System Dynamics to Investigate Opioid Use and Chiropractic Care for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain, Marion McGregor, Alexandra Nielsen, Chadwick Chung, Mark Fillery, Wayne Wakeland, and Silvano Mior

Spatial Characteristics And Frequency of Citizen-Observed Pluvial Flooding Events in Relation to Storm Size in Portland, Oregon, Katelyn Michelson and Heejun Chang

Source Apportionment of Trace Elements and Black Carbon in an Urban Industrial Area (Portland, Oregon), A. J. Miller, D. M. Raduma, Linda Acha George, and J. L. Fry

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Mountain Lakes: Eyes on Global Environmental Change, Katrina A. Moser, Jill S. Baron, Janice Brahney, Isabella A. Olesky, Jasmine E. Saros, Elizabeth J. Hundey, Steven A. Sadro, Jiri Kopácek, Ruben Sommaruga, Martin J. Kainz, Angela L. Strecker, Sudeep Chandra, David M. Walters, Daniel L. Preston, Neal Michelutti, Fabio Lepori, Sarah A. Spaulding, Kyle R. Christianson, John M. Melack, and J. P. Smol

Increasing the Robustness of Meta-analysis Through Life History and Middle-Range Models: an Example from the Northeast Pacific, Reno Nims and Virginia L. Butler

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The Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of Čḯxwicən: Socioenvironmental Lessons From an Unusually Abundant Species, Reno Nims and Virginia L. Butler

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Reanalysis of the US Geological Survey Benchmark Glaciers: Long-Term Insight into Climate Forcing of Glacier Mass Balance, Shad O’Neel, Christopher McNeil, Louis Sass, Caitlyn Florentine, Emily Baker, Andrew G. Fountain, and multiple additional authors

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California Groundwater Management, Science-Policy Interfaces, and the Legacies of Artificial Legal Distinctions, David Owen, Alida Cantor, Nell Green Nylen, Thomas Harter, and Michael Kiparsky

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Fine-Scale Assessment of Cross-Boundary Wildfire Events in the Western United States, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Alan A. Ager, Cody Evers, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Michelle A. Day, and Haiganoush K. Preisler

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Social Vulnerability to Large Wildfires in the Western USA, Palaiologos Palaiologou, Alan A. Ager, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Cody Evers, and Michelle A. Day

Coastal Dune Hydrology and its Influence on Maritime Occupation Sites (12-0.2ka) in a Semiarid Island, San Miguel, California, USA, Curt D. Peterson and Jon M. Erlandson

Widespread Evidence of Terminated Marine Transgressive Sand Supply and Failing Longshore Sand Transport to Eroding Coastal Eolian Sand Ramps during the Latest Holocene Time in Oregon and California (Pacific Coast, USA), Curt Peterson, Kara E. P. Kingen, Jon M. Erlandson, Phil Kaijankoski, Jack Meyer, and Chris Ryan

Developing Knowledge Systems for Urban Resilience to Cloudburst Rain Events, Bernice Rosenzweig, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Lauren McPhillips, Robert Hobbins, Timon McPhearson, Zhongqi Cheng, Heejun Chang, and Yeowon Kim

Examining the Scalar Knowledge Politics of Risk within Coastal Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning Knowledge Systems, Mary Ann Rozance, Ashlie Denton, A. Marissa Matsler, Zbigniew Grabowski, and Wendy Mayhugh

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A Landscape Model of Variable Social-Ecological Fire Regimes, Robert M. Scheller, Alec M. Kretchun, Todd J. Hawbaker, and Paul D. Henne

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Comparing Live-Capture Methods for Nutria: Single- Versus Multiple-Capture Cage Traps, Trevor Robert Sheffels, Mark D. Sytsma, Jacoby Carter, and Jimmy D. Taylor

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Comparison of Microbial Communities in the Sediments and Water Columns of Frozen Cryoconite Holes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Pacifica Sommers, John L. Darcy, Dorota L. Porazinska, Eli M. S. Gendron, Andrew G. Fountain, Felix Jacob Zamora, Kim Vincent, Kaelin M. Cawley, Adam J. Solon, Lara Vimercati, Jenna Ryder, and Steven K. Schmidt