| Title |
Organization |
Description | Category | Geography | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Santelmann | Oregon State University |
Wetlands ecology, biogeography. Ecosystem response to human land use and management practices; use of alternative future scenarios combined with diverse evaluative approaches. Environmental and anthropogenic influences on species composition and species richness in agricultural, urban and wetland ecosystems, including effects of landscape composition and pattern on native biodiversity. Ecology and biogeochemistry of wetlands and riparian systems |
Freshwater Ecosystem Impacts, Environmental Monitoring, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts | Northwest, National | Link |
| Katie Dugger | Oregon State University |
The effect of abiotic factors (climate, flooding, etc.)on avian survival and reproductive rates, and the changes in demographic parameters that may result from long-term climate changes or anthropogenic landscape influences. I am currently working on the population ecology of the Northern Spotted Owl in southern Oregon, Adelie Penguins in Antarctica, and tropical forest birds in Puerto Rico. |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Environmental Monitoring, Northern Spotted Owl | Northwest, Alaska, Oregon, International | Link |
| Bruce Shindler | Oregon State University |
Social values of natural resources, public agency-community interactions, social aspects of wildland fire management, communication strategies. Social responses to ecosystem management practices in the Pacific Northwest, public acceptance of wildland fire management and fuel reduction practices, agency communication strategies and local partnerships. |
Social science, Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation, Cultural Resources | Northwest, West, National | Link |
| James Coakley | Oregon State University |
Radiative transfer; remote sensing of cloud and aerosol properties; earth's energy budget; radiative forcing and climate change. Indirect radiative forcing of aerosols using CALIPSO LIDAR and A-train data. Limits to indirect radiative forcing of aerosols as deduced from ship tracks. Application of partly cloudy pixel retrievals to MODIS imagery data. Surface radiation budget of the northeastern Pacific. |
Climate Modeling, Air Quality | Pacific Ocean, Northwest, International | Link |
| Anna Harding | Oregon State University |
Environmental health, including water quality, environmental contamination and public health interventions, and community involvement. NIEHS grant (affiliated with the Superfund Basic Research Program) funding to examine PAH exposures for tribal communities engaged in traditional cultural lifestyles |
Cultural Resources, Social Sciences, Impacts to Human Systems | Northwest, Oregon | Link |
| Matthew Betts | Oregon State University |
(1) Influences of landscape structure on demography of animal populations, (2) Animal movement (particularly dispersal), (3) Population viability modeling, (4) Ecological thresholds, (5) Trophic cascades in forest ecosystems, (6) Species distribution modeling, (7) Socio-political mechanisms to affect sustainable forestry (8) Measuring landscape change. |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Environmental Monitoring | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| Roger Ely | Oregon State University |
Environmental biotechnology, sustainable systems engineering, bioprocess engineering, modeling of biological systems. Metabolic responses in nitrifying bacteria. Bio-based hydrogen energy systems. |
Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| Roger Samelson | Oregon State University |
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere; coastal and arctic meteorology; coastal, mesoscale and large-scale ocean circulation; instabilities and nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids. |
Climate Modeling, Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts | National, International, Pacific Ocean, Northwest | Link |
| Janean Creighton | Oregon State University |
Her research areas are in social science, policy, and natural resources. Her research interests are in extension and human dimensions. |
Social science, Natural Resources, Human Impacts, Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation | Northwest, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska | Link |
| Merrick C Haller | Oregon State University |
Remote sensing (microwave radar & optical) of nearshore breaking waves; wave modeling and shoreline response near complex bathymetric features; physical/numerical modeling of rip currents and rip current instabilities. |
Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Geology/Geomorphology | Northwest, National, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| Patricia Muir | Oregon State University |
My research interests focus on effects of human activities on plants. I study effects of alternative logging methods on forest productivity and diversity I also study effects of air pollutants on plants in the field and in controlled environments. My current research also focuses on the commercial moss harvest industry in Appalachian and PNW forests. |
Vegetation Modeling, Environmental Monitoring, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Air Quality | Northwest | Link |
| Steven S. Perakis | Oregon State University |
Research centers on the ecology and biogeochemistry of forest ecosystems, as well as grassland and riparian systems. We examine how factors such as natural and human disturbances, climate and climate change, succession, and soil fertility shape ecosystem biogeochemistry - and the reciprocal effect of biogeochemical cycles on these and other factors. We are particularly interested in how activities within ecosystems shape nutrient inputs, losses, and whole-system nutrient balances, and in linkages between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Our studies occur primarily in Pacific Northwest forests, with a strong focus on cycles of carbon and major nutrients through soils, plants, water, and air. |
Vegetation Modeling, Environmental Monitoring, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Freshwater Ecosystem Impacts | Northwest | Link |
| Jeff Reimer | Oregon State University |
I specialize in the economics of international trade and commodity markets. I also have interests in international development and industrial organization. |
Agricultural Impacts, policy, Economic Impacts, Impacts to Human Systems | National, International | Link |
| Michael Campana | Oregon State University |
Transboundary ground water resources; water resources management; water resources in developing regions, especially Central America, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia ; regional hydrogeology; dynamic simulation modeling in water resources |
Hydrologic Modeling, Water Resources Impacts, Geology/Geomorphology, Impacts to the Human System | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| Selina Heppell | Oregon State University |
I devote most of my research to some of the oldest and slowest-growing animals in the sea: sea turtles, sharks, sturgeon, and west coast rockfish. I primarily use computer models and simulations to help us understand how these animals respond to human impacts and to guide research and management policy towards their recovery. I am particularly interested in how these animals will respond to climate change and increasing human populations on our coastlines. |
Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Environmental Monitoring, Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation, Sea Turtles, Sharks, Sturgeon, West Coast Rockfish | Northwest, West, International, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| Christine Olsen | Oregon State University |
Social science, human dimensions of natural resources, planning and decision-making processes, citizen-agency communication and interactions, forest management before and after wildfires. |
Social science, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation | Northwest, International, National | Link |
| Mike Kosro | Oregon State University |
Coastal oceanography; shelf/deep-sea exchange processes; eastern boundary currents; California and Peru/Chile Undercurrent; remote sensing; ocean acoustics; ocean circulation. Measurements of ocean currents and water properties on frontal and larger scales, using a coastal-circulation radio-mapping technique, drifters and moored current meters, and shipborne/towed profilers; properties of coastal eddies and their effect on cross-shelf exchange. |
Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts | Northwest, International, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| Jim Lerczak | Oregon State University |
Coastal physical oceanography including the study of internal tides, high-frequency internal waves, and circulation in the vicinity of fronts; estuarine oceanography including the dynamics that drive the three-dimensional circulation, the mechanisms that transport and disperse materials within estuaries, and the time response of estuaries to changes in forcing; physical/biological interactions which influence larval dispersal. |
Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Estuaries | Northwest, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| Simon de Szoeke | Oregon State University |
I am interested in interactions between the atmosphere and ocean that affect the climate system. I study atmospheric boundary layer clouds, intertropical convergence zone variability, and cross-equatorial winds over the eastern tropical Pacific. |
Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Climate Modeling | Northwest, International | Link |
| Thomas Maness | Oregon State University |
Climate change mitigation, bioenergy production, strategic planning and logistics, tactical decision support systems. My research interest is in developing innovative forest policies and practices to balance the production of traditional forest products with society's expanding need for ecosystem services, energy, and climate mitigation. My research falls in three broad categories: Strategic Land-use Planning and Forest Tenure Policy, Value Chain Optimization, and Energy and Climate Policy. |
Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation, policy, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Impacts to Human Systems, Economic Impacts, Agricultural Impacts, Cultural Resources | British Columbia, International, Northwest | Link |
| Clinton Epps | Oregon State University |
Connectivity and dispersal in fragmented landscapes |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| Nicklaas Pisias | Oregon State University |
Study of Late Cenozoic history of the ocean-climate systems as recorded in deep-sea sediments so as to better understand the nature of global climate change, marine stratigraphy and sedimentation, numerical and statistical techniques as applied to geological problems. Detailed analysis of Late Pleistocene time series of oceanographic variability in the Pacific Ocean with emphasis on the eastern equatorial Pacific and northern California Current region. |
Climate Modeling, Marine/Coastal Ecosystem Impacts, Geology/Geomorphology | Northwest, Pacific Ocean | Link |
| Randall Rosenberger | Oregon State University |
Non-market valuation, meta-analysis, benefit transfer, recreation economics, environmental and resource economics. |
Economic Impacts | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| John Antle | Oregon State University |
Economics of agricultural systems and other complex systems: |
Agricultural Impacts, Planning/Adaptation/Mitigation, Economic Impacts, Geology/Geomorphology | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| Stella Melugin Coakley | Oregon State University |
Quantifying the relationship between climatic variation and the development of plant disease facilitates control of disease under field conditions. This research considers both past and possible future effects of long-term climatic variation on disease occurrence. Current research focuses on the biology of the Septoria diseases that are increasing in their importance as limiting factors to wheat production. |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Agricultural Impacts, Impacts to Human Systems | Northwest, National, International | Link |
| Temesgen Hailemariam | Oregon State University |
Forest measurements and biometrics, modeling, and LiDAR. My research focuses on three major areas and seeks to develop (or extend): 1) imputation methods that support dynamic forest inventory, silvicultural planning, and habitat analysis; 2) sampling and statistical methods to characterize and quantify status and change of selected attributes including biomass and carbon and 3) Applications of lidar to forest measurements and assessments. |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Vegetation Modeling, Environmental Modeling | Northwest, National | Link |
| Richard Adams | Oregon State University |
Dr. Adams' current research interests focus on the economic effects of air and water pollution, the implications of climate change for agriculture and water resources, and the tradeoffs between agricultural activity and environmental quality. (Emeritus Appointment) |
Economic Impacts, Air Quality, Agricultural Impacts, Water Resources Impacts, Environmental Monitoring, Aquacultural Impacts | Northwest, Alaska | Link |
| Tiffany Garcia | Oregon State University |
My research encompasses a wide variety of biological disciplines, including aquatic, behavioral and community ecology, invasion biology, conservation biology, and herpetology. I typically work in freshwater habitats and address ecologically based questions using amphibian and invertebrate systems. I have projects quantifying predator/prey dynamics, competition regimes, stressor defense strategies, and microhabitat preference using observational, theoretical and empirical methods. |
Freshwater Ecosystem Impacts, Agricultural Impacts, Environmental Monitoring | Northwest, National | Link |
| David Conklin | Oregon State University |
Using the static biogeography model MAPSS and the dynamic global vegetation model MC1, he has run simulations of potential vegetation and vegetation change for a number of areas, principally in the western U.S. His current interests include bringing vegetation models into the Envision modeling framework developed by the BEE department at OSU. |
Vegetation Modeling, Climate Modeling, Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts | Northwest, International | Link |
| John Bailey | Oregon State University |
My research focuses on a spectrum of objectives in a landscape, including commodity production, habitat creation, and ecosystem restoration. We have initiated research projects to evaluate the role of stand structure and dynamics on fire hazard, mature forest development, sustainable forest management, and post-fire recovery. Our silviculture research considers the broad economic, ecological, and sociopolitical implications on forest. |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Impacts, Economic Impacts, policy, Environmental Monitoring | Northwest | Link |
