Research

NSF NRT: Community Resilience to Cascading Impacts of Extreme Events and Geohazards Across Scales Through Engaged Scholarship and Learning (2024-2029) training graduate students in addressing cascading hazards and community resilience with participatory engaged research. News here. Project website here. 

Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District: “Effects of stream restoration and beaver activities on spatial and temporal variations of stream temperature in urban streams” (2021-2025) investigates the relationship between stream temperature and landscape and restoration activities using a cutting-edge distributed temperature sensing and geospatial analysis. Project website here. 

Clackamas River Water Providers, Water Environmental Services, Spatial and temporal variations of summer stream temperature in the Clackamas River basin (2022-2025) examines the effects of landscape factors and beaver dams on stream temperature using field data collection and spatial landscape analysis. Additional work is to examine the effects of climate change on stream temperature. Project website here. 

PSU/USGS/Clackamas River Water Providers (2022- ) Post fires effects on streamflow and water quality in the western US watersheds, with a focus on the Cascades 

NSF SRS-RN Track 2: MACRO-SETS: Microplastics Across the Columbia River basin to the Ocean - Social-Ecological-Technological System (2022-2024) engaging various stakeholders to better understand the microplastic cycle from the atmosphere to estuaries. Project website here. 

NSF UrbanSRN: Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Related Events Sustainability Research Network https://sustainability.asu.edu/urbanresilience/(2015-2021) (senior personnel. Total 12 M, PSU portion $831K): investigates urban flood vulnerability across six US cities using a social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) framework. A spinoff project continued with ASU and GSU: Urban flood risk at multiple scales (2021- 2023). In collaboration with First Street Foundation, we examined historical, current, and future flood risks and environmental justice using geospatial, stakeholder interviews, and document analysis. 

Social Science Research Council/Abe Foundation, Urban Flood resilience Across the Pacific (2019-2021): examines the evolution of flood policy and perception of six cities in USA, Japan and South Korea using a socio-hdyrology lens using stakeholder interviews and document analysis. See this link for more details. 

PSU/City of Portland/Clackamas River Watershed Council/East Multnomah County Soil and Water District/Johnson Creek Watershed Council, Microplastic concentrations in freshwater in Portland streams (2020-2022): investigates spatiotemporal variations of microplastic pollution using field sampling and geospatial analysis 

NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences, Analyzing the Effects of Spatial Autocorrelation in Geospatial Databases (co-PI. Total $336,478, PSU portion $126,700) (2016-2020)

PSU/City of Portland BPS, Climate Change and Flood Risk in Portland: Toward Flood Resilient City, PI, 99,678 (2015-2017)

PSU/ISS: Clackamas watershed resilience, Co-PI, (2017-2019)

NSF IGERT: Sustaining Ecosystem Services to Support Rapidly Urbanizing Areas, co-PI, $2,998,983 (2010-2017) 

NSF GEO/Climate Research Investment, Collaborative Research WSC Category 2: Anticipating water scarcity and informing integrative water system response in the Pacific Northwest, project website, co-PI, $4.3 million (total), $325,309 (PSU portion), 2010-2016

NSF, ULTRA-Ex: Collaborative Research: How Do Feedbacks Between Governance and Biophysical Systems Affect the Resilience of Urban Socioecological Systems?  project website, co-PI, $300,000 (total), $184,416 (PSU portion), 2010-2016

NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, Collaborative Research: Spatial Analysis of Ecosystem Service Shifts Caused by Climate Change and Land Conversion in the Metropolitan Fringe, Project website, Lead PI, $350,000 (total), $222,021 (PSU portion), 2010-2016

NSF CCLI, Interactive Teaching Materials for Understanding Ecological Response from Climate Change in Urban Forests (co-PI, 174,962) 2009-2013.

NOAA-SARP, Integrated Water and Land Planning as a Climate Adaptation Strategy: Comparisons of Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona, Lead PI, $299,996

US Army Corp of Engineers, Integrated water resource management across North American River basins, PI, $25,000

US Geological Survey, Envisioning future changes in climate and hydrology in Northwest estuaries, PI, $15,829

James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Moving Forward: Adaptation and Resilience to climate change and land development through integrative river basin modeling and management PI, $73,451