Portland State researchers Alida Cantor and Bethani Turley on a tour of the site of the proposed pumped hydropower facility in Goldendale, WA. Photo by Bethani Turley.
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Cal Poly Pomona MS students in Regenerative Studies Jennifer Pihlak, Audrey Snyder and Allen Makere at an irrigation canal near the Salton Sea. Photo by James J. A. Blair.
Faculty
Faculty
Dr. Alida Cantor
Alida Cantor is an Associate Professor in Geography at Portland State University. Her research is situated within the areas of political ecology and human-environment geography, focused on issues of water governance and hydrosocial politics, legal geography, and environmental justice. She researches issues of water management, law, and governance in California, Oregon, Hawai'i, and the Western US.
Dr. James J. A. Blair
James J. A. Blair is an Associate Professor in Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His work centers on energy, water and environmental justice in the Americas, especially related to: geothermal lithium extraction at the Salton Sea in California; lithium mining, hydroelectric dams and industrial logging in Chile; as well as offshore oil and commercial fishing in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
Dr. Dustin Mulvaney
Dustin Mulvaney is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Department, at San José State University and a Fellow with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. His research includes work on just transitions, solar energy commodity chains, and natural resource development.
Dr. Kate Berry
Kate Berry is a Professor in Geography at University of Nevada, Reno. Her research is in the fields of environmental governance, water conflict and collaboration, and identity studies. In recent years she has also been working on environmental justice issues surrounding mining and mineral extraction in the western US.
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Noel Vineyard
Noel Vineyard is a Ph.D. student in Geography at University of Nevada, Reno working with Dr. Kate Berry. His research interests include legal geographies of water and critical resource geographies, and natural resource governance. His research has focused on the role of sense of place in water governance processes, and the role of competing development imaginaries in shaping the rural and urban landscapes of northern Nevada.
Bethani Turley
Bethani Turley is a Ph.D. student at Portland State University working with Dr. Alida Cantor on issues around energy transitions and energy justice.
Hunter Gutierrez
Hunter Gutierrez is a student at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona working with Dr. James Blair on issues around energy, water, and justice.
David Vásquez Ospina
David Vásquez is a student of the MSc in Environmental Studies at San José State University, working with Dr. Dustin Mulvaney as a Water-Energy Justice Fellow. He is an environmental engineer with experience in environmental impact assessment for infrastructure projects, particularly in the energy sector. His research focuses on environmental justice for energy transition, exploring the interactions between human communities and natural systems to promote equitable and sustainable solutions.
Lillian Weaver
Lillian Weaver is a Ph.D. student at Portland State University working with Dr. Alida Cantor on issues around energy transitions and energy justice. Her interests span from the just energy transition to sustainable food systems.
Indigenous Advisory Board
Indigenous Advisory Board
Ryan Yazzie
Ryan is of Navajo blood and calls Flagstaff, Arizona his home. He holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, and an Environmental Law degree from Vermont Law School. Currently he is working on his second masters degree at Northern Arizona University in Climate Science. He plans to complete his PhD at Arizona State University in the next few years.
Direlle Calica
Direlle Calica is the Director of the Portland State University Institute for Tribal Government. She is a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. She holds a J.D. and has extensive expertise in water and energy policy and infrastructure planning.
Mary Gibson
Mary Gibson is the Administrator of the Noowuh Knowledge Center. She is a citizen of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone/Elko Band. She has a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and has expertise in developing archival materials for/about Indigenous leaders in the Western U.S.
Shanny Spang Gion
Shanny Spang Gion is currently a Visiting Tribal Scholar in the College of Natural Resources at University of Idaho. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, where she worked in the Tribe's Environmental Department.
Alumni and Previous Students
Alumni and Previous Students
Audrey Snyder
Audrey Snyder is a M.S. student in Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona working with Dr. James Blair. She has a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (2013). Snyder is a visual artist, a chef, an educator and a researcher whose work has focused on seeds, soil, sea-life and transhumance in grassland ecosystems by looking at food systems, ecological remediation and cultural production.
Allen Makere
Allen Makere is a M.S. student in Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona working with Dr. James Blair.
Jennifer Pihlak
Jennifer Pihlak is a M.S. student in Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona working with Dr. James Blair.
Elizabeth Bartholomew
Elizabeth Bartholomew is a M.S. student at Portland State University working with Dr. Alida Cantor. Currently, she is researching potential lithium extraction in Malheur County, Oregon.
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