Flood Impact Assessment (FIA) is an integral part of flood risk management (FRM) that requires extensive data collection and rigorous modeling. Elevation data is one of the main inputs for this venture that is often fulfilled by digital elevation models (DEM). DEM provides a con…
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Data on the movement and diets of fish during a variety of life stages are important inputs to fisheries stock assessments and marine ecosystem models. Stable isotopes may provide previously inaccessible information on movement and diet of a variety of managed and forage fish sp…
This dissertation examines people’s relationships to place and community. The papers are linked by three broad themes: 1) place meanings, 2) community connections to resource places, and 3) innovative qualitative research methodologies.
New Mexico’s Gila River is the last major free-flowing Southwestern river network that provides an array of resources, or ecosystem services (ES), throughout the riverine ecosystem. For decades, the unique landscape surrounding the river has been the focus of various conservatio…
Land use, climate, and landscape context jointly determine biotic site potential and the occurrence of vegetation state transitions in terrestrial ecosystems. State-and-transition models (STMs) are used to clarify the roles of drivers and ecological sites (climoedaphic land unit…
The Alaska Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program is one of the largest and most successful catch share programs of the United States and the world. It has been successful in maintaining the economic value and owner-operated characteristics of these fisheri…
Infectious respiratory disease has long been identified as the cause of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) historical declines and extirpations, and Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae (Movi) is the primary pathogen inducing disease and mortality. Population-level effects of pneumonia events …
This dissertation addresses empirical, applied, and theoretical issues in the place literature through an ethnographic study of the volunteer stewards in the nonprofit McDowell Sonoran Conservancy (Scottsdale, Arizona).
The Gulf of Mexico (or “Gulf”) is of critical significance to the oil and gas industries’ offshore production, but the potential for accidental petrochemical influx into the Gulf due to such processes is high; two of the largest marine oil spills in history, Pemex's Ixtoc I spil…
My research leads me to the conclusion the international human rights system's separation of the “indigenous problem” from the “colonial problem” is important. It is important to the way in we understand indigenous rights today, and it is important in terms of the ways in which …
Greater sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis tabida) and endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) share many life history traits. Therefore, evaluating sandhill crane productivity in certain locations could be an indicator of future whooping crane breeding success. Since 2011…
Fire regimes, or the pattern, frequency, and intensity of fires over a landscape, has begun to shift over much of the dry tropical regions of the world. The complexity of the pressure fire exerts on the landscape is intensified by the intimate relationship humans have cultivated…
The Anthropocene requires environmental managers to shift toward governance approaches that recognize the interdependencies of system components, embrace uncertainties and enable adaptive management to retain the resilience in the social ecological systems. Sustainability scient…
A recent re-tabulation of government wildlife kill data reveals that British Columbia (BC) Conservation Officers, in the last 8 years (2011-2019), have killed 4,341 black bears, 162 grizzly bears, and 780 cougars (Casavant, 2020). These killing statistics raise broad questions a…
Ecological models allow resource managers to evaluate human impacts on fish and their habitat. However, quantitative methods that incorporate and assess uncertainty in these models are rare. These models require fish life history information, which is often uncertain, and can th…
As the world faces climate change and unprecedented environmental catastrophe, it is time that the dance community urgently respond to the call for ecologic awareness and action. Human interactions and habits with waste are at the forefront of climate problems; this research rev…
Situated in Maine rivers, I engage sites of memory present in places related to natural resources and research engagement. To address this, first I articulate an archeological analysis of Colonial American and early Maine history to describe land-based practices that shaped rive…
Protection of what is arguably one of our nation's greatest assets—the imagery, stories and places associated with this country's First Nations rock art—is one of the considerable challenges facing Traditional Owners, rock art researchers and heritage practitioners today. The pr…
Unlike most states west of the 100th meridian, California has, until recently, never enacted a comprehensive set of regulations to govern consumptive use of groundwater resources, even though groundwater provides between 40 percent and 60 percent of the water used by residents, …