Sustainability Research Forum

Sustainability Research Forum

An Opportunity to Share Your Research - The Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices is hosting a series of informal seminars/brownbag sessions to showcase PSU's sustainability research activities and to provide a forum for PSU faculty to share their "research-in-progress" with their colleagues. Please let us know if you have sustainability-related research that you are working on and would like to share. Perhaps you have a presentation lined up at a conference or other gathering? We'd like to provide the opportunity for you to present to the PSU community as well. Or perhaps you are still in the midst of a research activity and would like to get some feedback or just share your observations to date? We'll provide the forum for you to do that. Please contact Jennifer Allen (jhallen@pdx.edu) or Elizabeth Lloyd (minor@pdx.edu) if any of these opportunities appeal to you. Thanks in advance for sharing your work with the rest of us!

 

Previous Presentations:

  • Portland Area Ecosystems: Progressive management, but we're still losing ground.
    Presenter: Dr. Alan Yeakley, Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Portland State University

In research conducted with Connie Ozawa (USP), we examined losses of riparian ecosystems in several Portland metro area cities over a 12 year period of growth, and found continuing losses of these important land-based natural resources. This seminar will discuss the ecological changes in riparian ecosystems in Portland area cities experiencing population growth, and the relative effectiveness of varying municipal efforts to manage riparian ecosystems.

Dr. Yeakley's research is in the general area of Environmental Systems. His focus is in the major fields of ecological system analysis, ecosystem management, forest ecology, hydrological modeling, riparian ecology, urban ecology, watershed biogeochemistry, and watershed hydrology. Please visit his website for more information.

  • "Feedback Mechanisms in the Urban Environment: How do heat and air quality episodes and public advisories impact human behavior... and vice versa?"
    • Presenter: Dr. David Sailor, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Portland State University
  • "Ensuring Equity is Part of Sustainability: The Regional Equity Atlas - Metropolitan Portland's Geography of Opportunity"
    • Presenter: Jill Fuglister, Co-Director of the Coalition and Equity Atlas Project Director
  • "Households, Consumption and Climate"
    • Presenter: Dr. Loren Lutzenhiser, Professor, Urban Studies & Planning and Urban & Public Affairs, Portland State University
  • "Sustainable Food Supply Chain"
    • Presenter: Dr. Mellie Pullman, Associate Professor, Operations Management, Portland State University
  • "Sustainability and Big Iron: Scalable Performance Analysis for Power-Aware Compute Clusters"
    • Presenter: Dr. Karen Karavanic, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Portland State University