Faculty and Staff Directory

Dr. de Rivera studies the ecology and behavior of marine and estuarine invertebrates, and the ecological impacts of roads. Her research examines how anthropogenic changes to habitat connectivity combine with biotic interactions and abiotic factors (temperature and salinity) to affect population growth, species distribution, and ecosystem function.

Lab website: https://deriveralab.wordpress.com/

Macroinvertebrate indicators of stream sediment and the effect of ecological restoration on aquatic communities

Website: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/patrick-edwards/

Measurements and models of hyper-local air quality in cities, impact of urban systems and design on air pollution, human perception of air pollution.

Lab website: https://web.pdx.edu/~h6lg/new2/

Snow and ice processes in mountain environments, disturbance ecohydrology, water-climate-forest interactions, integrated modeling of the hydroclimate, surface energy balance modeling, remote sensing of land cover change, and geo-analytics. 

Lab website: https://ecohydroclimatology.com/

Applied coastal ecology; effects of disturbance on marine ecosystems and species; coastal conservation and management. 

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/acelab/

Sociohydrology, hydrosocial systems, human-environment interactions, environmental justice

Lab website: https://www.oregonwaterstories.com/

Larval ecology and behavior of marine invertebrates, saltmarsh food web dynamics, and restoration of coastal ecosystems.

Lab website: https://lopezduartelab.com/

Our research is specifically focused on the ecosystem functions that affect water quality, climate regulation, and carbon sequestration in natural and human-modified ecosystems. These essential processes are often adversely affected by human activities at local and global scales. We study the retention and processing of nutrients (nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus) and the flux of greenhouse gases in wetlands, streams, forests, agricultural, and urban ecosystems. We use approaches from ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry in our work and collaborate across social and biophysical sciences.

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/morse-lab/

Environmental legislation and policy, land use and cover change, community-based natural resource management, watershed restoration, wildfire management, sense of place, landowner psychology, agent-based modeling. Dr. Nielsen-Pincus teaches courses related to environmental and natural resource management, as well as graduate research development.

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/maxnp

Freshwater science and protection, aquatic ecology, algal ecology, environmental monitoring and assessment, and stream restoration.

Dr. Pan is no longer accepting graduate students to advise.

Lab website: https://works.bepress.com/yangdong_pan/

Interdisciplinary feminist science studies; inclusive STEM pedagogy; queer ecologies; climate resilience and plasticity in Drosophila

Lab website: FLIES Project (Feminist Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Experimental Science)

Leslie Bliss Ketchum

Adjunct Faculty

Habitat Connectivity for Wildlife, Invasive Species Management, Biodiversity, Urban Ecology, Transportation Ecology

Website: http://www.samarapdx.com/