Department of Environmental Science and Management

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Woman poses in front of flowers
June 3rd 2021

Celebrating PSU Student Success, Spring Term 2021

In support of the first goal of Portland State’s five-year strategic...
Person walking on trail surrounded by large trees on either side
May 20th 2021

PSU-The Nature Conservancy partnership taps trees to address regional climate change

For the past two and a half years, Rose Graves has had one foot at Portland...
mussels in a river
March 2nd 2021

Study explores link between forestry management practices and pesticides in aquatic species

March 2, 2021 — Pesticides used in forestry may threaten species in downstream...
Two researchers stand on an iced-over body of water
February 17th 2021

Currently Accolades: People for February 22, 2021

David Ervin, environmental management and economics faculty emeritus...
A woman poses in the stacks of the PSU library
February 4th 2021

Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for February 8, 2021

Heejun Chang, geography faculty, co-authored a paper titled “Understanding...
A woman poses in the stacks of the PSU library
January 28th 2021

Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for February 1, 2021

Rochelle Bloom, anthropology research assistant, and Douglas Deur,...
A woman performs calculations on a whiteboard
January 6th 2021

Currently Accolades: Grants for January 11, 2021

Andrés Holz, geography faculty, won a $22,418 UPP 2020 Seed Grant...
A woman poses in the stacks of the PSU library
December 23rd 2020

Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for January 4, 2021

Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and...
Smoke and fire billowing in the sky and burned trees
December 14th 2020

Oregon's Western Cascades watershed to experience larger, more frequent fires, PSU study finds

The Clackamas Basin rarely experiences the intense fire activity that burned...
Forest fire
December 7th 2020

Will last summer's fires impact critical water supplies?

On August 16, 2020, a lightning strike in Lionshead Canyon ignited what would...
nine participants in a zoom call
December 4th 2020

Shaping campus from a distance: student and staff collaboration through the Living Lab program

At 4pm each Monday for the last several weeks, a handful of students have...
Pacific razor clams on beach
November 30th 2020

Even razor clams on sparsely populated Olympic Coast can't escape plastics, PSU study finds

Portland State University researchers and their collaborators at the Quinault...