Sustainability Research

Sustainability Research Forum

Upcoming Presentations:

• Dr. Alan Yeakley - May 30th from 10-11:30am

An Opportunity to Share Your Research - this year 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!

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

Date: Friday, May 30th
Time: 10:00 - 11:00am with refreshments served afterwards
Place: Smith Center, Room 238

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.