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Research Interests Developmental psychology; identifying how contextual factors are contributing to developmental wellbeing for adolescents

Research Interests Modeling and optimization of large-scale civil engineering systems; planning, design and operation of hydroelectric generating facilities; use of decision, policy and risk analysis techniques in water resource planning and management; use of artificial intelligence systems in water resource and hydroelectric systems.

Research Interests Ethical duties of businesses with respect to current events; the political interests and rights of corporations; responsibility of the financial industry for the Global Financial Crisis; ethics of pharmaceutical pricing; business ethics

Research Interests resource extraction, human ecology

Research Interests Agriculture, environment, sustainable development, ecosystem services

Research Interests Life cycle assessment; Integrated and sustainable forest biomass supply chain

Research Interests ‘Molecular Environmental Archaeology’ – the application of biomolecular techniques to a broad range of environmental issues and human-environment interactions in the past and in the present. My research explores how humans have shaped their physical world, from broad-scale impacts on ancient ecosystems to the micro-environment of the human body. Marine Ecosystems: Long-term fishing and subsistence patterns; marine biogeography and biodiversity; documenting shifting baselines; patterns of resource management, sustainable development, traditional resources management, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Human-Animal Interactions: Social and ecological impacts of human-environmental interactions; hunting strategies; human impacts on biodiversity; animal domestication (turkeys); conservation biology.

Research Interests Biodiversity, tropics, Costa Rica, insects, mites, food webs, habitat loss, Community ecology, conservation, how species loss from food webs can affect the way ecosystems function