Our core faculty are dedicated to teaching Environmental Studies at the master’s level. Our adjunct faculty are working professionals in the field. Together, they give you individual attention with a balance of theory and practice.

Faculty Research and Publications

Our faculty have diverse interests, a testament to which can be seen in their publications. A great way to learn more about our faculty members is through their professional work. A selection of recent papers is presented below: 

Richard Bigley, PhD

Halpern, C.B., Lezberg, A.L. and Bigley, R.E. (2024). Broadcast burning has persistent, but subtle, effects on understory composition and structure: Results of a long-term study in western Cascade forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 558, p.121772.
 
Keleher, K.R., Bigley, R.E. and Devine, W.D. (2023). Drivers of Forested Riparian Microclimate on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. Northwest Science, 96(1-2), pp.22-37.
 
Baker, S.C., Halpern, C.B., Wardlaw, T.J., Kern, C., Edgar, G.J., Thomson, R.J., Bigley, R.E., Franklin, J.F., Gandhi, K.J., Gustafsson, L. and Johnson, S. (2016). A cross‐continental comparison of plant and beetle responses to retention of forest patches during timber harvest. Ecological Applications, 26(8), pp.2495-2506.
 
Baker, S.C., Halpern, C.B., Wardlaw, T.J., Crawford, R.L., Bigley, R.E., Edgar, G.J., Evans, S.A., Franklin, J.F., Jordan, G.J., Karpievitch, Y. and Spies, T.A. (2015). Short-and long-term benefits for forest biodiversity of retaining unlogged patches in harvested areas. Forest Ecology and Management, 353, pp.187-195.
 
Pollock M.M., T.J. Beechie, M. Liermann, R.E. Bigley. (2009). Stream temperature relationships to forest harvest in western Washington. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 45 (1): 141-156.

Frederica Bowcutt, PhD

Bowcutt, F.S. (2025). Title IX compliant botany: A culturally responsive curriculum. In Developing Culturally Responsive Curriculum in Higher Education, eds. R. Rantz, L.A. McNulty. IGI Global, pp. 375-402. 

Bowcutt. F.S. (2022). Plants as luxury goods: affordability in an environmentally uncertain future. A Cultural History of Plants, 6, 39-61

Bowcutt, F.S. (2022) Bay nuts and pepperwood leaves: Ethically expanding commercial use of a cultural keystone species. In, The Cultural Value of Trees, ed. J. Wall. Routledge, London, pp. 46-74.

Bowcutt, F.S. (2021). Creation of a field guide to camas prairie plants with undergraduates: Project-based learning combined with epistemological decolonization. Ethnobiology Letters, 12(1), 21-31.

Kevin Francis, PhD

Francis, K., Henderson, M., Martin, E., Saul, K., Joshi, S. (2018). Collaborative Teaching and Interdisciplinary Learning in Graduate Environmental Studies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 8 (3), 343-350.

Sarah Hamman, PhD

Roy, B.A., Hamman, S.T., Soukup, H., Messinger, W., Vandegrift, R., Blount, K., … & Kaye, T. N. (2023). Consequences of fire and other prairie management treatments for macrofungi in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. Fungal Ecology, 65, 101279.

Calabria, L.M., Petersen, K.S., Bidwell, A., & Hamman, S.T. (2020). Moss-cyanobacteria associations as a novel source of biological N2-fixation in temperate grasslands. Plant and Soil, 456(1), 307-321.

Reed, P.B., Pfeifer‐Meister, L.E., Roy, B.A., Johnson, B.R., Bailes, G.T., Nelson, A.A., Boulay, M.C., Hamman, S.T., Bridgham, S.D. (2020). Prairie plant phenology driven more by temperature than moisture in climate manipulations across a latitudinal gradient in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecology and Evolution, 9(6), 3637-3650. 

Lincoln, A.E., Brooks, R.K., Hamman, S.T. (2018). Off-target impacts of graminoid-specific herbicide on common camas (Camassia quamash) growth, abundance, reproduction, and palatability to herbivores. Northwest Science, 92(3), 166-180. 

Applestein, C., Bakker, J.D., Delvin, E.G., Hamman, S.T. (2018). Evaluating seeding methods and rates for prairie restoration. Natural Areas Journal, 38(5), 347-355. 

Shangrila Joshi, PhD

Joshi, S. (2025). Towards an Indigenous Climate Epistemology: Bringing the Newa literary tradition of the Swasthani Vrata Katha in conversation with the festival tradition of the Machchhindra Nath Jatra. Critical Humanities, 3(2), 45-70.

Paudel, D., B. Derman, G. Murton, C. Rampini, S. Joshi. (2024). Climate Change Justice and Global Resource Commons: Local and Global Postcolonial Political Ecologies, The AAG Review of Books, 12(2), 31-42.

Osborne, T., P. Bond, Z. Grossman, J. Rice, S. Joshi, B. Derman. (2024). Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection, The AAG Review of Books, 12(2), 17–30.

Joshi, S. (2023). Climate Justice: Taking Back the Commons. Chapter 15 in Climate, Science, and Society: A Primer, edited by Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr, Routledge.

Joshi, S. (2022) North-South Relations: Colonialism, Empire and International Order. In Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed, edited by Paul Harris, Routledge.

Joshi, S. 2021. Climate Change Justice and Global Resource Commons: Local and Global Postcolonial Political Ecologies, Routledge.

Carri J. LeRoy, PhD 

Finn, D.S., S.M. Claeson, I.J. Garthwaite, D. Fleshman, and C.J. LeRoy. (2025). Highly variable physical and biological characteristics of hyporheic zones among young streams undergoing primary succession. Freshwater Science, 44(1), 16-30. 

LeRoy, C.J., S.J. Heitmann, M.A. Thompson, I.J. Garthwaite, A.M. Froedin-Morgensen, Sorrel Hartford, B.K. Kamakawiwo’ole, L.J. Thompson, J.M. Ramstack Hobbs, S.M. Claeson, R.C. Evans, J.G. Bishop, and P.E. Busby. (2024). Insect herbivores, plant sex, and elevated nitrogen influence willow litter decomposition and detritivore colonization in early successional streams. Forests 15(8), 1282.

Tiegs, S.D.,  K.A. Capps, D.M. Costello, J.P. Schmidt, C.J. Patrick, J.J. Follstad Shah, C.J. LeRoy, and the CELLDEX Consortium. (2024). Human activities shape global patterns of decomposition rates in rivers. Science 384(6701),1191-1195.

LeRoy, C.J., S.A. Morley, J.J. Duda, A.A. Zinck, P.J. Lamoureux, C. Pennell, A. Bailey, C. Oswell, M. Silva, B. Kamakawiwo’ole, S. Hartford, J. Van Der Hout, R. Peters, R. Mahan, J. Stapleton, R.C. Johnson, and M.M. Foley. (2023). Leaf litter decomposition and detrital communities following the removal of two large dams on the Elwha River (Washington, USA). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1231689.

Scheuerell, R.P., and C.J. LeRoy. (2023) Plant sex influences on riparian communities and ecosystems. Ecology & Evolution, 13, 7, e10308.

Ferreira, V., R. Albariño, A. Larrañaga, C.J. LeRoy, F.O. Masese, and M.S. Moretti. (2023). Ecosystem services provided by small streams: An overview. Hydrobiologia, 850, 2501-2535.

Anthony Levenda, PhD

Rice, J.L., J. Long, and A.M. Levenda (eds). Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance. (2023). University of Georgia Press. 

Rice, J.L., J. Long, and A.M. Levenda. (2021). Against climate apartheid: Confronting the persistent legacies of expendability for climate justice. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 625-645. 

Levenda, A.M., I. Behrsin, and F. Disano. (2021). Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 71, 101837, ISSN 2214-6296.

Boucher, J. L., A.M. Levenda, J. Morales‐Guerrero, M.M. Macias, and D.M.A. Karwat. (2020). Establishing a field of collaboration for engineers, scientists, and community groups: Incentives, barriers, and potential. Earth’s Future, 8(10), e2020EF001624. 

Erin Martin, PhD

Francis, K., Henderson, M., Martin, E.E., Saul, K., Joshi, S. (2018). Collaborative Teaching and Interdisciplinary Learning in Graduate Environmental Studies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 8 (3), 343-350.

Martin, E.E., Ingalls, A.E., Richey, J.E., Keil, R.G., Santos, G.M., Truxal, L.T., Alin, S.R., Druffel, E.R.M. (2013) Age of riverine carbon suggests rapid export of terrestrial primary production in tropics. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(21), 5687-5691.

Ellis (Martin), Erin E., Keil, R.G., Ingalls, A.E., Richey, J.E., Alin, S.R. (2012). Seasonal variability in the sources of particulate organic matter of the Mekong River as discerned by elemental and lignin analyses. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 117(G1), G01038.

Alexandrea Safiq, PhD

Safiq, A., Free, C. M., Caracappa, J., Valenti, J. L., & Jensen, O. (2021). Perceptions of Ecosystem‐Based Fisheries Management Among State Natural Resource Agency Scientists in the Northeastern United States. Fisheries, 46(2), 66-75.

Safiq, A. D., Lockwood, J. L., & Brown, J. A. (2019). Homogenization of fish assemblages off the coast of Florida. In From biocultural homogenization to biocultural conservation (pp. 289-300). Springer International Publishing.

John Withey, PhD

Neupane, N., Peruzzi, M., Arab, A., Mayor, S.J., Withey, J.C., Ries, L., Finley, A.O. (2022). A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 108, 102747.

Hashida, Y., Withey, J.C., Lewis, D.J., Newman, T., Kline, J.D. (2020). Anticipating changes in wildlife habitat induced by private forest owners’ adaptation of climate change and carbon policy. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0230525.

Lawler, J.J., Rinnan, D.S., Michalak, J.L., Withey, J.C., Randels, C.R., Possingham, H.P. (2020). Planning for climate change through additions to a national protected area network: implications for cost and configuration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190117.

Runge, C.A., Withey, J.C., Naugle, D.E., Farigone, J.E., Helmstedt, K.J., Larsen, A.E., Martinuzzi, S., Tack, J.D. (2019). Single species conservation as an umbrella for management of landscape threats. PLOS ONE, 14(1), e0209619.

Mayor, S.J., Guralnick, R.P., Tingley, M.W., Otegui, J., Withey, John C., Elemdorf, S.C., Andrew, M.E., Leyk, S., Pearse, I.S., Schneider, D.C. (2017). Increasing phenological asynchrony between spring green-up and arrival of migratory birds. Science Reports, 7(1902), 1-10.