Policy, Science, and Management
Research focuses on how individuals, communities, and institutions react to and assimilate scientific knowledge to facilitate implementation of regulations and non-regulatory actions intended to protect and restore water resources. Projects address policy, information transfer, stream restoration, and resource management related topics and are designed to assess attitudes, behaviors, and activities related to riparian and aquatic protection and recovery. These activities are played out at multiple scales: individual, community, and institutional.
Landowner behavior and attitudes toward land management programs
Program evaluation: restoration and rehabilitation programs, watershed planning process
Climate Change
Landowner behavior and attitudes toward land management programs
Managing Nonpoint Source Pollution in Western Washington: Landowner Learning Methods and Motivations (pdf) (Clare Ryan. 2008)
Understanding Visitors at the Diamond Lake Recreation Area (Miki Fujikawa. 2007)
Understanding diversity among participants in the Chitina Subdistrict Dipnet Fishery (Amber Kocsis. 2003)
Identifying the spatial and temporal distribution of human users in a river corridor (Brian Zwiebel. 2003)
Motivations of rural landowners to participate in conservation-oriented land management programs (Jennifer Ise. 2001)
The social construction of a watershed: Changing rights and changing land (Penny Eckert. 1998)
Program evaluation: restoration and rehabilitation programs, watershed planning process
Evaluating collaborative outputs: A content analysis of watershed plans and salmon recovery plans in Puget Sound (Jason Wilkinson. 2007)
The challenge of ecologically sustainable water management (Bernhardt et al. 2006)
Collaborative partnership design: The implications of organizational affiliation for watershed partnerships (pdf) (Ryan Bidwell and Clare Ryan. 2006)
Collaborative watershed planning in Washington State: Implementing the Watershed Planning Act (pdf) (Clare Ryan and Jacqueline Klug. 2005)
Watershed councils and the Oregon Plan: An analysis of watershed planning process (Clare Ryan and Ryan Bidwell. 2003)
Regional salmon recovery planning in Washington State (Brian Petersen. 2003)
Crafting collaboration: An implementation analysis of Washington's Watershed Planning Act (Jacque Klug. 2001)
The strengths and weaknesses of the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) process (David Landsman. 2000)
Collaborative design of fish habitat enhancement projects in streams and rivers of Washington State (Jim Dooley. 2000)
Survey of stream restoration and fisheries enhancement monitoring in Washington State (Jeff Bash. 1999)
Explaining variation in western Washington riparian management zone width on state and private lands (Katherine Sauter.1994)
Climate Change
The Carbon Neutral Individual (Michael Vandenbergh and Anne Steinemann. 2007)