Department of Applied Environmental Science

Research output

Research output per year 1993 2008 2013 2014 2017 2018 2025

• 105 Article
• 24 Chapter
• 2 Book
• 2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 4 More
  • 2 Other contribution
  • 1 Paper
  • 1 Conference article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Magical Moments and Spots of Sunshine: A Partnership to Support Multispecies Flourishing

  Derr, V., Miller, A., Moreno, M., Parker, K., Ramirez, J. & Torres, C., 2024, Multispecies Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond: Teaching for a Sustainable Future. p. 119 140 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• “Flying for the First Time”: Situating Sustainability-in-Place among Children and Young People within Agricultural Communities of California

  Derr, V., Molinelli-Ruberto, C. & Glines, R., 2025, The Routledge Handbook on the Influence of Built Environments on Diverse Childhoods. Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• 2023

  Blurring Boundaries and Realizing Just Potential: How Diverse California Schools Enact Sustainability-in-Place

  Derr, V., Glines, R. & Molinelli-Ruberto, C., 2023, In: Children, Youth and Environments. 33, 3, p. 70 91 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Integrating evidence-based teaching practices into the Mammalogy classroom

  Patrick, L. E., Duggan, J. & Dizney, L., Feb 26 2023, In: Journal of Mammalogy. 104, 4, p. 685-695 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Postfire hydrologic response along the Central California (USA) coast: insights for the emergency assessment of postfire debris-flow hazards

  Smith, D., Nov 2023, In: Landslides. 20, 11, p. 2421-2436 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Six years of fluvial response to a large dam removal on the Carmel River, California, USA

  Smith, D., Jun 30 2023, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 48, 8, p. 1487-1501 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Teaching Mammalogy in the 21st century: advances in undergraduate education.

  Flaherty, E., Lanier, H. C., Varner, J., Duggan, J., Beckmann, S., Yahnke, C. J., Erb, L. P., Patrick, L. E., Dizney, L., Munroe, K. E. & Connors, P. K., Mar 7 2023, In: Journal of Mammalogy. 104, 4, p. 655-666 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• What should students be able to do? Helping students recognize professional skills in our courses.

  Yahnke, C. J., Lanier, H. C., Flaherty, E., Varner, J., Munroe, K. E., Duggan, J., Erb, L. P., Dizney, L. & Connors, P. K., Aug 1 2023, In: Journal of Mammalogy. 104, 4, p. 696-706 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2022

  Predation strongly limits demography of a keystone migratory herbivore in a recovering transfrontier ecosystem

  Watson, F., Becker, M. S., Smit, D., Droge, E., Mukula, T., Martens, S., Mwaba, S., Christianson, D., Creel, S., Brennan, A., M'soka, J., Gaylard, A., Simukonda, C., Nyirenda, M. & Mayani, B., Oct 2022, In: Ecology and evolution. 12, 10, e9414.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Sizing an open-channel woodchip bioreactor to treat nitrate from agricultural tile drainage and achieve water quality targets

  Krone, P., Clark, R., Adelaars, J., Leandro, M., Henson, A., Williamson, J., Bischel, H., Wrightwood, O. & Watson, F., Mar 1 2022, In: Water Supply. 22, 3, p. 2465-2477 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
• 2021

  Connected while distant: Networking CUREs across classrooms to create community and empower students

  Connors, P. K., Lanier, H. C., Erb, L. P., Varner, J., Dizney, L., Flaherty, E. A., Duggan, J., Yahnke, C. J. & Hanson, J. D., 2021, In: Integrative & Comparative Biology. 61

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Influence of a Post-dam Sediment Pulse and Post-fire Debris Flows on Steelhead Spawning Gravel in the Carmel River, California

  Smith, D., Dec 9 2021, In: Frontiers in Earth Science: Biogeosciences.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Landscapes as living laboratories for sustainable campus planning and stewardship: A scoping review of approaches and practices

  Gomez, T. & Derr, V., 2021, In: Landscape and Urban Planning. 216

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Latin American Transnational Children and Youth: Experiences of Nature and Place, Culture and Care Across the Americas

  Derr, V. & Corona Caraveo, Y., 2021

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Observations on the year-round communal use of an artificial structure by Northern Pacific rattlesnakes Crotalus oreganus oreganus in coastal Central California

  Shin, Y., Miller, J. & Duggan, J. M., 2021, In: The Herpetological Bulletin. 155

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Squirreling from Afar: Adapting Squirrel-Net Modules for Remote Teaching and Learning

  Dizney, L., Varner, J., Duggan, J., Lanier, H. C., Connors, P. K., Erb, L. P., Flaherty, E. A., Yahnke, C. J. & Hanson, J. D., Jan 1 2021, In: CourseSource.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2020

  An Introduction to the Squirrel-Net Teaching Modules

  Dizney, L., Connors, P. K., Varner, J., Duggan, J. M., Lanier, H. C., Erb, L. P., Flaherty, E. A., Yahnke, C. J. & Hanson, J. D., Jan 1 2020, In: CourseSource.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Controls on large boulder mobility in an ‘auto‐naturalized’ constructed step‐pool river: San Clemente Reroute and Dam Removal Project, Carmel River, California, USA

  Smith, D. P., Kortman, S. R., Caudillo, A. M., Kwan‐Davis, R. L., Wandke, J. J., Klein, J. W., Gennaro, M. C. S., Bogdan, M. A. & Vannerus, P. A., Mar 20 2020, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Diverse perspectives on action for positive social and environmental change

  Derr, V., Jan 20 2020, In: Environmental Education Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• How Many Squirrels Are in the Shrubs? A Lesson Plan for Comparing Methods for Population Estimation

  Varner, J., Lanier, H. C., Duggan, J., Dizney, L., Flaherty, E. A., Connors, P. K., Erb, L. P., Yahnke, C. J. & Hanson, J. D., Jan 1 2020, In: CourseSource.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Sorry to Eat and Run: A Lesson Plan for Testing Trade-off in Squirrel Behavior Using Giving Up Densities (GUDs)

  Yahnke, C. J., Dizney, L., Varner, J., Duggan, J., Lanier, H. C., Erb, L. P., Flaherty, E. A., Connors, P. K. & Hanson, J. D., Jan 1 2020, In: CourseSource.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Squirreling Around for Science: Observing Sciurid Rodents to Investigate Animal Behavior

  Connors, P. K., Varner, J., Erb, L. P., Dizney, L., Lanier, H. C., Hanson, J. D., Yahnke, C. J., Duggan, J. M. & Flaherty, E. A., Jan 1 2020, In: CourseSource.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Squirrels in Space: Using Radio Telemetry to Explore the Space Use and Movement of Sciurid Rodents

  Duggan, J., Varner, J., Lanier, H. C., Flaherty, E. A., Dizney, L., Yahnke, C. J., Connors, P. K., Erb, L. P. & Hanson, J. D., Jan 1 2020, In: CourseSource.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
• 2019

  A review of photovoice applications in environment, sustainability, and conservation contexts: is the method maintaining its emancipatory intents?

  Derr, V. & Simons, J., Nov 25 2019, In: Environmental Education Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Modeling spatial and temporal variation in natural background specific conductivity

  Olson, J. & Cormier, S. M., Mar 12 2019, In: Environmental Science & Technology. 53

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Response of wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) movements to spatial variation in long term risks from a complete predator guild

  Droge, E., Creel, S., Becker, M., Christianson, D., M'soka, J. & Watson, F., 2019, In: Biological Conservation. 233

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• “And it made me feel good inside”: Initial Evidence and Future Methods for Evaluating Nature School Effectiveness

  Volpe, M., Derr, V. & Kim, S. B., Dec 18 2019, In: Children, Youth, and Environments. 29

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2018

  A Low Cost System for Detecting Fog Events and Triggering an Active Fog Water Collector

  Weiss-Penzias, P., Fernandez, D., Moranville, R. & Saltikov, C., 2018, In: Aerosol and Air Quality Research. 18

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Boots on the ground: in defense of low-tech, inexpensive, and robust survey methods for Africa’s under-funded protected areas

  Watson, F., Schuette, P., Namukonde, N., Becker, M. S., Creel, S., Chifunte, C., Matandiko, W., Millhouser, P. & Rosenblatt, E., 2018, In: Biodiversity and Conservation. 27

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Fluid or Fixed? Processes that Facilitate or Constrain a Sense of Inclusion in Participatory Schoolyard and Park Design

  Kreutz, A., Derr, V. & Chawla, L., Jan 1 2018, In: Landscape Journal. 37

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Fog Water Collection Effectiveness: Mesh Intercomparisons

  Fernandez, D., Torregrosa, A., Weiss-Penzias, P., Zhang, B. J., Sorensen, D., Cohen, R., McKinley, G., Kleingartner, J., Oliphant, A. & Bowman, M., 2018, In: Aerosol and Air Quality Research. 18

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Foraging investment in a long-lived herbivore and vulnerability to coursing and stalking predators

  Christianson, D., Becker, M. S., Brennan, A., Creel, S., Dröge, E., M'soka, J., Mukula, T., Schuette, P., Smit, D. & Watson, F., Oct 2018, In: Ecology and evolution. 8, 20, p. 10147-10155 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Integrating Children and Youth Participation into Resilience Planning Lessons from Three Resilient Cities

  Derr, V., Sitzoglou, M., Gülgönen, T. & Corona Caraveo, Y., Nov 9 2018, In: Canadian Journal of Children's Rights. 5

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities

  Derr, V., Chawla, L. & Mintzer, M., Aug 2018

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Predicting combined effects of land use and climate change on river and stream salinity

  Olson, J., Dec 3 2018, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 374

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Removal of San Clemente Dam did more than restore fish passage

  Williams, T. H., East, A. E., Smith, D. P., Broughton, D. A., Mantua, N. & Harrison, L. R., Jan 2018, In: The Osprey.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• River response to large‐dam removal in a Mediterranean hydroclimatic setting: Carmel River, California, USA

  Harrison, L. R., East, A. E., Smith, D. P., Logan, J. B., Bond, R. M., Bond, R. M., Nicol, C. L., Nicol, C. L., Williams, T. H., Boughton, D. A., Chow, K. & Luna, L., Dec 2018, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 43

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Influence of Nature on a Child’s Development: Connecting the Outcomes of Human Attachment and Place Attachment

  Little, S. & Derr, V., Mar 24 2018, Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature, Springer International Handbooks of Education.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2017

  Brush mouse, Peromyscus boylii

  Duggan, J., 2017, San Diego County Mammal Atlas.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Cactus mouse, Peromyscus eremicus

  Duggan, J., 2017, San Diego County Mammal Atlas.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• California mouse, Peromyscus californicus

  Duggan, J., 2017, San Diego County Mammal Atlas.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Children as Natural Change Agents: Child Friendly Cities as Resilient Cities

  Derr, V., Chawla, L. & van Vliet, W., 2017, Designing Cities with Children and Young People: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Children’s Perceptions of and Engagement in Urban Resilience in the United States and Mexico

  Derr, V., Corona, Y. & Gülgönen, T., Jul 31 2017, In: Journal of Planning Education and Research.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Connecting Earth Observation to High-Throughput Biodiversity Data

  Bush, A., Sollmann, R., Wilting, A., Bohmann, K., Cole, B., Balzter, H., Martius, C., Zlinszky, A., Calvignac-Spencer, S., Cobbold, C. A., Dawson, T. P., Emerson, B. C., Ferrier, S., Gilbert, M. T. P., Herold, M., Jones, L., Leendertz, F. H., Matthews, L., Millington, J. D. A. & Olson, J. & 11 others, Ovaskainen, O., Raffaelli, D., Reeve, R., Rödel, M.-O., Rodgers, T. W., Snape, S., Visseren-Hamakers, I., Vogler, A. P., White, P. C. L., Wooster, M. J. & Yu, D. W., Jun 22 2017, In: Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Dulzura kangaroo rat, Dipodomys simulans.

  Duggan, J., 2017, San Diego County Mammal Atlas.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Early Childhood Education

  Derr, V., Chawla, L. & Pevec, I., Jun 6 2017, Urban Environmental Education Review.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Effects of Total Dissolved Solids on Growth and Mortality Predict Distributions of Stream Macroinvertebrates

  Olson, J. & Hawkins, C. P., Apr 2017, In: Freshwater Biology. 62

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Informing management of rare species with an approach combining scenario modeling and spatially explicit risk assessment

  Duggan, J., Eichelberger, B. A., Ma, S., Lawler, J. J. & Ziv, G., Jun 2017, In: Ecosystem Health and Sustainability.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• River-channel topography, grain size, and turbidity records from the Carmel River, California, before, during, and after removal of San Clemente Dam

  East, A., Harrison, L. R., Smith, D. P., Bond, R. M., Logan, J. B., Nicol, C. & Chow, K., 2017

  Research output: Other contribution

• Teens, Power Tools, and Green Schools: Education for Sustainability Through a University Environmental Design Program and Middle School Partnership

  Derr, V., 2017, In: Applied Environmental Education & Communication. 16

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review