Dynamics of Willapa Bay, Washington, USA: Links to the coastal ocean, tidal dispersion, and oyster carrying capacity (PhD, Univ of Washington, 2005).
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Biophysical modeling of the Columbia River plume (2009)
The model As part of the NSF RISE (River Influences on Shelf Ecosystems) program, my collaborators and I coupled a four-box ecosystem model to a high-resolution hindcast of the Washington-Oregon coast, to examine Columbia River plume effects on coastal biological production. For more information, see Banas NS, Lessard E, Kudela R, MacCready P, Peterson T, … Read more
Hypoxia in Lynch Cove, WA, USA (2009)
“Controls on primary production in a new, mid-complexity, biophysical model of Hood Canal” (poster, CERF conference, 2009). Here is the interactive version of the model.
World Religions and the Environment
Developed for the undergraduate Honors Program, University of Washington, 2008 Syllabus: pdf Course announcement: This course will explore intersections between religious belief and practice and the natural world, on both grand and intimate scales. Grand like the all-encompassing vision of interconnectedness in Mahayana Buddhism, or the message of glory and salvation John Muir brought down … Read more