Ashley Steel, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Steve McNulty, Ashley Steel, Elaine Springgay, Ben Caldwell, Kenichi Shono, George Pess, Simon Funge-Smith, William Richards, Silvio Ferraz, Dan G. Neary, Jonathan W. Long, Bruno Verbist, Jackson M. Leonard, Ge Sun, Timothy Beechie, Michaela Lo, Lillian McGill, Aimee Fullerton, Simone Borelli. 2021. Managing forests for water [Chapter 3]
• Connie Harrington, Scott M. Holub, Cici Bauer, Ashley Steel. 2017. The distribution of tree roots in Douglas-fir forests in the Pacific Northwest in relation to depth, space, coarse organic matter and mineral fragments.
• Rhonda Mazza, Ashley Steel. 2017. Fluid temperatures: Modeling the thermal regime of a river network
• Ashley Steel, Ariel Muldoon, Rebecca Flitcroft, Julie C. Firman, Kara J. Anlauf-Dunn, Kelly Burnett, Robert J. Danehy. 2017. Current landscapes and legacies of land-use past: understanding the distribution of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and their habitats along the Oregon Coast, USA
• Ashley Steel, Timothy J. Beechie, Christian E. Torgersen, Aimee H. Fullerton. 2017. Envisioning, quantifying, and managing thermal regimes on river networks
• Mischa P. Turschwell, Stephen R. Balcombe, Ashley Steel, Fran Sheldon, Erin E. Peterson. 2017. Thermal habitat restricts patterns of occurrence in multiple life-stages of a headwater fish
• Mark P. Miller, Susan M. Haig, Jonathan D. Ballou, Ashley Steel. 2017. Estimating inbreeding rates in natural populations: addressing the problem of incomplete pedigrees
• Abby E. Fuhrman, Donald A. Larsen, Ashley Steel, Graham Young, Brian R. Beckman. 2017. Chinook salmon emergence phenotypes: describing the relationships between temperature, emergence timing and condition factor in a reaction norm framework
• Ashley Steel, Colin Sowder, Erin E. Peterson. 2016. Spatial and temporal variation of water temperature regimes on the Snoqualmie River network
• Harold S.J. Zald, Thomas Spies, Rupert Seidl, Robert J. Pabst, Keith A. Olsen, Ashley Steel. 2016. Complex mountain terrain and disturbance history drive variation in forest aboveground live carbon density in the western Oregon Cascades, USA
• Susan C. Baker, Charles B. Halpern, Timothy J. Wardlaw, Christel C. Kern, Graham J. Edgar, Russell J. Thomson, Richard E. Bigley, Jerry F. Franklin, Kamal J. K. Gandhi, Lena Gustafsson, Samuel Johnson, Brian J. J. Palik, Thomas Spies, Ashley Steel, Jan Weslien, Joachim Strengbom. 2016. A cross-continental comparison of plant and beetle responses to retention of forest patches during timber harvest
• John P. Caouette, Ashley Steel, Paul Hennon, Pat Cunningham, Cathy A. Pohl, Barbara A. Schrader. 2016. Influence of elevation and site productivity on conifer distributions across Alaskan temperate rainforests
• Aimee H. Fullerton, Christian E. Torgersen, Joshua J. Lawler, Russell N. Faux, Ashley Steel, Timothy J. Beechie, Joseph L. Ebersole, Scott G. Leibowitz. 2015. Rethinking the longitudinal stream temperature paradigm: region-wide comparison of thermal infrared imagery reveals unexpected complexity of river temperatures
• Carlos M. Polivka, Ashley Steel, Jenni L. Novak, Bror Jonsson. 2015. Juvenile salmon and steelhead occupancy of stream pools treated and not treated with restoration structures, Entiat River, Washington
• Ashley Steel, Brian Beckman, Marie Oliver. 2014. Stream temperature variability: why it matters to salmon
• Ashley Steel, Kelly M. Burnett, Joan O’Callaghan. 2012. Thinking big: linking rivers to landscapes
• Susan Hummel, Maureen Kennedy, Ashley Steel. 2012. Assessing forest vegetation and fire simulation model performance after the Cold Springs wildfire, Washington USA
• Aimee H. Fullerton, Steven T. Lindley, George R. Pess, Blake E. Feist, Ashley Steel, Paul McElhany. 2011. Human influence on the spatial structure of threatened Pacific salmon metapopulations
• K.J. Anlauf, D.W. Jensen, K.M. Burnett, Ashley Steel, K. Christiansen, J.C. Firman, B.E. Feist, D.P. Larsen. 2011. Explaining spatial variability in stream habitats using both natural and management-influenced landscape predictors
• Yasmin Lucero, Ashley Steel, Kelly Burnett, Kelly Christiansen. 2011. Untangling human development and natural gradients: implications of underlying correlation structure for linking landscapes and riverine ecosystems
• Julie C. Firman, Ashley Steel, David W. Jensen, Kelly Burnett, Kelly Christiansen, Blake E. Feist, David P. Larsen, Kara Anlauf. 2011. Landscape models of adult coho salmon density examined at four spatial extents
• A.H. Fullerton, Kelly Burnett, Ashley Steel, Rebecca Flitcroft, G.R. Pess, B.E. Feist, C.E. Torgersen, D.J. Miller, B.L. Sanderson. 2010. Hydrological connectivity for riverine fish: measurement challenges and research opportunities

• University of Washington, Ph.D., Quantitative Ecology, 1999
• University of Washington, M.S., Statistics, 1996
• University of Washington, M.S., River Ecology, 1993
• Duke University, B.S., Sociology, 1988