Sonya Sachdeva, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Farzan Karimi-Malekabadi, Sonya Sachdeva, Morteza Dehghani. 2025. A value-based topography of climate change beliefs and behaviors
• Sarah K. MacFarland, Sonya Sachdeva, Spencer A. Wood, Joshua J. Lawler. 2025. Characterizing social and ecological values expressed in Forest Service public comments using a computational approach
• Jiaying Zhao, Jade Radke, Frances S. Chen, Sonya Sachdeva, Samuel J. Gershman, Yu Luo. 2024. How do we reinforce climate action?
• Unai Pascual, Patricia Balvanera, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Michael Christie, David González-Jiménez, Adrian Martin, Christopher M. Raymond, Mette Termansen, Arild Vatn, Simone Athayde, Brigitte Baptiste, David N. Barton, Sander Jacobs, Eszter Kelemen, Ritesh Kumar, Elena Lazos, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Barbara Nakangu, Patrick O’Farrell, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Meine van Noordwijk, SoEun Ahn, Sacha Amaruzaman, Ariane M. Amin, Paola Arias-Arévalo, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Antonio J. Castro, Victoria Contreras, Alta De Vos, Nicolas Dendoncker, Stefanie Engel, Uta Eser, Daniel P. Faith, Anna Filyushkina, Houda Ghazi, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Rachelle K. Gould, Louise Guibrunet, Haripriya Gundimeda, Thomas Hahn, Zuzana V Harmáčková, Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Andra-Ioana Horcea-Milcu, Mariaelena Huambachano, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher, Cem İskender Aydın, Mine Islar, Ann-Kathrin Koessler, Jasper O. Kenter, Marina Kosmus, Heera Lee, Beria Leimona, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic Lenzi, Bosco Lliso, Lelani M. Mannetti, Juliana Merçon, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Nibedita Mukherjee, Barbara Muraca, Roldan Muradian, Ranjini Murali, Sara H. Nelson, Gabriel R. Nemogá-Soto, Jonas Ngouhouo-Poufoun, Aidin Niamir, Emmanuel Nuesiri, Tobias O. Nyumba, Begüm Özkaynak, Ignacio Palomo, Ram Pandit, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Martin Quaas, Julian Rode, Ricardo Rozzi, Sonya Sachdeva, Aibek Samakov, Marije Schaafsma, Nadia Sitas, Paula Ungar, Evonne Yiu, Yuki Yoshida, Eglee Zent. 2023. Diverse values of nature for sustainability
• Dexter H. Locke, Sonya Sachdeva, Lynne M. Westphal, Laura S. Kenefic, Michael Dockry, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher. 2023. Spatially Explicit Assessment of the USDA Forest Service as a Representative Bureaucracy
• Sonya Sachdeva, Lynne M. Westphal, Laura S. Kenefic, Michael J. Dockry, Dexter H. Locke, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher. 2023. Despite Workforce Diversity Efforts, Career Metrics Differ for Some Demographic Groups in the USDA Forest Service
• Michael J. Dockry, Sonya Sachdeva, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher, Laura S. Kenefic, Dexter H. Locke, Lynne M. Westphal. 2022. Student trainee and paid internship programs have positive results but do little to influence long-term employee diversity in the USDA forest service
• Sonya Sachdeva, Sarah McCaffrey. 2022. Themes and patterns in print media coverage of wildfires in the USA, Canada and Australia: 1986–2016
• Sonya Sachdeva, Lindsay K. Campbell, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen. 2022. Editorial: The COVID-19 pandemic's transformation of human relationships with nature at multiple scales
• Lynne M. Westphal, Michael Dockry, Laura S. Kenefic, Sonya Sachdeva, Amelia Rhodeland, Dexter H. Locke, Christel C. Kern, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Michael R. Coughlan. 2022. USDA Forest Service Employee Diversity During a Period of Workforce Contraction
• Sonya Sachdeva, James Shyan-Tau Wu, Jiaying Zhao. 2021. The Impact of Scarcity on Pro-environmental Behavior in the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Sonya Sachdeva, Jiaying Zhao. 2021. Distinct impacts of financial scarcity and natural resource scarcity on sustainable choices and motivations
• Zachary Garcia, Sonya Sachdeva, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen. 2020. Translating spiritual experience into environmental stewardship at Jamaica Bay, New York City
• Sonya Sachdeva. 2020. Chapter 17: Using social media for research and monitoring the changing landscape of public land use
• Greg Lindsey, Yunlei Qi, Paul H. H. Gobster, Sonya Sachdeva. 2019. Population Changes, Weather, and Congestion: Exploring Declines in Use of Chicago's Elevated Trail
• Kristin Floress, Sonya Sachdeva. 2019. Novel and Controversial Methods in the Social Sciences: Introduction to Special Issue
• Greg Lindsey, Yunlei Qi, Paul H. H. Gobster, Sonya Sachdeva. 2019. The 606 at three: Trends in use of Chicago's elevated Rail-Trail
• Sonya Sachdeva, Reihane Boghrati, Morteza Dehghani. 2019. Testing the Influence of Purity-Based Interventions on Pro-environmental Behavior
• Ming Kuo, Matthew H. E. M. Browning, Sonya Sachdeva, Kangjae Lee, Lynne M. Westphal. 2018. Might School Performance Grow on Trees? Examining the Link Between “Greenness” and Academic Achievement in Urban, High-Poverty Schools
• Sonya Sachdeva, Sarah M. McCaffrey. 2018. Using social media to predict air pollution during California wildfires
• Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Ming Kuo, Sonya Sachdeva, Kangjae Lee, Lynne M. Westphal. 2018. Greenness and school-wide test scores are not always positively associated – A replication of "linking student performance in Massachusetts elementary schools with the 'greenness' of school surroundings using remote sensing"
• Sachi Arakawa, Sonya Sachdeva, Vivek Shandas. 2018. Handbook of Engaged Sustainability
• Sonya Sachdeva, Marla R. Emery, Patrick T. Hurley. 2018. Depiction of Wild Food Foraging Practices in the Media: Impact of the Great Recession
• Kathryn E. Schertz, Sonya Sachdeva, Omid Kardan, Hiroki P. Kotabe, Kathleen Wolf, Marc G. Berman. 2018. A thought in the park: The influence of naturalness and low-level visual features on expressed thoughts
• Paul H. H. Gobster, Sonya Sachdeva, Greg Lindsey. 2017. Up on The 606. Understanding the Use of a New Elevated Pedestrian and Bicycle Trail in Chicago, Illinois
• Sonya Sachdeva, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Dexter H. Locke. 2017. Social media approaches to modeling wildfire smoke dispersion: spatiotemporal and social scientific investigations
• Sonya Sachdeva. 2016. Religious identity, beliefs, and views about climate change
• Sonya Sachdeva. 2016. The influence of sacred beliefs in environmental risk perception and attitudes
• Sonya Sachdeva, Jennifer Jordan, Nina Mazar. 2015. Green consumerism: moral motivations to a sustainable future

• Center or Group
  

  Chicago Urban Field Station

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/centers/chicago
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  People and Their Environments: Social Science Supporting Natural Resource Management and Policy

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/socialscience
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Identifying and Assessing Needs, Values, Capacities and Future Landscape Visions to Inform Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Strategies

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-needs-values-capacities-visions-wildfire-risk-reduction
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars
  

  Social Aspects of Wildfire Crisis Work

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/social-aspects-wildfire-crisis-work

• Northwestern University, Ph.D., Cognitive Science, 2010
• Northwestern University, M.S., Cognitive Science, 2006
• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, B.S, Economics & Biological Psychology, 2005