People, Natural Resources, and Economics

The knowledge we generate about human interactions with nature, government policies, and decisionmaking processes informs decisions about collaborative governance, forest products, human health, jobs, recreation, urban design, and wildfire risk reduction.

People
Resources

Key Personnel

Program Manager

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Nicole Grewe

Program Manager

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/nicole.r.grewe

Staff

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Lee K. Cerveny, PhD

Research Social Scientist and Team Leader

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/lee.cerveny
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Susan Charnley, PhD

Research Social Scientist Emeritus

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/susan.charnley
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Mark Davis

Chemist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/mwdavis01
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Monika Derrien, PhD

Research Social Scientist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/monika.derrien
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Geoffrey Donovan, PhD

Research Forester

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/geoffrey.donovan
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Abigail Kaminski

Social Science Information Specialist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/abigail.kaminski
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Jeffrey D. Kline, PhD

Research Forester

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/jeff.kline
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Sonja Kolstoe, PhD

Research Economist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/sonja.kolstoe
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Anna Maher

Economist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/anna.maher
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David L. Nicholls, PhD

Research Forest Products Technologist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/david.l.nicholls
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Kendra Wendel

Resource Specialist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/kendra.wendel
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Eric M. White, PhD

Research Quantitative Social Scientist

https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/eric.m.white

Publications

John Kirkland, Sarah Jovan, Monika Derrien. 2023. The more the mossier: Using community science to map air quality in environmental justice investigations
Jeroen Douwes, Collin Brooks, Geoffrey Donovan, John D. Potter. 2022. Epidemiology of green space and health: a walk in the park?
Robert M. Anderson, Susan Charnley, Kathleen Epstein, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Jeffrey V. Martin, Alex McInturff. 2022. The socioecology of fear: A critical geographical consideration of human‐wolf‐livestock conflict
Maria Torres Toda, Demetris Avraam, Timothy James Cadman, Serena Fossati, Montserrat de Castro, Audrius Dedele, Geoffrey Donovan, Ahmed Elhakeem, Marisa Estarlich, Amanda Fernandes, Romy Gonçalves, Regina Grazuleviciene, Jennifer R. Harris, Margreet Harskamp-van Ginkel, Barbara Heude, Jesús Ibarluzea, Carmen Iñiguez, Vincent WV Jaddoe, Deborah Lawlor, Aitana Lertxundi, Johanna Lepeule, Rosemary McEachan, Giovenale Moirano, Johanna LT Nader, Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Marie Pedersen, Costanza Pizzi, Theano Roumeliotaki, Susana Santos, Jordi Sunyer, Tiffany Yang, Marina Vafeiadi, Tanja GM Vrijkotte, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Martine Vrijheid, Maria Foraster, Payam Dadvand. 2022. Exposure to natural environments during pregnancy and birth outcomes in 11 European birth cohorts
Geoffrey Donovan, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Demetrios Gatziolis, Yvonne L. Michael, Abigail Kaminski, Payam Dadvand. 2022. The association between tree planting and mortality: A natural experiment and cost-benefit analysis
Lee K. Cerveny, Rebecca McLain, David Banis, Matthew Helmer. 2022. National forest visitation preferences and avenues to participation for urban Hispanic recreationists in the Portland metropolitan area (USA)
Monika Derrien, Lee K. Cerveny, Michiko Martin, Matt Arnn. 2019. To share and sustain: Stewarding recreation resources in the US Forest Service
Natasha Vizcarra, Adelaide C. Johnson, Lee K. Cerveny. 2022. Old-growth wood for cultural uses: Sustaining native lifeways in southeast Alaska
Susan Charnley, Shoana Humphries, Gretchen Engbring, Gregory E. Frey. 2022. Supporting community forestry certification in tropical countries by increasing actor engagement across scales
Susan Charnley, Gregory E. Frey, Jasper Makala. 2022. Community forests, timber production, and certification: success factors in the African context
Gregory E. Frey, Susan Charnley, Jasper Makala. 2022. The costs and benefits of certification for community forests managed by traditional peoples in south-eastern Tanzania
Melanie Armstrong, Monika Derrien, Hannah Schaefer-Tibbett. 2022. The dynamics of trail use and trip reporting: Understanding visitor experiences within social-ecological systems
Lee K. Cerveny, Monika Derrien, Caleb Meyer, Anna B. Miller. 2022. Four dimensions of sustainable governance for National Scenic Trails
Itzel Castro-Mendoza, José René Valdez-Lazalde, Geoffrey Donovan, Tomás Martínez Trinidad, Francisca Ofelia Plascencia Escalante, Williams Vázquez Morales. 2022. Does land-use affect the temperature distribution across the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México?
Yan Li, Xianyu Wang, Jean Feary McKenzie, Andrea 't Mannetje, Soo Cheng, Chang He, Janet Leathem, Neil Pearce, Jordi Sunyer, Brenda Eskenazi, Ruby Yeh, Lesa L. Aylward, Geoffrey Donovan, Jochen F. Mueller, Jeroen Douwes. 2022. Pesticide exposure in New Zealand school-aged children: Urinary concentrations of biomarkers and assessment of determinants
Kim Hartley, Patrick H. Ryan, Gordon L. Gillespie, Joseph Perazzo, J. Michael Wright, Glenn E. Rice, Geoffrey Donovan, Rebecca Gernes, Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey, Grace LeMasters, Cole Brokamp. 2022. Residential greenness, asthma, and lung function among children at high risk of allergic sensitization: a prospective cohort study
Kathleen McGinley, Susan Charnley, Frederick Cubbage, Reem Hajjar, Gregory E. Frey, John Schelhas, Meredith Hovis, Kailey Kornhauser. 2022. Community forest ownership, rights, and governance regimes in the United States
David L. Nicholls, Damon Vaughan, Dana Mitchell, Han-Sup Han, Mathew F. Smidt, John Sessions. 2022. Forest Bio-Hubs to Enhance Forest Health While Supporting the Emerging Bioeconomy—A Comparison between Three U.S. Regions
Sonja Kolstoe, Jeffrey D. Kline, Luanne Lohr. 2022. Economic approaches for managing migratory bird habitat across multi-owner landscapes
Trudy Ann Cameron, Sonja Kolstoe. 2022. Using auxiliary population samples for sample-selection correction in models based on crowd-sourced volunteered geographic information
Sylvia Kantor, Geoffrey Donovan, Demetrios Gatziolis, Jeroen Douwes. 2022. 50 shades of green: Exposure to plant diversity protects against human immune system diseases
Tamara Laninga, Kate Galambos, Eric M. White. 2022. Implementing principles of sustainable recreation: A case study of the Entiat Ranger District
Emily Platt, Susan Charnley, John D. Bailey, Lori A. Cramer. 2022. Adaptive governance in fire-prone landscapes
Sonja Kolstoe, Brian Vander Naald, Alison Cohan. 2022. A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media
Geoffrey Donovan, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Abigail Kaminski. 2022. The natural environment and social cohesion: Tree planting is associated with increased voter turnout in Portland, Oregon
Dale Blahna, Steve Selin, Wade Morse, Lee K. Cerveny. 2022. Implementing the Great American Outdoors Act in the era of sustainable recreation: Time for a mission 2030?
Michael Ulyshen, Jian Duan, Leah Bauer, Ivich Fraser. 2010. Suitability and Accessibility of Immature Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Stages to Tetrastichus planipennisi (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae).
Monika Derrien, Christopher Zuidema, Sarah Jovan, Amanda Bidwell, Weston Brinkley, Paulina López, Roseann Barnhill, Dale Blahna. 2020. Toward environmental justice in civic science: Youth performance and experience measuring air pollution using moss as a bio-indicator in industrial-adjacent neighborhoods
Matt C. Reeves, Brice Hanberry, Hailey Wilmer, Nicole E. Kaplan, William K. Lauenroth. 2021. An assessment of production trends on the Great Plains from 1984 to 2017
Ian E. Munanura, Jeffrey D. Kline. 2022. Residents’ support for tourism: The role of tourism impact attitudes, forest value orientations, and quality of life in Oregon, United States
Monika Derrien, Toby Bloom, Stacy Duke. 2022. Local partnerships for health on national forests
Lee K. Cerveny, Monika Derrien, Anna B. Miller, Caleb Meyer. 2021. Partnership and community engagement models for stewarding national scenic trails: A social-ecological systems perspective
Lee K. Cerveny, R.J. McLain, D. Banis, A. Todd. 2022. The use of socio-spatial data for sustainable roads planning: a national forest case study
Michelle Kondo, Christopher Zuidema, Hector A. Moran, Sarah Jovan, Monika Derrien, Weston Brinkley, Anneclaire J. De Roos, Loni Philip. Tabb. 2022. Spatial predictors of heavy metal concentrations in epiphytic moss samples in Seattle, WA
Paul F. Hessburg, Susan Charnley, Andrew Gray, Thomas Spies, David W. Peterson, Rebecca Flitcroft, Kendra Wendel, Jessica Halofsky, Eric M. White, John Marshall. 2021. Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests

Last updated February 20, 2024