Faculty publications from the Environmental Studies Department at Gettysburg College.

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2024

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Climate, Food, and Humans Predict Communities of Mammals in the United States, Roland Kays, Matthew H. Snider, and Andrew M. Wilson

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Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Environments, Salma Monani

Dirtying’ Ecocinema Studies: A Decade of Reflection, Salma Monani and Stephen Rust

SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A Third Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United States, Hila Shamon, Roi Maor, Michael V. Cove, Roland Kays, and Andrew M. Wilson

A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park, Randall K. Wilson

2023

Chapter 7: Population Dynamics of the Soft-Shell Clam Mya arenaria, John A. Commito

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Vulnerability of Elevation-Restricted Endemic Birds of the Cordillera de Talamanca (Costa Rica and Panama) to Climate Change, Zhen Lui, Luis Sandoval, Lauren B. Sherman, and Andrew M. Wilson

Morphometric Analysis of Ice Scour Lakes in Iceland: A Proxy for Ice Sheet Dynamics, Halley M. Mastro, Sarah M. Principato, Ilana B. Sobel, Ívar O. Benediktsson, and Nína Aradóttir

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Mapping for Accountability: Decolonizing Land Acknowledgment Initiatives, Salma Monani and Sarah E. Gilsoul

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Care and the Funny Business of Unsettling Land Acknowledgements, Salma Monani, David S. Walsh, and Janelle Wertzberger

Public Landscapes, Randall K. Wilson and Yolonda Youngs

2022

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North American Breeding Bird Survey Underestimates Regional Bird Richness Compared to Breeding Bird Atlases, Roi Ankori-Karlinsky, Michael Kalyuzhny, Katherine F. Barnes, Andrew M. Wilson, Curtis Flather, Rosalind Renfrew, Joan Walsh, Edna Guk, and Ronen Kadmon

Real Talk About OER: The JCCTL OER Grantee Experience (so far!), Mary Elmquist, Natasha J. Gownaris, Marta Maras, Christopher C. Oechler, and Alecea Ritter Standlee

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SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A Second Coordinated National Camera Trap Survey of the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Roland Kays, Michael V. Cove, Jose Diaz, Kimberly Todd, Claire Bresnan, Matt Snider, Thomas E. Lee Jr., Jonathan G. Jasper, Brianna Douglas, Anthony P. Crupi, Katherine C. B. Weiss, Helen Rowe, Tiffany Sprague, Jan Schipper, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Jean E. Fantle-Lepczyk, Jon Davenport, Marketa Zimova, Zach Farris, Jacque Williamson, M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid, Drew Rezendes, Sean M. King, Petros Chrysafis, Alex J. Jensen, David S. Jachowski, Katherine C. King, Daniel J. Herrera, Sophie Moore, Marius van der Merwe, Jason V. Lombardi, Maksim Sergeyev, Michael E. Tewes, Robert V. Horan III, Michael S. Rentz, Ace Driver, La Roy S. E. Brandt, Christopher Nagy, Peter Alexander, Sean P. Maher, Andrea K. Darracq, Evan G. Barr, George Hess, Stephen L. Webb, Mike D. Proctor, John P. Vanek, Diana J. R. Lafferty, Tru Hubbard, Jaime E. Jiménez, Craig McCain, and Andrew M. Wilson

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Streamlined Subglacial Bedform Sensitivity to Bed Characteristics Across the Deglaciated Northern Hemisphere, Marion A. McKenzie, Lauren M. Simkins, Sarah M. Principato, and Santiago Munevar Garcia

Decolonial Possibilities in an Introductory Environmental Humanities Classroom, Salma Monani

Ecocinema Studies’ Multiverse: Hollywood, Indigenous Cinema, and More, Salma Monani

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2, Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt

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A Method for Estimating Songbird Abundance with Drones, Andrew M. Wilson, Darren Glass, Marisa A. Immordino, Precious S. Ozoh, Lauren Sherman, and McKenzie D. Somers

2021

Indigenous Media: Dialogic Resistance to Climate Disruption, Salma Monani, Reneta Ryan Burchfield, Danika Medak-Saltzman, and William Lempert

2020

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Examining the Impact of Climate Change Film as an Educational Tool, Brittany Bondi, Salma Monani, Sarah M. Principato, and Christopher P. Barlett

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Sex Ratio is Variable and Increasingly Male Biased at Two Colonies of Magellanic Penguins, Natasha J. Gownaris, Pablo García Borboroglu, and P. Dee Boersma

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Effects of Climate and Land-Use Changes on Fish Catches Across Lakes at a Global Scale, Yu-Chun Kao, Mark W. Rogers, David B. Bunnell, Ian G. Cowx, Song S. Qian, Orlane Anneville, T. Douglas Beard Jr., Alexander Brinker, J. Robert Britton, René Chura-Cruz, Natasha J. Gownaris, James R. Jackson, Külli Kangur, Jeppe Kolding, Anatol A. Lukin, Abigail J. Lynch, Norman Mercado-Silva, Rodrigo Moncayo-Estrada, Friday J. Njaya, Ilia Ostrovsky, Lars G. Rudstam, Alfred L.E. Sandström, Yuichi Sato, Humberto Siguayro-Mamani, Andy Thorpe, Paul A.M. van Zwieten, Pietro Volta, Yuyu Wang, András Weiperth, Olaf L.F. Weyl, and Joelle D. Young

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How Wendy Red Star Decolonizes the Museum with Humor and Play, Salma Monani and Nicole Seymour

Local Perceptions of Change in Climate and Agroecosystems in the Indian Himalayas: A Case Study of the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary (KWS) Landscape, India, Monica V. Ogra, Upma Manral, Rutherford V. Platt, Ruchi Badola, and Lincoln M. Butcher

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Climate Change Perceptions, Data, and Adaptation in the Garhwal Himalayas of India, Rutherford V. Platt, Monica V. Ogra, Natalie A. Kisak, Upma Manral, and Ruchi Badola

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Quantitative Analyses of Cirques on the Faroe Islands: Evidence for Time Transgressive Glacier Occupation, Keyleigh N. Wallick and Sarah M. Principato

America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, Second Edition, Randall K. Wilson

2019

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Applying Science to Pressing Conservation Needs for Penguins, P. D. Boersma, P. García Borboroglu, Natasha J. Gownaris, C. A. Bost, A. Chiaradia, S. Ellis, T. Schneider, P. J. Seddon, A. Simeone, P. N. Trathan, L. J. Waller, and B. Wienecke

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After the Fall: Legacy Effects of Biogenic Structure on Wind-Generated Ecosystem Processes Following Mussel Bed Collapse, John A. Commito, Brittany R. Jones, Mitchell A. Jones, Sondra E. Winders, and Serena Como

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Sex‐biased Survival Contributes to Population Decline in a Long‐Lived Seabird, the Magellanic Penguin, Natasha J. Gownaris and P. D. Boersma

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Gaps in Protection of Important Ocean Areas: A Spatial Meta-Analysis of Ten Global Mapping Initiatives, Natasha J. Gownaris, Christine M. Santora, John B. Davis, and Ellen K. Pikitch

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The Traits that Predict the Magnitude and Spatial Scale of Forest Bird Responses to Urbanization Intensity, Grant D. Paton, Alexandra V. Shoffner, Andrew M. Wilson, and Sara A. Gagné

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Comparison of Periglacial Block Fields and Talus Slopes in South-Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland, Ilana B. Sobel, Abigail F. Rec, and Sarah M. Principato

2018

What Happens After Mussels Die? Biogenic Legacy Effects on Community Structure and Ecosystem Processes, John A. Commito, Brittany R. Jones, Mitchell A. Jones, Sondra E. Winders, and Serena Como

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Migrant Farmworkers' Perceptions of Pesticide Risk Exposure in Adams County, Pennsylvania: A Cultural Risk Assessment, Micaela S. G. Edelson, Salma Monani, and Rutherford V. Platt

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The Melting ‘Crown of the Continent’: Visual History of Glacier National Park, Dori L. Gorczyca, Salma Monani, and Sarah M. Principato

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Spatial Analysis of Cirques from Three Regions of Iceland: Implications for Cirque Formation and Palaeoclimate, Heather A. Ipsen, Sarah M. Principato, Rachael E. Grube, and Jessica F. Lee

Loving Glacier National Park Online: Climate Change Communication and Virtual Place Attachment, Salma Monani, Sarah M. Principato, Dori L. Gorczyca, and Elizabeth A. Cooper

Tracking the Human–Wildlife–Conservation Nexus Across the Human–Animal Studies (HAS) Landscape, Monica V. Ogra and Julie Urbanik

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Estimating the Creation and Removal Date of Fracking Ponds Using Trend Analysis of Landsat Imagery, Rutherford V. Platt, David Manthos, and John Amos

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Editorial, Linda Haverty Rugg and Salma Monani

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The Relative Effects of Forest Amount, Forest Configuration, and Urban Matrix Quality on Forest Breeding Birds, Alexandra V. Shoffner, Andrew M. Wilson, Wenwu Tang, and Sara A. Gagné

2017

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New Constraints on the Timing and Pattern of Deglaciation in the Húnaflói Bay Region of Northwest Iceland Using Cosmogenic 36CA Dating and Geomorphic Mapping, Amanda N. Houts, Joseph M. Licciardi, Sarah M. Principato, Susan H. Zimmerman, and Robert C. Finkel

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Geographic Variation of Cirques on Iceland: Factors Influencing Cirque Morphology, Heather A. Ipsen, Rachael E. Grube, Jessica F. Lee, and Sarah M. Principato

Science Fiction, Westerns, and the Vital Cosmo-ethics of The 6th World, Salma Monani

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The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces, Salma Monani

Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations From Earth to Cosmos, Salma Monani and Joni Adamson

Late Holocene Records of Changing Moisture Regime from Wetlands in Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada: Implications for Wetland Conservation and Restoration, Ian Spooner, Sarah M. Principato, Nicholas Hill, Hilary White, Dewey Dunnington, Tom Neily, and Susann Stolze

Stewardship Responsibility of Pennsylvania Public and Private Lands for Songbird Conservation, Glenn E. Stauffer, David A. W. Miller, Andrew M. Wilson, Margaret C. Brittingham, and Daniel W. Brauning

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Novel Bio-Logging Tool for Studying Fine-Scale Behaviors of Marine Turtles in Response to Sound, Reny B. Tyson, Wendy Dow Piniak, Camila Domit, David Mann, Michael Hall, Douglas P. Nowacek, and Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes

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The Role of Adult Fiddler Crab Environmental Acoustic Cues and Chemical Cues in Stimulating Molting of Field-Caught Megalopae, Emily E. Waddell, Wendy Dow Piniak, Kathleen A. Reinsel, and James M. Welch

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The Feasibility of Counting Songbirds Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Andrew M. Wilson, Janine M. Barr, and Megan E. Zagorski

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Spatial Models to Account for Variation in Observer Effort in Bird Atlases, Andrew M. Wilson, Daniel W. Brauning, Caitlin Carey, and Robert S. Mulvihill

2016

Separation Anxiety: Mussels Self-Organize into Similar Power-Law Clusters Regardless of Predation Threat Cues, John A. Commito, Natasha J. Gownaris, Danielle E. Haulsee, Sara E. Coleman, and Brian F. Beal

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Feeling and Healing Eco-social Catastrophe: The "Horrific" Slipstream of Danis Goulet's Wakening, Salma Monani

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In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence, Salma Monani

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Hearing in the Juvenile Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas): A Comparison of Underwater and Aerial Hearing Using Auditory Evoked Potentials, Wendy Dow Piniak, David A. Mann, Craig A. Harms, T. Todd Jones, and Scott A. Eckert

Conservation-Induced Resettlement as a Driver of Land Cover Change in India: An Object-Based Trend Analysis, Rutherford V. Platt, Monica V. Ogra, Ruchi Badola, and Syed Ainul Hussain

Using GIS and Streamlined Landforms to Interpret Palaeo-Ice Flow in Northern Iceland, Sarah M. Principato, Alexis N. Moyer, Alyson G. Hampsch, and Heather A. Ipsen

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The Feasibility of Using Drones to Count Songbirds, Andrew M. Wilson, Janine M. Barr, and Megan E. Zagorski

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Commentary: Are National Parks Still Relevant?, Randall K. Wilson

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How the Federal Government Went From Realtor to Landlord in the American West, Randall K. Wilson

2015

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Healthy Options: A Community-Based Program to Address Food Insecurity, Amy B. Dailey, Audrey Hess, Camille Horton, Emily Constantian, Salma Monani, Betsy Wargo, Kim Davidson, and Kathy Gaskin

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Seismic Surveys and Marine Turtles: An Underestimated Global Threat?, Sarah E. Nelms, Wendy Dow Piniak, Caroline R. Weir, and Brendan J. Godley

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Gender and Climate Change in the Indian Himalayas: Global Threats, Local Vulnerabilities, and Livelihood Diversification at the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Monica V. Ogra and Ruchi Badola

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Eco-nostalgia in Popular Turkish Cinema, Ekin Gündüz Özdemirci and Salma Monani

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Ecomedia: Key Issues, Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt

Regional Variability in Extinction Thresholds for Forest Birds in the North-Eastern United States: An Examination of Potential Drivers Using Long-Term Breeding Bird Atlas Datasets, Ynzte van der Hoek, Andrew M. Wilson, Rosalind Renfrew, Joan Walsh, Paul G. Rodewald, Jennifer Baldy, and Lisa L. Manne

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Online Mapping Tools for Geolocating Amish Settlements, Andrew M. Wilson, Brian J.B. Lonabocker, and Megan E. Zagorski

Pennsylvania's Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Benefits Ring-Necked Pheasants but Not Enough to Reverse Declines, Andrew M. Wilson, Sarah E. Pabian, Scott R. Klinger, and Margaret C. Brittingham

2014

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Ecodevelopment, Gender, and Empowerment: Perspectives from India’s Protected Area Communities, Ruchi Badola, Monica V. Ogra, and Shivani C. Barthwal

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Recruitment Facilitation and Spatial Pattern Formation in Soft-Bottom Mussel Beds, John A. Commito, Ann E. Commito, Rutherford V. Platt, Benjamin M. Grupe, Wendy Dow Piniak, Natasha J. Gownaris, Kyle A. Reeves, and Allison M. Vissichelli

'Kissed by Lightning' and Indigenous Cinema’s Natureculture Continuum, Salma Monani

Wildfire Hazard in the Home Ignition Zone: An Object-Oriented Analysis Integrating LiDAR and VHR Satellite Imagery, Rutherford V. Platt

GIS Analysis of Cirques on Vestfirðir, Northwest Iceland: Implications for Palaeoclimate, Sarah M. Principato and Jessica F. Lee

America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, Randall K. Wilson

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Growing Pains or Opportunities? A Customer Survey of Three Farmers' Markets in One Rural Community, Randall K. Wilson, Paul A. Di Salvo, Claire E. Quinn, Suzanne T. Englot, and Julia P. Mitchell

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Sex, Light, and Sound: Location and Combination of Multiple Attractants Affect Probability of Cane Toad (Rhinella marina) Capture, Alyse Yeager, John A. Commito, Andrew M. Wilson, Deborah Bower, and Lin Schwarzkopf

2013

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Environmental Film Festivals: Beginning Explorations at the Intersections of Film Festival Studies and Ecocritical Studies, Salma Monani

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Indigenous Film Festivals as Eco-Testimonial Encounter: The 2011 Native Film + Video Festival, Salma Monani

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ImagineNATIVE 2012: Ecocinema and The Indigenous Film Festival, Salma Monani and Miranda Brady

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Introduction: Cuts to Dissolves – Defining and Situating Ecocinema Studies, Salma Monani and Stephen Rust

Multi-Temporal Analysis Reveals that Predictors of Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation Change During Outbreak Cycles, Jonathan A. Walter and Rutherford V. Platt

2012

Wind Power! Marketing Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands and the Struggle for Just Sustainability, Miranda J. Brandy and Salma Monani

Interpreting Species Accounts, Daniel W. Brauning and Andrew M. Wilson

Gender and Community-Oriented Wildlife Conservations: Views from Project Supervisors in India, Monica V. Ogra

Gender Mainstreaming in Community-Oriented Wildlife Conservation: Experiences from Nongovernmental Conservation Organizations in India, Monica V. Ogra

Mapping Settlements in the Wildland Urban Interface: A Decision Tree Approach, Rutherford V. Platt

Analytical Methods, Andrew M. Wilson

Habitats and Habitat Change, Andrew M. Wilson, Joseph Bishop, and Margaret Brittingham

Coverage and Results, Andrew M. Wilson and Daniel W. Brauning

Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania, Andrew M. Wilson, Daniel W. Brauning, and Robert S. Mulvihill

Initial Response of Bird Populations to Conservation Grasslands in Southern Pennsylvania, Andrew M. Wilson and Margaret Brittingham

The Geography of Pennsylvania, Andrew M. Wilson and Bernd J. Haupt

2011

Physical Ecosystem Engineers and the Functioning of Estuaries and Coasts, J. L. Gutierrez, C. G. Jones, J. E. Byers, K. K. Arkema, K. Berkenbusch, John A. Commito, C. M. Duarte, S. D. Hacker, J. G. Lambrinos, I. E. Hendriks, P. J. Hogarth, M. G. Palomo, and C. Wild

Modeling Wildfire Potential in Residential Parcels: A Case Study of the North-Central Colorado Front Range, Rutherford V. Platt, Tania Schoennagel, Thomas T. Veblen, and Rosemary L. Sherriff

2010

The Wildland-Urban Interface: Evaluating the Definition Effect, Rutherford V. Platt

Looking East for the New West: Characterizing Rural Change in Adams County, Pennsylvania, Randall K. Wilson, Alexandra Bigler, and Thomas W. Crawford

2009

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An Interview with Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability and Ecopedagogy, Salma Monani