(Portland, OR) April 17, 2000 – Earth Day is just around the corner – a perfect time to tell the public about the environmental impact that PSU students and faculty have in our community. Below are listings of current environmental programs at PSU, as well as faculty experts who work on a daily basis to improve the world in which we live.

Programs

• Graduate Certificate in Hydrology Program, College of Liberal Arts & Science (gives students advanced training in hydrology, including coursework in surface hydrology, hydrogeology and water quality, and leads to professional certification with the American Institute of Hydrology).
• Environmental Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (helps students develop the skills and the interdisciplinary understanding needed to deal with environmental issues).
• Environmental Biology Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Science (focuses on estimating rainfall and runoff from urban and large-scale watersheds; determining flow, temperature and water quality in rivers, reservoirs, lakes, estuaries; evaluating toxicity and chemistry of contaminated sediments and in solid-liquid separation techniques for water and wastewater).
• Energy Resources: Policy and Administration, College of Urban & Public Affairs (reviews the history, politics and institutions influencing current energy policy and Columbia River management issues in the Pacific Northwest, the extraordinary changes taking place in the realm of energy policy and the implications for the Northwest electric utility industry, its consumers, the economy and the environment).
• Watershed Management Professional Program, College of Urban & Public Affairs (brings the simple watershed concepts like land management and restoration and the everyday complexities underlying them into sharp focus for professionals engaged in watershed protection and management activities).
• Wetland, River and Watershed Professional Development Program, School of Extended Studies (Spring/Summer 2000)
• Botanical Field Studies, An Extended Studies Special Summer course
• Natural History of the Oregon Coast, Haystack Program
• Exploring Coastal Bird Life, Haystack Program
• Papermaking with Plants, Haystack Program
• Executive Seminar Program, College of Urban & Public Affairs (for senior managers in public, private, tribal and non-profit organizations, the program uses case studies of controversial natural resource issues as a focal point for leadership development). 
• Pacific Northwest Environmental Studies Program, Center for Science Education (an undergraduate curricular collaboration among five Pacific Northwest higher education institutions: Portland State University, Oregon Institute of Technology, Clatsop Community College, Lower Columbia College and Portland Community College, developed to address the need to prepare students to enter one of the region's principal growth industries: environmental technology).
• Sustainable Production, Business and Public Policy Seminar, College of Urban & Public Affairs (examines sustainable business practices and explores policy tools to achieve sustainability).
• Urban Ecosystems Project, Center for Science Education (brings leadership and support to projects that connect middle schools to other community organizations in the North Portland area with the goals of helping students learn academic skills while meeting diverse community needs). 
• Coastal Systems Interpretive Program, Center for Science Education (a partnership with the Marine Environmental Research and Training Station (MERTS); this new organization's goal is to stimulate interest in the natural and cultural resources of the Columbia Pacific region). 
• Children's Water Education Project, Center for Science Education (a "hands-on" community and school program for Oregon school children and teachers designed to increase citizen literacy about water resource issues by involving children in active learning).
• Forest Monitoring and Research, Center for Science Education (provides Pacific Northwest middle and high school science teachers with an authentic field-based experience in monitoring and managing ecosystems).
• Community Watershed Stewardship Program (a partnership between Portland State University and the City of Portland, Oregon's Bureau of Environmental Services, and numerous watershed advocacy organizations with the overall goals of promoting community awareness of the importance of watershed health).

PSU Environmental Experts
 Dean Atkinson, Chemistry
503-725-8117
Expertise includes atmospheric and environmental chemistry.

David R. Boone, Environmental Biology
503-725-3865
Expertise includes microbial ecology and physiology, and methane-producing bacteria.

Nancy Bowers, Environmental Science
503-725-8046
Expertise includes aquatic ecology and environmental degradation.

Teresa Bulman, Geography
503-725-3167
Expertise includes environmental degradation and water resources.

Scott Burns, Geology
503-725-3389
Expertise includes environmental geology and superfunds.

M. Carol Carter, Environmental Biology
503-725-8391
Expertise includes genotypes of target organisms to their environment, genetic analysis of wild populations of morel and matsutake mushrooms and the impact the mushroom and timber harvesting have on genetic diversity. 

Grace Dillon, Freshman Inquiry
503-725-3579
Expertise includes environmental literature.

David Ervin, Environmental Studies
503-725-3935
Expertise includes environmental economics, policy and management.

William Fish, Civil Engineering & Environmental Science
503-725-4278
Expertise includes the transport of contaminants in soil, surface water, sediment and ground water systems.

Linda George, Cntr. for Science Education
503-725-3861
Expertise includes air pollution and science education.

Janet Hamilton, Finance
503-725-3731
Expertise includes the economy of the environment.

Stanley Hillman, Organismal Biology
503-725-4710
Expertise includes ecology and bacteria.

William Hug, Education
503-725-4696
Expertise includes environmental and nature-study education.

Greg Jacob, English
503-725-3563
Expertise includes environmental literature.

David Johns, Political Science
503-725-3251
Expertise includes political movements surrounding the environment.

Aslam Khalil, Physics
503-725-8396
Expertise includes environmental effects of climate change. 

Roy Koch, Civil Engineering & Environmental Science
503-725-4204
Expertise includes the relationship of large-scale climate patterns to local and regional climate and hydrologic processes.

William Lang, History
503-725-8023
Expertise includes environmental history, the origins of Earth Day and Columbia River history.

Shu-Gang Li, Civil Engineering
503-725-5543
Expertise includes groundwater contamination.

Joseph Maser, Environmental Science
503-725-8042
Expertise includes wetland ecology and regulations.

Barry Messer, Urban Studies
503-725-5179
Expertise includes environmental policy, recycling and waste reduction.

Yangdon Pan, Environmental Science
503-725-4981
Expertise includes environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems based on algal species assemblages.

Richard Petersen, Environmental Biology
503-725-4241
Expertise includes oceanography and limnology, environmental factors regulating the primary productivity in the Willamette River and urban storm water runoff.

Joseph Poracsky, Geography
503-725-3158
Expertise includes urban development and natural resources.

James Pratt, Associate Vice Provost
503-725-3419
Expertise includes ecological information, environmental problem solving and the effects of pollutants on microbial communities.
Song Qian, Environmental Science
503-725-8190
Expertise includes analysis of water quality models, distribution of pesticides in small streams in the Willamette River Basin and mathematical models used for predicting coastal coho salmon populations in Oregon.

Tryqueq Steen, Environmental Biology
503-725-4203
Expertise includes bugs, ecology and environmental biology.

Mark Sytsma, Associate Professor, Environmental Biology
503-725-3833
Expertise includes nonindigenous plants and species and their impact. Oversees the Citizen Lake Watch Program in Oregon.

Robert Tinnin, Organismal Biology
503-725-4202
Expertise includes forest ecology.

Scott Wells, Civil Engineering
503-725-4276
Expertise includes environmental studies and wastewater.

Dilafruz Williams, Center for Academic Excellence
503-725-5642
Expertise includes environmental and ecological education.

Alan Yeakley, Environmental Science
503-725-8040
Expertise includes watershed hydrology and ecosystem ecology and wildland and urban watersheds.