Willamette Water 2100

This project is evaluating how climate change, population growth, and economic growth will alter the availability and the use of water in the Willamette River Basin on a decadal to centennial timescale.  The project seeks to create a transferable method of predicting where climate change will create water scarcities and where those scarcities will exert the strongest impacts on human society.

Central Oregon - Forests, People and Fire

This project focuses on improving our understanding of how biophysical systems, management actions, and socio-economic influences interact to affect sustainability in fire-prone landscapes under climate change. This work integrates social and ecological sciences to study a fire-prone landscape in central Oregon that includes private, state, federal, and tribal lands. We are developing a rich representation of social network influences on actro decision-making in this landscape, and coupling that with models of vegetation dynamics, fire, and habitat to identify policies and strategies for achieving landscape management goals.

Coupled Natural and Human Systems in the Southern Willamette Valley

This effort examines the interactions of climate change, land management policies and forest succession on fire hazard and ecosystem trajectories in the wildland-urban interface in two study areas located in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Envision Skagit County 2060

The Envision Skagit 2060 project seeks to develop and implement a broadly-supported, 50-year plan to protect the Skagit and Samish River watersheds' many environmental values, maintain highly productive natural resource industries, and accommodate population growth in livable, walkable, and economically vibrant communities.

Andrews Long Term Ecological Research Site

The focus of Envision Andrews is the management of Forested Ecosystems in the Willamette Valley, exploring carbon sequestration, biomass production, fish/riparian interactions, and rural residential development. It explores more conservation-oriented and development-oriented policy scenarios under current and modified climate conditions.

Bainbridge Island, Washington

Envision Bainbridge explores growth and development pattern alternatives and relationships to nearshore coastal habitat in the Puget Sound region. It is an example where both terrestrial and aquatic (marine) areas were considered in the analysis.

McKenzie/Willamette Confluence

Envision McKenzie examines growth and development alternatives and there impacts on economic production, a variety of measures of ecosystem health, and resource/built land tradesoffs at the confluence of the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers, a rapidly developing, ecologically rich area on the north side of Eugene, Oregon.

Puget Sound, Washington

Envision Puget Sound develops three alternative future scenarios for the Puget Sound Region, focusing on understanding impacts of three growth management strategies on land use/land cover change and nearshore ecosystem processes and services.