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Community Planning & Development

NW Center for Livable Communities

Seattle's Chinatown/International District: Transnational communities, local identities, and the making of place

Urban Community Gardens: Place Making for Healthy, Active and Sustainable


Ecology & Environment

BiocomplexityI: Modeling the Interactions Among Urban Development, Land Cover Change, and Bird Diversity

BiocomplexityII. Urban Landscape Patterns: Complex Dynamics and Emergent Properties.

Development of an Integrated Urban Ecological Simulation Model for the Puget Sound: Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model (PRISM)

Dynamics of an Invasive Non-Native Species and its Biological, Physical, and Human Impacts:  Spartina Alterniflora on the Pacific Coast


Impervious Surfaces Classification NOAA, Department of Ecology, Space Imaging Integrated Framework: Urbanization, Human Health and Nearshore Interactions

Land Cover Change Model for Central Puget Sound

Landscape Benchmarks Project

NSF IGERT in Urban Ecology

Pacific Northwest Center for Ocean and Human Health

Transportation Impervious Surfaces WSDOT, 2005

Earth Sciences

Geology of the City of Seattle/Seattle-Area Geologic Mapping Project


Landscape Self-organization by Ice Sheets

Peer Earthquake Performance Standards

Performance-Based Regulation: Implications for Regulatory Regimes

Environmental Policy & Regulation

Compliance Motivations:  Marine Facilities and Water Quality

High Point Flow and Water Quality Monitoring (Phase 1)

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance Project

NEPA EIS research and writing

Project on Ocean Governance

Project Re Regulatory Risk with UW School of Public Health & Carnegie Mellon University

Southern California Beach Valuation Project

Education

Computationally Enhanced Construction Kits: Integrating Tangible and Computational Media for Construction and Design

Course and Courseware Development for Internet-based Graduate Level Programs Leading to a Master's Degree, Phase I
 

Economic Geography

Geographies of Occupational Attainment


Housing

High Point HOPE VI Evaluation


Park Lake Homes HOPE VI Evaluation

University of Washington Yakima Valley Community Partnership

Land Use, Transportation & Urban Form

Auditing Communities for Walkability and Bikability

The Exposure of Minority and Poor Populations to Mobile Source Air Pollution

GIS Land Use Analysis Tool

Interaction and Participation in Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Modeling


An Internet Platform to Support Public Participation in Transportation Decision Making