How do people make decisions? How do those decisions affect human and natural systems?I am an urban ecologist exploring how people, values, life stages, institutions, and decision-making interact to produce observed patterns in multiple domains: land cover and plant communities, environmental equity and inequity, energy use, infrastructure, and environmental restoration.Expertise: Pacific Northwest ecosystems and floras in upland, riparian, and wetland habitats; urban ecology, environmental restoration; environmental justice; NEPA; invasive species; residential developer decisions; homeowner values and decision-making; lawns & landscaping Quantitative Methods: sample design; univariate and multivariate statistics; R; GIS; vegetation plots and transects; complex survey analysis Qualitative Methods: researcher ethics; semi-structured interviews; questionnaires; textual and visual analysis