The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society

Starlings in the Pacific Northwest

Pacific Northwest Fungi

Epiphytic macrolichen communities were compared among forest stand types in the Blue River watershed of western Oregon. Stand types were defined by stand structure, according to age classes of the younger tree cohort and remnant tree retention. Remnant trees were those in an older cohort that remained following a stand disturbance that initiated tree regeneration, such as a timber harvest or na...

Pacific Northwest Fungi

Podosphaera (Sphaerotheca) euphorbiae on Euphorbia epithymoides (= E. polychroma, cushion spurge) is reported for the first time in North America. Neoerysiphe (Erysiphe) galeopsidis on Lamium amplexicaule (henbit), Blumeria (Erysiphe) graminis on Festuca idahoenis (Idaho fescue), Taphrina johansonii on Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen), and Taphrina occidentalis on Alnus rubra (red alder) a...

Phonetic Fieldwork in the Pacific Northwest

This paper focuses on how to design and conduct phonetic experiments with speakers of Pacific Northwest languages of North America, focusing on two main topics: 1) challenges related to eliciting data and 2) ethical considerations.

Slab‐plume interaction beneath the Pacific Northwest

[1] The Pacific Northwest has undergone complex plate reorganization and intense tectono‐volcanic activity to the east during the Cenozoic (last 65 Ma). Here we show new high‐resolution tomographic images obtained using shear and compressional data from the ongoing USArray deployment that demonstrate first that there is a continuous, whole‐ mantle plume beneath the Yellowstone Snake River Plain...