Student Invasive Species Management Projects
/Portland State University students in Dr. Catherine de Rivera’s Ecology & Management of Bioinvasions class created invasive species management projects for community partners: OISC members and other invasive species professionals. The projects focused on invasive species that threaten Oregon’s infrastructure, economy, natural resources, and food & water systems, and those who can impact outdoor recreation opportunities and tourism. Students worked with their community partners to create management products that would be useful in addressing an active invasive species issue.
Below is a list of the 2023 projects that were completed (click the links to learn more about each project):
Pamphlets for the Center for Lakes & Reservoirs
Protect Oregon's Waterways Against AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES Javier Gonzalez
Creeping Invaders Pamphlet Michelle Hesek
Don’t Move a Mussel Krista Jovag
New Zealand Mudsnail Juliana Vucurevic
Offshore Wind and Bio-Invasions
Lydia Lyall, Trajan Bitner, Izzy Mize, Caroline Kovacs, Dawson Davis
Fact sheets for ODFW on Virginia Opossum and Northern Crayfish
Trever Gelling, Ruth Henderson
Species Impacts on PNW Coastal Indigenous First Foods, for Oregon Invasive Species Council (OISC)
Jasmine Beach, Zosia Lynch, Caitlin Sharpe, Rowan Irene and Macayla Mesaros
First Foods Write up & Species Profiles for OISC Info Hub
Investigation of Broadleaf Perennial Herbicide Fusilade on Velvet Grass Holcus lanatus
Haley Cohn, Patrick Gresh, Ariel Myton
Velvet Grass Report for Nestucca Bay NWR
Horizon Scan Species Profiles
Gilli Williford, Ella Honmeyer, Chloe Maharg, Ian Taylor, Sean Chadduck
Common Salvinia, Salvinia minima
Indian Swampweed, Hygrophila polysperma
Wingleaf primrose-willow, Ludwigia decurrens