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

Storymap

State of the Coast Poster

Annotated Bibliography

Fact sheets for ODFW on Virginia Opossum and Northern Crayfish

Trever Gelling, Ruth Henderson

Fact Sheets

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

Crested Mosquito Fern, Azolla cristata

Fairy Moss, Mosquito Fern, Azolla caroliniana