This collection showcases scholarly and creative work by faculty members of the College of the Sciences at Central Washington University.
Submissions from 2023
Ecological site distribution of sand fly species of Mokolo, an endemic focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in northern Cameroon, Tateng Ngouateu Aimé, Ngouateu Omer Bébé, Khan Payne Vincent, Marcus Maurer, Esther von Stebut, Krüger Andreas, and Blaise Dondji
Antimicrobial Isoflavans and Other Metabolites of Dalea jamesii, Gil Belofsky, Hyojin Ahn, Maxwell Zapata, Dominique Wilcox, Christine E. Salomon, and P. Clint Spiegel
Differential Strain-Dependent Ovarian and Metabolic Responses in a Mouse Model of PCOS, April K. Binder, Danielle L. Peecher, Amanda J. Qvigstad, Silvia D. Gutierrez, Jennifer Magaña, David B. Banks, and Kenneth S. Korach
We the People. Who? The face of future American politics is shaped by perceived foreignness of candidates of color, Patrizia Chirco and Tonya M. Buchanan
A stochastic approach to the characterization of the seismic sources: a potential method for the assessment of sources of historical and paleo tsunami, Rodrigo Cifuentes-Lobos, Ignacia Caliso, Breanyn T. MacInnes, Marcos Moreno, Jorge Quezada, Javiera San Martín, Matías Fernández-Palma, and Cristian Saavedra
Microtubule polarity flaws as a treatable driver of neurodegeneration, Bridie D. Eckel, Roy Cruz Jr., Erin M. Craig, and Peter W. Baas
Economic Representative Scenarios for Variable Annuity Dynamic Hedging of GMMB and GMDB, Emmanuel Hamel, Yvonne C.M. Chueh, and Donald Davendra
Protracted eclogite-facies metamorphism of the Dulan area, North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure terrane: Insights on zircon growth during continental subduction and collision, David Hernández-Uribe, Chris G. Mattinson, Megan E. Regel, Jianxin Zhang, Katie A. Stubbs, and Andrew R. C. Kylander-Clark
New Far-Infrared Laser Frequencies Generated by CH3CN, CD3CN, 13CH3I, CD3I, and 13CD3I, Michael Jackson
Terrane and core complex architecture of the Otago Schist in the Dunstan and Cairnmuir Mountains, New Zealand, from U-Pb and (U-Th)/He zircon dating, Nick Mortimer, Jeffrey Lee, and Daniel F. Stockli
Critical workforce skills for bachelor-level geoscientists: An analysis of geoscience job advertisements, Gregory W. Shafer, K. Viskupic, and Anne E. Egger
Submissions from 2022
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Intrasexual Competition Scale, Graham Albert, George B. Richardson, Steven Arnocky, Brian M. Bird, Maryanne Fisher, Jessica K. Hlay, Timothy S. McHale, and Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon
Dimension of images of large level sets, Gavin Armstrong and Anthony O'Farrell
Nitrogen fixation rates in forested mountain streams: Are sediment microbes more important than previously thought?, Erica A. H. Bakker, Carmella Vizza, Clay Arango, and Sarah S. Roley
Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Faculty Experiences Can Prepare Us for Future System-Wide Disruption, Kathryn M. Bateman, Ellen Altermatt, Anne E. Egger, Ellen Iverson, Cathryn Manduca, Eric M. Riggs, Kristen St. John, and Thomas F. Shipley
Preliminary comparisons of learning across four lemur genera at the Duke Lemur Center, Carly H. Batist and Jessica A. Mayhew
Academic women and their children: Parenting during COVID-19 and the impact on scholarly productivity, Sara Bender, Kristina S. Brown, Deanna L. Hensley Kasitz, and Olga Vega
Contra-thermodynamic halolactonization of lactam-tethered 5-aryl-4(E)-pentenoic acids for the flexible and stereocontrolled synthesis of fused lactam-halolactones, Timothy K. Beng, Claire Borg, and Morgan J. Rodriguez
Stereocontrolled access to δ-lactone-fused-γ-lactams bearing angular benzylic quaternary stereocenters, Timothy K. Beng, Morgan J. Rodriguez, and Claire Borg
Serendipitous synthesis of 2-alkenyl- and 2-aryl-4-thiazolidinones using dithiodiglycolic anhydride, Timothy K. Beng, McKenna Sax, and Claire Borg
Increased Caribbean seismicity and volcanism during minima in Earth's rotation rate: Search for a physical mechanism and a 2030 forecast, Roger Bilham, Walter Szeliga, David Mencin, and Rebecca Bendick
Complete examples of encryption systems broken by Elizebeth Smith Friedman: 1923–1934, Stuart Boersma
Elizebeth Smith Friedman and one example of a prohibition era encryption system, Stuart Boersma
Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s recovery of the wiring of two rotors from an enigma D machine, Stuart Boersma
An Analysis of Amazon Air's Network in the United States, John T. Bowen Jr.
Electron diffraction of 1,4-dichlorobenzene embedded in superfluid helium droplets, Stephen D. Bradford, Yingbin Ge, Jie Zhang, Marisol Trejo, Dale Tronrud, and Wei Kong
“Part of Something Larger than Myself”: Lessons Learned From a Multidisciplinary, Multicultural, and Multilingual International Research Team of Academic Women, Kristina S. Brown, Tricia M. Farwell, Sara Bender, Alpha A. Martinez-Suarez, Stefani Boutelier, Agata A. Lambrechts, Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała, and Pipiet Larasatie
I'll have what she's having: (Social) Perceptions of default options and implications for marketing and decision making., Tonya M. Buchanan, Joshua Buchanan, Dené Diedericks, and Logan Davis
Comparison of percutaneous vs oral infection of hamsters with the hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum: Parasite development, pathology and primary immune response, Richard D. Bungiro, Lisa M. Harrison, Blaise Dondji, and Michael Cappello
Global Patterns and Controls of Nutrient Immobilization on Decomposing Cellulose in Riverine Ecosystems, David M. Costello, Scott D. Tiegs, and Clay P. Arango
That's How the Kangaroo Bounces: A Biological Case Study to Teach Energy Concepts, Erin M. Craig, Sydney Galbreath, Timothy Sorey, and Derek Ricketson
1980s WARC (Washington Archaeological Research Center): An Experiment in Communitarianism for Pacific Northwest Archaeology--And it did WARC (Work), Dale R. Croes and Steven Hackenberger
Investigating the impact of eliciting and being responsive to students' initial ideas on productive disciplinary engagement across a unit, Ron Gray, Allyson Rogan-Klyve, and Martha M. Canipe
A dynamic saline groundwater system mapped beneath an Antarctic ice stream, Chlooe D. Gustafson, Kerry Key, Matthew R. Siegfried, J. Paul Winberry, Helen A. Fricker, Ryan A. Venturelli, and Alexander B. Michaud
Visualizing Solutions of the One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation Using a Finite Difference Method, Arthur M. Halpern, Yingbin Ge, and Eric D. Glendening
Sea Level Rise Estimation on the Pacific Coast from Southern California to Vancouver Island, Xiaoxing He, Jean-Philippe Montillet, Rui Fernandes, Timothy I. Melbourne, Weiping Jiang, and Zhengkai Huang
School-based racial microaggressions and depression among Indigenous young adults, Olivia G. Holter, Anisa N. Goforth, Kristen Pyke-Pierce, Lisa N. Aguilar, and Annie Belcourt
Warming and thawing in the Mt. Everest region: A review of climate and environmental changes, Shichang Kang, Qianggong Zhang, Yulan Zhang, Wanqin Guo, Zhenming Ji, Miaogen Shen, Shijin Wang, Xin Wang, Lekhendra Tripathee, Yongqin Liu, Tanguang Gao, Guobao Xu, Yufang Gao, Susan Kaspari, Xi Luo, and Paul Mayewski
Black carbon and organic carbon dataset over the Third Pole, Shichang Kang, Yulan Zhang, Pengfei Chen, Junming Guo, Qianggong Zhang, Zhiyuan Cong, Susan Kaspari, Lekhendra Tripathee, Tanguang Gao, Hewen Niu, Xinyue Zhong, Xintong Chen, Zhaofu Hu, Xiaofei Li, Yang Li, Bigyan Neupane, Fangping Yan, Dipesh Rupakheti, Chaman Gul, Wei Zhang, Guangming Wu, Ling Yang, Zhaoqing Wang, and Chaoliu Li
A comparison of the university mathematics learning environment with its high school equivalent, Peter Klosterman and Stephen Stein
Shear Wave Splitting Across Antarctica: Implications for Upper Mantle Seismic Anisotropy, Erica M. Lucas, Andrew A. Nyblade, Natalie J. Accardo, Andrew J. Lloyd, Douglas A. Wiens, Richard C. Aster, Terry J. Wilson, Ian W. Dalziel, Graham W. Stuart, John Paul O'Donnell, J. Paul Winberry, and Audrey D. Huerta
The giant 1960 tsunami in the context of a 6000-year record of paleotsunamis and coastal evolution in south-central Chile, Pedro I. Matos-Llavona, Lisa L. Ely, Breanyn T. MacInnes, Tina Dura, Marco A. Cisternas, Joanne Bourgeois, David Bruce, Jessica DePaolis, Alexander Dolcimascolo, Benjamin P. Horton, Daniel Melnick, Alan R. Nelson, Walter Szeliga, and Robert L. Wesson
Student Perceptions of Armed Campuses: University Major, Constitutional Rights, and Campus Carry Laws, Krystal E. Noga-Styron and Sarah Britto
Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to +2 °C (SWAIS 2C), Molly O. Patterson, Richard H. Levy, Denise K. Kulhanek, Tina van de Flierdt, Huw Horgan, Gavin B. Dunbar, Timothy R. Naish, Jeanine Ash, Alex Pyne, Darcy Mandeno, and J. Paul Winberry
What can we see from the road? Applications of a cumulative viewshed analysis on a US state highway network, Sterling D. Quinn
Inclusion of Latino-oriented local businesses in popular online maps, Sterling D. Quinn and Daphne Condon
Design of broadband Helmholtz resonator arrays using the radiation impedance method, Vidhya Rajendran, Andy Piacsek, and Tomás Méndez Echenagucia
Analysis of Skills Sought by Employers of Bachelors-Level Geoscientists, Gregory Shafer, Karen Viskuptic, and Anne E. Egger
Historical tsunami observability for Izu–Bonin–Mariana sources, Walter Szeliga, Rachelle Reisinger, and Breanyn T. MacInnes
Computing and Estimating Distortion Risk Measures: How to Handle Analytically Intractable Cases?, Sahadeb Upretee and Vytaras Brazauskas
Exhumation of deeply subducted continental crust along contrasting pathways: Examples from the North Qaidam ultrahigh pressure metamorphic terrane, North Tibet, Guisheng Zhou, Jianxin Zhang, Chris G. Mattinson, Zenglong Lu, Xiaohong Mao, and Xia Teng
Submissions from 2021
Drought-induced biomass burning as a source of black carbon to the central Himalaya since 1781 CE as reconstructed from the Dasuopu ice core, Joel D. Barker, Susan Kaspari, Paulo Gabrielli, Anna Wegner, Emilie Beaudon, M. Roxana Sierra-Hernández, and Lonnie Thompson
Doctoral-level CES Students’ Lived Experiences Pursuing Courses in an Online Learning Environment, Sara Bender and Jennifer Werries
Climate education in secondary science: comparison of model-based and non-model-based investigations of Earth’s climate, Devarati Bhattacharya, Kim Carroll Steward, and Cory T. Forbes
Academic Womxn and Their Partners: Managing Scholarly Expectations During the Coronavirus Pandemic With the Support of Intimate Relationships in Quarantine, Kristina S. Brown, Sara Bender, Olga Vega, and Deanna L. Hensley Kasitz
Pregnant women’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed method exploration of prenatal depression, Amy Claridge, Tishra Beeson, and Amie Wojtyna
A case study using 2019 pre-monsoon snow and stream chemistry in the Khumbu region, Nepal, Heather M. Clifford, Mariusz Potocki, Inka Koch, Tenzing Sherpa, Mike Handley, Elena Korotkikh, Douglas Introne, Susan Kaspari, Kimberley Miner, Tom Matthews, Baker Perry, Heather Guy, Ananta Gajurel, Praveen Kumar Singh, Sandra Elvin, Aurora C. Elmore, Alex Tait, and Paul A. Mayewski
Stratigraphic evidence of two historical tsunamis on the semi-arid coast of north-central Chile, Jessica M. DePaolis, Tina Dura, Breanyn MacInnes, Lisa L. Ely, Marco Cisternas, Matías Carvajal, Hui Tang, Hermann M. Fritz, Cyntia Mizobe, Robert L. Wesson, Gino Figueroa, Nicole Brennan, Benjamin P. Horton, Jessica E. Pilarczyk, D. Reide Corbett, Benjamin C. Gill, and Robert Weiss
Influence of pluvial lake cycles on earthquake recurrence in the northwestern Basin and Range, USA, Anne E. Egger, Daniel E. Ibarra, Ray Weldon, Robert M. Langridge, Brian Marion, and Jennifer Hall
Excessive intake of iodine and low prevalence of goiter in school age children five years after implementation of national salt iodization in Shebedino woreda, southern Ethiopia, Elilta Elias, Workneh Tsegaya, Barbara J. Stoecker, and Tafere Gebreegziabher Belay
Runaway Stars as Possible Sources of the Elliptical Ring Structures in NGC 7538, Josephine Fenske, Jason Arakawa, Cassandra Fallscheer, and James Di Francesco
Can CP Be Less Than CV?, Yingbin Ge, Samuel L. Montgomery, and Gabriel L. Borrello
City of Living-Death: Urban Precarity and Social Transformation in an Egyptian Cemetery, Marwa Ghazali
Dynamic Microclimate Boundaries across a Sharp Tropical Rainforest–Clearing Edge, Eric A. Graham, Mark Hansen, William J. Kaiser, Yeung Lam, Eric Yuen, and Philip W. Rundel
Rescue recovery of the earliest known burials from Barbuda, West Indies (ca. 3560–3220 cal years BP), Steven Hackenberger, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Jessica H. Stone, and Matthew F. Napolitano
Supporting the Development of Process-Focused Metacognition During Problem-Solving, Emilie Hancock and Gulden Karakok
Community Roles for Supporting Emerging Education Researchers, Christopher A. F. Hass, Emilie Hancock, Samantha Wilson, Shams El-Adawy, and Eleanor C. Sayre
Serial interaction of primitive magmas with felsic and mafic crust recorded by gabbroic dikes from the Antarctic extension of the Karoo large igneous province, Jussi S. Heinonen, Arto V. Luttinen, Frank J. Spera, Saku K. Vuori, and Wendy A. Bohrson
Police Homicide: Race and Ethnicity, Christine Henderson, Aimee Quinn, Charles E. Reasons, Veronica Salas, John Vinson, and Brittney Warf
Mentoring our young reviewers: learning from our learning curve, Lyndon V. Hernandez, Michael B. Wallace, Deborah E. Bowman, Stephanie Kinnan, Dominic Klyve, and Amandeep K. Shergill
Spatial Variations of Stochastic Noise Properties in GPS Time Series, Xiaoxing He, Michael Simon Bos, Jean-Philippe Montillet, Rui Fernandes, Timothy I. Melbourne, Weiping Jiang, and Wudong Li
Radio-echo sounding and waveform modeling reveal abundant marine ice in former rifts and basal crevasses within Crary Ice Rise, Antarctica, Trevor R. Hillebrand, Howard Conway, Michelle Koutnik, Carlos Martin, John Paden, and J. Paul Winberry
Was facial width-to-height ratio subject to sexual selection pressures? A life course approach, Carolyn R. Hodges-Simeon, Graham Albert, George B. Richardson, Timothy S. McHale, Seth M. Weinberg, Michael Gurven, and Steven J.C. Gaulin
Diatoms of the intertidal environments of Willapa Bay, Washington, USA as a sea-level indicator, Isabel Hong, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrea D. Hawkes, Robert J. O.Donnell III, Jason S. Padgett, Tina Dura, and Simon E. Engelhart
Reconstructing paleohydrology in the northwest Great Basin since the last deglaciation using Paisley Caves fish remains (Oregon, U.S.A.), Adam M. Hudson, Meaghan M. Emery-Wetherell, Patrick M. Lubinski, Virginia L. Butler, Deanna N. Grimstead, and Dennis L. Jenkins
Old World Ceramic Origins and Behavioral Contexts from the Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene: Unresolved and New Problems, Fumie Iizuka and Karisa Terry
Highland vs. lowland craniometry in Andean South America: An Ecuadorian case study, Nicole A. Jastremski, Lourdes Henebry-Deleon, Patrick M. Lubinski, and Dominic Klyve
“I’m haunted by it:” experiences of licensed counselors who had a client die by suicide, Maribeth F. Jorgensen, Sara Bender, and Ashley McCutchen
Instilling hope, Maribeth Jorgensen and Kelly L. Wester
A Prime Testing Algorithm from Leonhard Euler, Dominic Klyve and Erik R. Tou
Evidence supporting micro-galvanic coupling in sulphides leads to gold deposition, Jamie S. Laird, Angela Halfpenny, Chris G. Ryan, and Weihua Liu
Carbonaceous matter in the atmosphere and glaciers of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau: An investigative review, Chaoliu Li, Fangping Yan, Shichang Kang, Caiqing Yan, Zhaofu Hu, Pengfei Chen, Shaopeng Gao, Chao Zhang, Cenlin He, Susan Kaspari, and Aron Stubbins
Rock glaciers in the Eastern Cascades, Washington State, USA: Impacts of selected variables on spatial distribution and landform dimensions, Karl Lillquist and Mark Weidenaar
Habitat characteristics or protected area size: What is more important for the composition and diversity of mammals in nonprotected areas?, Wenbo Li, Jinhua Li, Peipei Yang, Bowen Li, Chao Liu, and Lixing Sun
Development and Assessment of an Undergraduate Research Program at a Two-Year, Rural, Hispanic-Serving Institution: The Essential Role of Partnerships, Matthew R. Loeser, Makaylah Newkirk, Kara I. Gabriel, and Audrey D. Huerta
Tui Chub (Siphateles bicolor) are Native to the Columbia River Basin in Washington State, Patrick M. Lubinski and Allan T. Scholz
Seismicity and Pn Velocity Structure of Central West Antarctica, Erica M. Lucas, Andrew A. Nyblade, Andrew J. Lloyd, Richard C. Aster, Douglas A. Wiens, John Paul O'Donnell, Graham W. Stuart, Terry J. Wilson, Ian W. D. Dalziel, J. Paul Winberry, and Audrey D. Huerta
Use of English Language Proficiency Data to Better Assess Reading Growth for English Language Learners, Heath Marrs, Melissa De Leon, and Timothy Lawless
Global Navigational Satellite System Seismic Monitoring, Timothy I. Melbourne, Walter M. Szeliga, Victor Marcelo Santillan, and Craig W. Scrivner
What’s in the Bag?, Aaron Montgomery
Citizenship Diversified: Bali-Hindu Customary Institutions and Democratization, Lene Pedersen
Sulfur aerosols in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Tibetan Plateau: Current knowledge and future perspectives, Qiaomin Pei, Eri Saikawa, Susan Kaspari, David Widory, Chuanfeng Zhao, Guangming Wu, Mark Loewen, Xin Wan, Shinchang Kang, Xiaoping Wang, Yan-Lin Zhang, and Zhiyuan Cong
Do Something Different as an Intervention for Perceived Stress Reduction in Graduate Counseling Students, Julie L. Quigley, Laura Schmuldt, Sherry Todd, and Sara Bender
Using Free and Open Source Software to Teach University GIS Courses Online: Lessons Learned During a Pandemic, Sterling Quinn
Accept and support a multi-thread career path to keep women in the academic stream, Sara L. Rathburn and Lisa L. Ely
Presidential Power Meets the Art of the Deal: Applying Neustadt to the Trump Presidency, Todd M. Schaefer
Worldwide savanna monkey (Chlorocebus spp.) body measures, Christopher A. Schmitt, Trudy R. Turner, Danzy Cramer, Joseph G. Lorenz, Paul J. Grobler, Clifford J. Jolly, and Nelson B. Freimer
A Monte Carlo model of energy deposition, ionization, and sputtering due to thermal ion precipitation into Titan's upper atmosphere, Darci Snowden and Alexandre Higgins
Facial Expressions and Emotion Labels Are Separate Initiators of Trait Inferences From the Face, Anthony Stahelski, Amber Anderson, Nicholas Browitt, and Mary Radeke
Linking Fear of Violent Crime for Oneself and Loved Ones to Satisfaction with Local Area Characteristics, Sarah A. Steele, Julie D. Garman, Sara N. Toto, David J. Drozd, and Lisa L. Sample