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Dynamic Treeline and Cryosphere Response to Pronounced Mid-Holocene Climatic Variability in the US Rocky Mountains
Craig Lee
Following decades of warming climate, surprising discoveries have been emerging from melting mountain ice all over the world. In the Greater Yellowstone, the melting ice patch described in this article revealed the remains of an ancient whitebark pine forest that grew nearly 6,000 years ago—hundreds of meters above modern treeline. Using tree-ring analysis and climate modeling, MSU and affiliated researchers reconstructed how the interplay of summer warmth and winter moisture shaped forest growth and ice dynamics. Today, warm-season temperatures have returned to mid-Holocene levels, and treeline could riseagain—but only if moisture is available and ecological disturbances remain limited.
These unique alpine spaces—a de facto archive of past events ranging from ancient forests to traces of animal and human use—are vanishing... a brutally constant takeaway.
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Colter Ellis
Determinants of Poor Health among Workers in Criminal Justice, Community and Social Services, and Healthcare: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Workplace Trauma Exposure, and Gender Differences
In this paper, published in Women & Criminal Justice, Dr. Ellis and colleagues found exposure to trauma is high in the workplace and is associated with poor health.
Does where you work and what you do matter? Testing the role of organizational context and job type for future study of occupation-based secondary trauma intervention development
In this paper, published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Dr. Ellis and colleagues found that victim services providers are often dealing with their own traumas in and out of the workplace.
Sarah Johnson-Palomaki
Cinema and Feminism: A Quick Immersion
In this book, published by Tibidabo Publishing, Drs. Press and Johnson-Palomaki explore the complex relationships between Hollywood and feminism.
Kelly Knight
Determinants of Poor Health among Workers in Criminal Justice, Community and Social Services, and Healthcare: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Workplace Trauma Exposure, and Gender Differences
In this paper, published in Women & Criminal Justice, Dr. Knight and colleagues found exposure to trauma is high in the workplace and is associated with poor health.
Does where you work and what you do matter? Testing the role of organizational context and job type for future study of occupation-based secondary trauma intervention development
In this paper, published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Dr. Knight and colleagues found that victim services provides are often dealing with their own traumas in and out of the workplace.
Craig Lee
Dynamic treeline and cryosphere response to pronounced mid-Holocene climatic variability in the US Rocky Mountains
In this coauthored piece in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Dr. Lee and colleagues explored changes in the elevation of treelines in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Organic layers preserved in ice patches: A new record of Holocene environmental change on the Beartooth Plateau, USA
Based on work in the Beartooth Mountains, Dr. Lee and colleagues explored how long-term temperature variations impacttreeline elevation;published in The Holocene.
Meghann Lucy
“Fighting demons”: Stigma and shifting norms in explicit mention of overdose in obituaries, 2010-2019
In this study published in Social Science Medicine,Dr. Lucyexplores shifts in the public framing of the opioid crisis and overdose deaths.
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing"selves in the context of overaccumulation
Appearing in the Journal of Consumer Culture, Dr. Lucyexplores themes of consumption and overaccumulation in the context of the population showTidying Up with Marie Kondo.
Scott Myers
Cultural congruity and academic confidence of American Indian graduate students in STEM: Peer interactions, mentor cultural support, and university environment fit
In this coauthor paper, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Dr. Myers and colleagues from MSU explored the transcultural socialization of Indigenous graduate students in STEM fields.
Support from institutional agents and perceptions of cultural and institutional fit among STEM international graduate students in the US
Appearing in the Journal of International Students, this paper co-authored by Dr. Myers explores how international students fare in STEM fields.
Michael Neeley
Changing Settlement Organization in the Late Pleistocene of the Wadi al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan
Published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Drs. Neeley and Clark provide a more complete picture of forager mobility and land use in Jordan’s Wadi al-Hasa.
Drivelines, Hunting Blinds, Effigies and Intercept Hunting Strategies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA
Along with several coauthors from MSU, Dr. Neeley and colleagues explore hunting strategies surrounding ice patch areas in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; published in Hunter-Gatherer Research.
Veronica Shepp
Support to Survive or Surviving Support? Barriers to Seeking Gender-Based Violence Services for Sex Workers
In this paper published with an MSU undergraduate, Dr. Shepp utilized qualitative interview methods to explore why sex workers do and don’t seek services for gender-based violence; published in Women & Criminal Justice.
Survivors’ experiences of sexual assault by intimate partners: A qualitative study of survivors and their informal supports
In this coauthored piece published in the Journal of Family Violence, Dr. Shepp explores issues related to sexual assault in the context of intimate partner violence.
Vijaya Tamla Rai
Local rental market dynamics and homelessness rates among unaccompanied youths, single adults, and people in families
A solo-authored publication in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Dr. Tamla Rai finds that the relationship between local rental markets and community-level homelessness is not uniform across homeless sub-groups.
Are Black Offenders Disproportionately Victimizing Asian Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Comparison to Expected Racial Distributions and the Pre-Pandemic Period
In a coauthored piece in Victims & Offenders, Dr. Tamla Rai explores dynamics of Asian American victimization before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maggie Thorsen
Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People
Published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Drs. Thorsen and Palacios find that American Indian women residing on reservations are more likely to have inadequate prenatal care relative to their peers.
American Indians travel great distances for obstetrical care: Examining rural and racial disparities
Along with collaborators, Dr. Thorsen finds that rural women and American Indian women are more likely to bypass local health providers and travel longer distances to give birth; published in Social Science & Medicine.
Cody Warner
Child Incarceration and Maternal Alcohol Use: Disentangling Within-and Between-Person Processes
Published in Socius, Drs. Greene and Warner found that women change their drinking behaviors when their child is incarcerated, leading to overall lower alcohol consumption.
Nowhere to launch? County-level correlates of home-leaving and home-returning
Drs. Warner and Sharp find that rental costs in local areas are important determinants of who leaves the parental home, as well as who returns back; published in Population Research and Policy Review.