Sarah Praskievicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1685553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Praskievicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Praskievicz |
| SIGNATURE | PRASKIEVICZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9380-7625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Environmental Justice and Stream Restoration
A multiscale spatial analysis was conducted for the state of North Carolina, which provides centralized state funding for stream restoration through the North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF). A total of 86 NCLWF restoration projects from 2013 to 2020 were geolocated and analyzed in relation to environmental justice metrics, both for a state-wide analysis using counties and for a within-county analysis using census block groups. State-wide, t…
Ground truth
This review examines the interdisciplinary literature on the relationship between climate change and place. The concept of place is of interest to both humanistic geographers and environmental psychologists, who examine the ways in which individuals and groups interact with physical and cultural landscapes to form a sense of place and place attachments. As a multiscalar phenomenon that is global in its causes but local in its impacts, climate cha…
Impacts of land use metrics on urban stream health
Field-based local stream research in undergraduate classes
Experiential learning is recognized as a high-impact educational practice. Fieldwork is an important component of the geographic tradition. When implemented using an inquiry-based approach, fieldwork can be a highly effective form of experiential education. However, many geography instructors are dissuaded from implementing inquiry-based fieldwork because of logistical challenges. Here, a modular, semester-long fieldwork design is presented, invo…
Decreasing water resources in Southeastern U.S. as observed by the GRACE satellites
Changing water quantities and location can be estimated using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. By measuring differences in the Earth's gravity, the satellites provide monthly data on regional changes in the Earth's mass resulting from the movement of water. Studying the Southeast U.S., using the full record of the original GRACE satellites (2002–2016), a significant trend of declining water quantities appears in wes…
From Hetch Hetchy to the Cuyahoga
Rivers are common natural features through which the environment is experienced. They provide important economic benefits to society, and the spatial organization of watersheds makes them uniquely vulnerable to environmental change. For these reasons, the history of the U.S. environmental movement can be read as the history of society’s relationship with rivers. Here, an overview of this history is presented using five rivers that represent criti…
How the environment became global
River Classification as a Geographic Tool in the Age of Big Data and Global Change
Spatial classification is a well‐defined analysis method in geography, which involves defining regions of the Earth based on shared characteristics. An analogy can be made between classification in geography and taxonomy in biology, because both are used to reduce complexity. Just as modern evolutionary theory and genetics technologies have transformed biological taxonomy from the sometimes arbitrary classification of living things based on super…
Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Development on Water Resources in the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon
We investigated the relative importance of future climate change and land use change in determining the quantity and quality of freshwater resources in northwestern Oregon's Tualatin River Basin using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) modeling system. Models were calibrated and validated using historic flow and water quality data between 1990 and 2006. The goodness…
How the environment became global
River Classification as a Geographic Tool in the Age of Big Data and Global Change
Spatial classification is a well‐defined analysis method in geography, which involves defining regions of the Earth based on shared characteristics. An analogy can be made between classification in geography and taxonomy in biology, because both are used to reduce complexity. Just as modern evolutionary theory and genetics technologies have transformed biological taxonomy from the sometimes arbitrary classification of living things based on super…
Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Development on Water Resources in the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon
We investigated the relative importance of future climate change and land use change in determining the quantity and quality of freshwater resources in northwestern Oregon's Tualatin River Basin using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) modeling system. Models were calibrated and validated using historic flow and water quality data between 1990 and 2006. The goodness…
Impacts of Climate Change and Urban Development on Water Resources in the Tualatin River Basin, Oregon
We investigated the relative importance of future climate change and land use change in determining the quantity and quality of freshwater resources in northwestern Oregon's Tualatin River Basin using the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) modeling system. Models were calibrated and validated using historic flow and water quality data between 1990 and 2006. The goodness…
River Classification as a Geographic Tool in the Age of Big Data and Global Change
Spatial classification is a well‐defined analysis method in geography, which involves defining regions of the Earth based on shared characteristics. An analogy can be made between classification in geography and taxonomy in biology, because both are used to reduce complexity. Just as modern evolutionary theory and genetics technologies have transformed biological taxonomy from the sometimes arbitrary classification of living things based on super…
Decreasing water resources in Southeastern U.S. as observed by the GRACE satellites
Changing water quantities and location can be estimated using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. By measuring differences in the Earth's gravity, the satellites provide monthly data on regional changes in the Earth's mass resulting from the movement of water. Studying the Southeast U.S., using the full record of the original GRACE satellites (2002–2016), a significant trend of declining water quantities appears in wes…
From Hetch Hetchy to the Cuyahoga
Rivers are common natural features through which the environment is experienced. They provide important economic benefits to society, and the spatial organization of watersheds makes them uniquely vulnerable to environmental change. For these reasons, the history of the U.S. environmental movement can be read as the history of society’s relationship with rivers. Here, an overview of this history is presented using five rivers that represent criti…
How the environment became global
Ground truth
This review examines the interdisciplinary literature on the relationship between climate change and place. The concept of place is of interest to both humanistic geographers and environmental psychologists, who examine the ways in which individuals and groups interact with physical and cultural landscapes to form a sense of place and place attachments. As a multiscalar phenomenon that is global in its causes but local in its impacts, climate cha…
Impacts of land use metrics on urban stream health
Field-based local stream research in undergraduate classes
Experiential learning is recognized as a high-impact educational practice. Fieldwork is an important component of the geographic tradition. When implemented using an inquiry-based approach, fieldwork can be a highly effective form of experiential education. However, many geography instructors are dissuaded from implementing inquiry-based fieldwork because of logistical challenges. Here, a modular, semester-long fieldwork design is presented, invo…
Environmental Justice and Stream Restoration
A multiscale spatial analysis was conducted for the state of North Carolina, which provides centralized state funding for stream restoration through the North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF). A total of 86 NCLWF restoration projects from 2013 to 2020 were geolocated and analyzed in relation to environmental justice metrics, both for a state-wide analysis using counties and for a within-county analysis using census block groups. State-wide, t…
Geography (8 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Cartography (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)