Chris A B Zajchowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 667473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris A B Zajchowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris A B |
| FAMILY NAME | Zajchowski |
| SIGNATURE | ZAJCHOWSKI C A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9909-2624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Connecting environmental identity and sustainability behaviors: The moderating role of students’ demographic social identities
The concept of sustainability in the United States (US) is deeply entrenched in sociopolitical identity discourse. It is critical that higher education institutions (HEIs) in the US identify barriers to sustainability behaviors in students of varying demographic social identities. This study explores whether students’ demographic social identities (i.e., political affiliation, childhood upbringing setting, and gender) could influence the relation…
Smoke on the Water”: Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Commercial River Recreation
Wildland fire smoke contributes to unhealthy indexes of particulate matter that impact human health. Research continues to document the effect of poor air quality on outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism, however, less is known about the relationship between smoke and tourism operations. The purpose of this research was to understand lived experiences of wildland fire smoke within the context of commercial river recreation operations. We in…
Variation in the economic value of visitation at Monocacy National Battlefield
Before, during, and irrespective of the pandemic: Leisure constraints and urban national park visitation
Urban and urban-proximate national park sites provide diverse leisure opportunities for residents, yet potential barriers and constraints for visitation exist. We examined constraints prior to, during, and regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Washington, D.C. Metro area at Rock Creek Park and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Visitors and non-visitors (n = 840) responses were assessed for differences in their (1) demograph…
Intersecting Identities: Investigating Effects of Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective on Visitor Activity Participation
This study uses a multiple hierarchical stratification perspective to investigate the probability of activity participation among 1,774 Joshua Tree National Park visitors who responded to a visitor survey in 2019. According to the multiple hierarchy stratification perspective, an individual’s demographic characteristics interact and affect their social position and therefore their access to services or resources. The purpose of the study is to ga…
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure
The purpose of this research reflection is to revisit the foundations upon which we constitute our understanding of the good life. Specifically, we think it is important for our field to unmoor itself from the myth that the advent of agriculture led to increased leisure time. To make our case, we recount two strikingly different narratives of the settings in which leisure is proported to flourish that we believe help us make sense of the current …
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene
Homo sapiens have burned wood for warmth and cooking for over one million years. We leveraged the empirical case of campground visitors’ exposure to anthropogenic particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) from wood burning at Prince William Forest Park, Virginia (USA) to provide a window into the microspatial air quality indexes produced by discretionary campfires. Binary logistic regression illustrates the significant relationship between PM and campf…
Do Rising Flows Lift All Boats? Ecosystem Services Elasticity in the Dolores River Watershed
Human Dimensions of Air Quality: Introduction to the Special Issue
Poor ambient air quality is one of today’s greatest environmental health risks. However, unlike water, wildland fire, or wildlife, comparatively less human dimensions scholarship has focused on air resources. The papers in this special issue highlight how people across varying cultures, geographies, and identities create and relate to varying air quality conditions. In doing so, the issue challenges dominant perspectives of air pollution as a pur…
We're managing a different river now: A political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed
The Dolores River is fed primarily by snowmelt from the western San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. It travels 241 miles across the Colorado Plateau to its confluence with the Colorado River, near Moab, Utah, a major nature-based tourism destination in the U.S west. Water usage and climate change projections in the Dolores River Watershed, as well as throughout the Colorado River Basin, complicate transboundary planning and management re…
Learning, Fast and Slow
In Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) Kahneman describes two modes of thinking: System 1 and 2. System 1 operates quickly, automatically, and unconsciously, drawing on our vast reservoir of stored knowledge to decide what should or should not be done in any situation. System 2 is a slower, more deliberate process, requiring us to step back from our immediate circumstances to analyze them in more depth. Kahneman praises System 1 for its efficiency in …
A ramp that leads to nothing: Outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to outdoor recreation is desperately needed for youth; however, children with physical disabilities who regularly experience barriers and constraints to engagement in outdoor physical activity may experience additional challenges. We examined the outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities (ages 6–10) living in Coastal Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic by interviewing their…
The Role of Temperature and Air Quality in Outdoor Recreation Behavior: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach
Ambient air pollution and rising global temperatures pose dual threats to the health and well-being of urban residents, in part, through dissuading them from engaging in healthy, outdoor physical activity. We leveraged a social-ecological systems (SES) framework to explain weather-dependent, outdoor recreation in the wildland-urban interface of Salt Lake City, Utah. Using 24-hour trail camera monitoring for 32 days, we measured trail use and ambi…
Situating and Sequencing Quagmire: The Role of Simulation-Based Gaming in Preparing Students for Future Learning at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
We assessed the efficacy of the educational simulation Quagmire to deliver curriculum focused on park and protected area management in a time of record visitor use. Specifically, our study evaluated how Quagmire prepared contemporary students to maximize field-based learning during a week-long experience at Capitol Reef National Park, USA (Capitol Reef). Student essays and discussion responses (n = 71) were collected following the visit to Capito…
Smartphone Impacts on Outdoor Orientation Trip Goal Attainment
Background: Smartphones provide limitless opportunity for communication and access to the world through social media, texting, and numerous applications. As their popularity continues to grow among college students, it is important to understand the various advantages and disadvantages of their use on and off campus. Purpose: We explored the effect of smartphones on goal and objective attainment in the outdoor orientation program (OOP) at Old Dom…
Sensitive Leisure: Writing the Lived Experience of Air Pollution
We explore the sensory experiences of individuals who live, work, and play in an environment marred by air pollution. Sensory phenomenology provides a theoretical lens through which to analyze the experiences of residents living with and through air pollution events in the Salt Lake metropolitan area, Utah. Excerpts from ten essays are presented to support four researcher-developed themes and reflexive analyses. The role of the senses in negotiat…
Now is Not the Time to Take a Breather”: United States Federal Land Management Agency Professionals’ Perceptions at the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977
Poor air quality has long been one of the dominant transboundary issues facing protected areas worldwide. In 1977, the United States Congress amended the Clean Air Act to address federally-managed lands containing valued air resources (i.e. scenic views). Forty years later, we interviewed professionals from the U.S. National Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management (n=38) regarding their perceptions of the legacy of the Clean A…
The biochemistry behind human behavior: Implications for leisure sciences and services
This research reflection explores the relationship between biochemistry and human behavior. More specifically, it examines the implications associated with two neural pathways in the brain, one leading to pleasure and the other to contentment. After describing how the two pathways work and where they lead, we turn the reader’s attention to the implications for leisure sciences and services, including the way we think about leisure behavior, how w…
Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area
Urban-proximate protected areas provide metropolitan residents with a variety of benefits. We explored the pursuit of clean air by winter outdoor recreationists who live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of northern Utah, a region that experiences seasonal air pollution events. To better understand how air quality in the Salt Lake Valley affects winter outdoor recreation in the nearby Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF), we employed…
Air Quality and Visitor Behavior in U.S. Protected Areas
Air quality and the visitor experience in parks and protected areas
Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental health risks facing people worldwide. The transboundary nature of air pollution may place park and protected area (PPA) resources, as well as visitors, at risk of exposure to the same harmful pollutants that plague urban populations. Despite our knowledge of the various impacts of air pollution on endemic species, ecosystem functions, and human health, there exists a gap in our understanding of t…
The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self: Implications for Leisure Science
In this research reflection we question the way leisure experience is commonly understood and how leisure science is commonly conducted. Specifically, we focus on advances in multiple self-theory popularized by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, an in-depth examination of human thought processes. After establishing Kahneman's foundational perspective, we apply his thinking to leisure experience and leisure science by reviewing recent sch…
Sensitive Leisure: Writing the Lived Experience of Air Pollution
We explore the sensory experiences of individuals who live, work, and play in an environment marred by air pollution. Sensory phenomenology provides a theoretical lens through which to analyze the experiences of residents living with and through air pollution events in the Salt Lake metropolitan area, Utah. Excerpts from ten essays are presented to support four researcher-developed themes and reflexive analyses. The role of the senses in negotiat…
Air quality and the visitor experience in parks and protected areas
Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental health risks facing people worldwide. The transboundary nature of air pollution may place park and protected area (PPA) resources, as well as visitors, at risk of exposure to the same harmful pollutants that plague urban populations. Despite our knowledge of the various impacts of air pollution on endemic species, ecosystem functions, and human health, there exists a gap in our understanding of t…
Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area
Urban-proximate protected areas provide metropolitan residents with a variety of benefits. We explored the pursuit of clean air by winter outdoor recreationists who live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of northern Utah, a region that experiences seasonal air pollution events. To better understand how air quality in the Salt Lake Valley affects winter outdoor recreation in the nearby Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF), we employed…
Air Quality and Visitor Behavior in U.S. Protected Areas
The biochemistry behind human behavior: Implications for leisure sciences and services
This research reflection explores the relationship between biochemistry and human behavior. More specifically, it examines the implications associated with two neural pathways in the brain, one leading to pleasure and the other to contentment. After describing how the two pathways work and where they lead, we turn the reader’s attention to the implications for leisure sciences and services, including the way we think about leisure behavior, how w…
The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self: Implications for Leisure Science
In this research reflection we question the way leisure experience is commonly understood and how leisure science is commonly conducted. Specifically, we focus on advances in multiple self-theory popularized by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, an in-depth examination of human thought processes. After establishing Kahneman's foundational perspective, we apply his thinking to leisure experience and leisure science by reviewing recent sch…
We're managing a different river now: A political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed
The Dolores River is fed primarily by snowmelt from the western San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. It travels 241 miles across the Colorado Plateau to its confluence with the Colorado River, near Moab, Utah, a major nature-based tourism destination in the U.S west. Water usage and climate change projections in the Dolores River Watershed, as well as throughout the Colorado River Basin, complicate transboundary planning and management re…
A ramp that leads to nothing: Outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to outdoor recreation is desperately needed for youth; however, children with physical disabilities who regularly experience barriers and constraints to engagement in outdoor physical activity may experience additional challenges. We examined the outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities (ages 6–10) living in Coastal Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic by interviewing their…
Before, during, and irrespective of the pandemic: Leisure constraints and urban national park visitation
Urban and urban-proximate national park sites provide diverse leisure opportunities for residents, yet potential barriers and constraints for visitation exist. We examined constraints prior to, during, and regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Washington, D.C. Metro area at Rock Creek Park and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Visitors and non-visitors (n = 840) responses were assessed for differences in their (1) demograph…
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene
Homo sapiens have burned wood for warmth and cooking for over one million years. We leveraged the empirical case of campground visitors’ exposure to anthropogenic particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) from wood burning at Prince William Forest Park, Virginia (USA) to provide a window into the microspatial air quality indexes produced by discretionary campfires. Binary logistic regression illustrates the significant relationship between PM and campf…
Now is Not the Time to Take a Breather”: United States Federal Land Management Agency Professionals’ Perceptions at the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977
Poor air quality has long been one of the dominant transboundary issues facing protected areas worldwide. In 1977, the United States Congress amended the Clean Air Act to address federally-managed lands containing valued air resources (i.e. scenic views). Forty years later, we interviewed professionals from the U.S. National Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management (n=38) regarding their perceptions of the legacy of the Clean A…
The Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self: Implications for Leisure Science
In this research reflection we question the way leisure experience is commonly understood and how leisure science is commonly conducted. Specifically, we focus on advances in multiple self-theory popularized by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking, Fast and Slow, an in-depth examination of human thought processes. After establishing Kahneman's foundational perspective, we apply his thinking to leisure experience and leisure science by reviewing recent sch…
Now is Not the Time to Take a Breather”: United States Federal Land Management Agency Professionals’ Perceptions at the 40th Anniversary of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977
Poor air quality has long been one of the dominant transboundary issues facing protected areas worldwide. In 1977, the United States Congress amended the Clean Air Act to address federally-managed lands containing valued air resources (i.e. scenic views). Forty years later, we interviewed professionals from the U.S. National Park Service, Forest Service, and Bureau of Land Management (n=38) regarding their perceptions of the legacy of the Clean A…
The biochemistry behind human behavior: Implications for leisure sciences and services
This research reflection explores the relationship between biochemistry and human behavior. More specifically, it examines the implications associated with two neural pathways in the brain, one leading to pleasure and the other to contentment. After describing how the two pathways work and where they lead, we turn the reader’s attention to the implications for leisure sciences and services, including the way we think about leisure behavior, how w…
Can you take me higher?”: Normative thresholds for air quality in the Salt Lake City Metropolitan area
Urban-proximate protected areas provide metropolitan residents with a variety of benefits. We explored the pursuit of clean air by winter outdoor recreationists who live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area of northern Utah, a region that experiences seasonal air pollution events. To better understand how air quality in the Salt Lake Valley affects winter outdoor recreation in the nearby Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (UWCNF), we employed…
Air Quality and Visitor Behavior in U.S. Protected Areas
Air quality and the visitor experience in parks and protected areas
Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental health risks facing people worldwide. The transboundary nature of air pollution may place park and protected area (PPA) resources, as well as visitors, at risk of exposure to the same harmful pollutants that plague urban populations. Despite our knowledge of the various impacts of air pollution on endemic species, ecosystem functions, and human health, there exists a gap in our understanding of t…
Sensitive Leisure: Writing the Lived Experience of Air Pollution
We explore the sensory experiences of individuals who live, work, and play in an environment marred by air pollution. Sensory phenomenology provides a theoretical lens through which to analyze the experiences of residents living with and through air pollution events in the Salt Lake metropolitan area, Utah. Excerpts from ten essays are presented to support four researcher-developed themes and reflexive analyses. The role of the senses in negotiat…
Situating and Sequencing Quagmire: The Role of Simulation-Based Gaming in Preparing Students for Future Learning at Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
We assessed the efficacy of the educational simulation Quagmire to deliver curriculum focused on park and protected area management in a time of record visitor use. Specifically, our study evaluated how Quagmire prepared contemporary students to maximize field-based learning during a week-long experience at Capitol Reef National Park, USA (Capitol Reef). Student essays and discussion responses (n = 71) were collected following the visit to Capito…
Smartphone Impacts on Outdoor Orientation Trip Goal Attainment
Background: Smartphones provide limitless opportunity for communication and access to the world through social media, texting, and numerous applications. As their popularity continues to grow among college students, it is important to understand the various advantages and disadvantages of their use on and off campus. Purpose: We explored the effect of smartphones on goal and objective attainment in the outdoor orientation program (OOP) at Old Dom…
Learning, Fast and Slow
In Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) Kahneman describes two modes of thinking: System 1 and 2. System 1 operates quickly, automatically, and unconsciously, drawing on our vast reservoir of stored knowledge to decide what should or should not be done in any situation. System 2 is a slower, more deliberate process, requiring us to step back from our immediate circumstances to analyze them in more depth. Kahneman praises System 1 for its efficiency in …
A ramp that leads to nothing: Outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
During the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to outdoor recreation is desperately needed for youth; however, children with physical disabilities who regularly experience barriers and constraints to engagement in outdoor physical activity may experience additional challenges. We examined the outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities (ages 6–10) living in Coastal Virginia during the COVID-19 pandemic by interviewing their…
The Role of Temperature and Air Quality in Outdoor Recreation Behavior: A Social-Ecological Systems Approach
Ambient air pollution and rising global temperatures pose dual threats to the health and well-being of urban residents, in part, through dissuading them from engaging in healthy, outdoor physical activity. We leveraged a social-ecological systems (SES) framework to explain weather-dependent, outdoor recreation in the wildland-urban interface of Salt Lake City, Utah. Using 24-hour trail camera monitoring for 32 days, we measured trail use and ambi…
Do Rising Flows Lift All Boats? Ecosystem Services Elasticity in the Dolores River Watershed
Human Dimensions of Air Quality: Introduction to the Special Issue
Poor ambient air quality is one of today’s greatest environmental health risks. However, unlike water, wildland fire, or wildlife, comparatively less human dimensions scholarship has focused on air resources. The papers in this special issue highlight how people across varying cultures, geographies, and identities create and relate to varying air quality conditions. In doing so, the issue challenges dominant perspectives of air pollution as a pur…
We're managing a different river now: A political ecology of nature-based recreation in the Dolores River Watershed
The Dolores River is fed primarily by snowmelt from the western San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado. It travels 241 miles across the Colorado Plateau to its confluence with the Colorado River, near Moab, Utah, a major nature-based tourism destination in the U.S west. Water usage and climate change projections in the Dolores River Watershed, as well as throughout the Colorado River Basin, complicate transboundary planning and management re…
Before, during, and irrespective of the pandemic: Leisure constraints and urban national park visitation
Urban and urban-proximate national park sites provide diverse leisure opportunities for residents, yet potential barriers and constraints for visitation exist. We examined constraints prior to, during, and regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Washington, D.C. Metro area at Rock Creek Park and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Visitors and non-visitors (n = 840) responses were assessed for differences in their (1) demograph…
Intersecting Identities: Investigating Effects of Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective on Visitor Activity Participation
This study uses a multiple hierarchical stratification perspective to investigate the probability of activity participation among 1,774 Joshua Tree National Park visitors who responded to a visitor survey in 2019. According to the multiple hierarchy stratification perspective, an individual’s demographic characteristics interact and affect their social position and therefore their access to services or resources. The purpose of the study is to ga…
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure
The purpose of this research reflection is to revisit the foundations upon which we constitute our understanding of the good life. Specifically, we think it is important for our field to unmoor itself from the myth that the advent of agriculture led to increased leisure time. To make our case, we recount two strikingly different narratives of the settings in which leisure is proported to flourish that we believe help us make sense of the current …
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene
Homo sapiens have burned wood for warmth and cooking for over one million years. We leveraged the empirical case of campground visitors’ exposure to anthropogenic particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) from wood burning at Prince William Forest Park, Virginia (USA) to provide a window into the microspatial air quality indexes produced by discretionary campfires. Binary logistic regression illustrates the significant relationship between PM and campf…
Variation in the economic value of visitation at Monocacy National Battlefield
Connecting environmental identity and sustainability behaviors: The moderating role of students’ demographic social identities
The concept of sustainability in the United States (US) is deeply entrenched in sociopolitical identity discourse. It is critical that higher education institutions (HEIs) in the US identify barriers to sustainability behaviors in students of varying demographic social identities. This study explores whether students’ demographic social identities (i.e., political affiliation, childhood upbringing setting, and gender) could influence the relation…
Smoke on the Water”: Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Commercial River Recreation
Wildland fire smoke contributes to unhealthy indexes of particulate matter that impact human health. Research continues to document the effect of poor air quality on outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism, however, less is known about the relationship between smoke and tourism operations. The purpose of this research was to understand lived experiences of wildland fire smoke within the context of commercial river recreation operations. We in…
Geography (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (10 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Air quality index (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Recreation (7 works)