Founded in 2021, the Gonzaga University Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment provides resources and opportunities to students, faculty, community members, and leaders in the inland northwest to meet the unprecedented challenges facing humanity and the wider natural environment in the 21st century. Such a vision is central to our identity as a Jesuit institution of higher learning. As Pope Francis writes, “All Christian communities have an important role to play in ecological education.”

The bibliography was created as a central location for resources and research published by Gonzaga faculty, staff, and students.

This guide is a living document: please email the Climate Institute to suggest publications for inclusion.

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Submissions from 2023

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Multiple Interacting Stressors Influence Development, Growth, and Morphology of Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla) Larvae, Abby Dalke, Allie M. Erickson, Bailey R. Tasker, Skylar Riley, Paul Hurst, Sarah Cooney, Scott A. Griffith, and Betsy A. Bancroft

Submissions from 2022

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Civil Rights in Times of Uncertainty (The Anthropocene), Jeffrey Omari

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Effects of Elevated Temperature, Reduced Hydroperiod, and Invasive Bullfrog Larvae on Pacific Chorus Frog Larvae, Bailey R. Tasker, Karli Honebein, Allie M. Erickson, Julia E. Misslin, Paul Hurst, Sarah Cooney, Skylar Riley, Scott A. Griffith, and Betsy A. Bancroft

Submissions from 2021

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Social Mindfulness and Prosociality Vary Across the Globe, Niels Van Doesum, Ryan Murphy, Marcello Gallucci, and Adam W. Stivers

Submissions from 2020

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Mycorrhizal Inoculation Mitigates Damage from an Intermediate, but Not Severe, Frost Event for a Cool-Season Perennial Bunchgrass, Brian M. Connolly, Peter W. Guiden, and John L. Orrock

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Correction to Degradation and Deactivation of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Genes during Exposure to Free Chlorine, Monochloramine, Chlorine Dioxide, Ozone, Ultraviolet Light, and Hydroxyl Radical, Huan He, Peiran Zhou, Kyle Shimabuku, Xuzhi Fang, Shu Li, Yunho Lee, and Michael C. Dodd

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Assessing the Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs, Luis Inaraja Vera

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Contextualizing our Leadership Education Approach to Complex Problem Solving: Shifting Paradigms and Evolving Knowledge: Priority 5 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020–2025, Rian Satterwhite, Ariel Sarid, Carolyn M. Cunningham, Elizabeth Goryunova, Heather Crandall, James L. Morrison, Kate Sheridan, and McIntyre Miller

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Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence, Casey R. Schmitt, Christopher S. Thomas, and Theresa R. Castor

Submissions from 2019

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Carbon dioxide enrichment alters predator avoidance and sex determination but only sex is mediated by GABAA receptors, Jean-Claude Abboud, Edgar A. Bartolome, Mayra Blanco, Annalise C. Kress, Ian Y. Ellis, Perry K. Yazzolino, Kamrin I. Sorensen, James R. Winslow, David A. Cleary, and Hugh Lefcort

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Seedling Responses to Decreased Snow Depend on Canopy Composition and Small-Mammal Herbivore Presence, Peter W. Guiden, Brian M. Connolly, and John L. Orrock

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Degradation and Deactivation of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Genes during Exposure to Free Chlorine, Monochloramine, Chlorine Dioxide, Ozone, Ultraviolet Light, and Hydroxyl Radical, Huan He, Peiran Zhou, Kyle Shimabuku, Xuzhi Fang, Shu Li, Yunho Lee, and Michael C. Dodd

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Green Development and the Land Ethic, Brian G. Henning

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Logos, Pathos, and the Absent Presence of the Persons We Eat, Brian G. Henning and Hope Philea Henning

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High Temperature Co-pyrolysis Thermal air Activation Enhances Biochar Adsorption of Herbicides from Surface Water, Joshua P. Kearns, Kyle Shimabuku, Detlef R. U. Knappe, and R. Scott Summers

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Sustainability in the Anthropocene, Róisín Lally

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Perceived Marketplace Influence and Consumer Ethical Action, R. Bret Leary, Richard J. Vann, and John D. Mittelstaedt

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Scapegoat Ecology: Blame, Exoneration, and an Emergent Genre in Environmentalist Discourse, Casey R. Schmitt

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Inorganic Contaminants Prompt Widespread Concerns, Kyle Shimabuku and Tarrah Henrie

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Laudato Si, Marx, and a Human Motivation for Addressing Climate Change, Timothy A. Weidel

Submissions from 2018

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Exogenous Application of Methyl Jasmonate Alters Pinus resinosa Seedling Response to Simulated Frost, Brian M. Connolly and John L. Orrock

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Extreme Cold Consistently Reduces Seedling Growth but Has Species-Specific Effects on Browse Tolerance in Summer, Peter W. Guiden, Brian M. Connolly, and John L. Orrock

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Cultivating a Shared Sense of Place: Ethnic Mexicans and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Kansas City, Raymond W. Rast

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When Consumers Struggle: Action Crisis and its Effects on Problematic Goal Pursuit, Richard J. Vann, José Antonio Rosa, and Sean M. McCrea

Submissions from 2017

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Past Freeze-Thaw Events on Pinus Seeds Increase Seedling Herbivory, Brian M. Connolly, Peter W. Guiden, and John L. Orrock

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Leading the Way: Motivating Environmental Action through Perceived Marketplace Influence, R. Bret Leary, Richard J. Vann, and John D. Mittelstaedt

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Life in a Near-Future Atmosphere: Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Increases Plant Growth and Alters the Behavior of a Terrestrial Snail but not a Terrestrial Beetle, Hugh Lefcort and Burt P. Kotler

Submissions from 2016

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Weighing the Relative Potential Impacts of Climate Change and Land-Use Change on an Endangered Bird, Betsy A. Bancroft, Joshua J. Lawler, and Nathan H. Schumaker

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From the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic: Philosophy and Global Climate Change, Brian G. Henning

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Moral Vegetarianism: A Whiteheadian Response to Andrew F. Smith, Brian G. Henning

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Towards 2050: The Projected Costs and Possible Alternatives to Industrial Livestock Production, Brian G. Henning

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Unearthing the Process Roots of Environment Ethics: Whitehead, Leopold, and the Land Ethic, Brian G. Henning

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Paradise and Warfare: Aldo Leopold and the Rhetorical Origins of Restoration Ecology, Casey R. Schmitt

Submissions from 2015

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Climatic Variation and Seed Persistence: Freeze-Thaw Cycles Lower Survival via the Joint Action of Abiotic Stress and Fungal Pathogens, Brian M. Connolly and John L. Orrock

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Imagining the Hydrogen Future of 2050, Patrick D. Ferro, Hannah Wentz, Samuel Oyen, Mark Viger, Christine Ngan, Chris Frager, Kyle Mulvaney, Susana Lira, and Mark Rawson

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Stewardship and the Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Reflections on Laudato Si', Brian G. Henning

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The Ethics of Food, Fuel & Feed, Brian G. Henning

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Snails from Heavy-Metal Polluted Environments Have Reduced Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide-Induced Acidity, Hugh Lefcort, David A. Cleary, Aaron M. Marble, Morgan V. Phillips, Timothy J. Stoddard, Lara M. Tuthill, and James R. Winslow

Submissions from 2014

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Sustainability and Other Ecological Mistakes: In Defense of Moral Ideals, Brian G. Henning

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Changing the marketplace one behavior at a time: Perceived marketplace influence and sustainable consumption, R. Bret Leary, Richard J. Vann, John D. Mittelstaedt, Patrick E. Murphy, and John F. Sherry Jr.

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Invoking the Ecological Indian: Rhetoric, Culture, and the Environment, Casey R. Schmitt

Submissions from 2013

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Animals, Ethics, and Process Thought: Hierarchy without Anthroparchy (A Response to Combs, Donaldson, and Sinclair), Brian G. Henning

Submissions from 2011

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Standing in Livestock's 'Long Shadow': The Ethics of Eating Meat on a Small Planet, Brian G. Henning

Submissions from 2010

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Amphibian Populations, Andrew R. Blaustein, Susan C. Walls, Betsy A. Bancroft, Joshua J. Lawler, Catherine L. Searle, and Stephanie S. Gervasi

Submissions from 2003

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Recent Advances in Solid Hydrogen Storage Systems, B. S. Chao, R. C. Young, V. Myasnikov, Y. Li, F. Gingl, Patrick D. Ferro, V. Sobolev, and S. R. Ovshinsky