Articles and Reports
- How Hogan’s highway-widening plan would harm local parks and waterways. Greater Greater Washington, 7/10/19.
- MD okayed Hogan’s bad highway-widening plan but delayed the Beltway portion. Greater Greater Washington, 6/9/19.
- “Green Streets” keep streams and rivers safe. So why are some communities rejecting them?. Greater Greater Washington, 6/1/18.
- Building a Roadmap for Successful Regional Mitigation. July 2015. Defenders of Wildlife. Co-author with Natalie Dubois.
- The Evolution of an Idea and an Institution: Assessing the Progress of the Army Corps of Engineers in Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration and Cultural Change in the Florida Everglades. May 2011. Master’s Thesis.
- Assessing the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Process Under the Oil Pollution and Superfund Acts: A Memo for an Environmental Nonprofit Organization. 2010. Co-author.
- Three Rivers Park and the Pomperaug River, Woodbury, CT: A Management Analysis of River Stability and Riparian Buffers. Co-author. Prepared for River Processes and Restoration class with Professor Jim MacBroom; hosted by the Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition. Fall 2010.
- Making Sugar Cane Sustainable: A Report for the World Wildlife Fund. 2010. Co-author.
- Resilience in US Forest Service Policy: A Report for Defenders of Wildlife. 2010. Co-author.
- Mapping Trees in New Haven. Urban Issues Newsletter, Vol 20 No 2 P 10. Fall 2009.
- Growing Native Education Guide. A comprehensive watershed education curriculum for early grade teachers in the Potomac River watershed, assisted in development (particularly with GIS maps) while working as an intern with the Growing Native project of the Potomac Conservancy. Published 2008.
- Cava, E., Fety, L., Hudson, M., Keeley, K., Palmer, L., Ritter, C., Schroeder, E., & Wistar, E. Mapping Environmental Justice in Delaware County. Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar, Swarthmore College. Spring 2006.
- Cava, E. Environmental Education and Political Engagement: Teaching for Sustainability. Honors Thesis in Environmental Education, Swarthmore College. Spring 2006.
- Moore, D., Hsu, H., and Cava, E. The spatial distribution of Japanese knotweed (F. Japonica) in the Crum Woods of Swarthmore College in Spring 2006. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Senior Honors Seminar, Swarthmore College. Spring 2006.
Speeches and Presentations
Selected conference posters, speeches, and presentations.
Nature Forward Blog Posts
Selected blog posts written during my time as Director of Conservation at Nature Forward (formerly Audubon Naturalist Society)
News Clips
- “More than a Name: A Conversation with Nature Forward,” by Marisa Olszewski. Choose Clean Water Coalition Blog, 11/14/22.
- “Three Local Streams Get ‘Meh’ Quality Ratings From Local Audubon Society,” by Jacob Fenston. DCist, 9/1/22.
- “Returning to offices, rethinking commutes,” by Katherine Shaver, Luz Lazo and Justin George. The Washington Post, 9/2/21.
- “Latino Environmental Activists Rise From the Grassroots,” by Rosanne Skirble. Maryland Matters, 2/16/21.
- “A Kojo Climate Series: The Loss Of Species,” guest on The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU, 1/14/20.
- “Here Comes The Sun: Local Solar Farms, Legislation and Accessibility,” guest on The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU, 7/22/19.
- “The Sixth Extinction Is Underway. What Local Species Are At Risk?,” guest on The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU, 5/13/19.
- “Georgetown Solar Farm Blocked Over Concerns About Forest Loss,” by Jacob Fenston. WAMU, 8/29/19.
- “District streams suffer from urban pollution and construction, report finds,” by Tara Bahrampour. The Washington Post, 12/20/18.
- “ H-eel-o there: Rare find in one Rock Creek Park stream — the American eel,” by Dick Uliano. WTOP, 12/11/18.
- “Eels Are Returning To Rock Creek! But Don’t Get Too Excited,” by Jacob Fenston. WAMU, 12/7/18.
- “Notebook: Hair Today, The annual lumberjack mustache contest,” by Lauren Rosenthal. Published in Yale Alumni Magazine, May 2011.
- “Man vs. Mother Nature,” by Matthew Graham. Virginia Living Magazine, October 2007.
- “Rugby Wraps Up,” by Chloe East. The Mount Holyoke College News, 5/1/08.
- “Death in the Ampitheater,” by Mellisa Phruksachart. Swarthmore College Phoenix. 10/23/03.
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