Professional blog posts
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Recent Articles, Papers, and Presentations (2009-2012)
- Building a Roadmap for Successful Regional Mitigation. July 2015. Defenders of Wildlife. Co-author with Natalie Dubois.
- The Arctic Irony. SAGE Magazine. April 2011.
- Progress Towards Cultural Change in the Army Corps of Engineers: Good News for Estuarine Ecosystem Restoration? January 2011. Poster at the National Council on Science and the Environment Conference, Washington, DC.
- 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. Also presented at the 2011 National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration.
- 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.
Older Articles, Papers, Publications (2002-2008)
- 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.
- Cava, E. “The effects of overpopulation and industrialization on the environment: London peppered moths during the Industrial Revolution.” Human Nature, Technology, and the Environment online article, Swarthmore College. Spring 2003.
- Cava, E. “Westward, Ho!: North American frontier expansion and its effect on the environment; specifically, the near-extinction of the American bison.” Human Nature, Technology, and the Environment online article, Swarthmore College. Spring 2003.
Articles About Me
- “Notebook: Hair Today, The annual lumberjack mustache contest,” by Lauren Rosenthal. Published in Yale Alumni Magazine. Article describing a Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies student tradition.
- “Man vs. Mother Nature,” by Matthew Graham. Published in Virginia Living Magazine in October 2007. Description of a two-day summer class on wilderness skills I taught in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
- “Rugby Wraps Up,” by Chloe East. 5/1/08. Summary of a rugby season (spring ’08) and the year (’07-’08) at Mount Holyoke College, where I served as Head Coach.
- “Death in the Ampitheater,” by Mellisa Phruksachart. 10/23/03. Review of the production of Euripedes’ Medea which I co-directed in the outdoor ampitheater at Swarthmore College.
Eliza F. Cava 