Urban Waters Federal Partnership, Green-Duwamish via US EPA and the Puget Sound Partnership (2022 - 2025)

Serve as the Ambassador for the Urban Waters Federal Partnership, Green-Duwamish providing:

Engage and connect the communities in the Green-Duwamish Watershed particularly those that are have disproportionate environmental impact and economic disadvantages, to the river
Strive to support community interests in the Green-Duwamish; UWFP, the Puget Sound NEP, and federal partners on interests in the GD
Increase connectivity of the GD-UWFP to the watershed ecosystem and salmon recovery community.

Urban Waters Federal Partnership, Green-Duwamish via US Forest Service, PNW Research Station and State and Private Forestry, Urban and Community Forestry (2019 - 2026)

Serve as the Ambassador for the Urban Waters Federal Partnership, Green-Duwamish providing:

Ongoing engagement with national Urban Waters coordinators.
Convening and participation with partners working in the watershed to better leverage research, policy, implementation efforts and project effectiveness.
Outreach and engagement with stakeholders identifying research, policy, and implementation needs, capacity, and funding.
Advancing the Green Duwamish Learning Landscape, and completing research and project implementation with this partnership.
Identifying and implementing projects to support urban and community forests in the watershed.

GreenLatinos (2024)

Support grassroots grantmaking by guiding 15 cities through the development and advancement of their urban forestry programs.

Review and rescope USDA IRA funded municipal urban forestry projects, adjusting for modified federal requirements and focused community needs.
Partner with municipal staff to redesign actionable urban forestry projects aligning with the goals of serving traditionally underserved communities.

Willamette Partnership and US Forest Service (2021 - 2025)

Develop a pilot study into the multiple benefits of viewing forested landscapes as healing for both community and ecology.

Coordinate a regional exploration into the needs associated with capacity building for small and informal community organizations.
Provide stipends and micro funding to entities not typically funded by the Federal government.

Forterra and Washington State Department of Natural Resources (2020 - 2022)

Support the creation and evaluation of a student-led Landscape Scale Restoration effort focusing on school grounds adjacent communities through:

Supporting student learning survey creation, administration, and reporting.
Engaging locally-based community experts to facilitate the creation of pre-and-post surveys to measure student learning and outcomes.
Supporting students in leading Community Focus Groups.
Generating surveys for and consult on the administration of student surveys to evaluate learning across all multiple schools.

US Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, Urban and Community Forestry Program (2018 - 2020)

Working with a wide range of partners to:

Collaborate on ecological projects for the Green-Duwamish Watershed,
Support projects that integrate social equity, environmental justice, and public health concerns of the local communities,
Plan, and support an urban forestry pilot project in the watershed, and
Report on collaborative method successes and lessons learned for dissemination to GDW practitioners and other landscapes.

Willamette Partnership and US Forest Service (2017 - 2018)

Expanding partnerships throughout the Pacific Northwest to continue a decade long national effort to map and understand the networks of environmental stewardship organizations.

Coordinate with partners in cities across the country to modify and develop organizational engagement and assessment tools.
Design research relevant to stewardship practitioners and environmental equity organizations.

King County Parks, Natural Resource Lands Program (2016 - 2017)

Street Sounds Ecology is working with King County Parks to improve how they talk about forest stewardship and active forest management on County forest lands. This review includes work:

Compiling and characterizing existing forestry messages produced by the County, and the goals and objectives used.
Identifying best practices in forest stewardship communication content and messaging, as well as techniques, methods, and media.
Developing recommended communication strategy combining targeting improvements in forest stewardship messaging.

US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station (2015 - 2019)

Partnering with the Research Station to conduct needed research activities with the Green Cities Research Alliance, including:

Work with stakeholders and decision makers in the Green-Duwamish Watershed to develop research needs, and design priority studies.
Grant development and research design for new research programs.
Support the design, data collection, analysis, and reporting on numerous urban natural resource research efforts.
Development and production of Research Accomplishment reports.

TKF Foundation, Nature Sacred (2015 - 2017)

We are consulting with the TKF Foundation to develop Nature Sacred principles for green and open space across urban areas by:

Recommending integrating sacred spaces and healing garden site design with broader urban land use.
Developing conceptual mechanisms for the application of contemplative and restorative gardens across the urban landscape.
Developing design and policy recommendations for sacred spaces.

National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) (2015)

Street Sounds Ecology is partnering with the University of Washington supporting the University of Virginia Institute for Environmental Negotiation to help NUCFAC plan the next 10 years of urban forestry research:

Engagement of national urban forestry research experts representing the full range of science and practice in the field.
Collection of feedback from experts on a framework of objectives, testing the model developed from best practices and literature.
Summarization and synthesis of input, and recommendations for framework of objectives for the 10 year research plan.

Forterra (2014 - 2015)

Street Sounds Ecology is working with Forterra to aid understanding and best practices in the urban forestry field through:

Reporting and stakeholder engagement associated with a range of research completed on King County parklands.
Technical analysis and reporting on numerous biophysical and social science studies related to programming in Puget Sound urban forests.
The development and testing of a cost of urban forest restoration model.
Reporting and summarizing the opportunities and limitations of existing data predicting costs associated with forest restoration characteristics.

US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station (2014 - 2015)

Working with the Research Station we provide a range of expertise to aid the Green Cities Research Alliance. Activities include:

Convening and facilitation of professional and research scientists with resource managers and urban decision makers.
Advising on operating structure and process for research collaboration.
Support the design, data collection, analysis, and reporting on numerous urban natural resource research efforts.
Development of a materials and templates for science delivery to the public and natural resource managers.
Development and production of Research Accomplishment reports.

Teaching and Invited Talks

Through invited presentations, guest lectures, or guided class sessions we offer a range of direct educational sessions both in and out of the classroom: