Publications & Reports

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  • Aircraft Noise, Wildlife Sounds, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 2001Download
  • American Dwellings: Being a true and accurate Account of the Author's geological Expedition into that Land, of his subsequent Capture & Conversion there amongst the Massawadchueset Natives, of his Great Escape and return to Civilization; and Divers Projects resulting therefrom, MIT Master of Architecture Thesis, 1976Download
  • Child's Wilderness: The Morton Arboretum, 1995Download
  • Comments on "Intransitive Model of the Earth-Atmosphere-Ocean System", M. Budyko, 1972Download
  • Comments on the replacement designs for New York's World Trade Towers, 2007Download
  • Community Policing should be the watershed issue, 2004Download
  • Computer Model of the House-Environment System, International Journal of Biometeorology, 1973 (one of the first computer programs to calculate energy flow between rooms and outside, including incorporating solar energy heating through windows into the design plans)Download
  • Defencing America, poems, 1976
  • Elements of Chaos and Fractals, textbook for the elementary school classroom, 1992
  • Fractal Approach to Land Use Planning, 2009Download
  • Fractal Geometry of Estuaries: Measuring the Length of South Slough, paper for the South Slough National Estuarine Reserve, Charleston, Oregon, an exercise in determining the fractal dimension of an estuary, 1990Download
  • Incontro Internationale Architetti presentation, 2006Download
  • Intransitive Model of the Earth-Atmosphere-Ocean System, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 1972 (the first computer model study predicting multiple stable earth climates, including current, ice-age, and "snowball" regimes)Download
  • Nature of Architecture: The Art & Science of Building with Chaos and Fractals, 2004 (an examination of how the new science of fractals and chaos might be applied to architecture)Download
  • A New Model for Small Airports: Cluster Economics and Private Enterprise, 2004Download
  • Principia Totius Terrae, Physics Thesis, Reed College, 1971 (study that lead to paper "An Intransitive Model of the Earth-Atmosphere-Ocean System")
  • Public Benefits of Private Development at Public Airports, 2004Download
  • Salix, poem, 2000Download
  • Seaplane Noise, 2002Download
  • Willamette River Calendar, Historic and Participatory Calendars, 1994, 1995, 1996 (annual calendars to raise awareness and appreciation of the river)
  • Yurts, in Shelter, 1973 (how to build yurts)