Publications

Below, please find my publications (published/accepted only):
Breslow, S.J., Hollender, R., Trimbach, D.J., Koontz, T., Chang, M.H., Anderson, R.M., Rozance, M.A., Watson, J., Clifton, K., Flight, M., Fonner, R., Lewis-Smith, C., Morgan, A., and Naar, N. 2026. Daylighting the Environmental Social Sciences for Coastal Management: Introduction to the Special Issue. Coastal Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2026.2682001
Trimbach, D.J. and Niggemann, R. 2026. Place of Salmon?: Examining Salmon, Sense of Place, and Placemaking in Puget Sound. Environmental Management, 76(85).
Wilhere, G.F., Quinn, T., and Trimbach, D.J. 2025. An Opinion Survey of Participants in the Forest Practices Adaptive Management Program. Habitat Program, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA.
Trimbach, D.J. and Biedenweg, K. 2025. Structured Decision Making for the Real World: A Qualitative Analysis of How Governance Structures En(Dis)able SDM in Local Watershed Planning. Environmental Management.
Trimbach, D.J. and Biedenweg, K. 2025. Human Well-being Indicators as a Boundary Object for Social Science Integration into Conservation. Conservation Biology.
Hunter, A.H., Quartuch, M., Ross-Winslow, D., Solis-Sosa, R., Steffen, S., Trimbach, D.J., Van Deynze, B., and York, B. 2025. Human Dimensions Research and Applications within WAFWA: Best Practices and Practical Recommendations. Human Dimensions Committee: WAFWA.
Trimbach, D.J. Nagornyi, A., Bilyk, O., O’Keefe, S. 2024. Landscapes and Inclusion: Examining Nature-based Integration and Mountain Landscapes among Oregon’s Slavic Community. The Professional Geographer.
Trimbach, D.J., Bird, S., Rodriguez, C., and Blomker, R. 2024. Assessing Public Comment Report: Understanding Public Comment to Enhance Agency Procedures and Public Engagement. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: Olympia, WA.
Trimbach, D.J., Fleming, W., and Biedenweg, K. 2023. Whose Puget Sound?: Examining place attachment, residency, and stewardship in the Puget Sound region, In A.C. Diener and J. Hagen (Eds), The Power of Place in Place Attachment (Ch. 4). Routledge.
Trimbach, David J, and Niggemann, Rebecca. 2023. Gauging Geographic Literacy to Inform Puget Sound Restoration. Ecological Restoration, 41 (4): 164-168.
Trimbach, D.J., Nelson, B., Pritchard, F., Chang, M., Gutierrez, N., Niggemann, R., and Gerdes, G. 2023. Enhancing the Human Wellbeing Vital Signs through Inclusive Engagement Report. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife: Olympia, Washington.
Biedenweg, Kelly, Anderson, Leif, Chisholm Hatfield, Hollender, Rebecca, Samantha, Kintner, Leah, and Trimbach, David J. 2023. Seeking Consilience: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Social Science Contributions to Orca Conservation Knowledge. Journal of Nature Conservation, 72: 126364.
Clifton, K., Greene, G., Fonner, R., Ayers, A., D’Antonio, A., Shea, A. D., Horton, E., Damato, N., Barone, D., Trimbach, D., & Biedenweg, K. (2023). Human Wellbeing Targets and Baselines.
Trimbach, David J. 2022. Nature and Inclusion Project Highlights Report. Slavic and Eastern European Center, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization. Portland, Oregon.
Conway-Cranos, L., Toft, J.D., Trimbach, D.J., Faulkner, H., Krienitz, J., Williams, D., Des Roches, S., editors. 2022. The 2021 Puget Sound Nearshore Restoration Summit Proceedings. The 2021 Puget Sound Nearshore Restoration Summit; 2021 March 10 – 25; Virtual Summit. Olympia, WA: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. 258 p.
Trimbach, David J., et. al. 2022. Examining Coastal Sense of Place through Community Geography in Island County, Washington. Landscape Research.
Trimbach, David J. 2022. Examining Coastal Landscapes and Sense of Place in Estonia. Tallinn University, School of the Humanities, Humanities Blog.
Trimbach, David J. 2022. Using Online Surveys and Landscape Preferences to Enhance Nearshore Restoration. Ecological Restoration, 40(2):91-94.
Fleming W, King B, Robinson K, Wade E, Erickson B, Delie J, et al. 2022. Is there no “I” in team? Potential bias in key informant interviews when asking individuals to represent a collective perspective. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0261452. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261452
Biedenweg, Kelly, Trimbach, David J, & Fleming, Whitney. 2021. Integrating social science into Puget Sound restoration. Ecological Restoration, 39(4): 226-237.
Trimbach, David J. & Biedenweg, Kelly. 2021. Shared shorelines, shared meanings?: Examining place meaning in Puget Sound.  Applied Geography, 135: 102559.
Biedenweg, Kelly & Trimbach, David J. 2021. Human well-being in environmental management. In A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research, Beverley A. Searle, Jessica Pykett and Maria J. Alfaro-Simmonds (Eds).
Trimbach, David J., Gaydos, Joe, & Biedenweg, Kelly. 2021. Salish Sea Survey: Geographic Literacy Enhancing Natural Resource Management. Society & Natural Resources.
Trimbach, David J. 2021. Sense of Place in the Salish Sea Region. In State of the Salish Sea, Sobocinski, K.L. (Lead Author), G. Broadhurst and N.J.K. Baloy (Contributing Eds.). Salish Sea Institute, Western Washington University. https://doi.org/10.25710/vfhb-3a69.
Kondan, Silviu, Sahajpal, Mridvika, & Trimbach, David J. 2021. Identifying the Needs of Estonia’s Russian-speaking Minority: Covid-19, Data Disaggregation, and Social Determinants of Health, The Baltic Bulletin. Foreign Policy Research Institute: Philadelphia.
Trimbach, David J. 2021. Sensing Liminal Landscapes in Puget Sound, GeoJournal.
Trimbach, David J. 2021. Sensing Liminal Landscapes in Puget Sound (extended abstract), Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington Tacoma: Tacoma, Washington.
Trimbach, David J. 2020. Mobilizing Communities through a Civic Capacity Assessment, Ecological Restoration.38: 220-223.
Biedenweg, Kelly, Trimbach, David J., & Delie, Jackie, & Schwarz, Bessie. 2020. Using Cognitive Mapping to Understand Conservation Planning, Conservation Biology. 34 (6).
Trimbach, David J. 2020. Situating humans in ecosystem recovery: the Human Dimensions Protocol. Puget Sound Partnership: Tacoma, Washington.
Trimbach, David J. 2020. Whose Puget Sound?: Examining Place Attachment, Residency, and Stewardship in the Puget Sound Region, Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington Tacoma: Tacoma, WA.
Trimbach, David, Biedenweg, Kelly, & Fleming, Whitney. Whose Puget Sound?: Examining Place Attachment, Residency, and Stewardship in the Puget Sound Region. 2020. Geographical Review (part of a special issue on place attachment).
David J. Trimbach, Kelly Biedenweg, Trina Wellman, Emilie Franke, Leah Kintner, Kari Stiles, Mike Johnson, and Social Sciences Advisory Committee. 2020. Protocol for the Integration of Human Dimensions into Implementation Strategy Starter Packages. Puget Sound Partnership: Tacoma, WA.
Trimbach, David J. 2019. Sense of Place in Narva: How do Narva’s Residents Think and Feel about Their City?, The Baltic Bulletin. Foreign Policy Research Institute: Philadelphia.
Content Researcher and Analyst for: Puget Sound Partnership. 2019. State of the Sound Report. Olympia, Washington. November 2019. 79 pp. www.stateofthesound.wa.gov 
Trimbach, David J. 2019. Coastlines and Communities: A Preliminary Glance at the Relationships between Shorelines and Sense of Place in Puget Sound. Human Dimensions Lab, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Breslow, Sara Jo, Kintner, Leah, Dreyer, Stacia, Cole, Heather, Anderson, Leif, Biedenweg, Kelly, Bennett, Nathan, Donatuto, Jamie, Hanson, Erin, Norman, Emma, Poe, Melissa, and Trimbach, David. 2019. Social Science for the Salish Sea: An action-oriented research agenda to inform ecosystem recovery. Earlthlab, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Trimbach, David J. 2019. Sense of Place in Narva. Human Dimensions Lab, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon.
Trimbach, David J. & Gaydos, Joe. 2019. Survey illustrates a lack of familiarity with the Salish Sea, Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington Tacoma: Tacoma, WA.
Trimbach, David J. 2019. Salish Sea Survey. Prepared for the SeaDoc Society. May 2019.
de Ycaza, R., E. Wade, B. King, A. Del Cid, J. Delie, B. Erickson, W. Fleming, K. Robinson, A.K. Spalding, and Trimbach, D. 2019. Measuring organizational sense of place for marine conservation in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Final Technical Report. Instituto Nacional de Cultura. Panama City, Panama.
Bloodhart, Brittany, Bruch, Sissi, Davis, Brittany Y., & Trimbach, David J. 2018. Community-Based Participatory Research Hub (CBPR Hub). Coastlines and People (CoPe) White Paper Collection. University Cooperation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and National Science Foundation, San Diego, California.
Trimbach, David J. 2018. Equity & Social Science Integration at the 2018 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, Encyclopedia of Puget Sound. Puget Sound Institute, University of Washington Tacoma: Tacoma, WA.
Sahajpal, Mridvika, Kondan, Silviu, & Trimbach, David J. 2018. Integration Policy & Perceptions in Estonia, The Baltic Bulletin. Foreign Policy Research Institute: Philadelphia.
Trimbach, David J. & Reiz, Nicole. 2018. Unmaking Citizens: The Expansion of Citizenship Revocation in Response to Terrorism. Center for Migration Studies: New York.
Trimbach, David J. 2017. Estonian Citizenship Policy: The Restoration of a Country Leads to Statelessness for Some, Migration Information Source. Migration Policy Institute: Washington, DC.
Trimbach, David J. 2017. “Nationality is Ethnicity”: Estonia’s Problematic Citizenship Policy, The Baltic Bulletin. Foreign Policy Research Institute: Philadelphia.
Trimbach, David J. 2016. Understanding Narva & Identity: Local Reflections from Narva’s Russian-speakers, Baltic Worlds, 1-2: 4-12.
Trimbach, David J. 2016. Lost in Conflation: The Estonian City of Narva & Narva’s Russian-speakers, The Baltic Bulletin. Foreign Policy Research Institute: Philadelphia.
Trimbach, David J. 2016. Thank you for being a Friends Group: An Assessment of Friends Groups & Friends Group Best Practices, Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership, 6 (2): 115-126.
Trimbach, David J. & O’Lear, Shannon. 2015. Russians in Estonia: Is Narva the Next Crimea?, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 56 (5): 493-504.
Trimbach, David J. 2014. Scales of Estonian Citizenship: Implications for Russophone Political Incorporation, Civitas: Journal of Citizenship Studies, 3: 1-18.
Trimbach, David J. 2014. Restorationist Geopolitics: Constructing the Northeastern Estonian Border, Aldea Mundo, 37 (1): 37-51.
Trimbach, David J. 2014. A Guide to Forming Friends Groups for Public Agencies & Communities. Portland: Metro (not accessible to public).
Trimbach, David J. 2014. Civic Capacity Assessment of the Willamette Falls Legacy Project Community. Portland: Metro (not accessible to public).
O’Lear, Shannon, Pickett, Nathaniel Ray, Biersack, John, & Trimbach, David J. 2014. “The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate”, Progress in Human Geography, 38 (4): 629-632.