Portland State University's Sustaining Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab is in the College of Urban and Public Affairs. The SUPR lab aims to foster interdisciplinary research and community engagement. Research in the SUPR Lab is based around data collection, engagement, and decision making. The SUPR Lab provides opportunities to collaborate across multiple fields of study to allow for a holistic approach to research. 

Portland Parks & Recreation Urban Forestry's mission is to manage and ensure Portland's urban forest infrastructure for current and future generations. Our urban forest consists of 220,000 street trees, 1.2 million park trees, and innumerable private property trees. PP&R Urban Forestry is involved in managing or regulating all of these trees to differing degrees- creating and implementing the city's Urban Forest Management Plan, fostering community tree awareness and stewardship, developing tree policies and programs, monitoring and assessing the urban forest, issuing permits for planting, pruning, and removal of all public and some private trees, and responding to tree emergencies.

Community Advisory Committee Members
Anjeanette Brown
Deo Bhandari
Chi Bui
Sumitra Chhetri
Rachelle Dixon
Joe Enlet
Isatou Jallow
Bruce Nelson
Zachary Phan
Kristina Psaris-Weis
Sela Pulotu
Alvey Seeyouma
Hakima Siyad
Thuy Tu, Urban Forestry Commission
Desale Woldu