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Art Show Reception April 22
April 22, 2022

The OSU College of Forestry is hosting an art reception this Friday, April 22, 5PM - 7PM, in the A.A. Red Emmerson Lab.   Anyone is welcome to attend.

Andrews Forest Designer-In-Residence David Buckley Borden will be there to present his piece: “Atmospheric Rivers,” wood, anemometers,...

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MS Defense Amanda Brackett
April 21, 2022

Please join us on Thursday, April 21 at 10am in Richardson 107 or on Zoom for a presentation of Amanda Brackett’s thesis, titled: “Effect of residual canopy cover and wildfire smoke on near-surface microclimate temperatures.” Amanda is earning her MS in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Klaus...

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LTER Leadership Transitions 2022
April 06, 2022
We are pleased to announce two important transitions in our Andrews Forest LTER leadership team. On April 1, 2022, Dr. Matt Betts officially became Lead Principal Investigator of the Andrews Forest LTER Program. Betts is a Professor in the...
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Friesen Oregon Wildlife Society Conservation Award Recipient
April 06, 2022
Cheryl Friesen of the US Forest Service is recipient of the 2022 Oregon Wildlife Society Conservation Award.  Friesen has served as the Science Liaison for the Willamette National Forest for 15 years.  In her role, Friesen has helped...
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Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting April 2022
April 01, 2022

Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, April 1, 2022, 9-11 AM

“Linking mycorrhizal fungi to emergent forest carbon capture” presented by Colin Averill, Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich

“Restoring Forest Cover after Wildfire” presented by Robyn Darbyshire, Regional Silviculturist, USDA...

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Posy Busby receives NSF CAREER award
March 31, 2022
Dr. Posy E. Busby, a new co-signatory Principal Investigator on the Andrews Forest LTER grant, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award titled, “How plant genotype and environmental factors jointly influence the structure...
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Student Spotlight - Paige Becker
March 30, 2022
Paige Becker is a PhD Candidate in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington, working with Adam Ward (now in Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University). Paige spent the...
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ArtSci Student Fellowship Mentors Wanted
March 28, 2022
Become a science or art mentor for the new ArtSci Student Fellowship: In spring term, the ArtSci group at OSU will be launching an ArtSci Student Fellowship. This year-long fellowship will provide six undergraduate and graduate students...
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Authentic Research Experience for Teachers at LTER sites
March 28, 2022
The Authentic Research Experience for Teachers at NSF’s Long Term Ecological Research sites project engages high-school teachers in conducting field and laboratory research focused on the impact of emerging environmental stressors such as...
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Lookout Landscape
March 28, 2022
Fire lookouts and the people who operated them once served as guardians of the forests throughout the Pacific Northwest. Methods of wildfire management have shifted to high-tech solutions and many lookout towers have been torn down or re-purposed....