News & Events

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February 09, 2021

Register for Nelson's talk "Welcome to the Center for the Study of an Uncertain Future: A Tour." Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 6 p.m. Learn more and register here...

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February 05, 2021

For our Winter 2021 meetings (Jan, Feb, March) we are discussing fire. The 2020 fire season will leave its mark on ecosystems of the western Cascade Mountains, inside and outside the boundaries of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and LTER site. Our history of fire-related research and long-...

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February 03, 2021

"Evidence of buried particulate organic carbon as foundation for heterotrophic carbon metabolism in the hyporheic zone of a montane headwater stream in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, USA"
Satish Serchan, M.S. in Water Resources Science 
Major Professor: Dr. Steve...

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January 15, 2021
The National Science Foundation awarded the Andrews Forest LTER program with supplemental funds to support recovery from the wildfires of September 2020. The funds will be used to reestablish and remeasure vegetation plots that were burned in the...
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January 08, 2021

For our Winter 2021 meetings (Jan, Feb, March) we are discussing fire. The 2020 fire season will leave its mark on ecosystems of the western Cascade Mountains, inside and outside the boundaries of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and LTER site. Our history of fire-related research and long-...

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December 16, 2020
The National Science Foundation awarded the Andrews Forest program $7.1 million for six additional years of long-term ecological research (LTER). The Andrews Forest LTER program has been supported by the NSF LTER program since 1980. Long-...
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December 14, 2020
The Andrews Forest LTER site is featured in the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s (OMSI)’s Science At Home Weekly, which offers curated, digital content for K-8 students focused on weekly themes.  Check out Fun with...
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December 10, 2020
Congratulations to Kate Lajtha, who was named an 2020 AGU Fellow in recognition of “exceptional contributions in our Earth and space sciences community through breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their disciplines.” Since 1962...
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December 04, 2020

For our three Fall 2020 meetings (Oct., Nov., and Dec.), we are discussing climate and microclimate at the Andrews Forest. Given the centrality of climate in our program, in the five Core Areas of LTER, the number of climate and climate-related projects within our program, and in our thinking...

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December 03, 2020
The book A Place for Inquiry, A Place for Wonder: The Andrews Forest by historian Bill Robbins draws on print materials, oral histories, conversations, and Bill’s own ramblings in the forest beginning in 1964. The book offers a...