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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, rinsing off a decomposition strip with ethanol to halt decomposition after a two week incubation period
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, measures dissolved oxygen consumed by microbes on a decomposition strip.
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Researchers measures dissolved oxygen consumed by microbes on a decomposition strip and collect stream invertebrates with a Surber sampler.
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Researchers rinse off a decomposition strip with ethanol to halt decomposition and collect stream invertebrates with a Surber sampler.
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, measures dissolved oxygen consumed by microbes on a decomposition strip.
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, uses a BenthoTorch to measure green algae, cyanobacteria, and diatoms in Lookout Creek
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, sets up a wildlife cam to record how wildlife use a large log laying over the stream as a passageway
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, measures the size of a large log laying across the stream as part of a study on wildlife use of downed wood as passageways
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In the last 10 years, David Herasimtschuk has photographed forests across the Pacific Northwest, documenting the inhabitants of these last remaining old-growth ecosystems. From salamanders and salmon...
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A major threat to small mammalian carnivore populations is land use change, but conservation and management are inhibited by limited knowledge about the animals' ecology and natural...
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"Hermit Warblers (Setophaga occidentalis) are an endemic-breeding species in the Pacific Northwest that winters in Mexico and the Central Americas. This species faces threats from mature...
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Wildfires can alter streamflow response to precipitation and change water quality, which can pose a risk to aquatic ecosystems and downstream drinking water treatment. Research often focuses on...
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Publication Year: 2023
Castañeda-Gómez, Laura; Lajtha, Kate; Bowden, Richard; Mohammed Jauhar, Fathima Nahidha; Jia, Juan; Feng, Xiaojuan; Simpson, Myrna J. 2023. Soil organic matter molecular composition with long-term detrital alterations is controlled by site-specific forest properties. Global Change Biology. 29(1): 243-259. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16456
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Publication Year: 2023
Iskin, Emily P.; Wohl, Ellen. 2023. Beyond the Case Study: Characterizing Natural Floodplain Heterogeneity in the United States. Water Resources Research. 59(8): e2023WR035162. doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035162
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Publication Year: 2023
Murray, Rylee Garrett . 2023. Assessing and mitigating risk to amphibian populations from shifting anthropogenic stressors. Burnaby, British Columbia: Simon Fraser University. 120 p. Ph.D. Dissertation.
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Publication Year: 2024
Arismendi, Ivan; Gregory, Stanley V.; Bateman, Douglas S.; Penaluna, Brooke E. 2024. Shrinking sizes of trout and salamanders are unexplained by climate warming alone. Scientific Reports. 14(1): 13614. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-64145-x
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Publication Year: 2024
Bush, Sidney A.; Johnson, Sherri L.; Bladon, Kevin D.; Sullivan, Pamela L. 2024. Stream chemical response is mediated by hydrologic connectivity and fire severity in a Pacific Northwest forest. Hydrological Processes. 38(7): e15231. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15231
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Publication Year: 2024
de la Cruz, Ben. 2024. A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests [Blog]. September 3, 2024. npr.org: NPR.
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Publication Year: 2024
Farinacci, Michael D.; Jones, Julia; Silva, Lucas C. R. 2024. Carbon-Water Tradeoffs in Old-Growth and Young Forests of the Pacific Northwest. AGU Advances. 5(4): e2024AV001188. doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001188
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Publication Year: 2024
Jefferys, Kendall M.; Betts, Matthew G.; Robinson, W. Douglas; Curtis, Jenna R. F.; Hallman, Tyler A.; Smith, Adam C.; Strevens, Chloë; Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús. 2024. Breeding habitat loss linked to declines in Rufous Hummingbirds. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 19(2)2. doi:https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02681-190202