Outreach

Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, December 3, 9-11 AM

“Investigating how species interactions influence population and community responses to environmental change: update on the LTER8 reciprocal transplant experiment” presented by:

• Posy Busby, Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
• Joe LaManna, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Marquette University
• Abigail Neat, PhD student, Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU

After our presentations, we will move into our community meeting to share new publications, new faces, and updates from our WNF partner, graduate students, and education and outreach. 

Our meetings follow the academic year. Next meeting: Jan 7, 2022.  9-11 AM. 

Contact Lina DiGregorio for Zoom link.

You are invited to join a webinar featuring presentations by two Andrews Forest artists, David Buckley Borden and David Paul Bayles, hosted by Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Lead Principal Investigator, Michael Paul Nelson.

Register for the Webinar. Wednesday, May 5, 4 p.m. PST. 

While the Andrews Forest is known internationally as a site for leading forest science research, it also hosts a vibrant arts and humanities program. In partnership with the Spring Creek Project, artists, writers, philosophers, and musicians from all over the country are regularly in residence at the forest. This event features short presentations by two Andrews artists, followed by a conversation with Lead PI Nelson and the audience.

About the artists:

David Buckley Borden is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. Using an accessible, often humorous, combination of art and design, he promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David is currently a Visiting Professor within the Landscape Architecture Department at the College of Design's School of Architecture and Environment at the University of Oregon. In addition to teaching studio and environmental-communication coursework through the lens of his practice over the next two years, he is spearheading a new design-ecology initiative between the Department and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest.

Photographer David Paul Bayles focuses on landscapes where the needs of forests and human pursuits often collide, sometimes coexist, and on occasion find harmony. Some of his projects utilize a documentary approach while others use a more contemporary art practice. One of his current projects, "Standing, Still," seeks to show the dignity and strength of the trees burned along the McKenzie River in Oregon's 2020 Holiday Farm Fire.

This event is sponsored by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program and the Spring Creek Project.

Join us for a conversation about the new public art installation “Listening to the Forest,” located in the George W. Peavy Forest Science Center on the OSU campus. The discussion will be preceded by a short video introducing the artwork and includes a live Q&A with the artist Leah Wilson. Attendees will have an opportunity to send in questions.

Register for the Webinar. Wednesday, May 12, 4 p.m. PST.   

"Listening to the Forest" is a public art installation made possible through Oregon's Percent for Art program and Oregon State University. The composition and color of the installation is based on the distinctions of the cellular structure of wood and the variances of light quality from forest canopy to forest floor. The artwork creates a contemplative visual experience of light, color, shadow, and rhythm. Through the layered cut-outs, the experience of viewing the artwork changes based on the vantage point of the viewer and the quality of light from the windows in the PFSC atrium. Scaling two floors, "Listening to the Forest" is installed above the PFSC atrium stairs which are made from recycled glulam beams from the former Peavy Hall. The Peavy Forest Science Center highlights an entirely new of way of thinking about building and design.

Leah Wilson is a visual artist and writer who lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. A 2012 artist residency at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascades introduced her to ecologists working on long-term studies in the forest. Attracted by the long-term focus of study, she is now an episodic lifetime artist in residence at the Andrews Forest. Her artwork has been exhibited at galleries throughout the West Coast and her work is in national and international public and private collections.

Dr. Brooke Penaluna is a research scientist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station who studies trout, fish, streams, rivers, and watersheds. Brooke was moved by the different layers in Leah’s work that change based on where you are standing, which is a lot like Brooke’s experience in observing streams. Leah was the first artist that made Brooke think differently about her science.

This event is hosted by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program, the OSU College of Forestry, and The Spring Creek Project for Nature and the Written Word.  

Arts-humanities-science connections at the Andrews Forest are made possible through donations. We appreciate your support.

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. This event is part of the nine-week series Pandemic as Portal: Creating a Just Future on Earth hosted by the Spring Creek Project and Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative.