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.
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 Data Science (week 12) at: https://omsi.edu/at-home/weekly-science-activities
The content, which includes a reading, DIY activity, a career connection, and a design challenge is aimed for a K-8 audience but is most appropriate for upper elementary - early high school audiences or anyone with an interest in Long-Term Ecological Research. Fun with Data Science is available free of charge to anyone with internet access.
We invite you to share this opportunity with a colleague, friend, or relative.
We hope these engaging at-home activities will keep you curious—inspiring you to conduct your own experiments and do your own research.
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 about climate as a driver in the world’s ecosystems in general (not to mention climate change as a phenomenon in our world), it seems timely to spend a good portion of our 2020-2021 Monthly Meetings focused on climate.
Presentations:
"The needle mycobiome of old-growth Douglas-fir and the role of canopy structure" presented by Kyle Gervers, PhD student with Posy Busby and Joey Spatafora, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University
“Within-canopy wetness patterns and their potential roles in canopy hydration at the Andrews Forest” presented by Adam Sibley, PhD student with Chris Still, Forest Ecosystems and Society, College of Forestry, Oregon State University
Discussants: Posy Busby and Chris Still
Graduate student lightning talk: “The microbiome assembly of Douglas Fir and Western Hemlock seedlings" Presented by Abbey Neat, PhD student with Andy Jones and Posy Busby, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University
Announcements and Reminders:
Our meetings follow the academic year. Our next meeting will be Friday, January 8, 2021—note that the January meeting is on the second Friday, to work around the New Year holiday. Happy Holidays, all!
Future meetings: Jan 8, Feb 5, March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4. 9-11 AM.
The Fall 2020 issue of the Andrews Forest Newsletter, now online at https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/publications/newsletter
In this issue we explore the recent wildfires that burned in the Andrews Forest and the fire’s effect on our landscape and research. Topics include:
Happy Reading!
TAP TALK: PICTURE A DIVERSE SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE
TUE, NOV 10 (7 – 8pm Pacific Time)
Join "500 Women Scientists Corvallis" and Block 15 Brewing Company in celebrating World Science Day for Peace and Development.
Participate in a presentation on the importance and relevance of a diverse workforce in our understanding of the natural world. Dr. Brooke Penaluna, a Research Fisheries Biologist with the Forest Service, will use a fisheries case study to discuss how to change the faces of the workforce, so they more closely reflect all those that use or depend on aquatic natural resources.
In support of 500 Women Scientists Corvallis, Block 15 will donate a portion of food sales from deliveries (https://delivery.block15.com) and the Tap Room (https://block15.com/brewery-tap-room#overview-2).
Contact: 500WSCorvallis@gmail.com
You are invited to a Zoom webinar...
Webinar ID: 967 4684 2719
Passcode: 500WS
The Holiday Farm Fire playlist on the Andrews Forest YouTube channel features short video clips on the fire and fire recovery at the Andrews Forest. Walk through Watershed 1 just after the burn, watch an excavator replace soil and brush over fire lines, or see an Air Crane dropping water over Watershed 2 hot spots.
Our Photo Gallery features images from the recent Holiday Farm Fire, which burned in Watershed 1, Watershed 9, and Watershed 2. We will continue to post new images as they become available.
Oregon Public Broadcasting "Timber Wars," podcast "takes you inside the culture war that erupted in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s and '90s and reveals how the events of then shaped the world we know today." Told through investigative journalism, historical audio footage, and interviews, "Timber Wars" presents seven episodes that explore the lives, politics, and science that shape how we view our forests. The role of science from the Andrews Forest is highlighted in episodes 2 and 3.
THE ECOLOGY OF SURPRISE: ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS IN AN OLD-GROWTH FOREST
with Michael Paul Nelson, PhD, Ruth H. Spaniol Chair of Renewable Resources and Professor of Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, and Lead-PI at the HJ Andrews LTER Program in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University
presented June 16, 2020
View the recorded talk on the OMSI YouTube page. --start about 40 minutes into the video if you'd like to skip over the trivia questions and the initial technical sputters.
"Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Michael Paul Nelson, professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Oregon State University. He leads the Long Term Ecological Research program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
Located in the Cascades east of Eugene, the Andrews Forest has yielded surprising scientific discoveries that have changed our understanding of forest ecosystems. Nelson will share some of those surprises and present a new way to see science as a novel way into ethics.
Michael Paul Nelson is the Ruth H. Spaniol Chair of Renewable Resources and Lead Principal Investigator for the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. “Michael is different from most philosophers. He’s funny and irreverent and worried about the world, and especially about wolves.” – Kathleen Dean Moore, Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a time of Planetary Change
OMSI's Science Pub Portland - Virtual Edition is a weekly event that is open to anyone and everyone – no scientific background required. Just bring your curiosity, sense of humor, and appetite for knowledge!"