Outreach

Presentations:

“Temporal consistency of undercanopy thermal refugia in an old growth forest” presented by Chris Wolf, PostDoc, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU

“Terrestrial Salamanders of the Pacific Northwest” presented by Tiffany Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, OSU

LTER Graduate student flash presentation: “Structural variation of headwater stream food webs along geophysical gradients.” presented by Lauren Zatkos, MS student, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, OSU

Announcements and Reminders:

• Long-term members of the HJA community, Rob Pabst and Don Henshaw, are retiring. Rob retired on Nov 30, and Don will be retiring on Jan 4.  The December monthly meeting will be their last official LTER meeting. Please join us at 10:30 AM at the December Monthly Meeting to celebrate their contributions and share cake and coffee. There will be large poster-sized cards to sign.  On Don's last day, Friday Jan 3, at noon, there will be an all-hands, sendoff celebration in FSL 20 with pizza and stories.
• The Fall 2019 issue of the Andrews Forest Newsletter is now online at: https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/publications/newsletter/fall-2019. Past issues can be found at https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/publications/newsletter.
• Monthly meetings are used to share science, news, and opportunities related to the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and Long-Term Ecological Research program. We start with a science hour and then move into program news and announcements. Anyone is welcome to attend.  Monthly meetings are on the first Friday of the month during the academic year, from 9 AM - 11 AM. The next meetings will be January 10, Feb 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5. 

9-11 AM, Forestry Sciences Lab, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Room 20

Elizabeth Rush's most recent book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. Hailed as "deeply felt" by the New York Times and “the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing” by the Chicago Tribune, Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.

With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that rising seas are transforming the coastlines of the United States in irrevocable ways. Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. Weaving firsthand testimonials and profiles of wildlife biologists, activists, and other members of vulnerable communities, Rising privileges the voices of those too often kept at the margins.

Rush was awarded an Andrews Forest Writing Residency through the Spring Creek Project in 2016, and one chapter in Rising is set at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest.

Tuesday, January 14
6:30 p.m.
Corvallis Public Library Main Meeting Room
645 NW Monroe Ave

Presentations: Science and Art in the Lookout Creek Watershed

• Ivan Arismendi Aquatic vertebrates of Lookout Creek (15 min). Ivan Arismendi will summarize findings from about stream habitats and aquatic vertebrates from synoptic sampling in Lookout Creek this summer. 
• Leah Wilson Artwork inspired by Lookout Creek watershed (45 min). Leah Wilson will show her art that is inspired from Lookout Creek, why she continues to create art from the Andrews Forest, and she will introduce the concept for the Peavy project. 

Presentations are followed by sharing announcements across the program. 

Monthly meetings are used to share science, news, and opportunities related to the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and Long-Term Ecological Research program. We start with a science hour and then move into program news and announcements. Anyone is welcome to attend.  Monthly meetings are on the first Friday of the month during the academic year, from 9 AM - 11 AM. The next meetings will be December 6, January 10, Feb 7, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5. 

Friday, November 1, 9-11 AM, Forestry Sciences Lab, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Room 20