This position will work with the LTER program at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest to help address questions related to how species interactions amplify or reduce responses to microclimate. The technician will lead a field crew in implementing a large-scale field experiment involving seedlings of canopy tree species, mosses, and fungal associates of plants along a 1,000 m elevational gradient in the Western Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Additional details at https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/133070.
Please join us on Friday, March 17th at 10am on Zoom for a presentation of Clayton Sodergren’s capstone, titled: “Long-Term Effects of Fire Severity, Time Since Fire, and Topography on Douglas-Fir Canopy Complexity in the Western Cascades, Oregon, USA.” Clayton is earning his MF in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Lisa Ganio and David Bell. Please contact the FES Department for the zoom link or for accommodations for disabilities.
Our April 7 monthly meeting will be a poster session featuring posters from graduate students, postdocs, and undergraduate students. Come find out more about the students’ work. April 7, 9-11 AM, FSL Room 20.
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, December 2, 2022, 9-11 AM “ Impacts of the June 2021 Heat Dome on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and Forests of the PNW.” Presented by Chris Still, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU, and Mark Schulze, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, OSU. “ Enhancing community at the HJA: an introduction and discussion” Presented by Michael Nelson, Nina Ferrari, and Joe LaManna. This will include a breakout room discussion. Graduate Student lightning talk by Ian Whidden: " Forest canopy effects on snow water storage in a maritime snow...
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, January 13, 2023, 9-11 AM Presentations: “Long-term data for modeling current and future species distributions at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest.” Presented by Nicolò Anselmetto, PhD student, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Science, University of Turin, Italy. “Seventy years of watershed response to floods and changing forestry practices.” Presented by Catalina Segura, Associate Professor, Fisher Family Faculty Fellow, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, College of Forestry Graduate Student lightning talk:“Effects...
Bill Robbins, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History Oregon State University, will present, “Sixty Years of Forestry: A Retrospective on the Douglas-fir Region” this Wednesday, January 25, LaSells Stewart Center C&E Hall. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a reception 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Registration required: register HERE. Robbins is the author of the book “ A Place for Inquiry, A Place for Wonder: The Andrews Forest”.
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, January 13, 2023, 9-11 AM Emerging stories from LTER8 research. After our presentations we will move into our community meeting, which includes updates on graduate student activities, site, WNF, DEI, education, new faces, and recent publications. Our meetings follow the academic year; our next meetings will be Feb 3, Mar 3, Apr 7, May 5, Jun 2. PFSC 315. Contact Lina DiGregorio for Zoom link.
Find out more about new discoveries and activites. The Fall 2022 issue of the Andrews Forest Newsletter is online at https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/publications/newsletter
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, December 2, 2022, 9-11 AM “ Hillslopes to streams: Emerging trends related to aspect, land use, and climate at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest” presented by Pam Sullivan, Associate Professor, Dole Chair in Geosciences, Oregon State University “ Engaging K-12 teachers and students in authentic practices of science with the Andrews Forest LTER Program: from inspiration to inquiry.” presented by Kari O’Connell, Senior Researcher and Program Lead for Authentic and Field-based Learning, STEM Research Center, Oregon State University After our...
Andrews Forest-inspired works of photographer David Paul Bayles and designer David Buckley Borden (and his U of Oregon landscape architecture students) have been featured in gallery shows in far-flung places. Borden’s Ghost Forests exhibit in the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University in Boston contains wood and metal pieces inspired by pine cones, stools used to insulate fire lookouts from lightning strikes, and other prompts characteristic of the Pacific Northwest forests. Samples of Bayles’s Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future project in burned forest have been...
Photographer Nancy Floyd is using her 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship award to explore remote corners of the Andrews Forest with Marquette University ecology professor Joe Lamanna and his field crew and students. This art-science encounter is in early stages of development, but after weeks in the field together this summer, a theme of immersion seems to be taking shape – the literal immersion of everyone swimming in a sea of vegetation and the immersive attentiveness of artist and field ecologists pouring over a meter-square plot for hours or expanding a hectare-scale reference stands to many...
This recruitment will be used to fill one full-time Trade/Maintenance Worker 2 position for the College of Forestry, at Oregon State University. This position will be located in Blue River, Oregon. https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/128423 This position provides maintenance of the facilities at the Headquarters Site and remote research installations of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA) near Blue River, Oregon. Oregon State University’s (OSU) Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society jointly administers the HJA with the United States Forest Service (USFS), Pacific Northwest (PNW)...
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, Oct 7, 2022, 9-11 AM “Late-successional and old-growth forest status, trends, and threats for the Northwest Forest Plan area” presented by David Bell, Raymond Davis, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station “Identifying resilient old forest using spatial prioritization: an example process and scenarios” presented by Mark Linnell, Ray Davis, Josh Chapman, Adam Duarte After our presentations we will move into our general meeting, which includes updates on graduate student activities, site, WNF, DEI, education, new faces, and recent...
John Grade talk and reception: John Grade's monumental sculpture, "Emeritus," suspended in the middle of OSU's giant sequoias in the Memorial Union Quad, is inspired by the form of an absent tree. This event will include an informal viewing of the sculpture, complimentary food/no-host wine and beer, artist talk, informal conversation and book signing. Friday, Oct. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the SEC Plaza. Alongside the sculpture are sensors, based on work of the Long-Term Ecological Research program at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, that will measure the tree trunk expansion, bird sounds and...
Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology Fall 2022 Seminar Series: Joe LaManna will present on "Environmental Drivers of facilitation and antagonism: implications for forest populations, communities, and biodiversity,” Oct. 28 at 4 p.m., either in person in Learning Innovation Center Room 302, or virtually via Zoom
Sculpture artist John Grade is partnering with researchers with the Andrews Forest LTER program to create a public art installation on the campus of Oregon State University. "Emeritus" will be suspended between three large trees, and the trees will be fitted with sensors that record data on tree trunk expansion and contraction, DNA on organisms, and bioacoustics on birds. The piece is featured in an Oct 10 article in the Albany Democrat-Herald, " OSU's giant sequoia sculpture combines art and research to learn about climate change" And on KGW News
The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-term Ecological Research Program is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar to investigate species interactions and forest microclimates as drivers of community structure and ecosystem processes. The postdoc will contribute to field experiments focused on how species interactions (competition, mutualism) affect species distributions (of trees, mosses, lichens, and other taxa), as well as how microclimate might moderate species interactions and ecosystem processes. There will also be opportunities to work with long-term datasets to address questions relating to...
The All Scientists Meeting of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network convenes researchers and students from all 28 LTER sites across the country. The theme of this year’s meeting, Generations, “points to the dedication of researchers who may commit entire careers to understanding the mechanisms at work in ecosystem science.” In line with that theme, the Andrews Forest LTER program sent 35 participants that spanned generations and career stage: undergraduate students, graduate students, post bac students, graduate students, post doctoral scholars, staff, faculty researchers, and...
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, Oct 7, 2022, 9-11 AM " Biodiversity as a means to quantify old growth and inform forest conservation practices (Proposal Discussion)" presented by Matt Betts, Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University " Understanding biodiversity and drivers of community differences using next-generation natural history" presented by Taal Levi, Associate Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University After our presentations we will move into our general meeting, which includes updates on graduate student activities, site, WNF, DEI...
Please join us on Thursday, September 1 st at 9am in PFSC 315 or over Zoom for a presentation of Allison Swartz’s dissertation, titled: “Experiments and Observations on How Riparian Forest Changes Affect Light and Stream Ecosystems.” Allison is earning her PHD in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Dana Warren. Please contact the FES Department for the zoom link or with questions or for accommodations for disabilities.
Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future an 18 month collaboration between photographer David Paul Bayles and HJA scientist Fred Swanson can now be viewed at: www.followingfire.com See more of David Paul Bayles' work at https://www.davidpaulbayles.com
The USDA Forest Service, Ecosystem Processes Research Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is looking to fill a Program Specialist position for Site Manager for the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest. The Site Manager oversees the day-to-day operations of the Headquarters facilities. The position was open from September 2-12, 2022. now closed.
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday, June 3, 2022, 9-11 AM “Biotic interactions and geographic range boundaries” presented by Anna Lesley Hargreaves, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University, Canada “Microclimatic buffering below forest canopies” presented by Pieter De Frenne, Professor of Applied Botany, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Belgium After our presentations we will move into our general meeting, which includes updates on graduate student activities, site, WNF, DEI, education, new faces, and recent publications. Our meetings follow the academic...
MS Thesis Defense: “Climate Variability and Plant-Pollinator Networks in the Cascade Range, Oregon” Melinda Vickers, M.S., Geography Advisor: Julia Jones Friday, May 27, 2022 9:00 AM PST Burt 193 & Zoom
Andrews Forest Monthly Meeting: Friday,May 6, 2022, 9-11 AM “The shallow and deep hypothesis: linking flow paths and subsurface biogeochemical reactions” presented by Li Li, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State University “Leveraging long term stream chemistry to understand how Lookout Creek responds to climate variability” presented by Keira Johnson, M.S. Candidate, Water Resources Science, Oregon State University After our presentations we will move into our general meeting, which includes updates on graduate student activities, site, WNF, DEI, education, new faces, and...
Photographer and artist Nancy Floyd has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship based on her work that “explores the aging female body, the passage of time, barren landscapes, and trees. She uses photography, video, and mixed-media to address the ways in which lens-based media can connect deeply with experience and memory.” Floyd will spend part of her Fellowship working with the forest and the science of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program. Floyd shares, “Basically, I love hiking, and having witnessed both the positive and negative ways that humans...
The OSU College of Forestry is hosting an art reception this Friday, April 22, 5PM - 7PM, in the A.A. Red Emmerson Lab. Anyone is welcome to attend. Andrews Forest Designer-In-Residence David Buckley Borden will be there to present his piece: “Atmospheric Rivers,” wood, anemometers, weather vane, and assorted hardware. Collaborators: William Bonner, David Buckley Borden, and Kennedy Rauh. “The skies are arguably the largest rivers are in the sky. This piece is a kinetic instrumentation sculpture highlighting the invisible natural processes that structure our daily lives. The air is full of...
Please join us on Thursday, April 21 at 10am in Richardson 107 or on Zoom for a presentation of Amanda Brackett’s thesis, titled: “Effect of residual canopy cover and wildfire smoke on near-surface microclimate temperatures.” Amanda is earning her MS in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Klaus Puettmann and Chris Still. She used PRIMET and CENMET data from the Andrews Forest as part of her study. Contact the FES Department for zoom link.
Cheryl Friesen of the US Forest Service is recipient of the 2022 Oregon Wildlife Society Conservation Award. Friesen has served as the Science Liaison for the Willamette National Forest for 15 years. In her role, Friesen has helped researchers and students design and implement research projects and translate the results into digestible information that land managers can utilize to plan forest restoration projects. As part of her coordination efforts, she has facilitated more than 20 different workshops on a wide variety of topics including young stand thinning and diversity, spotted owl prey...
We are pleased to announce two important transitions in our Andrews Forest LTER leadership team. On April 1, 2022, Dr. Matt Betts officially became Lead Principal Investigator of the Andrews Forest LTER Program. Betts is a Professor in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University, a long time Andrews Forest researcher, and has served as a co-signatory PI on the LTER grant since 2015. At the Andrews Forest, Betts' research focuses on microclimate in relation to forest structure and landscape characteristics, as well as the degree to which populations and...
Dr. Posy E. Busby, a new co-signatory Principal Investigator on the Andrews Forest LTER grant, is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award titled, “How plant genotype and environmental factors jointly influence the structure of microbial communities and plant health.” The project focuses on fungal endophytes, ubiquitous yet cryptic microbes found in the leaves of all plants. Busby’s project will elucidate endophyte community assembly processes and the functional influence of endophytes on plant function (e.g., disease resistance, drought tolerance). The work specifically...
Paige Becker is a PhD Candidate in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington, working with Adam Ward (now in Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University). Paige spent the summers of 2018, 2019, and 2021 at the Andrews Forest using salt and dyes to trace the streams of Watershed 1 with the goal of understanding flow paths and residence times within the hyporheic zone. Paige’s work will help scale reach studies to whole watersheds – using measurements from small sections of a stream inform how we understand streams at the...