Opening reception for artist Leah Wilson's solo exhibition, "Collecting Evanescence", at Lane Community College from 4:30 - 6:00PM, Thursday, January 10, 2019. This exhibition will feature the debut appearance of "Constructing Water", a project two years in the making! Lane Community College, Main Campus, Building 11 4000 E 30th Ave, Eugene, OR 97405 Constructing Water, Hand Cut Dura-Lar, 48 in. x 67 in.
Sherri Johnson, US Forest Service PNW Station scientist and leader in the Andrews Forest program, was recently awarded the Inspiring Women Award as an outstanding mentor. This award recognizes a mentor who takes an active interest in the development of individuals, provides expert counsel as they prepare individuals for challenges, and helps individuals succeed in their career and advancement to the next level. Sherri was recognized for her excellence in serving as a role model and mentor to many women; for her leadership in her field of expertise; and for her dedication to furthering the...
Frederick Swanson, an emeritus scientist with the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In all, AAAS awarded the distinction of Fellow to 416 of its members this year who have demonstrated scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Fellows are nominated by a committee of their peers and carry the title for life. Swanson was recognized by the association’s geology and geography section for improving understanding of the...
In the Fall 2018 issue of the Andrews Forest Newsletter you can... Learn how we track changes in a stream over four decades Get a blast from the past with a history lesson See the Andrews Forest with NEON Consider ethical dimensions of forest management Hear about sonic textures of the Andrews Forest Past issues of the newsletter can be found on our Newsletter page.
Friday, December 7, 9 AM – 11 AM, in the Forestry Sciences Lab (FSL), Room 20. Host: Michael Nelson 9:00 - 9:30 AM “The role of local biotic interactions in the maintenance of biodiversity across the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest” presented by Joe LaManna, Assistant Professor, Marquette University 9:30 - 10:00 AM “Soils and soil carbon: Current projects and future possibilities at HJA” presented by Jeff Hatten, OSU FERM Dept. 10:00-10:05 AM “Studying changes in breeding bird communities of H.J. Andrews Forest“ presented by Hankyu Kim 10:05-10-35 AM “Thinking More About LTER8: I want your...
The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest is featured in a new 2018 entry in "The Oregon Encyclopedia," an online reference of the Oregon Historical Society. The article is written by Oregon Historian and OSU Professor Emeritus William G. Robbins. Robbins traces the history of the USFS Experimental Forest and the NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research program, and puts the evolution of the program and its research themes into the broader context of world events. Read the full article: https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/hj-andrews-experimental-forest/… See more about Andrews Forest...
The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program will be part of OSU Centers and Institutes/Core Research Facilities Fair. Drop by the Memorial Union Horizon Room on Friday, Nov. 16, between 3 and 6 p.m. Come join us as representatives from 30 centers, institutes and other research facilities across campus provide information about their services and instrumentation. Attendance to the event is open to all faculty, staff, students and members of industry. For a list of the centers, institutes and facilities that will be in the MU Horizon room, go to https://research...
The Andrews Forest Writing Residency at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, which is part of the Long-Term Ecological Reflections program, brings together writers, humanists, artists, and scientists to create a living, growing record of how we understand the forest and the relation of people to the forest. Creative writers whose work in any genre reflects a keen awareness of the natural world and an appreciation for both scientific and literary ways of knowing are invited to apply for a residency of up to two weeks. Applications are due December 1. Learn more and apply on the Spring Creek...
Francisco Guerrero-Bolano, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Forest Management and Water Resources Science. Major professor: Jeff Hatten Dissertation Defense: “Biogeochemical signals of watersheds’ response to disturbance” In his research, Francisco looks at long-term records (30-1500 years) of biogeochemical signals that result from the interaction between streamflow, sediment transport and nutrient cycling in forested landscapes. Francisco combines detailed physical-chemical analysis of sediments with fundamental principles derived from the mathematical theory of information to gain mechanistic...
About fifty Oregon Season Tracker citizen scientists, teachers, OSU Extension personnel, and researchers gathered at the Andrews Forest to exchange ideas and inspiration at the Oregon Season Tracker (OST) retreat in mid-August 2018. Oregon Season Tracker is a project of Oregon State University that aims to link natural resource managers, educators, researchers and others in the community to the science they use through collaborative citizen science. Oregon Season Tracker is a joint program of OSU Extension and HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program. The OST...
Undergraduate student Emilee Mowlds, and graduate student Francisco Pickens, are featured in Oregon State University's Terra Magazine (see Student Research section; page 18). Both students are advised by OSU and Andrews Forest researcher, Ivan Arismendi, on stream ecology research at the Andrews Forest. Mowlds and Pickens were participants in the NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates program and did their work at the Andrews Forest. Mowlds said that participating in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program “felt like a mini version of a grad program where you develop your...
Dr. Michael P. Nelson of Oregon State University will be presenting on his research that sits at the intersection of ecology, social science, and environmental ethics: "Toward the Inevitable Fusion: Research at the Crossroads of Ethics, Ecology, and Social Science." The talk will be held on the OSU Campus, LINC 302, from 3:00 - 4:00 PM. The seminar is free and open to the public. Dr. Nelson is a professor at Oregon State University and severs as the Lead PI for the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-term Ecological Research program. Ecologists, Environmental Social Scientists, and...
Researchers at the Andrews Forest, and the forest itself, are featured in an Oregon Public Broadcasting EarthFix television show, "Old Growth Could Be Key For Native Songbird Species To Beat Climate-Change Heat." https://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/climate-change-heat… Get a stunning, bird's-eye view of the forest from above the trees, and through the trees, and find out what scientists are learning about how birds may be using the old-growth forest to beat the heat.
Artist Leah Wilson took a "six-year deep dive into the forest, working at the intersection of art and science to create art inspired by changes in the forest over an extended length of time." Wilson's work, and her exhibit, are featured in the Corvallis Gazette Times newspaper in the article, " Evanescence' at the intersection of art, science." The exhibit will be on view during the Corvallis Art Walk on Thursday, Oct. 18, 4-8 PM, in the Joan Truckenbrod Pop-Up Gallery, 517 SW Second St. in Corvallis. The exhibit runs through October 27.
Twenty five researchers, including nine graduate students, represented the Andrews Forest at the LTER Network's All Scientists Meeting, October 1-4, 2018. The meeting featured workshops, talks, and poster sessions to highlight the meeting's theme, "Next Generation Synthesis: Successes and Strategies." Andrews Forest researchers presented on topics such as wireless instrumentation, food webs, arts and humanities, educational tools for data exploration, and climate change at LTER sites. The All Scientist's Meeting, which happens every three years, offers the 28 sites across the LTER Network the...
The first monthly meeting of Fall 2018 will be November 2, 2018, 9-11 AM, in Forestry Sciences Lab, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Room 20. This meeting will start with a highlight on some of the ongoing social science projects that are part of LTER7. Following two talks, we’ll move into a discussion about ideas and next steps. “A remote eye on governance: pixels, policy, and place” presented by Robert Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Geography, CEOAS "Piloting Indicators for Social Forestry on National Forestlands in the United States” presented by Heidi Huber-Stearns. Assistant Research Professor...
You are invited to the 2018 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS) on Thursday, Sept 13, 12:00 – 1:50 PM (1st Floor Linus Pauling Science Center). REU student, Emilee Mowlds, will present some preliminary findings of her project conducted at the HJ Andrews “Comparing Seasonal Changes in Chlorophyll a Across Headwater Streams Using Measurements of In Vivo Fluorescence." Emilee is an undergraduate from OSU's COF and worked at the Andrews Forest with Dr Ivan Arismendi.
Leah Wilson’s solo exhibition of work from the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest since 2012 titled, Leah Wilson: Collecting Evanescence - Six Years at the Andrews, will be seen at Joan Truckenbrod PopUp Gallery in Corvallis, OR. The exhibition opens October 6 and runs through October 27, 2018, with a reception for the artist Saturday, October 6 th from 4:00pm to 6pm, and an artist’s talk at 4:30pm. The artist will also be present during Corvallis’ Third Thursday Art Walk October 18, 2018. Leah Wilson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Bachelor of Fine...
REU students in the EISI program ( https://agsci.oregonstate.edu/eisi) will present their final summer projects, based on field work and modeling of plant-pollinator networks and stream networks in the HJ Andrews Forest. Thursday, August 23, 2-4 PM Kelley Engineering Center Rm 1001 2:00 PM – Welcome 2:05 – 2:20 PM. Longitudinal stream concavity as a predictor of solute transport behavior at the reach scale. Hunter Stanke, Michigan State University 2:20 – 2:35 PM. Cross-sectional area and roughness as predictors for solute transport behavior at the reach scale. Tadd Bindas, Marist College 2:35...
Photographer David Paul Bayles is displaying 13 new works from the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest at the Pop-Up Gallery across 2nd Street from the Beanery in Corvallis, Oregon. The doors are open 1-6 pm, Saturday July 14, on following Saturday afternoons, and during the Corvallis Arts Walk 4-7 pm Thursday, July 19. A closing reception is planned for Saturday August 11, 4-6 pm. His project is titled "Old Growth Dialogue: Magical Realism Meets Real Time Data." Please stop in and enjoy these stunning works paired with images of microclimate data from the time and place of the photographing...
The Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program will host a poster meeting this Friday, June 1, 9 – 11 AM, in FSL Room 20. This poster meeting will replace our June monthly meeting. The poster meeting is an opportunity to share and communicate research, plans, and ideas across our research community. Anyone is welcomed to attend. Anyone in the research community—researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students, staff—is invited, encouraged, to bring and present a poster. Posters could include plans for the upcoming field season, study design, hypothesis, or findings from more...
Species and Microclimate Controls on Dynamics of Bryophyte Water Absorption and Retention. Cristina Riani's Honors Thesis Defense. May 23, 2018. 2 - 4 PM, Wilkinson 203
Stephanie Bianco will defend her MS thesis, A novel approach to process-based river restoration in Oregon: practitioners’ perspectives, and effects on in-stream wood Wednesday, May 30 10 AM Strand 361, OSU Campus
“Science & Art Collide” How art and science are converging to explain natural phenomena Dr. Swanson is an Emeritus Scientist with the US Forest Service, a courtesy professor at OSU, and a Senior Fellow with the Spring Creek Project. Jill Sisson just completed her project for her MA in Environmental Arts & Humanities titled "Meeting the Night: The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat." Asian & Pacific Cultural Center Open and free to everyone! Coffee and treats provided.
HJA Day is an annual field gathering to share information about research, outreach, education, management, and arts and humanities at the Andrews Forest. The full-day event takes place at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Blue River, Oregon, and features presentations and field trips. HJA Day is hosted by the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. In 2018, HJA Day highlights the 70th anniversary of the 1948 establishment of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (see our History page for more on the history of the site). HJA Day is open to anyone. The event is free...
By Sarah Minette Kelly. The HJA Discovery Trail Interpretive Experience is a digitally delivered arts+science program created for middle-school and high-school student groups to engage with place, reflect on their values, and explore forest processes. During this 45-minute talk we will journey to the HJA Discovery Trail, experiencing this multi-faceted program through the curriculum itself, Sarah's experience leading the field trips, and the analysis of the student experience that led to emergent typologies of care. The talk will conclude with a 15-minute Q&A session. For those of you who can...
Join us as we continue our exploration of the 2015 drought. We will share a collection of data sets and short presentations from PIs on the drought year of 2015, to see how various data collection efforts align (or don't) in a year that may be representative of future climate conditions in this region. If there is time after the meeting, we will discuss take-home messages from this exercise. Immediately following, the general meeting will include updates on proposals, graduate students, Willamette National Forest partnership, site use proposals. Monthly meetings are used to share science, news...
The Long-Term Ecological Reflections Writers-in-Residence Program will host three writers and one musician who will be in residence at the Andrews Forest for spring 2018. Matthew Battles, a nonfiction writer and associate director of Harvard’s metaLAB, will be visiting from April 16-28. He is the author of "Tree", which explores human relations with trees—not only as sources of shelter, fuel, and food, but as objects of aesthetic interest and metaphor. Derek Sheffield is an award-winning poet from Washington state who will be at the Andrews from May 3-11. Derek's writing and research interests...
It’s hard to spot some kinds of animals—they’re secretive, or they’re active at night, or they live in remote places. This spring, scientists were delighted to find multiple images of two secretive mammals, the American marten (Martes americana) and the Grey fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), in photos captured by motion-sensor cameras set up in the Andrews Forest. The marten and the fox are seldom seen, even in a place like the Andrews Forest where researchers travel deep into the forest, morning and night. Although marten and grey foxes typically prefer older and undisturbed forests, they are...
"Numbers in Nature, Math on the Mountain" is a teacher–scientist partnership that explores stories of place through data. Through the program, teachers and scientists came together to collaboratively explore data that tell the stories of two locations in Central Oregon: the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA) and Mt. Bachelor. The goal was to increase teachers' data literacy so they could bring data and the stories that those data tell into their classrooms. The Numbers in Nature program is detailed by authors and researchers, Michael Giamellaro and Kari O'Connell, in an article in...
This residency at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest brings together writers, humanists, artists, and scientists to create a living, growing record of how we understand the forest and the relation of people to the forest. Creative writers whose work in any genre reflects a keen awareness of the natural world and an appreciation for both scientific and literary ways of knowing are invited to apply for a residency of up to two weeks between October 1 and November 30. Applications are due May 1. Learn more and apply here.
We’ll share a collection of data and short presentations from PIs on the drought year of 2015, to see how various data collection efforts align (or don't) in a year that may be representative of future climate conditions in this region. Immediately following the talks, the general meeting will include updates on proposals, graduate students, Willamette National Forest partnership, site use proposals. Graduate student highlight: “Modeling canopy architecture and crown interlocking effects by using point clouds” presented by Rong Fang, PhD student in the Department of Forest Engineering Resource...