Graduate students are a critical part of the Andrews Forest research program. Graduate students have the opportunity to participate in various events and activities throughout the year, and also interact with faculty and other graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines.
Training
The Andrews Forest LTER program provides opportunities for training and development, including workshops on data management, emerging technologies, experimental design, grant writing, science communication, and incorporating broader impacts into your research.
Job and Funding Opportunities
Our email lists are used to share job and funding opportunities for the Andrews Forest, the LTER Network, the OSU research community, and beyond.
Connections
Long-Term Ecological Research Network sites exist across the country and around the world. Participating in the program opens up numerous opportunities for LTER graduate students to network, travel, use long-term datasets, and learn new technologies. By joining the Andrews Forest LTER community, graduate students have a chance to get involved in long-term, integrated research and a community of interdisciplinary scientists, scholars, and students.
How to Get Involved
Sign up for the LTER graduate student email list by contacting the Andrews Forest LTER Coordinator. Through this email list you will receive communications about monthly meetings, graduate student activities, job opportunities, funding opportunities, and other news from the Andrews Forest community and broader LTER network.
Attend LTER Meetings. LTER monthly meetings are held the first Friday of each month throughout the academic year (October - June). Typically the first hour of each meeting is dedicated to research presentations. These "Science Hour" talks give students a chance to learn about the diverse range of work being done as part of the research program. The second half of the meeting is spent sharing announcements, site use proposals, significant publications, new funding opportunities, safety issues, Forest Service updates, and graduate student activities. This is a great way to keep up with what's going on with the program, and also to meet and network with other members of the Andrews Forest community.
Do research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (HJA). If you are interested in starting a field project at the HJA, please see the Guidelines for Researchers page and contact the Forest Director to learn more about how to get started.
Use our data. It is easy to tap into extensive, long-term datasets to enrich and broaden the scope of your research project. Our databases include decades of climate and hydrological data, GIS maps, species lists, and vegetation data, all available on the web. Data use should be in compliance with our Data Access Policy. Please contact our Information Manager for more information.