Focus Spring 2020

Focus: Spring 2020

At the College of Forestry, we conduct research, outreach, and education programs that deliver healthier forests, resilient ecosystems, and innovative products for the benefits of people and communities. This work plays a significant role in Oregon State University’s recognition as an international leader in forestry research and education as we deliver programs and conduct research throughout Oregon and around the globe.

It wouldn’t be possible, however, if it weren’t for the outstanding work conducted at the OSU Corvallis campus and within the local community. This issue focuses on our world-class researchers and students and the individual labs and forests where they work every day.

This is a perfect opportunity to reconnect and learn more about our work, people, and spaces, and our efforts to improve the entirety of the working forest landscape.

Spring 2020 Focus Stories

Oak Creek: A Legend in the World of Geomorphology

When Assistant Professor Catalina Segura looks at Oak Creek, she sees something iconic – something famous in her world of stream geomorphology.

The Ecology of Surprise

Researchers throughout Oregon State University, across the state, and around the world conduct research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest..

The Pole Farm

Five acres of Peavy Arboretum are filled with utility poles. But why? “It’s our pole farm,” answers Senior Faculty Research Assistant Jed Cappellazzi. “We are growing them!”

A Place That Grows

Visitors to the Oak Creek Greenhouse on Western Boulevard in Corvallis enjoy world-class technology and a variety of seedling studies – plants growing in just about every place one can look. But it wasn’t always like that.

The Value of Recreation

When the State of Oregon needed to increase revenue for outdoor recreation facilities and maintenance, they turned to Oregon State University for answers to their questions, and for scientific data to help inform their decisions.

Student Profile: Josh Fix

“I found forest engineering and it was the perfect major for me,” says Josh Fix. “It allows me to solve the same kind of problems and use applied science, but I get to do it outside where I see a bigger impact because of everything outdoor spaces provide.”

Student Profile: Joshua Stump

Renewable Materials senior Joshua Stump is hungry for international experience. He landed at Oregon State after earning a Jazz Piano Performance degree from Arizona State University and spending five years in the United States Navy.

THOMAS H. DeLUCA TO JOIN COLLEGE AS DEAN IN JULY
Oregon State has selected Thomas H. DeLuca, a higher education leader with deep experience in both natural resource and environmental issues, as the next Cheryl Ramberg-Ford and Allyn C. Ford Dean of the College of Forestry. He will join the college in July 2020.

DeLuca is a forest soil scientist whose long research career includes more than a decade in Sweden and the United Kingdom. He comes to Oregon State from the University of Montana, where he is the dean of the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation.

IN MEMORIAM
The College of Forestry mourns the loss of these alumni and colleagues. We wish peace and comfort to their family and friends.

Wayne Giesy
Hull-Oakes Lumber
March 14, 1920 – July 28, 2019

James "Jim" Denison
Class of 1950
1927 – November 9, 2019

Dr. John F. Bell
Class of 1949 and Professor, CoF
January 7, 1924 – November 16, 2019

Dr. Amy Grotta
Extension Agent and Assistant Professor, CoF
December 24, 2019

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