OSU:
- Professor John C. Buckhouse (Rangeland Ecology Management/Water Quality) is the local authority on the life and times of J.B. Charbonneau, the infant who traveled with Louis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery.
- One of Oregon's most famous sons is OSU alum Dr. Linus Pauling (1901-1994), the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes. Throughout the year The PaulingBlog, presented by the OSU Libraries Special Collections, will be featuring stories that illustrate Pauling's strong life-long connection with his home state. Visit the Linus Pauling Blog <http://paulingblog.wordpress.com/category/oregon150/> to learn more.
- Long-Term Ecological Reflections: 2003 - 2203
In a program that will continue for two hundred years, writers visit sites in the forest to create an ongoing record of their reflections on the relation of people and forests changing together over time.
Long-Term Ecological Reflections is a collaboration between the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word, a program in the Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University and the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program; and the Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service.
In all of our programs, writers are encouraged to visit designated study sites for reflecting on and writing about the forest and their relation to it. These writings, which will form a collection spanning hundreds of years, will be gathered in permanent archives at Oregon State University, and are accessible via the web-based Forest Log <http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lter/research/related/writers.cfm?topnav=37> . Visit The Springcreek Project <http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/index.html> to learn more about this unique opportunity for writers.
UO:
- Teaching of Native Languages
- A geography professor's work, "Woodburn, Oregon: a microcosm of immigrant shifts in America" that includes a video slideshow narrated by the professor (a new technology UO is using in partnership with YouTube). See the url below.
http://pmr.uoregon.edu/science-and-innovation/uo-research-news/
research-news-2008/march-2008/
woodburn-oregon-a-microcosm-of-immigrant-shifts-in-america/
- The study of DNA in human feces remains in Paisley Caves in southwestern Oregon -- evidence of ancient Oregonians.
- Bob Bussel, a professor of history and Director of UO's Labor Education and Research Center: His 100-page booklet tells the story of labor in Oregon, focusing on eight leaders who often used their commissioner's post of the state's Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) as a bully pulpit to promote social stability and decency.
- Anthropology:
- Geraldine Moreno: five-year National Institute of Health Community Based Participatory Research Award to a group of research and community organizations, “Communities and Schools Together;” analyzing local (Eugene) obesity health risks for children. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/
- J. Josh Snodgrass: Acculturation and psychosocial stress among Latino immigrants in Oregon <http://www.pinniped.net/snodgrass.html>
- Lynn Stephen “Latino Roots in Lane County,” done in collaboration with the Lane County Historical Museum, Latino community consultants, and several of her graduate students, focuses on the oral histories of the diverse group of Latino immigrants and migrants found in Lane County. The project will result in a museum exhibit, oral history texts, and a video. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/
- Sandra Morgen: Her current research focuses on welfare reform in Oregon, based on three years of research with families that were/are on cash assistance or Food Stamps, and with welfare workers. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/
- Madonna Moss and Jon Erlandson: Native American Archaeological Sites of the Oregon Coast: The Historic Context for the Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. In Dunes, Headlands, Estuaries, and Rivers: Current Archaeological Research on the Oregon Coast, edited by Guy L. Tasa and Brian L. O'Neill, pp. 1-36. Association of Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 8. Eugene, Oregon. Published in 2008. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/
- Dennis L. Jenkins: performs ongoing work in the Paisley Caves and Connley Caves of Central Oregon, and at Sage Hen Gap. According to Dr. Jenkins’ website, “The site is only the second in Oregon to produce multiple fluted points, documenting human activity in the late Pleistocene early Holocene interface.”
- General: Southwest Oregon Research Project about Native tribes in SW Oregon (ongoing). Contacts include Jon Erlandson and the Anthropology Department. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/, http://www.uoregon.edu/~coyotez/index.html (SWORP website)
- Biology:
- Richard Emlet: Eggs, larvae, and juveniles of marine invertebrates offer many opportunities to explore how organisms interact with their current environment and have evolved over geological time. What happens to these early stages in their environment may be essential for determining patterns of life cycle evolution, current patterns of population dynamics, and the evolution of new forms and body plans. In my laboratory, we explore many facets of these early stages in invertebrate life cycles. We focus on the interactions of the organism with its environment. The laboratory is part of the University of Oregon’s Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~oimb/> ) located in coastal Charleston (2.5 hours from Eugene’s main campus). http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://biology.uoregon.edu/
- Bart R. Johnson: Oak Savanna Landscape Planning and Restoration: Oregon white oak savanna, once common in Oregon's Willamette Valley, is now considered an imperiled ecosystem. Johnson’s team is investigating the potential to integrate oak savanna restoration with reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in the wild land urban interface. They use extensive biophysical data sets to analyze the mechanisms underlying historical trajectories of ecological change, and to project future changes under a suite of alternative futures land management scenarios developed in collaboration with a stakeholder advisory group.
- Bart R. Johnson: Upland Prairie Fire Ecology and Restoration: Prior to Euro-American settlement, the Willamette Valley contained extensive grasslands including upland prairie, wet prairie and oak-pine savanna. Those habitats have become increasingly rare and, because of their high biodiversity value, are being targeted for conservation and restoration. They conducted an experiment at the Howard Buford Recreation Area near Eugene, Oregon, to test the effects of prescribed fire on the composition and structure of a prairie plant community, and, more broadly to investigate how ecosystem dynamics affect the community's invasion by exotic species.
- Bart R. Johnson: Wetland, Prairie Restoration: In a collaborative effort with the West Eugene Wetlands (WEW) partners, we have been experimentally testing the effectiveness of different site preparation techniques (e.g., solarization, herbicides, tilling, etc.) for restoring wetland prairie and soil functions. The project is described in detail at http://www.lcog.org/wewresearch. The dissertation of Laurel Pfeifer-Meister is based on this project. (Also Scott Bridgham-PI- and Bitty Roy-Co-PI, and grad student Laurel Pfeifer-Meister
http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://biology.uoregon.edu/
- Alan Shanks: Investigating the role of nearshore topographically generated circulation on the cross-shelf dispersal of larvae. The study focused on sites along the southern Oregon coast. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://biology.uoregon.edu/
- Alan Shanks: Nearshore Fronts Presence/absence of fronts will be determined from thermistor moorings positioned across fronts at cove and open coastal sites at 3 locations in Oregon. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://biology.uoregon.edu/
- Environmental Studies/ Geological Sciences:
- Josh Roering: Bedrock channel incision of Holocene lava flows In the Oregon Cascade Range, spring-dominated river channels traverse lava flows of varying age, incising bedrock at rates that vary with slope and bedrock (i.e., lava flow) properties. We use airborne LiDAR and detailed field observations to quantify channel downcutting and document the mechanics of incision. http://www.uoregon.edu/~jroering/research.html
- Josh Roering: Post-fire erosion geomorphic response: Fire fundamentally alters landscape function. Fires often trigger a suite of geomorphic processes that transmit high sediment yields to nearby streams, degrading aquatic habitat and endangering human life. Preliminary data in the Oregon Coast Range suggest transport by dry ravel dominates geomorphic response to the extent that the soil mantle is preferentially stripped revealing wide swaths of bedrock. Using LiDAR data, we plan to develop predictive models for mapping the location and magnitude of sediment delivery following fire events. In addition, we will use our models to reconcile millennial-scale fluctuations in sediment delivery with long-term fire frequency records documented from lake cores. These studies will enable us to quantitatively link modern process rates with fluctuations revealed in sedimentary deposits. http://www.uoregon.edu/~jroering/research.html
- Geography:
- Susan Hardwick: Recently completed a longterm NSF and Canadian Embassy-funded project in collaboration with James Meacham, Director of the UO InfoGraphics Lab, on refugees from the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, and Africa who now live in the Pacific Northwest.
- Marilyn Olson of the College of Education is the Co-PI for a four-year project funded by FIPSE <http://geography.uoregon.edu/hardwick/fipse/QCTeach3/index2.htm> (the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of post-Secondary Education) and the Oregon University System. The "Quality Content Teaching" project provides curricular and personal support for Oregon teachers based on the Japanese-inspired "Lesson Study" approach. Also on the education front, it's been exciting working with the Dept. of Geography’s innovative Summer Graduate Program in geology education for K-12 social studies and geography teachers. The program is the only one in the country that provides an opportunity for teachers to complete their master's degree during 2-3 summers in residence in Eugene and via online courses. For further information about this innovative, teacher-centered summer program, check out our EDGE <http://geography.uoregon.edu/edge/> web site and its links to the larger world of geographic education: http://geography.uoregon.edu/edge/.
- Derrick Hindery: Environmental and policy impacts of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) projects along the commodity chain, from source areas of extraction in Bolivia and the Peruvian Amazon to sites of distribution and consumption in Southern California, Oregon and Mexico. The study aims to determine whether, and to what extent marginalized communities will be disproportionately affected by construction and operation of LNG receiving terminals in Costa Azul (Baja California, Mexico), Long Beach (California) and Coos Bay (Oregon). http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://geography.uoregon.edu/
- Patricia F. McDowell and Andrew Marcus, PIs Michael Hughes, Graduate Research Fellow: The overall goal of this project is to use evidence from historic large floods to understand the spatial pattern and controls of channel changes resulting from large floods (>25 yr recurrence interval), and to determine whether human response to historic floods has limited the ability of rivers to regenerate fish habitat.Their first study site is the Umatilla River in northeastern Oregon. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://geography.uoregon.edu/
- Lise Nelson: Current research explores the politics of race, place and belonging in Woodburn, Oregon--the state's largest city with a majority Latino/a population. http://cas.uoregon.edu/uogetpage.php?page=http://geography.uoregon.edu/
Western Oregon University:
- A interesting account of the work of Dr. Ester Lovejoy, M.D. can be found in Professor Kimberly Jensen’s work: “‘Neither Head nor Tail to the Campaign’: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912” appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Oregon Historical Quarterly.
