Handout included: Communication Document from the Office of Experiential Learning.
Presentation delivered at the 7th Biennial University Education in Natural Resources conference.
Handout included: "Engaging Minds, Building Community: An Action Plan for Facilitating Community Engagement in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources."
WSU Extension launched the Summer Youth Forestry Institute (SYFI) in 2007 as a way to engage youth in meaningful outdoor summer employment, teach science and natural resource skills, raise awareness of the functions and values of working forest lands, encourage natural resource-related careers, and enhance the management of public forest...
Investing in leadership development for natural resource professionals increasingly means linking learning for participants to performance for their employer. We were challenged to develop meaningful learning outcomes and their assessment, which included making the learning ‘real’ for the participants and their employer. Working collaboratively with the Ontario Ministry of Natural...
“Left field” implies something far from mainstream. In forest and natural resources education, biophysical science is the mainstream discipline. Biophysical sciences provide the knowledge to achieve desired forest and natural resource management goals. But an education that prepares students for successful careers must also provide understanding of the social context...
Colleges and universities across the country are feeling pressure from accrediting agencies and others to measure just what it is their students learn. Librarians at Oregon State University saw this as an opportunity to being information literacy into a campus-wide conversation about what all OSU graduates should know. Working directly...
Natural resource educators are beginning to appreciate that formal critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills are not only important but absolutely necessary tools for the 21st century natural resource professional (both scientist and manager). However, given a historic lack of formal ethical reasoning within natural resource curricula combined with the...
Teaching assessment can be a pain. But it can also be an opportunity. This poster describes my experience with student course evaluations and the development of a supplemental assessment tool.
I teach two courses required for the college’s general education curriculum: Western Civilization and the Environment, and Natural Resources in...
This presentation and paper were presented at the 6th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources. Proceedings of that conference were not disseminated. As further work by this author was presented as an update in the 7th Biennial Conference, we have included this supplementary material in this collection as...
Traditional soil science courses, especially with a hands-on lab component, have been face-to-face events. CSS 205, Soils: Sustainable Ecosystems, an introductory soil course with a lab for non-majors, has been taught via online delivery for four years. Skeptics of online science lab classes abound. The question remains: how does an...
Oregon State University’s recent response to the crisis in scholarly communications recognizes that teaching faculty must be involved in communicating an appropriate response to their faculty colleagues. As authors, editors, and peer reviewers, direct faculty action can encourage publishers to lower costs and can enhance the availability of research. The...
From July 16 to 20, 2007, international partners in a trans- Atlantic workshop series on coastal mapping and informatics, held a workshop on the campus of Oregon State University entitled “Coastal Atlas Interoperability.” The workshop engaged 27 participants from 6 countries, representing 17 organizations and multiple areas of scientific and...
The problem of locating a signal source, or an emitter, has many civilian and military applications, such as communication regulations enforcement, military reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations. Many of the most widely used emitter location methods rely on the accurate and robust estimation of the differential time delay,
or time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA),...
Community colleges in the United States have become an important educational destination for international students. According to the Institute of International Education (IIE, 2006), international students who enrolled for the first time at a U.S. campus increased by 8 per cent, from 131,946 students in 2004/2005 to 142,923 in 2005/2006....
The Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies
(CIOSS) partners with The Science and Math Investigative Learning
Experiences (SMILE) Program to bring ocean sciences and satellite
oceanography to high school students and teachers around the
state of Oregon. This study was conducted as a formative program
assessment during the third year...
Objective ‐ The authors describe a simple and effective tool for selecting digitization
projects from competing alternatives, providing decision makers with objective,
quantitative data.
Methods ‐ The paper adopts the value engineering methodology for the selection,
evaluation and ranking of digitization project proposals. Project selection steps are described. Selection criteria...
The northwestern corner of the Basin and Range Province (NWBR) lies in southeast Oregon where extensive Late Miocene, mafic to bimodal basalt-rhyolite volcanism and extensional faults dominate a stark and arid landscape. Near Lake Abert, the Late Miocene volcanic section abuts Early Miocene, dominantly intermediate composition volcanoes at the Coleman...
In this dissertation, I present the work of developing more efficient and economical techniques for fragmenting large bio-molecules, and ultimately making mass spectrometry a more powerful tool in proteomics, DNA sequencing, and other areas of biomolecular analysis.
Aiming at lowering the installation and operating cost, and delivering electron capture dissociation...
In this paper we introduce the iWatch web crawler, a tool designed to catalogue and analyze online data practices and the use of privacy related indicators and technologies. Our goal in developing iWatch was to make possible a new type of analysis of trends, the impact of legislation on practices,...
Dendrimers are nanoscale macromolecules that have highly branched, core-shell structures. Higher generation dendrimers have close-packed peripheral functional groups and a hollow interior. The chemistry of the core and the terminal functionalities can be tailored according to the specific application. These structural characteristics provide room for the design of dendrimers to...
Bill Plumb has been working with his wife to run this restaurant for 23 years. This interview was conducted in the restaurant after all the customers have gone.
Interview done by Ami Allain with Mary Steward on July 26th, 2007. The interview took place at about 11 o'clock am and it took place at the coffee shop The Gathering Place.
This interview was obtained as I was in there working on other homework and Joan and Nancy asked...
This interview with Jackie takes place at the elderly foster home. Jackie is the only mentally sane patient left at the nursing home she is 81 yrs old and has been living at the nursing home for 5 yrs. She seems happy and is very nice and open to answering...
Date and Time: 23 July, 9 a.m.
Jamie moved to Lakeview 14 months ago with her fiancé who works for the Forest Service. They joke about how her job at the Extension Office has been more of a career advancement for her than moving here for her fiancé’s job has...
At Jerry’s restaurant in Lakeview, I contacted Geraldine through the Energy As-sistance Program and she agreed to speak about the services that are available to those who need them
Mon wore a dark pair of jeans and a light yellow and pink shirt with decorations of flowers. Her nails are well cared for. Her hair was short and curly; they hide almost all of her ears. She puts on her rectangular glasses from time to time, mostly to read...
Date and Time: 17 July 2007, 3:40 p.m.
Brandon is McKenna and Cara’s swim coach, I interviewed him in the kitchen at the OSU Extension Office. He seemed eager to interview about food and arrived almost immediately after I talked to him on the phone. He struck me as the...
Elvia lives in a large house that looks shabby from the outside, but it is really well maintained inside – very clean with nice furniture. A few of her kids were home when I arrived, and they entertained themselves during out interview and were very well behaved. Elvia had just...
Sharon and I met at her house and conducted the interview at her kitchen table. I have been staying with her in Lakeview, so we already knew each other pretty well. She wore Capri spandex pants and an oversized t-shirt. She rarely brushed her hair, and it was tied back...
Carol is the process of moving and has many things to do today. We met in the sun porch room of the senior center where she had just finished eating lunch. During this interview I felt like a proctor because she seemed unaware of a lot of the questions I...
Friday, July 27, 2007 9:09 a.m.
Ivan forgot about our first, scheduled, interview which I had set up while at break-fast with Dave at Jerry’s. I really doubt I ever would have gotten to talk to the guy if I didn’t have that in at the beginning. We were just...
Saturday, July 21, 2007 11:03 a.m.
Debra was at the horse show to watch her granddaughter and, since her children were friends of the Staubs, allowed me an interview. She was a staunch Lakeview sup-porter and I think she felt a little confronted and suspicious, at first, of my motives...
Bob woke up at 4:00 this morning. He was dressed in blue jeans, white long-sleeved t-shirt, in general, very clean. He also wore gloves but I don’t think he actually did anything that required them. He wore large glasses and a white cowboy hat. Bob’s been interviewed multiple times before,...
Date and Time: 23 July 2007, 2:45 p.m.
Desiree Corona works at Blarney Bros and when the manager left for the day, she was left in charge. She is a Sandwich Artist and has been working there for about a year and during that time has been promoted to not...
I met Ora Temple in a bar and asked if we could set up an interview. He agreed and we eventually got together at the Lionesses BBQ. He’s not a big talker, but he is charming. We interviewed while I was volunteering and there was a lull in cafeteria. John...
• Moved to Lakeview 5 years ago.
• Retired ranchers; husband’s family was in ranching.
• Worked in school as teacher’s aid and administrator for 27 years.
Saturday, July 21, 2007 9:42 a.m.
I spoke to Bill at a horse show that his wife and daughter were both competing in. He was weaving Hackamores, a skill which I interviewed him about. I asked him those questions related to his weaving, although I did so without the recorder...
Date and Time: 20 July 2007, 10:50 a.m.
Steven is the owner and manager of Stewarts. I met him briefly before this sche-duled interview which took place in his office at Stewarts and was not recorded. He seemed like the kind of person who was all about marketing and maximizing...