Please extend your congratulations to Jo Tynon as recipient of the Xi Sigma Pi/Julie Kliewer Mentor Award. Jo was among 20 nominees for this award with nominations being made by students and the award selected by students. Congratulations Jo! In addition, there were MANY other award recipients among our undergraduate and graduate students, including two students, Rachel Heath (CoF Outstanding Student Award, and RRM student) and Allison Field (Outstanding NR student) who will be graduating Summa Cum Laude in a few weeks.

FES professor Ed Jensen has been selected as a President’s Award recipient by the Oregon Community Trees organization for the 2010 Oregon & Community Forestry Award. The award recognizes Ed’s efforts in updating Trees to Know in Oregon, and his passion for educating students.

Do butterflies follow a particular path in their flight or is their movement through space completely arbitrary? Can we affect their behavior and protect them from extinction by modifying the landscape? Understanding these complex issues is the focus of  Victoria Bennett's research. Bennett, a postdoctoral research associate for FES and a new NGS/Waitt grantee, believes that the conservation of species fundamentally depends on how they move across the landscape.  Victoria Bennett works with Matt Betts in the Forest Landscape Ecology Lab.

Jane Smith, FES Courtesy professor, and Cassie L. Hebel, a former FES MS student, appear in the June 2010 issue of Science Findings.  Cassie L. Hebel reported that soils burned in severe forest fires are not sterilized by intense heat, as had been commonly assumed. Hebel’s MS research in the College of Forestry was conducted in affiliation with OSU’s Subsurface Biosphere Initiative.  Science Findings is a publication from the PNW Research Station.