Hai Fleisch introduces herself as a Burlesque performer, producer, costumer and fabricator. She defines Burlesque as a performance art that incorporates elements of playful sexuality. Her style of Burlesque runs the gamut from Ziegfeld-style glamour…
Burlesque performer, dancer, and producer, BeeBee Sanchez, defines Burlesque as The Art of the Reveal, further explaining that it can be any kind of theatrical storytelling. She wonders if the term “Neo-Burlesque” is now too broad for the current…
Dr. Alfred Haunold is a retired plant breeder and director from the USDA-OSU hop breeding program in Corvallis, Oregon. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Sciences and was the scientist who released and developed many important hops, including the…
Gail Nickerson is a former chemist with the Department of Agriculture at Oregon State University, whose work was immensely influential in the global hop industry. In this interview, Nickerson discusses the series of event which led her to work in the…
Fred Swanson, a Forest Service research geologist, became involved in the Andrews Forest program in 1972 and succeeded Jerry Franklin as Principal Investigator in 1986. His work focused on interactions of landforms and geophysical processes with…
Julia Jones, Professor of Geography at OSU and long-time participant and leader in the Andrews Forest LTER program, has specialized in landscape ecology and analysis of long-term records, and has led several inter-disciplinary education and research…
Sherri Johnson arrived at Andrews Forest in 1996 to be a post-doc, having worked previously at the Luquillo LTER site (Puerto Rico). She joined the Pacific Northwest Research Station in 2001 as Scientist-in-Charge of the Andrews and has been a leader…
Mark Harmon began his work at Andrews Forest in the early 1980s and created an indelible mark with establishment of the 200-year log decomposition experiment in 1985 while a graduate student at Oregon State University working with Jerry Franklin.…
Jerry Franklin had a long history with the Andrews Forest, as described in his several other oral histories in the Voices collection. He began working there as a student intern in 1957, and as a Forest Service scientist he rose to a leadership role…
Barbara Bond, professor of forest ecology and ecophysiology at Oregon State University, served as Principal Investigator of the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program 2008-2014. She begins the interview by outlining her early days…