Julia Jones Oral History Interview

After eight years as a professor of geography at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Julia Jones moved to OSU in 1989 and began collaborating with Gordon Grant, a colleague from graduate student days at Johns Hopkins University. That initial Oregon research focused on analysis of peak flows records from experimental watersheds at the Andrews Forest and from larger watersheds in the Cascades. Thus, began many years of analysis, publication, and mentoring of grad students working on long-term hydrology, climate, biogeochemistry, and other data. She also led several large, NSF-sponsored programs supporting undergraduate and graduate education, which student and faculty mentor talent to work at Andrews on a wide range of topics, including landscape ecology and applications of math and computer science.