Susan Stafford Oral History Interview

Susan Stafford came in 1979 to the OSU College of Forestry with a background in statistics and quickly took up leadership of the Quantitative Science Group, the computing system, and information management for the Andrews Forest, leading to establishment of the Forest Science Data Bank. She was also a pivotal leader in development of the information management community and system across the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network. In 1998, she moved to Colorado State University and then University of Minnesota to take on more administrative leadership positions. Throughout her career, she helped connect the Andrews Forest program with other LTER sites and with the National Science Foundation, which funded much of the development of management systems for environmental information for programs like LTER.