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Ross Mersereau and Ted Dyrness Oral History Interview - Part 1
Ross Mersereau was a Marine and lost a lung during the battle of Iwo Jima, but still managed a career as a watershed technician on Andrews Forest working with Al Levno, Dick Fredriksen, Jack Rothacher, and others. An exceptionally reliable worker,…
Art McKee Oral History Interview
A native of New England where he did undergraduate schooling, Art McKee pursued graduate study at University of Georgia before heading west to OSU and the Andrews in the early 1970s. He expected to continue his PhD program, but found a career as…
Al Levno Oral History Interview
After a couple years as an undergrad student in forestry at Washington State University, Al Levno made his way as a “young, green kid” to the Andrews Forest in 1963 where he became a research technician for Jack Rothacher and Dick Fredriksen…
Jack Lattin Oral History Interview
Jack Lattin arrived at OSU in 1955, joined the Department of Entomology, which was then joint with Department of Forestry, and, as with many academic entomologists, mixed his entomology work between basic science and applied issues in agriculture and…
Mike Kerrick Oral History Interview
In the summer of 1952 Mike Kerrick, an undergraduate forestry student at the University of Minnesota, helped build the stone monument to support the plaque renaming the Blue River Experimental Forest to honor H.J. Andrews. Thus, began a career…
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…
Sherri Johnson Oral History Interview
Sherri Johnson gained a great deal of experience in research on impacts of hurricanes on streams in the Luquillo Experimental Forest and LTER site in Puerto Rico during here graduate work at the University of Oklahoma. So, she was well prepared when…
Mark Harmon Oral History Interview, Part 2
After growing up in Massachusetts, attending Amherst College, and doing some work in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, it was a big step for Mark Harmon to travel west in 1980 to OSU to undertake a PhD with Jerry Franklin and working on wood…
Mark Harmon Oral History Interview, Part 1
After growing up in Massachusetts, attending Amherst College, and doing some work in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, it was a big step for Mark Harmon to travel west in 1980 to OSU to undertake a PhD with Jerry Franklin and working on wood…
Robert Griffiths Oral History Interview
After completing a PhD at OSU in 1972, Bob Griffiths spent the next dozen years in marine microbiology research. However, research funding in oceanography became increasingly scarce, so he switched to forest soils using his skills in microbiology…