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News & Views

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Summer 2006

Inside PageMeet the New Faculty 3Distinguished Graduates 8Hatchery Research Center 10Kudos 11Donors 12Remembering Charles Warren 13From the Mailbag 14Hiram and Judy Li Retire 17Forestry Flap 17Survey of Graduates 18Scholarships 19

Message from the Department Head: Change is in the wind

Much has happenedaround the departmentsince my last message toyou in the spring of 2005.The Department’s 70thAnniversary and theCooperative Fish andWildlife Research Unit’s60th Anniversary Celebra-tion was a smashing

success. Over 120 alumni and friends attended; folkshad lots of opportunity to catch up, reminisce, andlearn about activities around the Department. Weunveiled two new scholarships at the 70th—the Carland Lenora Bond Scholarship and the Fritzell Diver-sity Award. We had the opportunity to recognize andthank the alumni, families, friends, and non-profitorganizations who support our many scholarships.

The Oregon Hatchery Research Center (OHRC),a cooperative research and education venturebetween the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife(ODFW) and your Department, opened on October15 to much fanfare and excitement. This excitingprogram will make Oregon a leader in research andeducation related to understanding and managingdifferences between hatchery and wild fishes. See thearticle on page 10 for more information on the OHRC.

There are many new faces in the Department(see new faculty profiles beginning on page 3).David Noakes, Senior Scientist of the OHRC, beganhis appointment in October. David is an internation-

ally recognized fish ecologist with a broad array ofinterests. Under our agreement with ODFW, David’sappointment is jointly funded by OSU and ODFW.David will direct the activities at the OHRC and willteach classes and mentor students in the Department.In January, Jessica Miller began her appointment atthe Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station(COMES), filling the Marine Fish Ecologist positionvacated by Ian Fleming two years ago. Jessica’spast research has focused on marine fish dispersalusing otolith microchemistry. She will continue toemploy these techniques among others in determiningpopulation ecology of anadromous and marine fishes.Jessica will also teach for our fall term program atHatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC).

Two new marine mammal scientists with COMES

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also call Fisheries and Wildlife home. MarcusHorning, a pinniped ecologist from Texas A&M,began his appointment in June. Marcus has pioneeredinnovative telemetry technologies for marine mam-mals focusing on environmental physiology. He willconduct research on Pinnipeds in the Pacific North-west as well as elsewhere, and will mentor graduatestudents. Scott Baker, a cetacean ecologist fromAustralia began his appointment in July. Scott is aworld-renowned cetacean geneticist and will serve asthe Associate Director of the Marine MammalProgram. He will also teach a class for our HMSCprogram. These two positions are jointly funded byOSU and the Marine Mammal Program Endowment,emphasizing the importance of endowment support ofOSU programs as well as the need to creatively fundfaculty positions.

Back on campus two new faculty appointmentshave helped balance the loss of two faculty mem-bers. Tiffany Garcia became our AgriculturalWildlife Ecologist beginning in July. Tiffany is anamphibian ecologist whose work has focused onephemeral wetlands in the Willamette Valley. This isa new position for the Department, which includesagriculture-related research as well as teaching threeclasses. Scott Heppell begins a tenure track ap-pointment in January 2007. Scott is a fish ecologist,who for the past five years has played an importantrole in our teaching program, both at HMSC and oncampus. Scott has also developed a wide-rangingresearch program in freshwater and marine systems.Scott replaces Bill Liss, who retired two years ago.Doug Robinson, our Arid Lands Ecologist, andFrank Burris, our Watershed Agent in Coos andCurry counties, were both promoted to AssociateProfessor and granted indefinite tenure in July.

It has not all be positive on the faculty scene.Bruce Coblentz retired in June after 31 years ofservice! Bruce will be missed for a number ofreasons. His expertise in mammal ecology, invasivespecies ecology, and big game management have

been important aspects of both our teaching andresearch programs. Bruce has been a favoriteteacher in our program for many years. He has alsobeen an active participant in Department governance,and his counsel will be sorely missed. Judy Li alsoretired in June after 16 years—see the announce-ment regarding a celebration on page 17. Judy isrecognized across campus for her success in collabo-rative research—the aquatic insects that she studieshave formed the base for numerous community andecosystem studies. Judy has also been recognizedfor her outstanding teaching accomplishments andher innovative course, Multicultural Perspectives inNatural Resources. I will also miss her thoughtfuldiscussions during faculty meetings. Finally, DickSchmitz, our Landscape Ecologist resigned hisappointment in March. We hope to be able to beginsearches for one or both of these positions in the fall.Also departing was Kelly Wildman, who served asan office specialist in the department working onspecial projects for over 20 years. Kelly left to focusfull-time on her webpage development company. Wewill miss her smiling face around the department, butare fortunate to have been able to contract with herto handle our Department website.

On the unsettling side, Nash Hall has received a$1.6 million dollar grant for earthquake readinessupgrades. The building was designed in 1968, beforestricter building codes were put in place to protectagainst earthquake damage. We all hope the workgets completed before the “big one” hits.

We are preparing for a 10-year program review inwhich our teaching, research, and extension pro-grams will be examined for quality and relevance.These reviews always help identify areas where wecan improve what we do and they also reaffirm areasof excellence. If you have comments or suggestionsabout potential changes in our programs we would bemost interested in hearing them.

Dan Edge

The Registry of Distinguished Graduates (see page 8)is intended to recognize a select few of our alumni whohave made major contributions to the field of fisheriesand wildlife, and who have achieved distinction in acareer in natural resource education, research, ormanagement. Please consider nominating someonefrom among our graduates with at least 20 years ofexperience in the field. Nominations should describe thehighlights of the nominee’s professional career andcould include a resume. A committee composed offaculty and alumni will review the nominations and selectthe next year’s additions to the Registry. Please sendyour nominations to Dan Edge by December 15, 2006.

News and Views is an alumni newsletter publishedannually by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlifeat Oregon State University.Editor—Jim HallComments, letters, and suggestions are welcome andshould be addressed to: Editor, News and Views,Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon StateUniversity, Corvallis, OR 97331-3803 orjames.hall@oregonstate.edu

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I was born and raised insouthern Ontario,Canada. My B.Sc. andM.Sc. degrees werefrom the Department ofZoology, University ofWestern Ontario. MyM.Sc. degree was onsunfish ecology andbehavior in the labora-

tory of Miles Keenleyside. My Ph.D. degree waswith George Barlow at the University of California,Berkeley on the development of behavior in cichlidfishes. My first academic position was in the Depart-ment of Zoology at Edinburgh University in Scotland.I was then a faculty member of the Zoology Depart-ment (now Integrative Biology) at the University ofGuelph (Assistant, Associate, Professor) until Imoved to Oregon State University. During my time atGuelph I served as Acting Chair of the Departmentof Zoology, and I was founding Director of theAxelrod Institute of Ichthyology. I have been aVisiting Professor at Oxford University, KyotoUniversity, the University of California at Davis, theUniversity of Iceland, the University of California atBerkeley, Holar University College in Iceland,Nagasaki University, and Huazhong AgriculturalUniversity in Wuhan, China. My current position isProfessor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlifeand Senior Scientist and Director of the OregonHatchery Research Center.

While at the University of Guelph I served anumber of terms on Academic Senate and chairedseveral University Committees, including the Univer-sity Library Committee, the International Committeeand the Chancellor’s and President’s ScholarsCommittee.

I am Editor-in-Chief of the international journalEnvironmental Biology of Fishes, and Editor of theFish and Fisheries monograph series, both publishedby Springer Verlag. I was a founding member of theOntario Ecology and Ethology Colloquium, and thebiennial conference on Ecology, Ethology, andEvolution of Fishes. I have given invited lectures andseminars at a number of institutions and scientificmeetings, including most recently the KeynoteAddress at the Fifth International Charr Symposiumin Reykjavik, Iceland. I a member of the AmericanFisheries Society, the American Society of Ichthyolo-

gists and Herpetologists, Sigma Xi, and the CanadianSociety of Zoologists. I have served on Advisory andReview panels for a number of agencies and com-missions, including the Great Lakes Fishery Commis-sion, the Endangered Species Recovery Fund of theWorld Wildlife Fund of Canada, the Department ofFisheries and Oceans Canada, and the NaturalSciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

My research interests include the developmentand evolution of behavior, especially social behavior,foraging behavior and reproductive behavior. Myresearch is mostly concerned with salmonid fishes,but I have also conducted research on sturgeons,whitefish, killifish, eels, cyprinids, lampreys andcentrarchids. My recent publications include studiesrelated to conservation and restoration, environmentalimpact, fisheries management and systematics, aswell as behavior, ecology and evolution. I also havean active interest in aquaculture. I was a Member ofthe Executive Committee of the M.Sc. Aquacultureprogram at the University of Guelph. I taught under-graduate and graduate courses and supervisedgraduate students in the program.

In addition to my international editorial andpublishing activities, my teaching and researchprograms also involve international contacts andcollaborations. I was responsible for establishing aformal Academic Exchange Agreement between theUniversity of Guelph and four counterpart institutionsin Iceland. I was also responsible for establishing aformal Academic Exchange Agreement between theUniversity of Guelph and Nagasaki University inJapan. I was recently instrumental in establishingformal Memoranda of Agreement between OregonState University and three counterpart universities inIceland.

We are well into the operations of the OregonHatchery Research Center, since the official openingin October 2005. Education and outreach are impor-tant functions for us, and we have already providedinternship opportunities to a number of students fromOSU and the Oregon Coastal Community College.We provide tours for organizations, special interestgroups and agencies, as well as the general public.Our research will focus on comparisons of wild andhatchery fish, the genetic and environmental influ-ences on behavior, ecology and life history, and howbest to operate and manage hatchery and wildfisheries in Oregon. We have the facilities for

David L.G. Noakes

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I was born and livedoutside of Boston, Massa-chusetts until I was 10.My initial interests inmarine biology began withtrips to the New EnglandAquarium, Cape Cod, andhigh school marinescience course in the U.S.

Virgin Islands. A family move took me to Evanston,Illinois, where I attended high school.

Once given the choice, however, I migratedwestward to Missoula, Montana to attend the Univer-sity of Montana, where I received a B.A. in zoologyin 1989. I chose to migrate further west to Seattleand the University of Washington’s School of Fisher-ies and Aquatic Sciences, where I received a M.S. inFisheries in 1993. My thesis research focused onjuvenile Chinook and coho salmon use of natural andcreated estuarine sloughs. I then moved on to workwith the Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project, acooperative local, state, and federal effort, and TheWillapa Alliance, a private, non-profit organizationlocated on the coast of Washington. In both of thesepositions, I worked on estuarine and freshwaterrestoration design, implementation, and assessment,with an emphasis on Pacific salmon.

I then moved to Charleston, Oregon and theUniversity of Oregon’s Institute of Marine Biology,where I worked on my doctoral studies focused ontransport, dispersal, and exchange in coastal fishes.After completion of my Ph.D., I received an OregonSea Grant with Dr. Alan Shanks (UO) to conductpost-doctoral studies that expanded components ofmy dissertation work examining local and regionalpatterns of dispersal and exchange in Pacific rock-fish.

My general research interests involve the ecologyand evolution of life history diversity in fishes and thedevelopment and maintenance of that diversity. Myresearch has focused on larval dispersal and trans-port, population connectivity and structure, and theuse of estuaries by larval and juvenile marine andanadromous fishes. I have combined techniques,including otolith microchemistry, genetic, and time-series analyses, to address these topics. I am inter-ested in continuing to use diverse methods to addressbasic questions in fish ecology while also providinginformation critical for management and conservationefforts. Currently, I am finishing up a research

project examining the structure and chemistry of fishotoliths, or ear bones, to provide information onmixing and migration in Pacific rockfish. I am alsocollaborating with researchers at the University ofWashington to quantify patterns of estuarine rearingand feeding habitats in Chinook salmon from theColumbia River, using elemental analyses of otoliths.

When not working, I love walking the beach andhiking with my husband, Ed Backus, Vice-Presidentfor Fisheries at Ecotrust, and my German Shepherd,Kiger. We have recently acquired a drift boat and arehoping to learn the waters of the Alsea River. I aman avid swimmer and have had the pleasure of divingand snorkeling on tropical reefs in Australia andHawaii. My other recent fish-related travels havetaken me to Chile and Alaska.

I am excited to be part of OSU, the Departmentof Fisheries and Wildlife, and COMES and believethat my research interests are well-suited to themission of the experiment station. My researchinterests involve the ecology and evolution of lifehistory diversity in marine and anadromous fishes andthe development and maintenance of that diversity.Variation in early life history traits, such as larvalduration in marine fishes and migratory timing injuvenile salmonids, are important factors in theevolution and maintenance of local populations andthus relevant to management and conservation ofOregon’s fisheries resources. The research programI am developing at OSU aims to provide empiricalinformation on individual variation within an ecologi-cal context using a multi-faceted approach, includingfield ecology, laboratory experiments, and analyticalchemistry. Currently, my focus is on two main areas,including quantifying life history variation in Chinookand coho salmon and the early life history andpopulation connectivity in Pacific rockfish. Oneproject, which is part of an interdisciplinary effortwith NOAA-NMFS, involves a three-year effort toexamine the role of the Columbia River Estuary, theriver plume, and ocean conditions in the early oceangrowth and survival of juvenile Chinook and cohosalmon.

I would be happy to talk about my current andfuture research plans, fisheries ecology, or fishingwith anyone who is interested. My office is in thePublic Education Wing #13; 541-867-0381;Jessica.Miller@oregonstate.edu. Please stop by…

Jessica Miller

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The Jade Plant(Crassula argentea) isa succulent originatingfrom South Africa. Itcan be an easy plant tocultivate indoors, andwith proper care, canprosper in such meagerenvirons as laboratories,dormitories, and aca-demic offices. Theproblem with Jade

Plants is that they come with baggage. To kill a Jademeans seven years bad luck; but to successfully raisea Jade means a lifetime of financially prosperity. Ifone attaches significant weight to this prophecy,caring for a Jade can have reasonably importantlifestyle implications. It is perhaps not a good thingthat I should have a Jade. This is a moot point,however, because Phil Rossignol gave me a cuttingfrom his Jade just yesterday. The reasons why Ishould not have a Jade should become apparent asyou continue reading this departmentally sanctionedbiography.

I’ve officially lived in only three of the UnitedStates, but that is a deceptive number. California is areally big state. I grew up in Northern California,(Humboldt County) went to school in Central Califor-nia (UC Davis) and worked in Southern Californiabefore heading off to graduate school. If the statesalong the west coast were of a similar size to thestates on the east coast, I would be considered arolling stone rather than a California elitist. I left thewest coast to attend graduate school and traveled onthe academic freeway to the great state of Ken-tucky; home of the Wildcats, bluegrass, and theDerby. I studied with Andrew Sih at the University ofKentucky for five years and upon completion of mydoctorate returned to the west. Certain inevitabletragedies of such a transient lifestyle include highhouseplant mortality. On my move to Oregon StateUniversity to begin my postdoc with AndrewBlaustein, I promptly killed two plants (death bydesiccation), which is one of the many reasons why Ishould not be the owner of a Jade.

Acknowledging my lack of a green thumb, I’vemainly used vertebrate systems to explore theecological questions that interest me. My researchexamines the direct and indirect effects of environ-mental stress on aquatic communities. My focal

species of interest are larval amphibians, and I oftenwork in ephemeral ponds and streams. I study howamphibians react to multiple stressors, such aspredation risk, competition, and ultraviolet radiation.I’m also interested in population differences indefense strategies, and work with amphibian popula-tions from the Oregon coast, the Willamette Valley,and the high Cascade Mountains. This large spatialscale allows me explore large areas of Oregon, and Ithink this state will keep me busy for many years tocome.

Because this is a new position, I can’t say toomuch about the work at this point. I do know that Iwill be focused on agricultural ecosystems and will beinvolved in extension work. I will be teaching severalcourses, including Wildlife in Agricultural Ecosystemsand Principles of Fish and Wildlife Conservation.

Though living in Corvallis will force me to learnhow to cook (there is a dreadful lack of deliveryoptions here), PAC-10 basketball and Le Patisserieshould keep me happy.

I plan on taking very good care of my Jade plant.I am a superstitious person and this psychologicalpitfall prevents me from disregarding Jade lore. If myplant prospers, then so will I. While that may soundridiculous coming from a scientist, one must considerthe similarities between my Jade and me. For ex-ample, we both sometimes retain water. We likedirect sun. We are both cut from strong stock andguided by principled mentors. We appreciate theopportunity to grow with the Department of Fisheriesand Wildlife, and have enjoyed meeting everyonehere. We are lucky and proud to be part of this group,and with a little water and unfettered internet access,we should do quite well.

Tiffany Garcia

research on every scale, from molecular to land-scape, with a number of native fishes. We havealready attracted interest and visits from acrossOregon, the rest of North America, Iceland, theNetherlands, and China. We have active researchcollaborations with colleagues here at OSU andelsewhere in the state, on topics as diverse as benthicinvertebrates, stable isotopes, stress physiology, andstream hydrology.

Noakes (cont. from page 3)

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Scott BakerI grew up inBirmingham,Alabama, where,by way of con-trast, I developeda great apprecia-tion for thesparkling beachesand clear watersof the Gulf ofMexico a fewhundred miles tothe south. Some

of my earliest memories are of the sunburns andsandspurs that punctuated our otherwise idyllic familyholidays along this coast. It was during these visitsthat I became fascinated with the life in the sea,particulary the bottlenose dolphins we could some-times see swimming just offshore of the sandbars. Inpursuit of this fascination, I attended a small under-graduate college in Sarasota, Florida (now NewCollege, the honors college of the University ofFlorida system), where I worked as a researchassistant on a study of wild bottlenose dolphins inSarasota Bay. This study (still ongoing) is one of thefirst to use photographs of natural marking for long-term identification of individual dolphins and radiotags to track their short-term, local movement.

After completing a Bachelor of Arts and anhonors thesis in Environmental Studies at NewCollege in 1977 and a year of more conventionalscience coursework at the Evergreen State College(Olympia, Washington), I enrolled in a Ph.D. programin Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Ispent the next six years observing and photographinghumpback whales, first on the breeding groundsaround Hawaii and then on their feeding grounds inGlacier Bay and the inside passage of southeasternAlaska. During this time, I also met my wife,Anjanette, who was completing her M.Sc. in biologi-cal oceanography at University of Hawaii, workingon magnetic orientation in the green sea turtle. MyPh.D. thesis, completed in 1985, described the socialorganization and migratory population structure ofhumpback whales based on photo-identificationrecords of individual whales identified throughout thecentral and eastern North Pacific.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the SmithsonianInstitution and the National Cancer Institute, I had aunique opportunity to train in the rapidly emergingfields of molecular ecology and conservation genet-

ics. Along with a re-emergence of medieval technol-ogy (a crossbow) to collect small skin-biopsysamples, these powerful new molecular methodsallowed me to begin answering questions developedfrom my demographic studies of humpback whales.Following my interest in the worldwide populationstructure of humpbacks and other great whales, Iaccepted a position in the School of BiologicalSciences at the University of Auckland in 1993.Along the way, Anjanette and I were joined by a son,Kai, and a daughter, Neve´. My position at theUniversity of Auckland offered a unique opportunityto study New Zealand’s endemic marine mammals aswell as the many species with distributions or migra-tions throughout the South Pacific. Over the years Idirected or supervised studies of genetic diversity andpopulation structure of Hector’s dolphins, Maui’sdolphin (a subspecies of Hector’s), bottlenosedolphins, dusky dolphins, spinner dolphins, pilotwhales, killer whales, beaked whales, southern rightwhales, sea lions, and fur seals. In 1994, I becameembroiled with the International Whaling Commissionas a result of early effort to use molecular methods(now referred to as DNA taxonomy) to identify thespecies origin of ‘whalemeat’ sold in commercialmarkets of Japan and Korea. For more than adecade, I have traveled regularly to both countries,documenting the unregulated sale of products fromhumpback, western gray, fin, sei, Bryde’s, and spermwhales. My interest in the problem of trade inendangered species led to development of a web-based program for molecular taxonomy: www.dna-surveillance.auckland.ac.nz, and the discovery of anew species of beaked whales, Mesoplodonperrini, the first new species of cetaceans describedin 15 years.

My new position with the OSU Marine MammalProgram and the Department of Fisheries andWildlife offers exciting possibilities to combine myinterest in genetic and demographic approaches tothe study of whales and dolphins in both the Northand South Pacific Oceans. The Program’s reputationfor technical innovation and commitment to conserva-tion has established a solid foundation to support newfaculty and the integration of the new disciplines theyrepresent. I expect the Program to play an increas-ingly important role in contributing to our basicunderstanding of marine mammal science and toproviding multi-disciplinary solutions to the problemsfacing these species.

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I grew up as a‘UN-brat’. Mydad worked forthe Food andAgricultureOrganization ofthe United Na-tions as a devel-oper of irrigation

systems for agricultural development. Although I wasborn in Germany, I grew up in Nepal, Afghanistan,and Italy. After finishing high school in Rome in 1978,I started my academic career in a distinctly non-biological field, pursuing undergraduate studies with amajor in Physics at the University of California SanDiego. During my freshman year, I chanced into apart-time job as a pool cleaner and general factotumin the laboratory of Dr. Gerald Kooyman at theScripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. Theexperience in Jerry’s lab was transforming, inparticular when I had the opportunity to participate ina one-year overwintering study of Weddell seals inAntarctica, as part of a small team of four research-ers. That year, 1981, convinced me to switch toBiology, and to focus on the study of diving animals,pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses) in particu-lar.

As a result of the one-year absence from the U.S.for the Antarctic project, I lost the scholarship thatallowed me to attend UCSD, and moved to Ger-many—my country of origin—for the first time as anadult. I completed my studies in Biology at theUniversity of Freiburg in 1988. Through my Scrippscontacts I then met my dissertation advisor, FritzTrillmich, at the Max-Planck Institute for BehavioralPhysiology at Seewiesen, Germany. After a secondbrief Antarctic stint studying emperor penguins in1989, I was able to return to my passion—the studyof pinnipeds—by conducting my dissertation researchunder Fritz’ guidance, on the ontogeny of diving inGalapagos fur seals. After completing my Ph.D. in1992, I returned to Jerry’s laboratory at Scripps as apostdoctoral researcher. The ensuing studies ofcormorant and penguin diving behavior and physiol-ogy broadened my background, and introduced me tothe importance of comparative research approaches.In 1996 I took on a soft-money position as AssistantResearch Scientist at Texas A&M University at

Galveston. After a brief period of contract work forthe National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMFS) inSeattle in 1998, I returned to Galveston in 1999. Itwas there that I met my wonderful wife Lisa. Lisa isa Houston native, and graduated with a Bachelor inMarine Biology from Texas A&M in 1994. Eventhough we share a background in marine sciences, ofall places, we met in a bowling alley, and neither of usis into bowling! Lisa completed her Master’s degreein Marine Resource Management at Texas A&M inDecember of 2005.

Over the course of my prior research I realizedthat, paradoxically, the use of technology has ad-vanced at a far greater pace for the use and extrac-tion, than for the assessment and protection, ofmarine resources. To address that issue, I foundedthe Laboratory for Applied Biotelemetry & Biotech-nology at Texas A&M University in 2000. Since1996, my research has centered on Weddell seals inAntarctica and Steller sea lions in Alaska. I initiatedtwo large projects on Stellers that are continuing todate, with the participation of the NMFS, AlaskaDepartment of Fish & Game, and the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. Both of these long-term projects will provide vital life-history data on theSteller sea lion, a declining and endangered species inthe North Pacific and Bering Sea region. Theseprojects combine very divergent research ap-proaches, the use of specifically developed implant-able telemetry devices, with non-invasive estimationof body mass and body condition by remote photo-grammetry, in a new experimental approach.

Through my new position as Pinniped Ecologistwith the OSU Marine Mammal Program and theDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife, I will continueto apply technological innovation to new experimentaldesigns and analytical methods. In an example of thisapproach, a new NSF-funded project will take me toAntarctica this fall (it will be my 9th trip down South)to lead a team of researchers from Oregon State,Texas A&M, and the University of Alaska to investi-gate the suitability of diving mammals as models tostudy phenomena and adaptations related to aging. Iam looking forward to developing multi-disciplinary,integrative approaches to basic science, conservationand management of marine mammals, in collabora-tion with my new colleagues within this truly out-standing program.

Markus Horning

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Registry of Distinguished Graduates

Gordon H. Reeves, B.S. 1973, State University ofNew York – Oswego; M.S. 1978, Humboldt StateUniversity; Ph.D. 1985

Gordie has been conducting research on the freshwa-ter ecology of anadromous salmon and trout for over25 years. He is a Research Fish Biologist with theUSDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest ResearchStation, in Corvallis, Oregon. He began his career asa fish behavioral ecologist and has progressedthrough a series of studies to become recognized forhis broad approach to stream and landscape ecologyand conservation biology. Gordie was the leader orco-leader of federal efforts to develop conservationplans for listed fish including the “Gang of Four”,PacFish, the Forest Ecosystem Management Assess-ment Team (FEMAT), and the Tongass Land Man-agement Plan in Alaska. He currently is a co-leaderof the Coastal Landscape Analysis and ModelingStudy (CLAMS), which is a multidisciplinary effort todevelop a model to evaluate the aggregate ecologicaland economic impact of forest management policieson private, state, and federal lands in the OregonCoast Range. These efforts have resulted in majorchanges in the management of aquatic ecosystemson federal and other lands in the western U.S. andAlaska. He has received much recognition for hiswork, including twice being named as Conservationistof the Year by the Pacific Rivers Council. He hasalso been given the USDA Forest Service Chief’sNatural Resources Award and Rise to the FutureAward and the Secretary of Agriculture’s Award forOutstanding Performance. He has courtesy facultyappointments in the Department of Fisheries andWildlife and in the Department of Forest Resourcesat OSU and in the Department of Fisheries atHumboldt State University. He has served as majorprofessor for more than 15 students at OSU and hasbeen on several graduate student committees at OSUand Humboldt State University.

Bruce G. Marcot, B.S. 1977, Humboldt StateUniversity; M.S. 1978, Humboldt State University;Ph.D. 1985

Bruce is a research wildlife biologist with the Ecosys-tems Processes Research Program of USDA ForestService in Portland, Oregon. He participates inapplied science research and technology application

projects dealing with old-forest management, specifi-cally on modeling of rare and little-known species,assessment of biodiversity, and ecologically sustain-able forest management. He has served on numerousregional assessment teams including the InteriorColumbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project andthe Forest Ecosystem Management AssessmentTeam. Bruce regularly serves as science advisor tomultiple resource management agencies on speciesviability, modeling, and biodiversity conservationprograms. He has extensive experience with wildlife-habitat relationships research and modeling. Recently,he has coauthored three textbooks on the topic;developed an on-line advisory system for managingsnags, down wood, and other wood decay elementsfor wildlife in forests of Washington and Oregon;developed an assessment framework and analysis ofintegrated fish and wildlife in the Columbia RiverBasin for the Northwest Power and ConservationCouncil; and conducted field research on terrestrialinvertebrates, lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plantsin old forest remnant patches and disturbed sites inthe Washington Cascades and eastern Oregon. Hehas extensive international experience, includingcurrently aiding community forest planning in Congo,Africa, and has served as Chief Ecologist on asustainable land use planning project spanning FarEast Russia and China; on a biodiversity planningteam in India; and as modeling advisor on a caribou-wolf-moose project in British Columbia, Canada. Hehas also worked on an international team of re-searchers and managers on wetland and grasslandrestoration in Inner Mongolia, China, and has en-gaged in personal wildlife research and ecologicaltravels in southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand,sub-Antarctica, Amazonian Bolivia, Ecuador, CostaRica, Caribbean, Mexico, and elsewhere. He hasreceived considerable recognition and a number ofawards for his work.

David A. Armstrong, B.S. 1970, University ofCalifornia, Irvine; M.S. 1974; Ph.D. 1978, Universityof California, Davis

David’s research and graduate student program hasbeen focused on crab and other shellfish life historyand ecology from the Bering Sea through centralCalifornia. As a new faculty member in the School ofFisheries in 1979 he developed a number of programs

A committe chaired by Grant Thompson met and voted to add the following graduates to the Registry:

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that are still active to characterize the juvenilenursery role of estuaries in production of adultstargeted in coastal fisheries. Along the way, manyapplied questions regarding anthropogenic impacts onestuarine resources and habitats have been ad-dressed in research, especially ongoing perturbationscaused by dredging, application of pesticides toenhance oyster culture, and effects of exotic specieson native communities. His work has led to severalmajor mitigation programs based in systems ecologyand interplay between crab and bivalve habitat, andelucidation of the importance of expansive intertidalareas in support of high crab biomass. In the BeringSea he and colleagues have studied larval ecology ofsnow and king crabs relative to spatial distribution ofspawning stocks, physical forcing, shifts in predatorpopulations and long-term trends reflected in majorregime shifts. This work continues among a teamcomposed of biologists and physical oceanographersto determine causal relationships between abiotic andbiotic interactions that affect year-class strength andfuture fisheries. Since 1998 David has been Directorof the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at theUniversity of Washington. The change in namereflects major transformation of the School to includea much wider array of disciplines beyond traditionalstrengths in fishery biology and management. Hehelped guide the faculty through implementation of astrategic plan to include new fields such as molecularecology and functional genomics, expansion offreshwater ecology, reinforcement of strengths inquantitative sciences, and a more prominent role ofconservation biology as a major ethic in educationand research of the School. Undergraduate enroll-ment in the major has doubled in recent years andover half the tenure-track faculty have been hiredsince 2001. David is proud of his many formergraduate students (20 M.S. and 16 Ph.D.) who workas fishery scientists and faculty in agencies anduniversities across the country and in South America.Their creativity, enthusiasm, and professionalachievements while students have been the underpin-ning of his research over the years.

Wayne Wurtsbaugh, B.S. 1970, University ofCalifornia, Davis; M.S. 1973; Ph.D. 1983, Universityof California, Davis

Wayne is Professor in the Department of Aquatic,Watershed and Earth Resources at Utah StateUniversity. His career was inspired by mentors GerryDavis, Charles Warren, and Hiram Li. His work has

emphasized many aspects of limnology, ranging fromthe behavior and bioenergetics of fish in lakes toproblems of limiting nutrients and nutrient cycling.Recently, he has developed an interest in landscapelimnology and is collaborating with stream ecologiststo study how lakes and rivers interact to controlecosystem processes in mountain watersheds. Hisresearch has taken him to many important lakes ofthe world, among them Lake Titicaca, Peru; LakeTahoe; and most recently the Great Salt Lake, Utah.His research has included both applied studies relatedto fisheries management and eutrophication, andbasic research on fish ecology and ecosystemprocesses. He has been Principal or Co-PrincipalInvestigator on 11 grants from the National ScienceFoundation. He has published over 100 papers,including 60 in peer-reviewed journals. Wayne hasbeen a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, an Associate Editorof the Transactions of the American FisheriesSociety, Chair of the Education Committee of theAmerican Society of Limnology and Oceanography,and is currently a National Representative of theU.S. Section of the International Society of Limnol-ogy. His undergraduate and graduate teaching atUSU has included courses in Freshwater Ecology,Water Pollution, and Fish Ecology.

William J. Liss, B.S. 1969, Pennsylvania StateUniversity; M.S. 1974; Ph.D. 1977

Bill is an emeritus professor of fisheries in the OSUDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife, where he hasbeen a member of the faculty since 1977. Hisresearch interests have centered on salmonid ecologyand restoration, land-use impacts on stream habitatand stream fishes, effects of non-native fish on nativebiota in high-elevation lakes, and watershed andstream classification. Bill has authored or co-authored over 60 scientific publications. He hasserved on numerous scientific advisory panels, inwhich capacity he has co-authored over 70 scientificreviews and reports related to salmon restoration inthe Columbia River. Bill’s career has consistentlybeen distinguished by his talent as a teacher. He hassupervised nearly 30 M.S. and Ph.D. students, andtaught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.Three times he was named to the College of Agricul-tural Sciences Registry of Distinguished Teachers,and in 1992 he received the College of AgriculturalSciences highest teaching honor, the R.M. WadeAward.

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The Oregon Hatchery Research Center is a remark-able collaboration between the Oregon Departmentof Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Fisheriesand Wildlife at Oregon State University. The Centerwas officially opened at a public ceremony in Octo-ber 2006. The Center was funded by ODFW, OSU,and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. It islocated on Fall Creek, at the site of the formerODFW Hatchery, near the Coastal Range and thesmall town of Alsea. The Center is staffed by threepermanent ODFW employees: Ryan Couture, theFacility Manager; Joseph O’Neil, the AssistantManager; and Joyce Mahr, the Technician. DavidNoakes is the Senior Scientist and Director, and alsoa Professor in Fisheries and Wildlife at OSU. TheAdvisory Committee for the Center is composed of15 members, representing a range of stakeholders:hydrologists, stream ecologists, forest engineers,educators, federal and state governments, as well aslocal residents. The Committee reviews research andeducational outreach proposals and advises theDirector and staff on operations.

The mission of the Hatchery Research Center isto understand mechanisms that may be creatingdifferences between hatchery and wild fish. It willdetermine (1) the process and rate by which wild fishmay change in the hatchery environment within andacross generations; (2) the process, rate, and patternby which hatchery-produced fish adapt to the naturalenvironment at each life history stage; and (3) thepossible genetic and ecological consequences ofhatchery fish and their releases on native fish at eachlife history stage.

Wild salmon runs are currently threatened orendangered in much of their ranges in Oregon,Washington, and Idaho. Four reasons for their declineare commonly offered: habitat loss, harvest, dams,and competition from hatchery fish. Today, more than70% of Oregon’s salmon start life in a hatchery.Thus, hatcheries have stopped and even reversed thepopulation decline and helped maintain viable fisher-ies, but many questions remain. Do hatchery fishspread disease to their wild counterparts? Do theyout-compete wild fish for food and habitat? Do theycontaminate genetic fitness for surviving conditions ina particular watershed? These and many otherquestions are being addressed at the HatcheryResearch Center.

The research at the Center is interdisciplinary andcollaborative. The Center will develop approaches to

managing hatchery fish that conserve and protectnative fishes. This will be accomplished by determin-ing hatchery breeding, rearing, and release practicesthat allow hatchery-propagated fish to both contributeto fisheries and facilitate the conservation andrecovery of naturally produced native fish. Possibleeffects to natural ecosystems associated withdiffering types and levels of hatchery production willbe identified, as will approaches to managing theseeffects. Hatchery practices that may need to bealtered in response to changes in the natural environ-ment and other external factors will also be identified.Research conducted at the Center will apply to allareas of Oregon, Washington, California, and Idahowhere wild salmon are endangered or threatened.

A key feature of the new state-of-the-art facilityis its four natural-style simulated steam channels thatmake it possible to observe wild and hatchery fishtogether under controlled experimental conditions. Inaddition, the Center has the capability to studyprojects at scales from the molecular to watershedsand landscapes in a range of controlled laboratoryand rearing facilities. The Center has already at-tracted visitors and collaborators from throughoutOregon, across the USA, Canada, the Netherlands,New Zealand, Iceland, Central America, and China.

An important part of the Center’s mission is toeducate the public on the relationship betweenhatchery and wild fish; the connection between fishand watershed, estuarine, and ocean systems; andthe implications for fish management and steward-ship. The Center will do this by: (1) providing educa-tional facilities and programs for K-12 students; (2)designing and managing the facility to provide an

Oregon Hatchery Research Center

Sampling fish in one of the simulated stream channels

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environment of passive and active learning forvisitors; (3) conducting undergraduate and graduateprograms and classes at the facility; and (4) providingopportunities for educators and others to use theCenter for meetings, workshops, and programs thatfurther public understanding of the relationshipbetween fish and watershed ecosystems. The Center

Selina Heppell is one of 18 academic environ-mental scientists from the U.S. and Canada whohave been awarded a 2006 Aldo Leopold LeadershipFellowship. As a Leopold Leadership Fellow, Selinawill participate this year in intensive training thatincludes sessions on how to communicate scienceeffectively to non-scientific audiences, including themedia and policy makers.

Judy Li received a regional award for Excellencein College and University Teaching from the U.S.Departament of Agriculture and is one of only threeOSU faculty to have ever received this award.

Aaron Holmes is one of only two Fish andWildlife students in the whole country to get aNational Science Foundation fellowship this cycle.

Dr. John Briggs, ’43, one of our DistinguishedGraduates, received the Inaugural Alfred RusselWallace Award from the International BiogeographySociety in 2005. The award will be presented every 2years to a distinguished scholar for a lifetime ofachievement in biogeography. Jack’s award citationnotes that “the premier modern synthesis of marinespecies distributions arrived with Briggs’ 1974 classicMarine Zoogeography . . . Most of the issuescurrently being addressed by molecular biogeographyand phylogeography are explicitly formulated inMarine Zoogeography, and the number ofphylogeographic studies that cite Briggs (1974) isbeyond counting”. The editorial announcing theaward notes “in other words, it took about threedecades for the science of biogeography to mature tothe point that it could rigorously address the issuesthat Jack presented in 1974!” (The second award willbe made in January 2007 to Dr. Jared Diamond,author of Guns, Germs, and Steel; and Collapse.)

Another Distinguished Graduate, Jim Rearden,’48, received an Honorary Doctorate from the

will create a unique educational environment forstudents K-12, undergraduate and graduate, and thegeneral public. It will serve as a focal point andmeeting place for watershed councils, conservationgroups, commercial fishers, and angler groups toparticipate in workshops and other informationsharing.

David Noakes

University of Alaska in recognition of his contribu-tions to the state. The award was presented at theMay 15, 2005 commencement ceremony.

Dr. Jack Helle, Ph.D. ’80, received the Distin-guished Service Award for 2004 from the AmericanInstitute of Fishery Research Biologists. His serviceincluded Alaska District Director, and President ofthe organization.

At the September 2005 Annual meeting of TheWildlife Society, Chuck Meslow, retired Leader ofthe Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, was madethe 56th recipient of the Leopold Medal. This is thehighest award given by the Society. It has previouslygone to former Department Head Tom Scott andcourtesy faculty member Jack Ward Thomas. Alsohonored at the meeting for best edited volume for theyear was Pronghorn: ecology and management. Itwas edited by Bart O’Gara and Jim Yoakum, M.S. ’57.

Doug Markle had two wines that receivedawards at the 2006 Amateur Wine Makers Competi-tion at the Newport Wine and Seafood Festival. His2002 Pinot Noir won a gold medal, the only PinotNoir to get a gold; his 2004 Pinot Noir won a silvermedal. He claims it was the OSU grapes and is nowreconsidering his retirement plans.

Kudos to faculty in the Department for theirsuccess in receiving research grants and contracts.The total for fiscal year 2005-06 was $6,430,000.This put us in a virtual tie for second among alldepartments in the University. Good going, folks!

And more kudos to the more than 200 alums,friends, faculty, and organizations that contributedabout $80,000 to the Department for fiscal year2005-2006. See the list on page 12 [and your editor’sapologies if we have left anyone off the list—it turnsout to be rather difficult to get a complete andaccurate list of all our donors]

KudosA number of faculty, alumni, and students were recognized during the last year, among them:

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Richard Aho and DorisHerlickDean AlmgrenScott & Lisa ArmentroutWinston & ConstanceBankoDoug BatemanMichael & Paula BauerDaniel BeasonDon BennettWilliam & Judith BensonElizabeth BishopClarkson BluntBurnie & Patricia BohnCarl & Lenora BondDennis & Patricia BortonBarry & Kathleen BrackenJohn BriggsDonald & Mary BrockwayMichael & Kay BrownPatrick & Debra BuckleyEdward & Yvonne BurnsVern & Ruth Ann ByarsThomas & Carol CainGwendolyn CampbellRick & Sylvia CardwellShirley CarlsonStacy & ChristopherCarpenterGlenn & Lolita CarterCarol ChambersGary ChapmanCorby & Terri ChappellMichael ComerCindi ConferCharles ConnelleyPat ConnollyBob CorthellSteve & Nancy CoyleDale & Mariann CraneRichard & Elaine CroneDavid & Jill CrowleyEd & Sally CummingsJennifer CyrusDennis & Nancy DaubleDaniel DelanyJanine & Alex de PazCathy DeyMary Dimick estateBenjamin & JenniferDotsonRichelle DuckwallRichard Duncan

Joe & Elizabeth EbersoleDan & Sally EdgeSterling EideRobert & Davinne EllisCraig & Barbara ElyTony & Debra FaastGordon & Jayne FerlitschBrian & Vickey FerryMark & Marilyn FinkPat FisherEric ForsmanJohn & Susan FortuneErik Fritzell & Ell-PiretMulterSarah GallRon and Karen GarstJohn GendronGeorge & Donna GerityArt & Patricia GerlachRebecca Goggans & RobinBrownJim & Laurie GoodStan GregoryRobert GresswellJim & Martha GriggsMichael & Tracy GuadanoCecil & Jean GubserFred & Linda GutheryJim & Margaret HaasRichard & PatriciaHafenfeldBill & Linda HaightRichard & May HaleyJim HallRichard & Jean HallockAustin & Ina HamerCliff & Katie HamiltonDavid & Linda HanesRobyn HansenGeorge Harry Jr.Charles & Doris HazelPatricia HeilmanPaul & Marilyn HemerickLori & Ray HenningsRobert & Ann HerrmannDan & Patricia HitchcockKristin & Jeffrey HockErnest & Onelda HodsonCharlene HolzwarthMerlyn & Martha HoughMarcy & John HouleNancy Ann HovenRichard Hoyer

William & Betty HuffDick & Jeralyn HumphreysJohn & Rebecca HurdMegan HutchinsonJim HutchisonVirginia ItoMichael JaenickePhil & Patricia JanikPatrick & Laura JodiceBrian & Sheryl JonassonTimothy JoyceRobert & Helen JubberJim & Elizabeth KahrsGeorge & Linda KeisterScott & Carolyn KelleySteven and Vicki KingTracie KirkhamJohn & Sharon KraussGordon & Michaela KruseMarlon & Carolyn LangCatherine LannanWilliam LaphamDavid & Mary LeslieJudith & Hiram LiBurt & Rebecca LidgerdingRon LindlandRodney LittonDale & Rosa LeeLitzenbergerGregg & Yvonne LomnickyHarold LorzFaydeena LukeTerry and Cathy LutherRobert MaceRachel MaggiPamela MarhanDavid MarshallBill & Terryl MastSusan MaugerTim & Jyl McCormickDale A. McCulloughDonald McKayCress & Paulette MerrillCharles MeslowSam & Mary Jane MillazzoGary & Ruth MillerJohn & Charlene MorrisWilliam and Jean MorseBarry & Jane MowerJohn & Remie MurrayKatherine & John MyersDon & Jeanne NeffNatasha Nelson

Todd & Heidi NewsomeMary & John NickumJohn & Lori NorthJack & Diana NortonDavid & Tracy NuzumBart & Katherine OjaWilliam & Donna OlsonEric OnizukaGreg & Kathie OrietEdward & Pearl OrtnerStacy PagePaul PainterJohn PalenskyLoys & Mary ParrishDavid and Noralyn ParsonsGeorge PennelPeter & Leticia PerrinDeborah PetersonKenneth PopperRonald & Linda PowellDon RatliffWilliam RatliffKim & Priscilla ReaneyMichelle RichardsMonte RichardsDavid and Nancy RichterEdward & Sheila RobertsonShaun & ColleenRobertsonGeorge & Shirley RomanoDiane RonfeldMichael & Nadine ScanlanDana & Donna SchmidtCarl & Jacquelyn SchreckIrvin SchultzRobert & ElizabethSchusterJohn Schwartz & VictoriaUrsittiCharles & Loretta SeldenWarren & Anita ShaulGreg ShortBrad & Sarah SinkoJon & Donna SkovlinCourt & Linda SmithEmil & Mary SmithJeff SnyderStacia SowerPhilip SpulnikHans SteidlRoy SteinWendell StoutJerold & June Theissen

Thank you, DonorsThe following individuals and organizations generously supported the Department with donations

received between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006

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Barry & Jennifer ThomJon ThorsbyTroy ThynesJames & Georgia TorlandRichard & Becky TurnerLois Van HyningSteven WalgraveJohn & Carolyn WalkerThomas & Susan WalkerCatherine Wallauer

Orthello & Nancy WallisGlen & Joyce WardJohn WellsDale & Pat WenningTerry WestfallJoe & Darlene WetherbeeMichael & PaulaWickershamJack & Cynthia WilliamsRobin Mooring Willis

Richard & Barbara WilmotJohn & Dorothy WilsonJohn & Roberta WinchellJames WoodsCharles & Gail WoosleyLeland & Glenna WyseJeffrey & Anne ZillerOrganizations:Munson Family FoundationMultnomah Anglers &

Hunters ClubOregon Hunter’s Assn.,Tillamook ChapterPfizer Foundation(matching)Rogue FlyfishersSouthern Oregon FlyFishersTrout Unlimited-MiddleRogue Steelheaders

When I arrived at the Oregon Cooperative WildlifeResearch Unit for a M.S. in January 1958, the leader,Art Einarsen, immediately sent me to the H. J.Andrews Experimental Forest on the Blue River. Iwas a greenhorn fresh from a B.S. from SouthDakota State. Art needed someone to be at BlueRiver, and I was handy. A couple days later Artheaded to Mexico to study black brant (I saw himagain for one day the next year before he retired anddisappeared), so Homer Campbell, the fisheriesassistant Coop leader, drove with me up to theisolated Camp Lucky Boy (Boy Scout) cabin on theBlue River (now at the bottom of a reservoir), andleft me with really helpful advice: “Good luck.”

A year later, when I showed up on campus astold, I was informed that Chuck Warren would be myacademic advisor. I went in to see Chuck and heasked who I was, and then—just making conversa-tion—when I had arrived (expecting to hear a day ortwo earlier). When I said a year ago, he reared backin his chair in amazement, and asked me where I hadbeen? I told him, doing my master’s thesis researchon deer in the H. J. Andrews Forest. As my sad taleof academic orphaning unfolded, he became apoplec-tic. I said profound things like, “…uh, well… and yes,but…” Finally he calmed down and assured me thatit was not my fault I had been stuck me off alone inthe mountains (I didn’t mention the woodrats thatkept me company) with no direction. He finished withthe upbeat thought that maybe some of my workcould be salvaged—which he obviously didn’t reallybelieve.

Despite that inauspicious beginning, over the nextyear a close intellectual bond evolved between us. Ishowed him my systematically collected data, andeven pulled out a clever insight or two. I knew thedeer literature—there being nothing else to do all

those long nights alone at Lucky Boy cabin but readby a kerosene lamp—and figured out how to askreasonable scientific questions. Most of the deerliterature of the time was natural history storiesunsupported by quantitative data, much less statisticaltests, and I knew there had to be something better.

Over the following year I took every course Icould from Chuck, and he continually stretched mymind, and connected things in insightful ways. Someof the other graduate students considered Chuckesoteric, but I found him challenging and inspiring(not withstanding his hang-up with fish). He showedme the fine art of thinking and questioning, includingone’s own beliefs. He was a fresh new window intoscientific thought and objectivity, not buying hypoth-eses but testing them, and questioning conventionalwisdom that, often as not, was far more conventionthan wisdom. Later I went to work for Chuck at OakCreek Laboratory, doing intellectual things likecarpentry, redirecting stream channels, and solvingpractical problems of keeping fish alive in aquaria.

He introduced me to quantitative populationdynamics, especially William Ricker, but alsoBeverton and Holt and other fisheries modelers ofthe time. This was an area total absent from thewildlife literature. It woke me to statistic inference incourses with Jerry C. R. Li (I still have his text fromthe course), and experimental design in courses withLyle Calvin. It is safe to say that Chuck was asignificant influence on my life (P <0.01), perhaps thesingle most influential guiding light in my career,including a large number of heavyweights later as aPh.D. student at Berkeley, and a professor at Michi-gan and Berkeley.

When I completed my master’s thesis I appliedfor jobs, and got a wonderful offer from Arizona Fish

Dale R. McCullough, M.S.’60, a Professor in the College of Natural Resources atU.C.Berkeley, sent us a thoughtful reminiscence of Charles Warren

Remembering Charles Warren

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From the Mailbag

and Game. I proudly took the letter to show Chuck,thinking something like, “Hey, the kid from LuckyBoy Gulag didn’t do too badly, huh?” He read theletter, scowled (oh-oh, not a good sign), and flung itdown on the desk. He informed me that I couldn’ttake this job; I needed to go for a Ph.D. This was notwhat I expected or wanted. I thought about asking ifhe wanted to tell that to the wife and two kids I hadaccumulated by this time. I had a rusty old Ford andabout 600 bucks to my name, and a job soundedrather attractive.

Chuck asked me, “Who is the best professor inyour field?” I said Starker Leopold at Berkeley. “Ok,I’ll make you a deal,” he said. “You turn down thisjob offer and I’ll personally go to Berkeley and talkStarker into accepting you as a Ph.D. student.” Talkabout moments in life that are decision points. Thegauntlet was thrown down. “Ok”, I told him, thinkingI had lost my mind—and that my wife was soon tofollow. I figured if he was willing to back me likethat, I need to believe in myself as much. The rest, asthey say, is history. I only learned later that healready had a trip to Berkeley planned to meet withhis own Ph.D. advisor Paul Needham. Oh, well.

When I showed up in Berkeley for a Ph.D. myprofessors were blown away that I—a hayseed fromCorn Valley—knew so much more about stats andmath than they did. Fortunately, they taught meevolution and animal behavior, a few topics thatChuck Warren didn’t expose me to. Chuck’s influ-ence set me off on a career dominated by populationdynamics and quantitative ecology for the next 20

years. And, he also got me started on nutrition andgrowth through the work of Fred Fry . When I tookmy first academic job at University of Michigan, mystart-up requests were the biggest calculator made byMonroe and a gas chromatograph.

Years later, when I was returning to Corvallis foranother purpose, I called Chuck to set up an appoint-ment. I had not seen him for several decades. WhenI walked into the room he did a double take, and afterfumbling for words, said he had expected the otherDale McCullough. I thought, “Oh come on Chuck, itsOK to admit you don’t remember me.” I alwayswondered why some quirk of nature had promptedme to call myself Dale R. in print over the yearsinstead of simply Dale McCullough, about as uncom-mon a name as one can find. Later I discovered thereason. To be able to sort out Google search resultsinto Dale R. (the large mammal guy) and Dale A.(the fish guy)—both of whom passed through the labof Chuck Warren. That’s the scary thing aboutprobabilities. No matter how infinitesimal the likeli-hood, thing do happen.

We often mark the passing of influential people byerecting monuments and plaques, and going throughsacred rituals. Somehow, that all seemed misplacedfor Chuck. In sorting through my own thoughts Icame to the conclusion that I had already repaid mydebts to him by passing it on to my own students.Almost like DNA of the organic world, intellectualroots and lineages can be traced through the productsof descent. Chuck’s contributions live on in hisacademic lineage. I think he likes that.

Austin Hamer, ’42, writes: Thank you, Dan, for thenice note. I’m glad to know that you had such a goodturn-out for the 70th Anniversary celebration. Ithardly seems possible that I enrolled that long ago. Ididn’t remember that Andy Landforce was a memberof our class, too. I do remember he was student bodypresident one year, but which one I don’t remember.He and I worked together on a conservation educa-tion project for 4-H kids when he was the Agent inWallowa County and I was the district biologiststationed at La Grande. He is a fine chap. Sureenjoyed the latest issue of News and Views and allthe glowing tributes to Carl and Lenora Bond. Theyare very fine people and deserve all the praise fortheir dedication to the Department. Hope they arevery happy in their retirement.

Joyce Faler, ’83, wrote to Dan: Just wanted to

thank you for your work in the continued publicationof the Briefs. This was a particularly interestingone—had no idea of the brouhaha going on in theForestry Dept! Lot of interesting reading. I attendedOSU during 1981-83, receiving my B.S. in Fisheriesin ’83. Dr. Hall was my advisor, Dr. Bond was stillteaching ichthyology, and Dr. Coblentz had all hisconservation students ready to go out and remove allnon-native species ASAP! I’ve since worked inseveral fisheries-related jobs for ODFW, USFWS,and now in fish genetics at the University of Idaho,where I received an M.S. in Fisheries in 2002. I’mcurrently doing microsatellite & microarray geneticswork on various fish populations at the UI HagermanFish Culture Experiment Station, in Hagerman, Idaho,for Dr. Matt Powell. I had a great learning experi-ence at OSU, and have many fond memories of my

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time there. I have a great deal of respect for theFisheries and other departments on campus, andhighly recommend OSU to my nieces and nephewsnow looking forward to attending college themselves.

Merle Wischnofske, ’58, writes from Wenatchee:I enjoyed reading the Summer 2005 edition of News& Views. I was especially interested in the letterfrom Harold Hansen. Harold and I served in thesame military unit at Ft. Lewis in the fall of 1958.Then we were in graduate school together in 1961–62. I helped Harold a few days with his farm pondresearch project, attended X Corps rifle matches withhim at Ft. Lewis, then left for my first job with theU.S. Forest Service at Oakridge, Oregon in April1962. I took early retirement with the Forest Servicein July 1986 at Wenatchee, Washington. I workedsummers after that with the Colville ConfederatedTribes on the wildlife mitigation project betweenChief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams along theColumbia River.

Dick Crone, ’65, M.S. ’68, writes from Sitka: I’veenclosed a contribution to the Carl and Lenora BondScholarship Fund. A scholarship certainly seems likean excellent way to honor both Carl and Lenora. Iam very grateful for the many things that the Bondsdid for me during my student days at Oregon State,and in the years thereafter. Without them I probablywould not have been introduced to Southeast Alaskaand had a career working with coho while living insuch beautiful country. Wish I could have joined all ofyou in July for the 70th Anniversary celebration of theDepartment. It would have been great to see you andothers I knew during the 1960s in Corvallis.

Chris Nelson, M.S. ’55, wrote to send us fisheriestypes a picture of a “real” big one–a 646-poundcatfish from Thailand. Also noted that he recognizedhimself in the hot pool, but none of the others. Sent anice fish card in honor of the Bonds. “Although I wasin “game”, you had to appreciate the Bonds, espe-cially at the “seafood pig-out”.

Dale Kruse,’50, sent a copy of an article from theOregon Journal dated 1954, showing him holding thefirst northern pike to be found in the Columbia River.He wondered if anyone remembered seeing it.

Charlotte Vickers sent on a couple of letters thatshe had received:

Sara (Tollefson) King, ’87, wrote from BoulderColorado thanking Charlotte for her help at OSU andsent a picture of her three boys ages 9, 7 and 3. Sara,

married to an Urgent Care physician, worked inenvironmental consulting before starting her family,but now applies her Wildlife Science in teaching herboys about the world around them. She mentionedstill hearing from Kelly Goocher in Southern Califor-nia, but had lost touch with another classmate.[editor’s note: I was able to provide that address forher. If others of you would like to get in touch withclassmates whose addresses you no longer have, Ishould be able to help. Send me an email – see page 2]

Yong-Woo Lee, Ph.D.,’03, wrote to say howappreciative he was for Charlotte’s help in gettinghim started in the graduate program. He took a 2-year post-doc position at NOAA Fisheries in Seattleand is now an Assistant Professor at the Universityof Arkansas at Pine Bluff, teaching quantitativefisheries science. He is married and has a 1-year-olddaughter.

Jim Hutchison, ’56, sent regrets for missing thereunion, which he heard was a “dandy”. Also sent hisregards to the Bonds.

Jim Kahrs, ’51, said “please give my best to Carland Lenora. They were quite important in my life’sdirection.” Jim also sent along a nice contribution tothe Carl and Lenora Bond Scholarship fund, and anarticle from the Kansas City Star outlining his OsageCatfisheries foray into production of paddlefishcaviar. His firm is the only one in the U.S. that islicensed by the USFWS to produce and ship this fishdomestically and internationally. A recent decision bythe U.S. to ban the import of beluga caviar takenfrom the Caspian Sea and Black Sea has set Jim upwith an opportunity to fill the gap. His company doesextensive international business and supplies caviar tosome of the finest chefs in the country. Good going,Jim [and I’ll bet he is especially pleased, becausesomeone in the Missouri Conservation Departmentonce told him that it wouldn’t be possible to raisepaddlefish in an enclosed body of water—that was allthe challenge he needed]

Credit for the longest distance correspondent, andalso the longest out of school goes to Clara BudlongHadjimarkos, ’39, who wrote to Dan from France:[ed. note: unfortunately I had to shorten this a bit]In November of this year, 2006, I’ll be ninety yearsold. As a graduate of Fish and Game Management inthe class of 1939, I decided it might be a good time tolet the school know how my long-ago educationaffected the ensuing years. At the time of myenrollment in the School of Agriculture in 1937 the

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Oregon State College enrollment was a little over4,000; tuition was $35 a term with an added $150annual out-of-state fee. I believe there were about 15girls in the entire School of Agriculture, most being inHorticulture or Bacteriology and two being in AnimalHusbandry. I was the only one in the newly createdDepartment of Fish and Game. Mr. Dimick hadbegun the school two years before my arrival. Someof my classmates were Jay Long, Stanley Jewett, Jr.;Bob Beardsley, Boyd Claggett, Keith Kershaw, ChrisJensen, Len Mathisen, Ivan Donaldson, and BillBrown. Many of my classmates became responsiblefor the development of Fish and Wildlife philosophyand policies of the Oregon Game Commission. Mr.Dimick, R.G. Johnson, big game, and Dr. FrancisGriffith, the fisheries professor, were the principalinstructors. The Department of Fish and Game washoused in the basement of the Home Ec. Building,consisting of Mr. Dimick’s office and several class-rooms. On my initial meeting with Mr. Dimick, hedidn’t ask me why I wanted to study Fish andGame; he simply very clearly stated that if I hadcome to find a husband, I was in the wrong depart-ment. In those days that seemed to be the strangeglasses through which women were viewed. Corvallis atthat time had a population of about 17,000.

A transfer student, I arrived as a junior equippedwith a Bausch and Lomb science award fromFullerton District Junior College in Fullerton, Califor-nia, so I was in pretty good shape for that part of myeducation but was woefully lacking in the fieldexperience of hunting and fishing, which all of myclassmates excelled in. All of that was completelynew to me. The main thrust of my classes, as it camethrough to me, was to grasp the status and impor-tance of big game animals, game birds, and fishfor their recreational value in both hunting and fishingand learning to deal with farmers and landowners onwhose properties the hunting and fishing took place.There was some field work to learn skills in assessingpopulations, understanding wildlife food crops, hands-on fur farming, and for the fellows, basic surveying. Iwas not introduced to that. I also was not invited tojoin the Fin and Antler Club, in fact did not know itexisted for most of my two years. It obviously wasnot sanctioned for a girl to be included.

Going into the field for almost every 7:00 am classin Wildlife Food Crops with Mr. Hyslop involved all ofus jumping into his truck and being driven aroundidentifying and understanding what was available forgame, where it grew, the types of soil it grew on, andwhere it was located. It seemed to me to be a shame

that I always had to ride in the cab of the truck.I appreciated getting to listen to Mr. Hyslop explainthings as we drove around but thought that all of us inthe class should have that opportunity. That wouldmean I’d take turns riding in the back of the truckjust like the fellows. Of course when we stoppedeveryone piled out of the truck and all were includedin Mr. Hyslop’s teachings. To correct this, I requestedpermission from the Dean of Women to wear slacks tothis early morning class. Permission was granted withthe stipulation that I’d return to my dorm to changeinto a skirt before attending my eight o’clock class.Wearing slacks, I still rode in the cab of the truck! Mydorm was on 9th and Monroe, what now is VarsityHouse, and my eight o’clock was in the poultry building,which then was the outermost building on campus.There were ten minutes between classes; I becameknown, I learned later, as “the girl who runs.”

Our senior year included the five day springwildlife field trip to Eastern Oregon to study thebreak-up of the deer concentrations and the arrival ofthe bird population at Malheur Bird Refuge. We werea little bit late for the deer and a little bit early for thebirds but it was a fabulous trip nevertheless. Again,permission for me to go had to be requested from theDean of Women. Evidently R.G. Johnson and Mr.Dimick had decided I would be allowed to go on thefield trip. We went in several private cars and ourfirst major stop was John Day. After being in the fieldmost of the day, the class was invited to attend ahunter’s banquet in the evening. RG told me I waswelcome to go but if I did it would create a difficultatmosphere for the men; I opted to sit on a benchoutside a store building until it was time to go to myroom. After the banquet the fellows spent the night intheir sleeping bags in some big building; RG hadrelinquished his hotel room to me while he stayedwith some friends. Some kind soul alerted me thenext morning so I didn’t get left behind when every-one was ready to roll. Again at the Malheur BirdRefuge, I was housed in a lovely room in the home ofDr. and Mrs. Scharff, while the fellows were off insome big outbuilding. I therefore missed the eveningand early morning bird movement and sounds that thefellows were privileged to hear and see. Despitethese shortcomings, that field trip was a highlight ofmy Fish and Game schooling. I truly learned a lot andfound out there was a completely different Oregonwhen one crossed the Cascades and one very muchinvolved with game, fishing, and hunting. BonnevilleDam had not been built so we saw the open Columbiawith the Indians fishing from their precarious platforms

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built out over the raging waters of The Dalles.My senior year included two classes that became

very important for me: Poultry Anatomy and Dis-eases. When the last class was over that spring of1939, Dr. Rosenwald, the teacher, offered me a job inthe Poultry Pathology lab. I may well have been thefirst of our 1939 graduating class to secure employ-ment! and it was right on campus in the familiarPoultry Building. I started working the day aftergraduation and my job was the result of having takenthose two Fish and Game classes. The pay, 35 centsan hour. After two months it jumped up to 50 centsan hour. I was on my way!

After WWII broke out in 1941 and fellows weresiphoned off into the military or war jobs, I had thewonderful good fortune to work a number of sum-mers in the U.S. Forest Service, again being the onlywoman to do so, as guard at the Guard Station atMarion Lake in the Willamette National Forest, later,on a couple of different lookouts. At last I wasworking outdoors, my goal when I signed up to be astudent in Fish and Game! During the school year Iworked in Nutrition Research at OSC, took graduateclasses and ended up with an M.S. ready to teachBiology in 1950. I ended up teaching physical educa-

tion at Reed College. How I loved Reed; theschool’s philosophy of education, my fun job, thestudents, and the faculty.

After the death of my husband and our daughter’sgraduation from high school I moved from Portland toa ten acre partially wooded piece of property in thefoothills south of Philomath. It was to be my privatewildlife preserve and in the twenty some years I livedthere I watched the land evolve with the growth oftrees and the changes in the creek from beaveractivity.

Life in Oregon was a constant treat from the timeI arrived as a student until I left a year and a half agoto come to live with my daughter here in Burgundy.France. This part of France is very much like thecentral part of the Willamette Valley so I feel verymuch at home. It seems a good time as I approachmy 90th birthday to actually sit down and express mythanks to OSU and Oregon for a lifetime of happi-ness, not wealth; happiness. I do hope there are afew of us early graduates still around and that theirmemories of our schooling are as rich and as reward-ing as mine.

Clara Budlong Hadjimarkos La Bombie 71520Montagny sur Grosne France qwillow@laposte.net

Many of you probably read about the big flap in theCollege of Forestry this past winter occasioned bythe attempt of several faculty members to delaypublication of an article in the prestigious journalScience. The lead author was Dan Donato, aforestry master’s student. The article reported oneffects of salvage logging on seedling regeneration,stirred up quite a hornet’s nest, and got the Dean ofForestry on the hotseat. Less publicized was the factthat two of our faculty and a grad student were co-authors on the article. The Principal Investigator onthe original grant that supported Donato’s work was

Forestry FlapBoone Kauffman (who left our department in 2003 totake a position as Director of the Institute for PacificIslands Forestry in Hawaii [Maybe he saw thiscoming]). Assuming the position as PrincipalInvestigator was Doug Robinson, who was alreadyon the project and has grad student Joe Fontaineworking on this grant. All three were authors on thehigh-profile article. There was even a congressionalhearing. If you missed the brouhaha and want tocheck it out, try Googling Donato OSU science[28,800 hits at last count]

Mark your calendars—November 7 and 8. Hiram Liwill officially retire this fall and Judy retired in June.We will celebrate their two wonderful careers onNovember 7 with a dinner and roast and again onNovember 8 with a special session at LaSellsStewart Center in conjunction with the 4th AnnualSymposium on Research Advances in Fisheries,Wildlife, and Ecology sponsored by the department’s

graduate students. Look for a special mailing nextmonth with more details or contact Jan Cyrus (541-737-1936). Send contributions to a memory book toJan Cyrus at the department address. In lieu of gifts,Hiram and Judy request that you send donations tothe OSU Foundation, either the Coombs-SimpsonScholarship or the Fritzell Diversity Award.

Hiram and Judy Li Retirement Celebration

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The OSU Survey Research Center recently con-ducted a survey of Departmental alumni who gradu-ated from 2003 to 2005. Dan Edge summarized theresults of the survey:

Our survey of Fisheries and Wildlife majors fromthe last 3 graduating classes provides us with valu-able information on the success of our academicprograms. Based on 114 responses out of 230questionnaires mailed, graduates from the Depart-ment of Fisheries and Wildlife at OSU are generallysuccessful in obtaining jobs. Almost 90% of allgraduates were employed within 3 years of graduat-ing from OSU. Success in finding permanent employ-ment and employment in natural resources profes-sions increased with advanced degree levels and withtime post graduation. Although most graduates wereemployed in natural resources professions, studentswith M.S. or Ph.D. degrees were more successful atfinding employment in their chosen professions.Although an M.S. degree has always increased thelikelihood of permanent employment in the naturalresources professions, data on the last 3 graduatingclasses suggest that the likelihood of employment forthe B.S. graduate increases with time since gradua-tion. Thus, students who persist in searching for jobsand who have a series of temporary jobs are likely tofind permanent employment over time. With persis-tence, more than half may obtain permanent employ-ment while others may need to obtain higher degrees.Developing employment histories in the naturalresources field and developing contacts amongnatural resource professionals will continue to be avery important role of our internship program.

Salary levels of our graduates indicate that

employment in fisheries and wildlife or other naturalresources fields leads to competitive salaries. . Entry-level salaries for an M.S. degree were $10,000 morethan those for B.S. degrees, and graduates with aPh.D. earned approximately $20,000 more thangraduates with an M.S. degree.

Our employment and salary survey represents asnapshot in a dynamic job market. The graduatingclasses represented by these data were seekingemployment during a period of relatively poor eco-nomic growth compared to our previous survey.Respondents were more successful at findingemployment than we anticipated given the economy.

Our undergraduate degree program appears to bewell designed for producing successful graduates.The current degree program has three innovativefeatures: internships, a group problem solving se-quence, and a self-designed specialty option. Over60% of the graduates from this program had some-what or very positive perceptions regarding the valueof each of these curriculum components. Ourinternship and specialty option components wereespecially well received. The knowledge, skills, andabilities that students learn while obtaining a degreefrom our program also appear to be largely on target.A previous survey conducted in 1995 suggested thatthe department should pay special attention to thecommunications and human dimensions aspects ofour educational program when developing the currentcurriculum. Responses from this latest surveysuggest that our curriculum has been successful inproviding our graduates with appropriate knowledge,skills and abilities.

Survey of Recent Graduates

1970 Oregon Wildlife Federation Meeting

Views from the Past

Informal faculty meeting, early 1950s (not great quality in the image, but too good to miss)(Andy didn’t quite make it in)

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UndergraduateNick Chambers—Roland E. Dimick MemorialScholarship, $2,000; for Sophomores who have beenin the Department for at least 3 terms; based onFreshman performance; awarded since 1980.Adrien Strubb—Lee Wallace Kuhn MemorialScholarship, $500; for Juniors or Seniors emphasizingwildlife; awarded since 2005.Briana Baker, Nolan Davis, David Hewlett, JakeTilden-Browning, and Daniel Udell—HenryMastin Memorial Scholarships, $1,200 each; forFreshmen entering the Department; based onscholastic achievement; awarded since 1989.Donna Fouts and Joshua Gentry—Bob andPhyllis Mace Watchable Wildlife Scholarships,$1,500 each; to benefit qualified and needy studentsworking toward an undergraduate degree in theDepartment; preference to Oregon high schoolgraduates; awarded since 1994.Sasha Fertig—Rogue Flyfishers ClubScholarship, $1,500; for a Junior or Senior majoring inFishery Science; awarded since 2004.Matt Morris—Michael Mapes MemorialScholarship, $500; given by the Multnomah Anglersand Hunters Club;for a Junior or Senior with fisheriesemphasis; awarded since 2005.Nick Chambers—Bill Schaffer MemorialScholarship, $800; given by the Multnomah Anglersand Hunters Club for a Sophomore in theDepartment; based on Freshman performance;awarded since 1942.Elaina Snyder—Chan Schenck ConservationScholarship, $800; given by the Multnomah Anglersand Hunters Club; for a Junior or Senior in theDepartment; awarded since 1942.Emily Hamblen and Noah Strycker—VivianSchriver Thompson Scholarship, $2,500 each; E.R.Jackman Foundation, to benefit needy wildlifestudents; restricted to Oregon residents; awardedsince 1995.Aaron Chappell and Matt Morris—SouthernOregon Flyfishers Club Scholarship, $1,500 each;restricted to Juniors and Seniors in the Department;preference to those with field experience; selectionbased on scholarship and need; awarded since 1995.Aaron Chappell and Emily Hamblen—William Q.Wick Memorial Scholarship, $1,000 each; to benefitundergraduate students in the Department;

Departmental Scholarship Recipients 2005–2006preference to Oregon high school graduates;awarded since 1993.Nick Chambers, Emily Hamblen, and NoahStrycker—Mike and Kay Brown Scholarships,$1,000 each; for undergraduate students with a majorin the College of Forestry, Department of Fisheriesand Wildlife, or in Natural Resources; awarded since1998.Noah Stryker—Cliff & Katie Hamilton MentorsScholarship, $1,500; awarded since 1993.Darek Smith $300, Brian Sogge $1,000—Depart-mental Internship Awards; established from Depart-mental funds for undergraduates in unfunded or low-funded internships.GraduateKaren Fischer—Coombs-Simpson MemorialFellowship, $600; awarded to a female graduatestudent with personal and professional qualities thatexemplify the role-model characteristics of CandiaCoombs and Gay Simpson, alumnae of the Depart-ment. The recipient is nominated by her peers;awarded since 1995.Aaron Berger and Seth White—Oregon CouncilFederation of Fly Fishers Scholarship, $1,500each; to graduate students researching native fishes;awarded since 1992.Aaron Berger and Michael Heck—Middle RogueSteelheaders Scholarships, $1,000 each; a new awardthis year.Joseph Feldhaus—Hugo Krueger GraduateResearch Award in Fish Physiology, $1,500; awardedsince 1986.Karen Fischer—Ken Munson Wildlife Scholarship,$500; awarded since 2005.Lisa Sheffield—Thomas G. Scott AchievementAward, $750; for the Outstanding M.S. student in theDepartment; awarded since 1993.Andrea Lueders— Thomas G. Scott AchievementAward, $750; for the Outstanding Ph.D. student inthe Department; awarded since 1993.Nichole Sather—H. Richard Carlson Scholarship,$1,500; awarded to a graduate student working in thearea of marine fisheries; awarded since 2000.Judith Jobse $600, David England $600, JenniferRamsay $750, Ephraim Temple $550—HenryMastin Graduate Fund to assist with expenses forresearch and travel to professional meetings.Mike Pope and Andrea Lueders—Thomas G.Scott Publication Fund, $500 each.

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