Annual Retreat 2006

Eco-IGERT First Annual Retreat

Friday, May 5th - Sunday, 7th, 2006   HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, OR     

Student and Faculty Presentations:

Scaling and Modeling - Dan Sobota, Zac Kayler, Ethan Dereszynski, Nam Ngo, Steve Mitchell

Networks - Geoff Hosack, Liz Burrows, Chris Graham

Disturbance - Alan Tepley, Janine Rice

Internship - Steve Mitchell, Janine Rice, Alan Tepley

IGERT curriculum - Ethan Dereszynski, Dan Sobota, Liz Burrows,  Nam Ngo

EI technology - Chris Graham, Zac Kayler, Tiffany Vance

EI in 10 years - Tiffany Vance and faculty panel   

Keynote Speaker:

Dr. James S. Clark
Blomquist Professor of the
 Environmental Sciences and Biology, Duke University 

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External Advisory Board members in attendance:

Dr. Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez, Associate Professor, Host Plant Resistance, University of Idaho

Dr. Jason Dunham, Aquatic Ecologist USGS FRESC Corvallis Research Group

Except from External Advisory Board report review:

"In general we were very impressed by the students and faculty we met during the retreat, as well as the level of accomplishment realized by the various EI IGERT projects we learned of during the retreat.  As with any program of this complexity, novelty, and magnitude, success is contingent on constant change in the face of new and evolving challenges.  In that spirit, we hope our suggestions below are useful for the continuing success of EI IGERT.

"Overall we found the retreat to be well-organized, very informative, and inspiring.  The students who organized the event did a great job, but there were a few aspects that could be changed."