Roy A. YOUNG, Ph.D., Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
WAYNE V. BURT, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Research
THOMAS C. MOORE, Ph.D., Assistant to the Vice President for Research
ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE and providing
technical and technological services to the common-
wealth are recognized functions of institutions of higher
education. Research to advance human knowledge is encouraged and assisted at Oregon Slate University by general and directed research funds and is conducted by separately organized agencies. It is supported by appropria-
tions to experiment stations, institutes, and centers; by
grants from private and public agencies for institutional
and individual projects: and by instructional budgets as
part of normal academic activity.
The General Research Fund is administered by the
Graduate Council. The Directed Research Fund and in-
stitutional grants from the National Science Foundation
(NSF) and Public Health Service (PHS) are administered
with the advice of the Research Council.
Separately organized research agencies include the following:
Agricultural Experiment
Station
Engineering Experiment
Station
Sea Grant College Program
Research Centers
Air Resources Center
Computer Center
Environmental Health
Sciences Center
International Plant
Protection Center
Marine Science Center
Radiation Center
Western Region Area
Development Research
Center
Research Institutes
Genetics Institute
Institute of Nuclear Science
and Engineering
Nutrition Research Institute
Science Research Institute
Water Resources Research
Institute
Laboratories
Environmental Remote Sensing
Applications Laboratory
Forest Research Laboratory
The Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies
coordinates efforts of the various research organizations
of the University. He encourages and assists faculty memhers in the development of research programs and in
handling of grant applications. He advises the President
of the University regarding general progress of the institution's research programs. He works in close association
with the Dean of the Graduate School to insure maximum
opportunity for the integration of graduation instruction
and research. With the advice of the Research Council, he
recommends allocation of NSF grants and other general
research funds. He coordinates administration of grant
and contract operations with the Director of Business Affairs to facilitate the work of research personnel and to
insure compliance with the regulations of granting agencies.
Directed Research
Directed research funds are appropriated to provide
staff on instructional appointments in the College of
Science and the School of Engineering increased oppor-
tunity to initiate research programs. Funds are used for
staff salary to provide for released time from teaching,
usually for one term of the academic year. Details can be
obtained from the office of the Vice President for Research
and Graduate Studies.
General Research
General research includes faculty research, especially
of a fundamental nature, that does not fall into the organized and directed programs of other research agencies.
The Graduate Council prepares and submits annually a
budget for the support of general research and is authorized to receive, examine, and act upon requests for grantsin-aid from funds allowed.
Applications are received from individual staff members, or groups, of the rank of instructor or higher. Grantsin-aid are awarded for problems that give promise of re-
sults of general significance to learning. Grants may be
used for equipment, certain supplies, wages for some types
of assistance and, if the project has advanced sufficiently,
a part-time or full-time research assistantship or fellowship.
Grants are not intended to provide data for theses
leading to advanced degrees, or subject matter for a
specific course, or information of restricted though useful
nature for administrative functions. Each recipient of a
grant is required to present a written progress report to
the Dean of the Graduate School on June 1 each year.
Projects may be renewed for several years.
NSF and PHS Institutional Grants
The National Science Foundation, since July 1960,
has awarded an institutional grant annually to OSU. The
primary purpose of the grant is to strengthen the general
research functions in mathematical, physical, biological,
social, and engineering sciences as defined by NSF. These
funds may be used to employ research staff, purchase research equipment, support visiting research specialists,
and conduct other research-related activities.
A similar institutional grant program was initiated
by the Public Health Service in 1966 for support of healthrelated research and training. It is recommended by the
PHS that the institutional grant be used to meet emerging
opportunities in research, to explore new and unorthodox
ideas, to recognize and support scientific talent earlier and,
in general to utilize funds flexibly and in ways that will be
catalytic both for improving an(] for fostering additional
health research consistent with broader academic objectives. This grant complements rather than displacing other
Fl IS awards and supplements institutional funds already
devoted to health-related research or research training.
Faculty members may submit applications to the Research Council for support from institutional grants at any
time.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
Engineering Experiment Station
G. BURTON WOOD, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director.
WILSON HoovER FOOTE, Ph.D., Associate Director.
ROBERT WESLEY HENDERSON, Ph.D., Assistant Director.
DAVID PAUL MooRE, Ph.D., Assistant Director.
AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY: Professor Freed (department head)
FREDRICK JOSEPH BURGESS, M.S., Dean, School of Engineering,
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: Professor Blanch
ENGINEERING SCHOOL GRADUATE COMMITTEE: J. G. Knudsen
(Acting department head)
(chairman), J. R. Bell, J. L. Riggs, J. R. Welty, J. H. Herzog,
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E. Elzy, C. E. Smith, R. H. Brookes, S. A. Stone.
AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING: Professor Davis
(department head)
AGRONOMIC CROP SCIENCE:
Professor Cowan
(department head)
ANIMAL SCIENCE: Professor O]dfield (department head)
BOTANY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY: Professor Shay
(department head)
ENTOMOLOGY: Professor Swenson (department head)
FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE: Professor Warren (acting department
and Director, Engineering Experiment Station.
JAMES GEORGE KNUDSEN, Ph.D., Associate Dean, School of Engineering, in charge, Engineering Experiment Station.
By act of the Board of Regents of Oregon State College on
May 4, 1927, the Engineering Experiment Station was established at Corvallis to serve the State in a manner broadly outlined by the following policy:
To serve the industries, utilities, professional engineers, public departments, and engineering teachers by making investigations of significance and interest to them.
head)
FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Professor
Schultz
To stimulate and elevate engineering education by develop-
(department head)
HOME ECONOMICS RESEARCH: Professor
Hawthorne
(acting department head)
HORTICULTURE: Professor Apple (department head)
MICROBIOLOGY: Professor Elliker (department head)
POULTRY SCIENCE: Professor Arscott (department head)
PUBLICATIONS: Assistant Professor Floyd
VETERINARY MEDICINE: Professor
ing the research spirit in faculty and students.
To publish and distribute through bulletins, circulars, and
technical articles in periodicals the results of such studies, surveys, tests, investigations, and research as will be
of greatest benefit to the people of Oregon, and particularly to the State's industries, utilities, and professional
engineers.
Wedman (department head)
BRANCH EXPERIMENT STATIONS: Professors Lombard,
McArthur, Mellenthin, Raleigh, Rohde; Associate Professors
Hoffman, M. Johnson, Martin; Assistant Professors Carter,
Claypool, Davidson
The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station was organized
July 1, 1888, in accordance with the Hatch Act of 1887. It now
includes a central station at Corvallis and nine branch stations
so located as to cover the varying agricultural conditions of Ore-
The Engineering Experiment Station is an integral part of
the School of Engineering. All staff members and laboratory facilities of the Engineering School are available for the investigative work of the station to the extent of funds allocated or contributed for this purpose. Much of the work of the Station has
been made possible by the assistance of industries and state and
national associations. Inquiries concerning cooperative projects
are welcomed.
gon.
The Station serves as the principal agricultural research
agency in the State. Its mission is to contribute through research in the agricultural, biological, environmental, and social
sciences:
(1) to insure a stable and productive agriculture
through wise management of the natural resources of the State;
(2) to protect crops and animals from insects, diseases, and
other hazards, and to improve the efficiency of agricultural production; (3) to develop new and improved agricultural products
and processes and enhance product quality; (4) to strengthen
and improve the marketing of Oregon's agricultural products;
(5) to protect the consumer and improve the nutrition and well-
being of the people of the State; (6) to promote community
development and economic and public services for both rural
and urban people of Oregon; and (7) to protect and improve
the environment and quality of living.
The Station conducts research in the following departments:
Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural
Engineering, Agronomic Crop Science, Animal Science, Botany
and Plant Pathology, Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife, Food
Science and Technology, Home Economics, Horticulture, Microbiology, Poultry Science, Rangeland Resources, Soil Science,
The dean of engineering is the director of the Engineering
Experiment Station and guides the operation of the Station to
conform with state and institutional policies. The associate
dean is chairman of the Engineering School Research and
Graduate Committee, acts as administrator in charge of the
Engineering Experiment Station, and is technical editor of
publications. The active staff is composed of members of the
instructional staff who may be interested in various specific
research projects, or of research assistants who are pursuing
graduate study and are assigned to part-time work in the Station.
Sea Grant College Program
H. F. FROLANDER, Ph.D., Coordinator.
Advisory Committee
E. N. CASTLE, Dean of the Graduate School.
CHARLES E. WARREN, Acting Head, Department of Fisheries
and Wildlife.
Statistics, and Veterinary Medicine. The Branch Stations are
Central Oregon (Redmond), Eastern Oregon (Union), Klamath
(Klamath Falls), Malheur (Ontario), Mid-Columbia (Hood
River), North Willamette (Aurora), Columbia Basin Research
Center (Pendleton), Southern Oregon (Medford), and Squaw
Butte (Burns). The Station also maintains permanent field
J. G. KNUDSEN, Director, Engineering Experiment Station.
LARRY S. SLOTTA, Director, Ocean Engineering Programs.
JOHN V. BYRNE, Dean, School of OceanographyJOE Cox, Director, Cooperative Extension Service.
units or laboratories at Newport for marine sciences, at Astoria
The Oregon State University Sea Grant College Program is
supported by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce,
by a matching state appropriation, and by contributions from
industry and local government. The program includes training,
for seafood processing, at Port Orford for fisheries research,
and at Brookings for lily bulb production.
The Station cooperates with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Interior, and other Federal and
State agencies on research programs of interest to the State
and Nation.
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research, and advisory activities in the marine sciences and technology including marine biology, marine fisheries, aquiculture,
seafood processing, marine minerals, marine economics, ocean
engineering, biomedicinals, and oceanography at Oregon State
University; research and teaching in ocean law at the University
of Oregon; and training in oceanography and fishing technology
at Clatsop Community College.
Faculty and students from the Departments of Agricultural
Economics, Fisheries and Wildlife, Food Science and Technology, Botany, Microbiology, Zoology, Oceanography; from
Chemical, Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering; and
from the School of Pharmacy are actively participating in the
program.
The Sea Grant College Program is an integrated inter-
disciplinary plan which emphasizes foods from the sea, the
marine environment, and development of Oregon's and the
nation's human resources. The university's resources are applied
to the solution of problems that relate to the ocean. Research
and training involve both estuaries and the open ocean.
The Oregon State University Marine Science Center on the
south shore of Yaquina Bay at Newport is the coastal hub of
the Sea Grant College Program. The Marine Biology Laboratory
at Port Orford, the Netarts Bay Aquiculture Research Reserve,
the Seafoods Laboratory at Astoria, and the various outlying research facilities near Corvallis are also important elements in the
Program.
RESEARCH CENTERS
Air Resources Center
ROBERT M. ALEXANDER, Director
WILLIAM H. BUCKLEY, Executive Secretary
Advisory Committee
RICHARD W. BOUBEL, Professor of Mechanical Engineering;
VIRGIL H. FREED, Head, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Director, Environmental Health Sciences Center;
E. WENDELL HEWSON, Chairman, Department of Atmospheric Sciences; R. M. KALLANDER, Assistant Dean, School
of Forestry; J. RALPH SHAY, Head, Department of Botany
and Plant Pathology.
The Air Resources Center provides for a comprehensive
multidisciplinary approach to the identification of atmospheric
pollution problems and contributes to their solution by bringing
together qualified scientists in the atmospheric sciences, agricultural and biological sciences,chemistry, engineering, forestry,
biometrics, economics, political science, and other social sciences.
The Center facilitates the development and coordination of
programs for (1) research on air resource problems, (2) training graduate students in disciplines related to air resources, (3)
training technicians in air pollution control technology in a joint
effort with the Oregon Technical Institute, and (4) short courses,
seminars, and intensive post-graduate instruction offered as short
D. L. SKINNER, B.S., Research Assistant, Manager, Operating
Systems Development.
J. W. FRYKLUND, M.S., Research Associate, Manager of On-line
Hardware and Software Systems Development.
R. A. D ,vrs, B.S., Research Associate, Manager of Operations
and Applications Programming.
Assistant Professor: J. DAVIS.
Instructors: BACHELOR, BRENNE.
Research Associates: BAUGHMAN, MAHAN, MURRAY, OCHS,
PORTER, SCHEURMAN, THOENNES.
The Computer Center provides a focal point for computerrelated activities on campus. Its functions include computational
services, scientific consulting services, support of computer science programs and instruction in computers, and research basic
to computers and computer systems. Administrative, computer
based systems are also a key function of the Center. Developments in this latter area include computer assisted registration,
on-line systems for admissions processing, faculty and staff
personnal records, library acquisitions, and student health center
billing.
The principal computer of the Center is a Control Data 3300.
term institutes for industry and government personnel con-
The CDC 3300 operates under OS-3, a time-sharing system
designed and developed by the Computer Center. A network
cerned with aspects of air pollution abatement and control.
Major efforts are devoted to air pollution problems that are
of more than 200 remote computer consoles has been installed
on the OSU campus and at other colleges in Oregon to make
unique to, or of major importance in, the Pacific Northwest.
Among these are air pollution problems resulting from field
burning, forest waste disposal, and effluents from manufacturing
activities such as aluminum plants and the pulp and paper industry. These are matters of some urgency in western Oregon
where the pollution potential is high because of surface and
meteorological conditions.
The Air Resources Center also serves as a source of informa-
tion for state and regional air pollution control agencies, for
industry, and for the general public. Close coordination is maintained with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
and three regional authorities: Columbia Willamette, MidWillamette, and Lane Regional.
Computer Center
L. C. HUNTER, Ph.D., Professor, Director.
T. L. YATES, M.S., Associate Professor, Manager, Administrative
Systems.
G. D. ROSE, M.S., Research Associate, Assistant to Director,
Consultant, Operating Systems Development and Computer
Graphics.
T. R. BRANTNER, B.S., Research Associate, Assistant to Director,
Manager of Business Affairs.
facilities more readily accessible to users. These consoles permit
direct access to the Control Data 3300 computer. Several smaller
computers including a PDP-8, PDP-12, and ATHENA are avail-
able for the support of instructional and research programs. A
research computer, NEBULA, has been constructed under
the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research. A Calma Company Digitizer is available for the conversion of data from analog
graphical form to digital form on magnetic tape.
The Computer Center provides, in addition to computational facilities, mathematical and statistical consulting services
for the formulation and analysis of problems and for considerations for new computer systems. A variety of instructional materials including video tapes have been prepared to assist students, faculty, and others to acquire an understanding of computers and a facility with the many specialized programs and
languages available.
Faculty members associated with the Center are engaged in
research and development activities in computer science and in
use of computer systems, including projects in numerical methods of computation, programming systems and conversational
languages, automata theory, computer organization, file-based
systems, and instrumentation for computers and computer
systems.
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Environmental Health Sciences Center
V. H. FREED, Ph.D., Director.
J. M. WITT, Ph.D., Executive Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: C. H. Wang, L. D. Calvin,
C. E. Warren, W. R. Crooks, J. D. Lattin, R. M. Alexander,
F. D. Schaumburg, E. M. Castle
The Environmental Health Sciences Center was established
in 1967 as an organizational unit under the Vice President for
Research and Graduate Studies to provide coordination and
stimulation of environmental health training and research.
The problem of environmental quality and its effect on
human welfare is becoming increasingly complex as both our
population and technology expand. The ultimate solution to environmental problems requires strong, coordinated, interdisciplinary efforts from many subject matter areas, both to develop
persons qualified in this field and to generate new knowledge.
The Environmental Health Sciences Center brings together
research workers, advisers, faculty affiliates, and teachers from
many departments with a wide variety of professional capabilities, including: chemistry, biochemistry, toxicology, nuclear
chemistry, biology, entomology, agronomy, botany, food science,
fisheries and wildlife, veterinary medicine, pharmacology, ecology, psychology, mathematics, economics, engineering, humanities and social sciences.
The broad mission of the Center is to facilitate and encourage research, training, and support of qualified graduate students; sponsor conferences, symposia, and meetings for both
student training and public communication; and to serve as an
interdisciplinary resource group to state and local governmental
agencies and society at large on problems relating to man's
health and well-being and the management of the environment.
Examples of specific areas of interest include toxicology of en-
Principal programs to date have been in weed control.
They have involved primarily the Departments of Agronomic
Crop Science and Agricultural Economics with additional support from several other departments and are administered by
the Agricultural Experiment Station. Operations of the Center
involve not only close coordination with the University, but
also with the Federal Government, the United Nations, industrial
companies, and various foundations, all of which are involved
in agricultural assistance programs in developing countries.
Marine Science Center
Newport, Oregon
JOHN V. BYRNE, Ph.D., Acting Director.
CHARLES E. WARREN, Ph.D., Acting Associate Director.
Yaquina Marine Biology Laboratory
Professor JOHN V. BYRNE, Ph D., Director
Professor JOEL W. HEDGPETH.
Assistant Professor J. J. GONOR.
Research Associates ROBERT E. OLSON, D. A. YOUNG.
Pacific Fisheries Laboratory
Professor CHARLES E. WARREN, Program Director.
Assistant Professor R. S. CALDWELL.
Associate Professors W. P. BREESE, BARRY FISHER.
Marine Advisory Program
Professor WILLIAM Q. WICK, Leader.
Instructors DONALD E. GILES, VICKI J. Osrs.
Ship Support Facility
Port Captain R. G. REDMOND.
The OSU Marine Science Center is situated on a 49-acre
site in Newport adjacent to Yaquina Bay and one mile from
the Pacific Ocean. The facility is operated by the University
to serve the general public and the staff of OSU, sister institutions, and cooperating State and Federal agencies. The Uni-
vironmental microchemical pollutants, movement of chemicals
in the environment, utilization of solid waste products, chemical
waste disposal, environmental engineering, and mathematical
modeling of environmental problems.
versity encourages all workers in the marine sciences whose re-
The Environmental Health Sciences Center is interested not
only in research and public service, but in the training of qualified professional people in this field. Accordingly, the Environmental Health Sciences Center offers traineeships for support of
graduate students interested in preparing for a career in environmental health sciences. The student will normally major in one
of the traditional subject matter departments and augment this
training with courses designed to give him bath understanding
and perspective. Such courses have been developed through the
fresh and salt water laboratory area and include a public auditorium, aquarium, and museums. Smaller buildings house offices
and laboratories of the Fish Commission of Oregon and the
Oregon State Game Commission, as well as ship support facilities of the OSU School of Oceanography. Dock areas accommodate the OSU ships Yaquina. Cayuse and Paiute, and
smaller boats from several agencies. There are dormitories for
up to twenty-six students and visiting staff members.
cooperation of subject matter departments and the Center.
The administrative office of the Center is located in Weniger
Hall; however, the research facilities are a part of and are located in the various cooperating departments.
International Plant Protection Center
A. P. APPLEBY, Ph.D., Acting Director
ADVISORY COMMITTEE: G. Crabtree, V. H. Freed,
R. M. Kallander, L. R. Kolmer, J. R. Shay, G. R. Sitton,
L. C. Terriere, G. B. Wood
The International Plant Protection Center was established
in 1969 to increase the capability of Oregon State University
to develop and administer effective plant protection programs
in developing countries. At the same time, the program serves
to improve teach,ng, research, and extension capabilities in
plant protection within the University.
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search, instruction, or extension activities require a coastal
site to use the Center facilities.
Main buildings provide 38,000 square feet of office and
Research projects currently involve more than 100 staff
members from the Departments of Botany, Civil Engineering,
Fisheries and Wildlife, Microbiology, Oceanography, and
Zoology and the Cooperative Extension Service at OSU, and
from the Environmental Protection Agency, Fish Commission
of Oregon, and National Weather Service. The instruction program focuses on marine biological aspects of tidal, estuarine, and
nearshore marine environments, subjects for which the Center's
location provides a natural laboratory. Extension work concentrates on programs of interest to the general public and
to the coastal fishing industry.
Much of the research and extension work of the OSU Sea
Grant College program is conducted at the Marine Science
Center. The public area serves about one-quarter million visitors,
including more than ten thousand elementary and high school
students, annually.
Potential users of center facilities are invited to write to the
Director, outlining their needs.
Radiation Center
experiments; radiation effects on biological systems; radiation
dosimetry; production of short-lived radioisotopes; nuclear shield-
CHIN H. WANG, Ph.D., Director.
ing, and problems of nuclear instrumentation and radioactive-
The Radiation Center is a campus-wide research and training
facility designed to accommodate programs involving the use of
waste disposal.
The center laboratories and instruments are available to all
radioisotopes and radiation. Housed in the Center are major
nuclear and radiation devices, including a TRIGA-II research
nuclear reactor (licensed to be operated at 1,000 Kw steadypower level and 4,200 Megawatts in the pulsing mode), an
AGN-201 training nuclear reactor, a 3,300 curie cobalt-60
source, a 300 kVp x-ray generator, a number of multichannel
analyzers and associated detectors, a 14 Mev neutron generator,
neutron diffraction apparatus, neutron radiography facility, and
a variety of instruments for radiation measurement and monitor-
ing. Special facilities include laboratories for large and small
animal experiments and plant experiments.
Staff members of the Radiation Center receive joint appointments in the Center and the appropriate academic departments.
campus research workers and instruction programs requiring
such facilities.
Western Region Area Development
Research Center
HARLAN I. PADFIELD, Ph.D., Director
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS: Joe B. Stevens, Associate Professor, Agri-
cultural Economics; John A Young, Research Associate, Anthropology
This Center, supported largely by funds from the Agricultural Experiment Station, has a high priority function in con-
The center staff provide services such as consultation on the
ducting interdisciplinary research on problems of rural development, largely social and behavioral science oriented. Geographi-
feasibility of design and execution of radioisotope and radiation
cally, it covers the twelve Western states, including Hawaii.
experiments; hazard evaluation of experiments or devices in-
Research results are expected to be of value to workers in rural
volving use of radioisotopes or other ionizing radiation; nuclear
engineering; nuclear power plants; radiation chemistry; neutron
activation analysis; neutron radiography; neutron diffraction
communities and to policy makers at the state and national
level. It is also anticipated that the Center will have a training
and extension component.
RESEARCH INSTITUTES
Genetics Institute
RALPH BOGART, Ph.D., Director.
PROFESSORS: P. E. Bernier, K. L. Chambers, K. K. Ching,
J. R. Cowan, E. J. Dornfeld, D. C. England, W. H. Foote,
R. V. Frakes, W. A. Frazier, J. A. Harper, W. S. Overton,
L. W. Parks, W. E. Sandine, J. R. Shay, R. C. Simon,
research is under way in the following areas: formal genetics,
molecular and biochemical genetics, radiation genetics, cytology
and cytogenetics, evolution and speciation, quantitative genetics, microbial and fungal genetics, plant genetics and
improvement, animal genetics and improvement, and forest
genetics. These facilities and the competent faculty provide
outstanding opportunities for graduate teaching and research.
W. P. Stephen, R. M. Storm, C. H. Wang, T. M. Ching,
W. E. Kronstad, G. S. Beaudreau
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: J. R. Baggett, Robert Campbell,
Peter Dawson, Patricia Harris, Alfred Haunold, R. J. Metzger,
H. Irgens-Moller, D. S. Nachtwey, A. Owczarzak, Paul Roberts,
R. R. Silen, F. M. Stout, Maxine M. Thompson, Kenneth Rowe
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: D. L. Copes, Lyle Brown,
Francis Lawrence, F. C Sorenson, W. D. Hohenboken,
D. L. Stamp, Norbert Hartmann, John Kiger, G. D. Pearson,
Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute
CHIH H. WANG, Ph.D., Director
PROFESSORS: A. W. Anderson, Ralph Bogart, H. T. Easterday,
H. J. Evans, S. C. Fang, D. J. Kimeldorf, S. E. Knapp,
J. G Knudsen, V. A. Madsen, D. B. Nicodemus, T. H. Norris,
J. D. McIntyre
J. E. Oldfield, O. G. Paasche, D. J. Reed, Roman Schmitt,
R. O. Sinnhuber, B. I. Spinrad, T. D. Thomas, E. D. Trout,
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: Mary McCoy
INSTRUCTOR: Edward Thompson
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: J. P. Barton, D. R. Buhler,
Established in 1964, the Genetics Institute serves to integrate
the research activities in genetics carried on by personnel in the
biological science departments of the University. The function
of the Institute is to strengthen genetics as a unifying discipline
for biology, biochemistry, and biophysics. The Genetics Institute is administered by a director, assisted by an elected Genetics Board. The Institute staff comprises some 33 geneticists
from the several departments in the Schools of Agriculture, For-
D. L. Willis.
Malcolm Daniels, Peter Fessenden, R. R. Michael,
D. S. Nachtwey, J. C. Ringle, A. H. Robinson, L. W. Swenson.
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: W. W. S. Au, W. O. Forster,
K. Hornyik, A. G. Johnson, Walter Loveland.
This Institute functions as a coordination body on curricular
matters at the graduate and undergraduate levels in nuclear
science and engineering and implements fellowship programs,
estry, and Science.
graduate training programs, short-course programs, research programs, and seminar programs that are not managed by individual
Extensive facilities for genetics research are provided by
the departments with which the geneticists are affiliated. Active
departments and are interdisciplinary in nature. It was established in 1966. '
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Nutrition Research Institute
DIRECTOR: (None at present)
EMERITUS PROFESSORS: O. C. Compton, E. M. Dickinson,
M. L. Fincke, J. R. Haag, H. M. Krueger, O. H. Muth,
C. A. Storvick, G. Tank
PROFESSORS: R. H. Alvarado, G. H. Arscott, G. S. Beaudreau,
k. R. Becker, W. G. Brown, D. O. Chilcote, D. C. Church,
M. D. Dawson, P. R. Elliker, H. J. Evans, V. H. Freed,
Ralph Garren, B. E Hawthorne, T. L. Jackson, D. P. Moore,
1. E. Oldfield, R. G. Petersen, K. S. Pilcher, A. T. Ralston,
W. E. Sandine, H. W. Schultz, R. O. Sinnhuber, L. C. Terriere,
[. J. Tinsley, S. L Wagner, C. H. Wang, P. H. Weswig,
C. B. Wood, M. J. Woodburn, E. S. Yearick
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: A. F. Anglemier, D. R. Buhler,
D. L. Crawford, Wilbert Gamble, J. W. Gillett, D. K. Law,
D. J. Lee, D. E. Mattson, L. T. Miller, J. H. Peters, F. M. Stout,
J. H. Wales, P. D. Whanger
Organized in 1952, this Institute operates within the framework of the College of Science. It has three functions: to assist
scientists at Oregon State in obtaining support for research
projects; to aid in expediting their research programs and
promote interdisciplinary research; and to pursue an active
research program fitted to the interest and competence of the
Institute staff.
Principal quarters of the Institute are in Weniger Hall, with
facilities also in Gilbert Hall. Current studies include projects in
biochemistry, biophysics, organic chemistry, solid state chemistry, electrochemistry, microbiology, entomology, plant pathology, and pharmacology. They derive support from OSU, government agencies, foundations, and industrial concerns. Staff mem-
bers and research assistants receive joint appointments in the
Institute and the appropriate teaching departments.
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: F. W. Adams, E. M. Benson,
Water Resources Research Institute
W. C. Renfro
INSTRUCTORS: M. A. Edwards, M. J. Woodring
ROBERT M. ALEXANDER, Director.
Established in 1965, this Institute recognizes that food needs
and resources constitute a continuing problem of civilization.
It has as its broad objectives the stimulation, encouragement,
facilitation, and coordination of research efforts in the varied
fields of nutrition as practiced in the departments and schools
of Oregon State University. These objectives are served through
the sponsorship of interdepartmental and institutional seminars,
symposia, and workshops, through coordination of nutrition
course offerings, and through facilitating entry of qualified
scientists and graduate students into nutrition research through
their particular disciplines. With the counsel of an Advisory
Board, the Institute is administered by a Director under the
Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies with the cooperation of the Dean of Administration. The deans of Agriculture, Home Economics, Science, and the Graduate School
serve as consultants to the Institute.
Science Research Institute
WILLIAM H. BUCKLEY, Executive Secretary.
The Water Resources Research Institute was established in
1960 to foster, encourage, and facilitate research and education
related to all factors that affect the quantity and quality of
water available for beneficial use. The Institute is administered
through the Schools of Agriculture, Engineering, and Forestry
and its members include all personnel in higher learning in
Oregon who are engaged in water resources research and training. The membership currently numbers about 180 persons in
20 different departments.
Extensive facilities are available to Institute members and
students for research and training. These include forested
watershed lands and associated field equipment, soils laboratories, water and waste treatment plants, experimental waste
treatment facilities, freshwater and marine science laboratories
including oceanographic research vessels, experimental streams,
an electronic computing center, a hydraulics laboratory, and a
A. B. SCOTT, Assistant Director.
radiation center. Research assistantships and fellowships are
available through many of the member departments, and the
Institute provides support for selected portions of the research
Professors: R. R. BECKER, I. ISENBERG, W. D. Loomis, D. L.
and training program in water resources.
R. W. NEWBURGH, Acting Director.
MACDONALD, R. W. NEWBURGH, A. B. SCOTT, C. H. WANG,
K. E. VAN HOLDS.
Associate Professors: D. J. BAISTED, F. W. DECKER, F. N. DOST,
W. GAMBLE, D. J. REED.
Assistant Professors: S. ANDERSON, R. D. DYSON, W. C. JOHNSON, J. A. KIGER, JR.
The Institute works closely with federal and state agencies.
Seminars are sponsored each quarter and the papers published;
a periodic newsletter is disseminated both on and off campus;
special reports are given wide distribution. Research projects
are underway in the areas of water supply and quality, planning
and management, systems analysis, and legal complexities.
RESEARCH LABORATORIES
Environmental Remote Sensing
Applications Laboratory
with the evaluation and development of Earth Resources photography taken from both space and high flying aircraft plat-
CHARLES E. POULTON, Ph.D., Director; WILLIAM T. PYOTT,
research and extension activities that will help the State solve
environment-, resource-, and human-related problems through
inventory, analysis, and monitoring by appropriate remote
sensing systems. To achieve this purpose, the Laboratory, its
staff, and collaborating departments interact closely with various
State and Federal agencies, councils of government, counties,
Assistant
This laboratory was founded in 1966 as an outgrowth of
the increasing involvement of the staff of the Rangeland Resources Program in developing techniques of ecological resource
inventory and analysis through remote sensing. Under NASAUSDA support, this group has been involved since its founding
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The primary purpose of the Laboratory is to engage in
and urban groups.
Forest Research Laboratory
CARL HENRY STOLTENBERG, Ph.D., Dean, Director.
DALE NESTRUD BEvER, M. F., Assistant Director.
RUDOLPH MARTIN KALLANDER, M. F., Assistant Director.
WILBUR T. VARAH, Fiscal Officer.
FOREST ENGINEERING: Professors Davies (department head),
Jemison, O'Leary; Associate Professors Aulerich, Brown,
Froehlich, Gay; Assistant Professors Berglund, Harr,
K. Johnson; Instructor Dykstra; Research Associate Holbo
FOREST MANAGEMENT: Professors Dilworth (department head),
Bell, Berg, Ching, Ferrell, Hermann, Lavender, Overton,
Wheeler; Associate Professors Beuter, Black, Hooven,
Irgens-Moller, Newton, Paine, Sutherland, Waring, Zaerr;
Assistant Professors Streeby, White; Research Associates Grier,
Hett, Nussbaum, Sweet, Webb
FOREST PRODUCTS: Professors Resch (department head),
Atherton, Espenas, McKimmy; Associate Professors Bublitz,
Corder, Currier, Graham, J. Johnson, Krahmer, Laver,
McMahon, Wellons; Assistant Professors Kozlik, Lin, Miller,
Polensek, Schuldt; Research Associate Scheffer
Forestry research at Oregon State University began in the
1920's. In 1941 an appropriation from the State General Fund
was made available for forest products research. State forestry
research activities were expanded in 1947 when a forest products
harvest tax was established to finance additional research. The
program was given further impetus in 1957 with construction
of the Oregon Forest Research Center in Corvallis, providing
new facilities for the state forestry research program administered by the Forest Protection and Conservation Committee.
In 1961, the staff and functions of the Oregon Forest Research Center were transferred to Oregon State University when
the Legislative Assembly enacted a law directing the State
Board of Higher Education to establish a Forest Research Lab-
oratory at Oregon State University. As a result, the forestry
research program benefits from the advice and counsel of a
Forest Research Laboratory Advisory Committee comprised
of representatives from forest industry and public forestry
agencies.
The program of the Forest Research Laboratory is conducted by the faculty of the School of Forestry and cooperating
faculty in other departments of the University. It constitutes
one of the largest university forestry research programs in the
nation. The program is designed to provide information which
will enable wiser public and private decisions concerning the
management and use of Oregon's forest resources and the opera-
tion of her wood-using industries. As a result of this research,
Oregon's forests produce increased yields of wood products,
water, forage, fish, wildlife, and recreation; wood products are
harvested and used more efficiently; forests are used more intensively and effectively; employment, production, and profitability in dependent industries is strengthened; and assistance is
provided in maintaining a quality environment for Oregon's
people.
Activities are organized into three areas: Forest Engineering,
Forest Management, and Forest Products. Forest Engineering
research includes planning and design of timber harvesting and
transportation systems that have least impact on the environment, forest hydrology, watershed management, and climatology.
Forest Management studies are concerned with physiological
and ecological behavior of forest trees and plants, reforestation
techniques, tree improvement, and control of forest damage
by animals; with improved cultural practices, growth and yields
of young-growth forests; remote sensing of the forest environ-
ment; and with the effect of various public and private
forestry programs on the forest economy and all Oregon residents. Forest products research is concerned with basic wood
properties, the relationship of tree growth to wood quality, tim
her mechanics and wood engineering, wood and bark chemistry,
pulp and paper, manufactured products, forest products processing and marketing, improved utilization, wood seasoning, wood
treatment and preservation, and with the alleviation of air and
water pollution. The Forest Research Laboratory helps support
research activities of graduate students in forest genetics, forest
economics, forest tree physiology, forest biometrics, forest hydrology, forest engineering, forest ecology, forest entomology,
forest pathology, forest soils, and wood science with emphases
in wood chemistry, wood physics, wood anatomy, and timber
mechanics.
The Laboratory supplies results of research and provides
technical information to forest land owners and managers, to
manufacturers and users of forest products, to leaders of government and industry, and to others who are interested. The
Laboratory also undertakes cooperative research financed by
individuals, corporations, associations, and government agencies. Field experiments in forest genetics, young-growth manage-
ment, forest hydrology, and reforestation are maintained on
lands of the School of Forestry and of public and private cooperating agencies.
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