{"id":221,"date":"2018-10-23T19:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=221"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:44:01","slug":"staff-qa-shannon-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/10\/23\/staff-qa-shannon-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Q&amp;A: Shannon Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How long have you been at Oregon State?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the end of January 2018, shortly after I moved to Oregon. I\u2019m originally from Connecticut and had spent my entire life in New England before coming to the PNW \u2013 I moved here to join my partner (now husband) in Corvallis where he was already working as a consulting forester. This position in the College of Forestry opened up right as I was looking for the next step in my career!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/10\/61Chamonix11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/61Chamonix11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/61Chamonix11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/61Chamonix11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/61Chamonix11.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you love about your job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m excited that with this job I get to bring together pieces from a lot different experiences I\u2019ve had in the past. In my first job out of undergrad I was an outdoor educator at a nonprofit environmental center, and most recently I was forest manager for the Yale School Forests. Here at OSU I\u2019m able to draw on that program development, communications, and forestry\/land management experience in an entirely new way. I get to meet new people, work on many different types of projects, and engage with the PNW forestry and natural resources community \u2013 basically I\u2019m constantly learning and trying to think creatively about how to provide resources to people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-225\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/10\/Denali-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/Denali-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/Denali-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you do when you\u2019re not working?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My husband and I bought a house in the past year so we\u2019ve been doing a lot of projects to make it our own. We have two dogs, and we like to get them out for adventures as often as possible. I\u2019m looking forward to more hiking, rock climbing, and time at the beach. We also like to cook and have a pretty big cookbook collection &#8211; right now we have a goal of making at least one new recipe each week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/10\/Bathie-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/Bathie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/Bathie-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s your favorite thing to cook?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This summer it was grilled salmon! Simple but classic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read any good books lately?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m currently reading East of Eden for the second time &#8211; I really like coming back to certain books every once in a while. This is the one that made me a Steinbeck fan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What would you do if you won the lottery?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would do two things. I\u2019d buy some forestland to manage, and probably build a small house on the property. I\u2019d also do some traveling. There are so many places I would like to see in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s the destination on the top of your list?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a dream trip of going to Portugal, Spain and Morocco. I\u2019ve also never been to Central or South America.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s your favorite trip so far?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2016, I went to Germany and France to do some forestry tours for work and then added a vacation on to the end of the trip. That was a dream come true. My (now) husband met me in Paris, and we got to stay with friends and then travel around Provence and the French Alps. It was an incredible mix of getting to try lots of food, experiencing art that I\u2019d only seen in books, and exploring little towns. We also recently did our honeymoon trip in the Canadian Rockies \u2013 the mountains were stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long have you been at Oregon State? Since the end of January 2018, shortly after I moved to Oregon. I\u2019m originally from Connecticut and had spent my entire life in New England before coming to the PNW \u2013 I moved here to join my partner (now husband) in Corvallis where he was already working&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/10\/23\/staff-qa-shannon-murray\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5291,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[603042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}