{"id":447,"date":"2019-06-04T18:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=447"},"modified":"2019-06-04T18:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:36:57","slug":"faculty-qa-dana-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2019\/06\/04\/faculty-qa-dana-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Q&A: Dana Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"

How did you end up at Oregon State?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My wife got a job at Oregon State in the Crop and Soil Science Department, and we moved\u00a0to Corvallis\u00a0in\u00a0fall of 2009.\u00a0I worked remotely on my post-doc until 2010, at which point I began a research position the fisheries and wildlife department .\u00a0 In 2015, I transitioned\u00a0to a tenure track\u00a0position with ajoint appointment between Forest Ecosystems and Society and the Department of Fisheries Wildlife. I\u00a0have to say that I really enjoy\u00a0working in two departments. Of course, I go to two faculty meetings and serve on more committees, but it\u2019s\u00a0been a great fit\u00a0for me in terms of my research interests and potential for collaboration.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s your favorite part about your job?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love working with graduate students. They do amazing work. I love building rapport with them and seeing them going through the learning process where at the end of their time they are\u00a0writing really stellar thesis drafts.<\/p>\n

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You won a dean\u2019s award this year, and were recently awarded tenure. How does it feel?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s great. Gaining tenure is a weight off my shoulders. I think any faculty member would tell you that there\u2019s no time when you\u2019re not thinking about work and I’m hoping to take at least a bit of a breath next year sometime and start to unwind a little.\u00a0I won the dean\u2019s award for graduate student mentorship.\u00a0\u00a0I have a great group of students and really\u00a0all I did was what I like to do the most (talk a lot to students about science).<\/p>\n

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What are your plans for summer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have an NSF grant to do work in Yellowstone. I\u2019m headed out there for a couple weeks. Then I\u2019ll visit family back East, and when we get back to Oregon I\u2019ll catch up on my projects here \u2013 one at HJ Andrews and one\u00a0on managed forest landscapes\u00a0in the Coast and Cascade Ranges, then back to Yellowstone for a week. I\u2019ll recover after that and spend time with my kids. We hope to spend a few weekends camping on the coast.<\/p>\n

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What kinds of things are your kids into?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They both do gymnastics at KidSprit, and my oldest is taking riding lessons from Michele Justice\u2019s daughter, which has been a cool College of Forestry connection.<\/p>\n

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What else do you do when you\u2019re not working?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m enjoying experiencing children\u2019s literature again through my kids. I\u2019m reading them lots of Shel Silverstein and Rahl Dahl. We\u2019ve also recently started skiing as a family. I\u2019m looking forward to reclaiming more of my old hobbies like wood working, fishing and playing hockey.\u00a0Hopefully I can gain better work-life balance in the coming year and start integrating those back into my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How did you end up at Oregon State? My wife got a job at Oregon State in the Crop and Soil Science Department, and we moved\u00a0to Corvallis\u00a0in\u00a0fall of 2009.\u00a0I worked remotely on my post-doc until 2010, at which point I began a research position the fisheries and wildlife department .\u00a0 In 2015, I transitioned\u00a0to a… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[603042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}