{"id":641,"date":"2019-12-16T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=641"},"modified":"2019-12-16T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:50:28","slug":"cof-spotlight-ana-barros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2019\/12\/16\/cof-spotlight-ana-barros\/","title":{"rendered":"CoF Spotlight: Ana Barros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do you do here in the College of Forestry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a research associate. I finished my Ph.D. in Portugal and worked for two years as a corporate scientist for a company there. I found my postdoc position thanks to a connection I made at the U.S. Forest Service, and from there became a research associate. I\u2019ve been here about five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What I do is mostly wildfire and landscape modeling. We run these landscape models to do what-if scenarios and see how\u00a0a particular landscape would\u00a0change\u00a0if you ramp up forest management, increase wildfire under climate change, increase population density.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you know about Corvallis before you landed here?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not at all. I had to google it. I spent one year here during my Ph.D.,\u00a0but\u00a0I was in the\u00a0Bay Area\u00a0and Los Angeles, so that kind of environment is what I had in my head when I came here, and it was a shock, but the people are nice and the work is great. I\u2019ve made friends and found community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How did you become interested in studying forestry, and\nspecifically wildfire?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portugal has a lot of wildfire. One year when I was in school was\nparticularly bad, and that term, I had my first class in fire ecology. The\nprofessor of that class ended up being my Ph.D. supervisor. He came in and\ndebunked all of these crazy theories about wildfire and explained the social\nand ecological aspects of it. I found it really interesting, and I decided it\nwas what I wanted to do: help people understand how things work based on data,\nprovide them information, and let them make up their own minds about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is your favorite part of the work you do now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like when the results show something I wasn\u2019t expecting. There are instances where we think things might go one way, but they go another way. Surprises are the best part!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do you do outside work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My family is in Portugal, and I have friends all over the world,\nand in different time zones, so I spent some time chatting with them. I like\ntrue crime podcasts, embroidery, Netflix, gardening\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are some true crime podcasts we should know\nabout?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorites is called \u2018Crime Writers On\u2026\u2019 They comment on\nupcoming podcasts or TV shows and give their reviews. Based on that, I decide\nwhat to listen to or watch. I like stories that give you an overarching view of\na problem. One, called \u2018Missing and Murdered\u2019 explored an indigenous girl in\nCanada that disappeared, and that led to exploring issues of Canada\u2019s\nresidential schools and reparations with first peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you learn to embroider?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I taught myself by following Instagram accounts. I can\u2019t paint or\ndraw, but embroidery comes naturally to me. I started by upcycling sweaters or\nsweatshirts, and now I\u2019m making a lot of architectural ones, like the lookout\nwhere my partner works and my parents\u2019 house. I like hobbies where I can create something to\nhold in my hands and show people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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