Frederick J. Swanson

Fred Swanson, emeritus affiliate faculty at OSU, began his work in research geology and disturbance ecology at the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service in 1972. As an earth scientist with a long history of research on physical processes in forest and stream ecosystems, he has been attentive to long-term changes in the land and our relationship with the land. Much of his place-based work has occurred at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascades and at Mount St. Helens. Swanson has been deeply involved in Spring Creek Project’s Long-Term Ecological Reflections program at the Andrews Forest and he has encouraged and provided support to programs at other sites to undertake science-humanities-arts collaborations.