The Forest Soils Lab in the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources & Management at Oregon
State University is seeking a MS level graduate student to begin either summer or fall 2015. This
student will be working with a multi-disciplinary team (Landscape Ecologists, Wildlife Biologists, Soil
Scientists, and others) examining the interactions between wildlife and soils in early seral forests. We
will utilize stable isotopic techniques and large-scale exclosure experiments to test for potential top-
down effects of birds and cervids on N-cycling, as well as the bottom-up effect of soils on birds and
cervids. This experiment is set in the context of a large-scale experiment on intensive forest
management (