{"id":267,"date":"2018-12-04T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=267"},"modified":"2018-12-04T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:49:01","slug":"faculty-qa-john-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/12\/04\/faculty-qa-john-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Q&amp;A: John Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How long have you been at Oregon State?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I came<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>back\u00a0here in 2006, so it\u2019s coming up on 13 years. I<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>first\u00a0came to Corvallis to work for the EPA in the mid-\u201880s and worked\u00a0some\u00a0with the College of Forestry\u00a0then. After about six years, I decided to get my Ph.D.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0the program at Oregon State<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>was an obvious choice.\u00a0 I\u00a0started to look for funding and ultimately found John Tappeiner and the project that would become my Ph.D.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>But my first faculty position was at Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-268\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/12\/DSCN3316-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/DSCN3316-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/DSCN3316-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/DSCN3316-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your favorite part of your job now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love my job. I love the people: the faculty, staff and students. I love working on such an important topic that has breaking ideas and applications all the time. I love teaching and seeing graduate students develop and get established. I\u2019ll keep going as long as I can.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/12\/2015-Honors-Ceremony-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/2015-Honors-Ceremony-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/2015-Honors-Ceremony.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does your life look like outside work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a 25-year old son in\u00a0an\u00a0Air Force technical school in California and a 22-year-old daughter in her fifth year\u00a0of\u00a0the architecture program at the University of Oregon. Their mom passed away about the same time I moved to Corvallis 13 years ago. I remarried last year,\u00a0though,\u00a0and\u00a0Bobbi and I\u00a0just celebrated our one-year anniversary, and we have a seven-year-old son\u00a0who keeps us busy.<\/p>\n<p>I work a lot, but I still think work-life balance is important. I\u2019m able to do things at my son\u2019s school and get down to Eugene to see my daughter, and I enjoy a lot of gardening and home improvement projects.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/12\/Swedish-field-trip-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/Swedish-field-trip-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/Swedish-field-trip-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/12\/Swedish-field-trip-2-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are your hobbies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m\u00a0pretty\u00a0handy, so I do a lot of household projects. I also love to cook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What\u2019s your favorite food?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the summer time, there\u2019s nothing better than a hamburger off the grill with homemade tomato and onion from the garden. In the winter time, a pot of chili. I\u2019ve won a few chili cookoffs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wow, can we have the recipe?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope. It\u2019s heavy on meat and beans and a couple of Virginia secrets I got from my momma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You grew up in Virginia? What was that like?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My father was a general contractor, so I grew up working on houses. He<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>always told\u00a0a story about one time<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>when\u00a0I was working on a hot summer day on a roof, and I threw my\u00a0hammer down. I knew then that I wanted to go to college and have a different kind of life outside of Virginia. I have about 40 cousins in my big, country family, and I\u2019m\u00a0one of the\u00a0few\u00a0who ever left\u00a0central Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maybe a carrot? They\u2019re tall and thin like me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You don\u2019t watch much TV, so what do you do for entertainment?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the summer, I get season tickets to the Corvallis Knights. There\u2019s no better way to spend a Corvallis evening than with your kid and a bunch of other kids at a baseball game. My son loves it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long have you been at Oregon State? I came\u00a0back\u00a0here in 2006, so it\u2019s coming up on 13 years. I\u00a0first\u00a0came to Corvallis to work for the EPA in the mid-\u201880s and worked\u00a0some\u00a0with the College of Forestry\u00a0then. After about six years, I decided to get my Ph.D.\u00a0and\u00a0the program at Oregon State\u00a0was an obvious choice.\u00a0 I\u00a0started to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/12\/04\/faculty-qa-john-bailey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}