Category Archives: science

Isabella Featured on Episode of PolliNation Podcast

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Gail Langellotto

Garden Ecology Lab undergraduate, Isabella Messer, is featured on this week’s episode of the PolliNation podcast. Isabella joins the ‘research retinue’ group of undergraduates at Oregon State University, to discuss recent research papers: Hung, Keng-Lou James, Jennifer M. Kingston, Matthias … Continue reading →

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Garden Bees, 2017

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Gail Langellotto

All bees have been pinned, labelled, and data-based. Now we’re (and when I say ‘we’re’, I’m mostly referring to Lucas and Isabella) are going through the painstaking process of photographing all specimens: head on, from the top, and from each … Continue reading →

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Lab News: Garden Ecology Lab featured on PolliNation Podcast

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Gail Langellotto

Dr. Andony Melathopolous hosted us on his fabulous PolliNation podcast. Listen to the episode, where we talk about the importance of gardens to native bees, our current research, and some key questions that remain to be answered regarding gardening for … Continue reading →

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Research Update: Studying Willamette Valley’s Native Plants

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Gail Langellotto

The post below comes from Aaron Anderson, a M.S. student in the OSU Department of Horticulture, and a member of the Garden Ecology Lab. ************************************* This past summer, we conducted the first field season of a study screening native plants … Continue reading →

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Studying Urban Garden Soils

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Gail Langellotto

  This post is modified from a submission from Michael Nelson. It details lessons learned from his survey of garden soils, across Corvallis, Oregon, and the Portland Metropolitan area.  In September 2017, Michael sampled soils from about 25 gardens. These … Continue reading →

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#OverlyHonestMethods

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Gail Langellotto

#OverlyHonestMethods is a hashtag that is trending on Twitter.  With this hashtag (which is simply an easy way to sort and find posts), scientists share the honest, ugly truth behind research.  Some examples: “Data was not recorded on Sundays because … Continue reading →

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Why Study Gardens?

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Gail Langellotto

Gardens are unique and understudied systems that can have multi-faceted and positive impacts on environmental and public health.  But, key to realizing the potential, positive impact of gardens are the decisions that are made when planning, installing and maintaining garden … Continue reading →

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We Study Gardens

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Gail Langellotto

We study gardens: the plants, insects, animals, people, decisions and management practices that either improve or degrade a garden’s ability to promote environmental and human health. An underlying premise of our work is that gardens are important and understudied systems, … Continue reading →

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