Saturday, October 5th, 2019
Conference Venue
The 2019 Oregon Master Naturalist Statewide Conference will take place at the Oregon State University Memorial Union. It is located at 2501 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, Oregon 97331.
Conference check in will be in the Horizon Room Lounge located in the east wing of the Memorial Union, starting at 7:30 AM on Saturday, October 5th. The entrance is accessed off of SW Jefferson Way on the south side of the building. Field trips will also leave and return from this same location on Friday, October 4th.
Click HERE to see a floor plan for the Memorial Union. The Conference will occur on the Mezzanine Level (Horizon Lounge and Horizon Room) and the Second Floor (La Raza Room – 208 & Allworth Conference Room – 207).
Conference Schedule
The following is the conference schedule for Saturday, October 5th, 2019. All times and locations are expected to be the same on the day of the conference, but are subject to change as circumstances warrant.
| Times | Horizon Lounge | Horizon Room | La Raza Room (208) | Allworth Conference Room (207) | Outdoors (Meet in Horizon Lounge) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 – 8:30 AM | Check-in and Registration | |||||
| 8:30 – 9:30 AM | Welcome and Opening Keynote: Bill Weiler – Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute. On the Trail to Awesomeness: Master Naturalists at Work in the Columbia Gorge Horizon Room | |||||
| 9:30 – 9:50 AM | Break – Refreshments and Socializing Horizon Room | |||||
| 10:00 – 10:50 AM | iNaturalist: A window into biodiversity Lauren Hull | Mushroom ID and Common Fall Mushrooms of the PNW Quinn Colling | OMN Roundtable – The Ups-and-downs of OMN: imagine the next 5 years Jason O’Brien | Bird Walk and Intro to eBird Joe Liebezeit | ||
| 11:00 – 11:50 AM | The Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains: Remote, diverse, and geologically/botanically unique Jeff LaLande | Portland Audubon Community Science Opportunities Joe Liebezeit | Open | Significant Trees on the OSU Campus Patrick Breen | ||
| Noon – 1:30 PM | Lunch and Free Time Horizon Room | |||||
| 1:30 – 2:20 PM | Marine Mammals Ashore: Responding to strandings in Oregon Jim Rice | Oregon Lichens (Part 1) Bruce McCune | OMN Roundtable – Find Your Niche as an OMN Volunteer Ann Harris | Campus BioBiltz with iNaturalist Lauren Hull | ||
| 2:30 – 3:20 PM | The Oregon Bee Atlas: To boldly go to find the bees that no Oregonian has seen before Andony Melathopoulos | Serpentine Ecology: Wacky soils build glorious places Kristi Mergenthaler | OMN Roundtable – Entering Your Volunteer Hours and Other Drudgery Deb Shallert | Oregon Lichens Field Walk (Part 2) Bruce McCune | ||
| 3:30 – 3:50 PM | Break – Refreshments and 10-Year Anniversary Cake Horizon Room | |||||
| 4:00 – 4:50 PM | Closing Keynote: Heather Fischer – OSU Center for Research on Lifelong STEM Learning Coastal marine debris collection to measuring snow in the Cascades – Exploring Community-engaged Science programs across Oregon Horizon Room | |||||
| 4:50 – 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks and Safe Travels Home | |||||
Meals and Breaks
Lunches and breaks are provided for this Conference. In your registration, you were asked to provide dietary preferences and restrictions (e.g. vegetarian, gluten free, no preference). We will use these responses to accommodate for the different lunch items available. Please review your registration confirmation so you know what you chose.
Field Trips: Box lunches will be provided and dietary preferences will be used to determine the exact number of each. Lunches will be labeled. Please be sure to take the kind of lunch you indicated on your registration.
Conference: Morning hot beverage service (coffee/tea) will be provided during morning check-in. A morning break will continue coffee/tea service, plus snacks. A lunch buffet will be provided, with accommodations made based upon your dietary preferences. There will also be an afternoon break with snacks and beverages, plus cake to celebrate our 10-year program anniversary.
If you have any questions or concerns about meals, please email ormasternaturalist@oregonstate.edu.
OSU Campus
The Oregon State University campus is a beautiful setting to have a conference. With its outdoor courtyards and quiet sitting areas, plenty of walking paths, and the earliest hints of fall colors on its thousands of trees and shrubs, take some time to wander around campus during breaks and other times while you are in Corvallis. Here’s a handy Campus Map for your reference.