John Tappeiner, Forest Resources, received the Barrington Moore Memorial Award for 2001 by the Society of American Foresters at the SAF National Convention in Denver in September. The award is given to those who achieve a high level of scientific achievement in biological research.

Bob Buckman, Forest Resources (emeritus), has been chosen by the Board of Directors at the University of Minnesota to receive the Outstanding Achievement
Award, given to “graduates who have attained unusual distinction in their chosen fields or professions, in public service, and who have demonstrated outstanding achievement and leadership on a community, state, national, or international level.”

Diane Haase, Forest Science, received the Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant award from OSU at University Day in September. She was honored for her support of the Nursery Technology Cooperative, of which she is associate director, in planning, development, and implementation of new applied and basic research projects in the areas of field reforestation, nursery management, and plant physiology. In addition, she
supports the NTC through organizing meetings and conferences, maintaining the co-op’s web page, and assisting NTC graduate students. In 2000, she initiated the Seedling Quality Evaluation Service. Haase has published papers on nursery
practices, outplanting treatments, seedling quality, seedling nutrition, and chlorophyll
fluorescence, in addition to co-authoring a book on native-plant propagation.

David Rosowsky, Forest Products, is winner of the 2001 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineering. Rosowsky, who holds the Richardson Chair in Wood Engineering, was

commended for his research on stochastic modeling of engineered wood construction behavior under stress from natural and man-made hazards, and for the development of practical risk-consistent criteria for design of wood structures. In addition, along with two coauthors, Rosowsky will receive the T.K. Hseih Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers in London in November. This award is presented to the best paper published by the Institution in the field of structural and soil vibrations caused by earthquakes.

Bev Law, Forest Science assistant professor, was appointed science chair of the AmeriFlux network, which consists of 45 intensive sites in the Americas that are devoted to research on the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. She will lead strategic planning for the science direction of the network and further development of an infrastructure to study a variety of terrestrial ecosystems, from the tundra to the tropics. By gathering, interpreting, and disseminating information on long-term measurements of CO₂, water, and energy exchange, and on ecosystem processes and disturbance history that influence exchange rates, the network’s research enhances the understanding of underlying forces that affect future climate change. Law also has been appointed to a national committee working to strengthen the nation’s air quality management system. She joins the Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States, operated by the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council. The task of the committee is to develop scientific and technical recommendations on air quality.

Barbara Gartner, Forest Products, has been elected a Fellow in the International Academy of Wood Science. Since the fall of 1999, Gartner also has also been coediting the International Association
of Wood Anatomists (IAWA) Journal.