Oregon Explorer

07/04/2022

Darlingtonia Californica, beautiful, but deadly (if you are an insect)! Learn fascinating facts about these carnivorous plants of the Oregon Coast on this week's show with biogeographer, Dr. Mary Santelmann, a professor at Oregon State University.(reporting by Dina Pavlis, KXCR 90.7 FM).

Darlingtonia Californica, beautiful, but deadly (if you are an insect)! Learn fascinating facts about these carnivorous plants of the Oregon Coast on this week's show with Dr. Mary Santelmann, a profe

05/06/2022

It begins in the 1980s, when Eugene-raised botanist Scott Sundberg decided that someday, somehow, he would produce a flora (a very in-depth native plant compendium) for Oregon.

In 1994, he began making that dream a reality, taking a job and a pay cut at Oregon State, giving him access to the plant collections at both OSU and the University of Oregon because some things are more important than money. “Let me at it,” he wrote in accepting the position.

With a small staff and a host of volunteers, the project manages OregonFlora.org and a wildflowers app, has produced two Flora of Oregon print volumes and is finalizing production on a third volume.

11/08/2019

Join us on GIS day as we explore our human-environment relationships through the OmniGlobe, Hologlobe and Virtual Reality as well as a Demo of the Atlas of the PNW. For the detailed schedule and locations: http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/gaw/

DISCOVERING THE WORLD THROUGH GIS GIS DAY - NOVEMBER 13, 2019 What links place, time, people, and their environments? GEOGRAPHY!! The Geography program at OSU will be celebrating GEOGRAPHY AWARENESS WEEK and GIS DAY on Wednesday, November 13 with numerous activities throughout the day that highlight...

01/31/2019

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Todd Jarvis, director of Oregon State University’s Institute for Water and Watersheds, got his first introduction to water issues at 8 years old when he visited a

11/09/2018

Explore the 2018 edition of the Atlas of the Pacific Northwest at http://pnwatlas.oregonstate.edu/! More than 100 interactive maps that cover all of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho have been assembled and presented for the first time in a digital atlas format. Eight chapters cover regional topics including water, culture and history, population and housing, outdoor recreation and more.

04/19/2017

The redesigned Oregon Spatial Data Library has been launched! http://spatialdata.oregonexplorer.info/geoportal/

02/14/2017

Happy Oregon Statehood Day from the Oregon Explorer team!!

11/18/2016

Announcing the launch of the redesigned Communities Reporter Tool!!

The Communities Reporter Tool (CRT) grants public access to community data in a flexible online space and in an easy to understand way. From the CRT you can access over 600 demographic, social, economic, and environmental indicators about all of the towns, villages, cities, and counties in Oregon an...

09/21/2015

Live maps of drought, wildfire, and more are now available on the Oregon Explorer homepage! Click the live feeds button on the map to choose from available layers. http://oregonexplorer.info/

08/21/2015

BIG NEWS!! The redesign of the Oregon Explorer was launched this summer. Check it out at www.oregonexplorer.info

06/01/2015

This is a really interesting map of lightening strikes that occurred during the storms in Oregon last night (map from Oregon Department of Forestry).

Today's ODF Fire Update:
Lightning, mostly accompanied by precipitation – heavy in some areas, moved through much of Oregon (western Oregon from south to north, Willamette Valley, Columbia Gorge/northern Oregon, north- and central-eastern Oregon, and central Oregon) during the evening of May 31 and early morning on June 1. As a few examples, the South Cascade District (Linn and western Lane counties) estimates receiving approximately 50 strikes; last night, Douglas Forest Protective Association estimated they received approximately 800 strikes; and dozens of strikes were reported by the Southwest Oregon District in the Josephine County area. Numerous small lightning-start fires were and are still being reported on various forestland ownerships, none of which at this time are near 10 acres or larger, and initial attack of those fire starts has been ongoing since the onset of the lightning. ODF will be continuing to use all available detection resources today, from engine patrols to camera detection where available, to seek out any possible additional fire starts from this recent lightning storm.

Here's the lightning tracker map - image from about 8 a.m. Legend for the colors of the strikes: Magenta: 0-1 hour; Red: 1-3 hours; Gold: 3-6 hours; Blue: 6-10 hours; Purple: 10-16 hours; Black: 16-24 hours.