An outreach experiment in cultivating the creativity, vision, and innovative perspectives that can be found among our CRU students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and friends. Please enjoy our thoughtful essays, short stories, creative writing, original artwork, personal essays, and poetry. We use innovative ways to communicate with a public that is increasingly isolated from the natural world.

Art and Science

Penny the Puffin

By Carina Kusaka, Oregon State University

Secretive Omnivore

By Lindsay Somers, Oregon State University

Barn Owl, Brook Trout and North American Darter Poster

By Morgan Stum, Penn State University

Topeka Shiner

By Brittany Harried, University of Missouri

Mule Deer and Yearling Migrating through Eastern Oregon Shrublands

By Valerie Hinojoza-Rood, Oregon State University

Blanding's Turtle

By Elizabeth "Lizzy" Lang

Northern Bobwhite

By Elizabeth "Lizzy" Lang

Adélie Penguins

Suzanne Winquist (she/her/hers), Oregon State University

Mexican Gray Wolf

By Julia Olsen

Eastern Bluebird

By Julia Olsen

Northwestern and Southwestern Pond Turtles

By Kaili Gregory, post doc, University of Georgia

U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Department of the Interior