Ron Reuter

Associate Professor of Natural Resources, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University

PhD - University of Minnesota

MS - University of Idaho

BS - Penn State

Restoration Ecology, Pedology, Wetland Soils, Landscape Ecology

Ecosystems of Wildland Soils (CSS366), Wetland Ecology (FW 479), Soil Science (CSS 205 & 305), Soil Classification and Morphology (CSS 466), World Soil Resources (CSS 395), Introduction to Water Science and Policy (CSS 335), Field School (FOR 353), Current Issues in Natural Resources (FOR 365), Soil Judging (CSS408)

Restoration of vernal pools of the Northern Great Basin

Ecology and restoration of western juniper-invaded rangelands

Effective pedagogy in online science education

• Mamo M., J. Ippolitto, T. Kettler, R. Reuter, D. McCallister, P. Morner, D. Husmann, and E. Blankenship.  2011.  Learning Gains and Response to Digital Lessons on Soil Genesis and Development.  Journal of Geoscience Education. 59(4): 194-204
• Miwa, C. and R.J. Reuter.  2010.  Persistence of Resource Islands Following Juniperus occidentalis (Western Juniper) Canopy Removal.  Northwest Science 84:361-368.
• Reuter, R.J.  2009.  Online versus in the classroom: student success in a hands-on lab class.  Amer. J. Distance Ed. 23(3):151-162.
• Reuter, R., M. Mamo, T. Kettler, J. Ippolito, D. McCallister, W. Zanner, C. Geiss, P. Morner, and J. Soester. 2009. Soil Genesis and Development, Lesson 4: Soil Profile Development. J. Nat. Resour. Life Sci. Educ. 38:239.
• Reuter, R.J. 2007. Introductory soils online - an effective way to get online students in the field. J. Nat. Resour. Life Sci. Educ. 36:139-146.
• Zophy, K. and R.J. Reuter. 2006. Using topography and understory plant community characteristics to prioritize the management of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis). Ecological Restoration. 24:280-281.
• Reuter, R.J. 2005. Learning Ecological Restoration at a Distance (Oregon). Ecological Restoration 23:290.
• Reuter, R.J. and J.C. Bell. 2003. Hillslope hydrology and soil morphology for a wetland basin in south-central Minnesota. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. J. 67: 365-372.
• Reuter, R.J. and J.C. Bell. 2001. Soils and Hydrology of a Wet-Sandy Catena in East-Central Minnesota. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 65:1559-1569.

• Sara Wyland, Water Resources Science MS  Project: Water Quality of Vernal Pools of the Northern Great Basin 

• Lesley Jones, Water Resources Science MS  Thesis: Evaluation of Instream Flow Restoration Targets and the Carrying Capacity of Oncorhynchus mykiss according to Temperature, Whychus Creek, Deschutes Basin,Oregon
• Mike Logan, Water Resources Sicence. MS Thesis: Water Chemistry of Oregon Cascade Wilderness Lakes: A Comparison to 1985 Data, 2010
• Laura Dlugolecki, Forest Resources.  MS Thesis: A characterization of seasonal pools in Central Oregon's high desert, 2009
• Chris Miwa, Forest Resources. MS Thesis: Persistence of western juniper resource islands following canopy removal, 2007
• Kelley Zophy, MS Thesis: Spatial and age class analysis of managed western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) woodlands in central Oregon

Ron Reuter

Oregon State University - Cascades Campus

2600 NW College Way

Bend, OR 97701

(541) 322-3109

fax: (541) 322-3139

email: ron.reuter@oregonstate.edu