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President: Alicia Leytem– osss.pres@gmail.com
As an educator, Alicia is passionate about introducing environmental justice and stewardship to non-science undergraduates at Oregon State University through the Sustainability Double Degree Program
Vice-president: Vance Almquist– vance.w.almquist@gmail.com
Vance is a soil geomorphologist based in Corvallis, OR. Vance has been involved with the OSSS board since 2018
Past President: Marissa Theve- mtheve@blm.gov
Marissa is a lifetime OSSS member and the soil scientist for the Bureau of Land Management Cascades and Marys Peak field offices located in Salem, OR
Treasurer: Pam Keller– pam.mark.keller@gmail.com
Pam retired from careers in Soil Science, GIS and Database Management, but continues to learn and play in the fields
Secretary: Shannon Capellazzi– s.cappellazzi@gmail.com
Shannon grew up as an Oregon farm girl with degrees from OSU in animal science and soil science and is currently with GO Seed
Eastside director: Kevin Hesson– kevinmhesson@gmail.com
Kevin Hesson is a soil scientist working as a Registered Environmental Health Specialist. He is currently employed by the Environmental Soils Division with Deschutes County in Bend, Oregon
Westside director: Todd Reinwald-
Todd Reinwald has been a member of OSSS off & on since 1992 and is currently the soil and water program manager on the Mt Hood Nat. Forest
Website manager: Victoria Moreno- morenov@oregonstate.edu
Victoria Moreno is a Ph.D. student in Geology at Oregon State University studying carbon destabilization processes within soil aggregates
Sharpshooter editor: Katie Chambers– sharpshooter_editor@yahoo.com
Co-Student Liaisons:
- Christian Lessey- lesseyc@oregonstate.edu
Christian is an undergrad at OSU majoring in soil science, who was recently awarded an internship working at USDA ARS working under Dr. Jen Moore’s lab
- Shijie Zhang- zhanshij@oregonstate.edu
Shijie (Eric) Zhang is a graduate student in the Soil Science Department at OSU. He is from China and this is his first year on the board of OSSS as student liaison
Want to learn more about the roles and responsibilities of each OSSS board member? Check out our onBOARDing document.