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Katie Stelling

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The lab crocs have gotten an upgrade!

A foot wearing black crocs with a caterpillar jibbit

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Are you a grad student studying paleoclimate? Do you know a grad student studying paleoclimate? 📣The paleoCAMP application for summer 2025 is open 📣 I attended last year and it was a wonderful experience - I highly recommend!

A large glacial moraine covered in shrubs with mountains in the background

Students walking in a line though a creek bed.

People posing for a picture on top of an outcrop of granite with a large forest and mountains in the background.

People walking in a line along a trail in the bristlecone pine forest. Their are trees on both sides of the trail and mountains in the background

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Oregon State University graduate students are currently on strike fighting for livable wages and a fair contract length - please spread the word! For more information check out this great OPB article: www.opb.org/article/2024...

In mediation on November 11, OSU's bargaining team did not move towards CGE's proposals regarding salary or contract term. They continue to insist on 4 year contract cycles with no partial reopeners and only a 10% raise to the minimum now, followed by another 2% in years 3 and 4. Their proposed contract locks incoming graduates into unsustainable conditions and cripples their bargaining power.
After a year of openly combative negotiations, OSU has made it abundantly clear that their priority is not the pursuit of knowledge, but rather the pursuit of money, even at the expense of their own dedicated, hard-working, and talented graduate employees.
We cannot accept this.

Eating at the Minimum
Average Corvallis Food Cost single adult no children
369.44/ month
Income Percentage Spent on Food at Corvallis Living Wage
10.5%
Income Percentage Spent on Food at Corvallis Minimum Wage
16.2%
Income Percentage Spent on Food at Minimum Graduate Employee
Stipend at .4 FTE
20.9%
The Reality of
In order to qualify for food banks in Corvallis, a single adult must make less than $3,645/ month. It would take TWO minimum graduate employee salaries to disqualify.
source: https://www.numbeo.com/food-prices/in/
Corvallis-OR-United-States

Income requirement for a Corvallis studio apt
3,530 / month
Income requirement for a Corvallis 1BR
3,933 / month
Income requirement for half of a
Corvallis 2BR
2,623 / month
Income requirement for 1/3 of a
Corvallis 3BR
2,307 / month
Minimum Graduate Employee Stipend at .4 FTE
1,762 / month
The Reality of
Housing at the Minimum
Our only option to get housing is to get as many roommates as possible, receive outside assistance, or take out loans.
calculated: rent = 30% gross income
source: apartments.com/rent-market-trends/corvallis-or

Corvallis Living Wage single adult, no children
$3,519.20 / month
Corvallis Minimum Wage
$2,272 / month
Minimum Graduate Employee
Stipend at .4 FTE
$1,762.00
/ month
The Reality of
Wages at the Minimum
Graduate employees are independently teaching required core classes. Without our labor, students degree progress stalls. And yet we are living on just over half of a regional living wage.
calculated: hourly wages x 40hrs/wk x 4wks/month source: https://livingwage.mit.edu/metros/18700

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I’m visiting INSTAAR at CU Boulder for the next few weeks and oh man, I do miss living in place that gets real snow! It’s a tough morning in America and it’s hard to see any positive sides to today but at least biking in the snow and hearing it hit the leaves as it falls is really peaceful.

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Currently reading though a textbook on ichnofossils and I’m absolutely obsessed with this drawing that was originally published in 1707 of a “rock-boring organism”

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Happy Spring Equinox ☺️🌷🌼

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Looks like my little office plant is finally deciding to give off a new leaf!! It’s been so much happier since I moved it to the window sill so 🤞 this is just the beginning!

Small Mostera deliciosa in a grey pot sitting on a window sill

Close-up of Monstera plant showing a new leaf separating from an existing stem

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Katie Stelling @katiestelling.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

I'm back home and re-acclimating to normal life after spending 5 weeks this summer at sea in Baffin Bay. We had a successful cruise and came home with lots of mud from the west Greenland Margin (and a whole group of newly appointed Bluenoses)

Incredibly calm water in Baffin Bay filled with sea ice reflecting the clouds in the sky.

View from the focsle deck of the R/V Neil Armstrong looking towards the working deck of the ship as the sun sets. There is a gravity core weight in the center of the image and sea ice is visible in the water behind.

A group of six water-soaked scientists wearing tin foil hats with blue paint of their noses. They are standing in the main lab of the R/V Neil Armstrong and each person is holding a small, laminated certificate for the Order of the Blue Nose.

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