Faculty Mark Colwell, Chelsea Polevy and Hannah LeWinter Wildlife

Mark Colwell, Chelsea Polevy and Hannah LeWinter published the last of three papers summarizing the importance of Humboldt Bay to shorebirds along the Pacific America’s Flyway. Their work, funded by Audubon California, shows that the bay hosts a diverse (52 species) and abundant (~850,000 individuals) assemblage of mostly sandpipers and plovers rear-round, justifying its designation as a site of international importance under the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network. See their work at: https://www.waderstudygroup.org/article/14584/

Staff Nievita Bueno Watts

Dr. Nievita Bueno Watts joined a panel of invited speakers at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Research Coordination Network - Conversations on Diversity and Data seminar series. The participants shared information about their programs and their thoughts on the topic "What do diverse students need to thrive in data- and computer-heavy settings?"

Faculty Seafha Ramos Wildlife

Dr. Seafha Ramos, NSF postdoctoral fellow in biology, and collaborators developed a series of 5th grade science lessons that incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledge and a simulated wildlife survey. All lessons are available for free download at https://www.stemtradingcards.org/teklessons.

Student Christian Trujillo

Christian Trujillo (Environmental Science & Management) was invited to speak at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities' Earth and Environmental Science Department colloquium on October 19. Christian spoke about Ciencia Para Todos, a student organization he co-founded to teach Environmental Science in Spanish. This student-run organization aspires to uplift bilingual students by implementing culture in science programs.

Student Madison Lalica

Madison Lalica (Botany) was awarded first place in Plant Sciences/Botany category at the 2020 national Society for the Advancement of Chicano/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference for her work "Early Devonian Glomeromycotan Spores in the Battery Point Formation (Quebec, Canada)." Madison is mentored by Dr. Mihai Tomescu.

Staff Nievita Bueno Watts

Nievita Bueno Watts presented her work "Methods for Incorporating Identity, Place, and Culture into a Virtual Undergraduate Research Experience: The REU on Sustainable Land and Water Resources During the COVID 19 Pandemic" at the national Geologic Society of America (GSA) conference. This work was part of a week long series of presentations discussing Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)in the geosciences.

Student Sarah Schooler, Matt Johnson, Peter Njoroge, Tim Bean Wildlife

Graduate student Sarah Scholer published a paper in the journal "Ecology & Evolution" stemming from her Master's thesis with co-authors from HSU, Cal Poly SLO, and the National Museums of Kenya, "Shade trees preserve avian insectivore biodiversity on coffee farms in a warming climate."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.6879

Faculty Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy Biological Sciences

Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy and co-authors published a paper "A New Perspective on Female-to-Male Communication in Salamander Courtship" in Integrative and Comparative Biology. The paper can be viewed at https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa087

Faculty Eve Robinson and Nicholas Som Biological Sciences

Eve Robinson (Department of Biological Sciences) and Nicholas Som (Department of Fisheries Biology; USFWS) co-authored an article in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management, titled "Prevalence of infection in hatchery-origin Chinook Salmon correlates with abundance of Ceratonova shasta spores: implications for management and disease risk”.  Their research was motivated by questions the State raised about potential linkages between hatchery fish and disease risk, and results from this work were published earlier this year in time to be used by decision-makers in timing the release of hatchery smolts in the Klamath River.

Student INRSEP/LSAMP students

The following students will be presenting the results of their summer research at the SACNAS conference next week: Stephen Galindo (Geology) mentor Dr. Meagan Gonnea USGS; Caleb Sandoval (Wildlife) mentor Janene Lichtenberg, Salish Kootenai College; Cody Henrikson (Marine Biology) with Clair Windecker and mentor Dr. Sean Craig; Alexis Hernandez (Marine Biology)with Floyd Clark (Environmental Science & Management)and mentor Dr. Jim Graham and Dr. Nievita Bueno Watts; Madison Lalica (Botany) mentor Dr. Mihai Tomescu; Joshua Maldonado (Physics & Astronomy) mentor Dr. Ruth Saunders; Christian Trujillo (Environmental Science & Management) mentor Dr. Catherine Bowman, Arizona State University

Faculty Oscar Vargas Biological Sciences

Oscar Vargas, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, published a paper in the journal Evolution:"Patterns of speciation are similar across mountainous and lowland regions for a Neotropical plant radiation (Costaceae: Costus)" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.14108

Faculty Kamila Larripa Mathematics

Kamila Larripa and co-authors had their paper accepted to the Journal of Theoretical Biology. The paper is entitled "Bifurcation and sensitivity analysis reveal key drivers of multistability in a model of macrophage polarization" and investigates how a specific immune cell responds to cytokine signals.

Faculty Dr. Laura Levy Geology

Dr. Laura Levy, in collaboration with 11 co-authors, published "Multi-phased deglaciation of south and southeast Greenland controlled by climate and topographic setting" in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. This comprehensive study tracked the timing of retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet since the last ice age in an area of Greenland that is especially sensitive to climate change.

Faculty Jasper Oshun, Margaret Lang, Yojana Miraya Geology

Dr. Oshun gave an invited talk at the 1ST INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHY CONGRESS OF APURIMAC IN SOUTHERN REGION PERU on August 28th. The title of the talk was, "Bonanza en los Andes: Estudio de los recursos de agua y desarrollo en colaboración con la comunidad de Zurite, Anta," and focused on Dr. Oshun and Dr. Lang's water development project in Perú. Successes so far include the construction of 1.5 km of irrigation canals, 4 student presentations at international geology conferences, and over 20 involved undergraduate and graduate students from HSU.

Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management

ESM professor Alison O'Dowd and former NR graduate student Lara Jansen published a paper in the journal River Research and Applications entitled, "A comparison of benthic algal and macroinvertebrate communities in a dammed and undammed Mediterranean river (Eel River watershed, California, USA)."

Faculty Dr. Hunter Harrill Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Was featured in a two part podcast "Talking Timber" by the Pacific Logging Congress, about his experiences in the forest industry and teaching at Humboldt State University.

Part 1:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/381c8114/dr-hunt…

Part 2:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/34e7de73/dr-hunt…

Faculty Peter Goetz Mathematics

Recently published the single-authored paper "Graded Coherence of Certain Extensions of Graded Algebras" in Communications in Algebra, June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2020.1775844

The paper studies when the coherence property is inherited by certain extensions of algebras.

Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management

ESM professor Alison O'Dowd and co-authors published a paper entitled "Characterizing benthic macroinvertebrate and algal biological condition gradient models for California wadeable streams, USA" in the journal Ecological Indicators.

Staff Matt Johnson, Amy Sprowles, Katlin Goldenberg, Steven Margell, and Lisa Castellino Wildlife

A team of faculty and staff published a paper documenting the effects of the first three years of the Klamath Connection placed-based learning community entitled, "Effect of a Place-Based Learning Community on Belonging, Persistence, and Equity Gaps for First-Year STEM Students" in the journal Innovative Higher Education. The article is open-access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-020-09519-5

Faculty Matt Johnson, Sacha Heath Wildlife

Matt Johnson, professor in the Dept of Wildlife, and HSU alum Dr. Sacha Heath co-organized a symposium, "Protecting and restoring bird habitat in the agricultural matrix: net benefits for birds and farmers" with 10 invited speakers held at the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference, August 14, 2020.