Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Faculty Jeff Dunk and colleagues from other institutions Environmental Science & Management
Presentation at the Raptor Research Foundation meeting (Fort Collins, CO) - Modeling spatial variation in density of golden eagle nest sites in the western United States.
Submitted: February 25, 2020Faculty Jeff Kane Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Coauthored a paper in Nature Communications entitled "Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees"
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14300-5
Submitted: February 25, 2020Faculty Jeff Dunk Environmental Science & Management
Published first authored paper (with 7 co-authors) - Modeling spatial variation in density of Golden Eagle nest sites in the Western United States. PLoS ONE. 14(9): e0223143. https://doi.org/10.1371/
journal.pone.0223143
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223143
Submitted: February 25, 2020Faculty Jeff Dunk Environmental Science & Management
Published first authored paper (with 17 co-authors) - Conservation Planning for Species Recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A Case Study with the Northern Spotted Owl. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210643. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210643
Submitted: February 25, 2020Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Presented an invited seminar at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences in Davis, CA: "Crown-scale physiology and ecology of tall Sitka spruce."
Submitted: February 25, 2020Student Ryan Maberry, Jessica Souja, William Weinberg, Lucy Kerhoulas, Christopher Lee, David Baston, and Susan Marshall Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Presented a poster at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Ramorum leaf blight reduces leaf-level productivity in tanoak and California bay."
Submitted: February 25, 2020Faculty Jenny Cappuccio Chemistry
Has been selected to join the Chemistry inter-institutional peer mentoring Alliance in the Northwest Regional Network, as part of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership ASCEND project (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development). Her bio and photo will also be posted on the ASCEND website.https://wou.edu/ascend/
Submitted: February 14, 2020Faculty Claire Till Chemistry
Selected as Cottrell Scholar Award Recipient
https://rescorp.org/news/2020/02/rcsa-names-25-new-cottrell-scholars-fo…
Submitted: February 11, 2020Student Gabriel Goff, Nicholas Kerhoulas, and Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Presented a talk at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Conifer encroachment and removal in a northern California woodland: Influences on ecosystem physiology and biodiversity."
Submitted: February 11, 2020Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas, Ariel Weisgrau, Emily Hoeft, and Nicholas Kerhoulas Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Presented a talk at the Ecological Society of America Conference in Louisville, KY: "Within-crown physiology of tall Picea sitchensis trees."
Submitted: February 11, 2020Faculty Bori Mazzag, Sonja Manor, Liza Boyle and Ruth Saunders Mathematics
HSU sub-award of the NSF-Funded SUMMIT-P Consortium. SUMMIT-P is a consortium of institutions committed to curricular innovations in the first two years of mathematics to improve the training of students in partner disciplines. Boyle, Mazzag and Saunders attended a SUMMIT-P workshop in Denver, Colorado.
Submitted: February 11, 2020Faculty Bori Mazzag Mathematics
Contributed talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings "Corequisite courses and the STEM Pathway."
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Bori Mazzag Mathematics
Panel discussion/talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings "Advancing Mathematics Education at Scale" with co-authors Uri Treisman Dana Center, Julie Glass, CSU East Bay, Alana Unfried, CSU Monterey Bay, Michael O'Sullivan, San Diego State University
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Abeer Hasan Mathematics
Was offered a CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) grant for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Abeer Hasan Mathematics
Presented a contributed paper at the Joint Math Meeting in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 15-18, 2020.
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Hunter Harrill Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Gave a presentation "Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California" and moderated the panel session on "Steep Slope Logging Technology" at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada, Jan. 15-16, 2020.
Submitted: February 10, 2020Faculty Hunter Harrill Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Gave a presentation "Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California" and moderated the panel session on "Steep Slope Logging Technology" at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada January 15th-16th, 2020.
Submitted: February 7, 2020Student Kassandra Weber, Adam Turk, Emily Ord, Darian Karadjov, Frank Trombetta, Alyssa Johnson, Berlin Del Aguila Physics & Astronomy
Students presented a poster and three talks at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting held at Stanford University on research being done in the Gravitational Research Laboratory.
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS19/Session/E04
Submitted: February 6, 2020Faculty Harold Zald and Kerry Byrne Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Zald (PI) and Byrne (co-PI)'s awarded $87,100 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal "Quantification and mitigation of large pine mortality after prescribed burning in a drought altered Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, California, USA."
Submitted: February 6, 2020Student Sean Stewart (undergraduate) and Allison Nunes (graduate student) Environmental Science & Management
Sean and Allison each received travel awards from the Northern Califronia Botanists to attend the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Submitted: February 6, 2020