Student Shelbie Ann Christensen (student) and Robert W. Zoellner (faculty) Chemistry

Publication: Shelbie A. Christensen and Robert W. Zoellner; “Chemistry with a Capital Z: The superheavy elements. Oganesson: Superheavy element 118: A review”; The Hexagon of Alpha Chi Sigma 2018, 109(4), 51-53,61.

Faculty Mihai Tomescu (with co-author Andrew Groover - USDA-FS & University of California Davis) Biological Sciences

Invited paper in the Tansley Review series published by the journal New Phytologist: “Mosaic modularity: an updated perspective and research agenda for the evolution of vascular cambial growth”

https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.15640

Faculty Daniel Barton Wildlife

Invited Presentation at the Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Qatsrin, Israel entitled “Apparent Competition, Hyperpredation, and Spillover in Ecological Restoration: The tales of two lupines and a fish”

Faculty Sherrene Bogle Computer Science

Certificate of Merit for the paper entitled “Classfiers for Predicting Undergraduate Computer Science Performance” presented at the 2018 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering in London, U.K.

http://www.iaeng.org/publication/WCE2018/

Faculty Kerry Byrne Environmental Science & Management

Invited Presentation at the Northern California Botanist Symposium: “Restoring a population of Applegate’s milkvetch (Astragalus applegatei): lessons learned for conservation”

http://www.norcalbotanists.org/symposia/symposium2019.htm

Faculty Claire Till (Chemistry faculty); Jessica Solomon (Environmental Sciences graduate) Chemistry

Publication in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.

https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.11022

Faculty Kamila Larripa Mathematics

Published paper in Journal of Theoretical Biology: Methods for determining key components in a mathematical model for tumor–immune dynamics in multiple myeloma.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519318304259

Faculty Kamila Larripa Mathematics

Kamila Larripa was accepted to the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics’s Collaborative Workshop in Mathematical Biology at UCLA.

Faculty Jeff Dunk Environmental Science & Management

Jeff Dunk and 17 co-authors (9 of whom were Humboldt alumni or faculty) published a peer-reviewed paper in PLOS ONE (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0210643). The paper summarizes the use of modern conservation planning applied to the northern spotted owl’s critical habitat designation process.

Faculty Mark Colwell, Katie Raby, Lizzie Feucht Wildlife

Mark Colwell, Katie Raby and Lizzie Feucht published a paper in Wader Study (https://www.waderstudygroup.org/publications/wader-study/), an international journal dedicated to shorebird ecology and conservation. Their paper summarizes the efficiency of plovers breeding at various locations in Humboldt County over the past 18 years, with the aim of improving conservation and management practices.

Faculty Tyler Evans Mathematics

Published, jointly with Alice Fialowski (ELTE, Budapest) a new peer reviewed paper in Linear Algebra and it’s applications. The full text of the article is temporarily available at https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1YFcD5YnCXqL3

Faculty Adam Carter Computer Science

Published book chapter: Carter, A. S., Hundhausen, C. D., & Olivares, D. (2019). IDE-Based Learning Analytics for Computing Education: A Process Model, Critical Review, and Research Agenda. In The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research. Cambridge University Press.

Faculty Kamila Larripa Mathematics

Accepted to American Insitute of Mathematics research program
https://aimath.org/programs/squares/

Student Adolfina Savoretti (visiting student from Argentina), Alexander Bippus, Mihai Tomescu (with R.A. Stockey and G.W. Rothwell) Biological Sciences

Peer-reviewed article in Annals of Botany: “Grimmiaceae in the Early Cretaceous: Tricarinella crassiphylla gen. et sp. nov. and the value of anatomically preserved bryophytes”
https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/121/7/1275/4850661

Student Sandra Strayer, Mihai Tomescu (with S. Noetinger) Biological Sciences

Peer-reviewed article in American Journal of Botany: “Origin of Equisetum: Evolution of horsetails (Equisetales) within the major euphyllophyte clade Sphenopsida”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajb2.1137

Student Kassandra Weber Physics & Astronomy

Kassandra Weber (‘19) won 2nd place for the Steven Chu Award for best undergraduate research talk at the annual American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting that took place at CSU Fullerton on October 19-20th.
https://www.aps.org/units/cal/awards/index.cfm

Student Kezia Ramussen Oceanography

Poster presented “Analyzing Taxonomic Diversity of the Human Gut Microbiome Using R”

Faculty Kamila Larripa Mathematics

Published book chapter in Understanding Complex Systems in Mathematics, Springer

Student Kassandra Weber (‘19) Physics & Astronomy

Congratulations to Kassandra Weber (‘19) who won 2nd place for the Steven Chu Award for best undergraduate research talk at the annual Far West Section Meeting of the American Physical Society that took place at CSU Fullerton on October 19-20! Kassandra’s talk concerned ongoing research in gravitational physics that takes place at Humboldt.

Faculty Jeff Kane Forestry & Wildland Resources

Dr. Jeff Kane was invited to give a talk entitled “Ecological insights of litter flammability traits in southeastern US tree species” as part of the Carlton N. Owens lecture series at Mississippi State University.