Faculty Amy Sprowles, Matt Johnson and Eileen Cashman; Lisa Hilman

Presented a poster entitled "Improving Inclusive Excellence in STEM through Place-Based Learning Communities" at the Transforming STEM Higher Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence Conference, sponsored by AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope.

https://www.aacu.org/conferences/stem/18

Faculty Eileen Cashman, Amy Sprowles & Beth Eschenbach

Presented a workshop entitled "Cultivating Student Assets through Equity and Cultural Humility" at the Transforming STEM Higher Education: Confirming the Authority of Evidence Conference, sponsored by AAC&U and Project Kaleidoscope.

https://www.aacu.org/conferences/stem/18

Student Kassandra Weber Physics & Astronomy

Presented HSU gravitational physics research at the American Physical Society Far West Section Meeting on 10/19 at CSU Fullerton.

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS18/Session/B03.5

Faculty Mihai Tomescu (with A.T. Groover) Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Deconstructing secondary growth as developmental potential: a perspective on the evo-devo of wood"

Faculty Jack Murphy Environmental Science & Management

Serves on the City of Arcata's Creeks and Watersheds Committee.

Student Isabel N. Contreras, Jenna Bader, Patricia DuRant, Lonny Grafman Environmental Resources Engineering

Peer-reviewed journal article published in the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (Vol 13 No 2).

"An Analysis of Recycling High Density Polyethylene with Limited Resources"

https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/ijsle/article/view/11621

Faculty Brian Tissot Biological Sciences

Brian was elected as the President of the Western Society of Naturalists for 2019.

http://www.wsn-online.org/about-wsn/governance/

Faculty Buddhika Madurappeuma Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Peer-reviewed article published in Remote Sensing Journal (IF 3.41). "Remote Sensing Approach to Detect Burn Severity Risk Zones in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica"

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/9/1427

Student Jim Graham, Melissa Kimble Environmental Science & Management

Natural Resources graduate student Melissa Kimble and advisor Jim Graham's peer-reviewed article, "Visualizing Uncertainty in Habitat Suitability Models with HEMI 2", accepted for publication.

Student Monica Pina, Miles Ritch, Nic Anderson, Tiffany Perez, and Daniel Guzman. Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

"HSU Collegiate Soil Contest team placed 2nd in group judging (where all were in one pit) and 3rd in team judging (top four contestants overall).
The contest was held near CalPoly San Luis Obispo on Nov. 3. CalPoly SLO will host the national soil collegiate contest in April. HSU's team looks forward to competing in this national competition where 20 plus teams from across the United States will compete. The team improved from its first attempt at soil judging last year where it received two third place awards. Cal Poly leads the pack (and actually has the world's best soil judger on its team), but HSU outperformed Fresno State this year in the group event and was ahead of CSU Chico overall.

Student Kelly Pfeiler, Alexander Bippus, Ashley Kammet, Ashley Ortiz, Mihai Tomescu (with I.H. Escapa) Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Fossils and seed cone morphology in the resolution of phylogenetic relationships among basal Cupressaceae s.l."

Faculty Mihai Tomescu (with A. Elgorriaga, I.H. Escapa, G.W. Rothwell, N.R. Cuneo) Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 17th Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología, Paraná, Argentina: "Que es Equisetum? Estudio filogenético para el orden Equisetales"

p. 94 in http://www.palino.com.ar/alpp/BoletinesALPP/Programa_Resumenes_ONLINE_2018.pdf

Faculty Mihai Tomescu Biological Sciences

Invited blog post on Botany One blog: "Exquisitely preserved tiny fossils are key for understanding moss evolution"

https://www.botany.one/2018/07/exquisitely-preserved-tiny-fossils-are-k…

Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management

ESM Professor Alison O'Dowd gave a presentation, "Freshwater Science in the CSU system" at the annual meeting of the California Chapter of the Society for Freshwater Science in Davis, CA on Oct 24, 2019.

Student Trinity Smith Wildlife

Graduate student Trinity Smith (in Wildlife) won best student poster at the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR) conference last week for her poster entitled:
“Patterns of western red bat occupancy across a disturbed landscape in California’s Central Valley”. The conference was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 24-27 (https://www.nasbr.org/annual-meetings).

Faculty Beth Eschenbach Environmental Resources Engineering

Served as Technical Program Chair for the 2018 Frontiers in Education conference in San Jose California. FIE is a premier international engineering education conference.

Student MS Student Katrina Smith (with D.C. Barton and D.A. Riggs) Wildlife

Presenting a paper "Site selection in a population monitoring program for Townsend’s big-eared bats: Does cave morphology predict abundance of hibernating bats?" at annual meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Student MS Student Alyssa Marquez (with L. Diller and D. C. Barton) Wildlife

Presented a paper "Response of headwater amphibians to logging impacts and assessment of restoration potential in Redwood National and State Parks." at annual meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Portland, OR

Student MS Student Justin Demianew (with A. D. Macedo, J. M. Garwood, and D. C. Barton) Wildlife

Presented an invited paper "The high life: Ecology and conservation of montane reptiles" at annual meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Portland, OR

Faculty Dan Barton (with P. Capitolo, R. Golightly, H. Carter, and G. McChesney) Wildlife

Presented a paper "Application of auto-regressive state-space models to estimate population trends and observation error from seabird colony counts" at Pacific Seabird Groups's annual conference in La Paz, BCS, Mexico