Faculty Susan Cashman Geology

Received “Exemplary Teaching Activity” award from the National Association of Geology Teachers for co-authored “Rupture of Continental Lithosphere Mini-lesson Sequence”

https://serc.carleton.edu/margins/collection/71230.html

Faculty Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Marissa Monaco, Eric Malekos, Dan Perez-Sornia, Jose Alejandro Bravo Biological Sciences

Presented at American Naturalist Meeting 2020 in Monterey, CA.

Faculty Sharon Kahara Wildlife

Co-authored “APEX simulation: Water quality of Sacramento Valley wetlands impacted by waterfowl droppings”. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. (in press)

Faculty Buddhika Madurapperuma Environmental Science & Management

Won the second prize of “Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2019” in Remote Sensing. Prize will be a certification and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Remote Sensing

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards.pdf/0/pdf_16_2019_5_award.pdf

Faculty Erin Kelly & student Forestry & Wildland Resources

Published “Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in Mattole River Watershed, USA”. Society and Natural Resources (currently online – issue forthcoming).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2020.1718815

Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas & Rosemary Sherriff Forestry & Wildland Resources

Kerhoulas and Sherriff were awarded $75,000 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal “Tree mortality and regeneration across competitive and geographic gradients in Northern California.”

Student Daniel Jones Forestry & Wildland Resources

Daniel Jones, an Humboldt Forestry major with a concentration in operations, won 1st place in the student web map/app contest at the California Geographic Information Systems (CalGIS) 2020, conference in Long Beach, California, on February 9-11th.
Daniel’s web map/app “ArcCollector Spillway Inspection Workflow for the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District” has been deployed for the use of the District since 2019. The use of this workflow has reduced the post-processing time of inspection/repair cataloging and reporting from 1 to 2 days down to an hour. The second iteration of his project is expected to bring inspection times down from approximately 2 minutes to about 2 – 30 seconds.

Faculty Jeff Kane Forestry & Wildland Resources

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

Faculty 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

Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry & Wildland Resources

Presented an invited seminar at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences in Davis, CA: “Crown-scale physiology and ecology of tall Sitka spruce.”

Faculty 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

Student Ryan Maberry, Jessica Souja, William Weinberg, Lucy Kerhoulas, Christopher Lee, David Baston, and Susan Marshall Forestry & Wildland Resources

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.”

Student Taylor Zenobia Fisheries Biology

Taylor Zenobia, FISH undergraduate, has been awarded Best Student Oral Presentation by the U.S. Aquaculture Society at their annual conference in Oah’u, Hawai’i! Taylor is also minoring in Scientific Scuba Diving and Women’s Studies.

Student Frank Mele Fisheries Biology

Won U.S. Aquaculture Society Best Abstract/Travel Award at Aquaculture America, Honolulu, Hawaii

https://www.was.org/Meeting/code/AA2020

Faculty Frank Fogarty Wildlife

Co-authored “Fire, livestock grazing, topography, and precipitation affect occurrence and prevalence of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) in the central Great Basin, USA”. Biological Invasions 22, 663-680.

Faculty Frank Fogarty Wildlife

Co-authored “Mapping of land cover with open‐source software and ultra‐high‐resolution imagery acquired with unmanned aerial vehicles”. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. doi:10.1002/rse2.144.

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.

Student Jahaira Valencia , Berlin Del Aguila, Griffin Kowash, Sam Mendez, Melanie Tapia, Johnny Rasnic, Daisy D. Montalvo , Edwin Espinoza, Julia Vang, Gynell Higby, Joshua Maldonado, Nicole Perry, Charlin Duff, Eric Malekos, Skye Gibney, Ryan Myers, Emily Ord, Alyssa Johnson, Cade Freels, Sonnet Antio, Ana Sammel, Christina Bewley, Mariah Graham, and Thomas Boerne Mathematics

Humboldt student participants in this year’s international Mathematical Contest in Modeling were Jahaira Valencia , Berlin Del Aguila, Griffin Kowash, Sam Mendez, Melanie Tapia, Johnny Rasnic, Daisy D. Montalvo , Edwin Espinoza, Julia Vang, Gynell Higby, Joshua Maldonado, Nicole Perry, Charlin Duff, Eric Malekos, Skye Gibney, Ryan Myers, Emily Ord, Alyssa Johnson, Cade Freels, Sonnet Antio, Ana Sammel, Christina Bewley, Mariah Graham, and Thomas Boerne. The contest challenges teams to clarify and analyze a real-world open-ended problem and propose a solution within a 99 hour time frame.

Faculty 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/

Faculty Claire Till Chemistry

Selected as Cottrell Scholar Award Recipient

https://rescorp.org/news/2020/02/rcsa-names-25-new-cottrell-scholars-for-2020