Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
TFD faculty member, Susan Abbey, is currently acting in Steven Dietz' play, BLOOMSDAY, at Redwood Curtain Theatre in Eureka. It is an Irish time-travel love story blends wit, humor, and heartache into a buoyant, moving appeal for making the most of the present before its past.
Won U.S. Aquaculture Society Best Abstract/Travel Award at Aquaculture America, Honolulu, Hawaii
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.
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.
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.
Coauthored a paper in Nature Communications entitled "Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees"
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
Presented an invited seminar at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences in Davis, CA: "Crown-scale physiology and ecology of tall Sitka spruce."
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
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."
HSU 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.
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/
Selected as Cottrell Scholar Award Recipient
https://rescorp.org/news/2020/02/rcsa-names-25-new-cottrell-scholars-fo…
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."
Presented a talk at the Ecological Society of America Conference in Louisville, KY: "Within-crown physiology of tall Picea sitchensis trees."
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.
On February 6th and 7th, HSU held a Kaizen Event on the Staff Recruitment process. We successfully identified numerous areas for improvement. Many of which can be implemented right away.
Contributed talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings "Corequisite courses and the STEM Pathway."
Was offered a CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics) grant for the 2019-2020 academic year.
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
Presented a contributed paper at the Joint Math Meeting in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 15-18, 2020.
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.
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.
Journalism Major Freddy Brewster has been named the recipient of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California chapter. Brewster earned the prestigious honor for a series of stories he wrote for the Lost Coast Outpost. SPJ bestows the award to journalists for “significant contributions to advancing freedom of information and/or expression.”
Brewster joins a list of HSU winners of the award: Professor Marcy Burstiner in 2018, and journalism alumni Thadeus Greenson in 2017 and Matt Drange in 2015 and 2016. Ferndale Enterprise Editor Caroline Titus also took the award in 2016.
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.
Sean and Allison each received travel awards from the Northern Califronia Botanists to attend the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
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."
Presented a poster (with faculty Kerry Byrne) "The Impact of invasion and removal of Lupinus arboreus on seedbanks in coastal sand dune environments" at the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Received a Bureau of Land Management CESU Award to study the impact of newt predation on endangered California Red-legged frogs.
Received a research grant from Save the Redwoods League to study the genetic diversity and abundance of Southern Torrent Salamanders in Redwood State and National Parks.
Received a Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA) grant for $4980 to purchase equipment for her new Paleoclimate Lab.
Presented at SEUIARS2019 conference titled: Mapping and change detection of mangroves along the coastline of Ampara district from 2004 to 2019.
While in Europe for a conference, to give a keynote talk, and research in September 2019, Dr. Larson was interviewed by the Santiago-based news and culture magazine Tempos Novos. The interview, which covers everything from Trump to China, Brexit to Venezuela, and U.S. foreign policy to Catalan succession, was published in November. A summary, in the Galician language, is available online.
https://temposdixital.gal/outros/tempos-novos-no-270-%c2%b7-novembro-20…
Yanting Yu, sophomore pianist at HSU Music Department has won first prize at the North State Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, CSU Chico. She competed against students from Northern California schools and Universities. The award has two components, clash prize and playing two concerts with North State Symphony next season 20/21.
James Floss, Emeritus Faculty of the Communication Department has forged a relationship with Radio Universidad de Oaxaca, on the campus or Benito Juarez University to broadcast his documentary series IMMIGRANT VOICES. New shows are being produced now in Oaxaca and soon Tijuana, Mexico.
Based on recent testing data released by the National Association of State Board of Accountancy (2019), Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam pass rates for HSU students placed the institution 6th among all CalState business programs. The CPA is considered one of the most challenging professional certifications to pursue within the business field.
Congratulations to our Accounting students for their hard work paying off and to the dedicated faculty who work hard to prepare them!
Was selected for participation in a summer research program for women hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. MSRI is widely regarded as a world leading mathematical center for collaborative research and is supported by the NSF.
The paper Classification, Koszulity and Artin-Schelter Regularity of some Graded Twisted Tensor Products was accepted for publication in The Journal of Noncommutative Geometry, a publication of the European Mathematical Society.
Published first authored paper "Greenhouse gas emissions from windrow composting of organic wastes: Patterns and Emissions Factors" in Environmental Research Letters. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5262
Invited presenter, along with Drs. Peter Moyle and David Ostrach, to address the California Fish & Game Commssion on the 1996 Striped Bass Policy and its fishery implications.
Presented an invited talk titled: Graded coherence and noncommutative geometry of certain twisted tensor products in the Special Session on Homological Methods in Algebra at University of Florida for the Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society.
Participated as a member of the review committee that met in October 2019 at the Mt Cuba Center in Delaware to review the taxonomic and conservation status of the North American Trillium species. This meeting was a combined effort of the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN), NatureServe, BioPark, and several Trillium experts and conservationists from across the country. Results from this meeting will be used for future conservation efforts and will be published by the IUCN for viewing by the general public.
Librarian Katia Karadjova will be presenting on “The World “The way we saw it”: Transcultural Digital Humanities in Languages Education” at the 18th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, July 1-3, 2020, Venice, Italy. The World “The way we saw it” is an instructionally related program developed by the HSU Library and the World Languages & Cultures department, which has been running over the past two academic years.
Seafha Ramos (Yurok/Karuk), National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, has been selected as a participant in "Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Natives in STEM". The program is offered by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society to increase the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians in STEM faculty positions at universities across the country. Support is provided via professional conference attendance, access to a mentorship network, and a stipend. Dr. Ramos is hosted by the HSU Wildlife Department, with Dr. Matthew Johnson kindly serving as her mentor.
Theatre faculty member, Assoc. Professor Rae Robison, costume designed a feature film in Los Angeles over break. Based loosely on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth, feature film "The Deep Ones", directed by Chad Ferrin, will be released nationwide in 2020. Rae was also able to involve recent department graduates Erica Fromdahl, Veronica Brooks, and Brianna Fergus in the project in the wardrobe department.
University Registrar Clint Rebik recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (PACRAO) in Scottsdale, AZ.
Rebik’s presentation, “How Humboldt Harnesses the Power of Plans” featured HSU’s robust work with the DARS planning, audit, and scheduling tools, and the cumulative effect each component has in the areas of course scheduling, increasing graduation rates, and reducing time to degree.
Rebik was invited to present by the technology company that drives the DARS degree planning tool. Rebik's work earned HSU a $1000 grant for HSU Staff to attend training this summer.
Mark Wicklund and his research partner presented the paper, "Some 'which'es Coordinate" at the 2020 meeting of the American Dialect Society and the poster, "Two Deviant 'which'es?" at the 2020 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
James Floss, Faculty Emeritus of the Communication Department has reworked his documentary series, Immigrant Voices (recorded in the now shuttered studios of KHSU) into podcasts available from most sources including iTunes. These 3 to 7 minute testimonials can be used in a wide variety of courses. Find them at https://jamesfloss.podbean.com
Co-hosted a two day workshop funded by STEM NET, Blue Lake Casio, and Tribal Tech to investigate the Klamath Basin Tribes' interest in developing new Native and Western sciences collaborations around dam removal for HSU students. Attendees includes Tribal members from the Klamath Tribes, Hoopa, Yurok, and others, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Klamath River Renewal Corp., Klamath Basin Monitoring Program, UC Davis, and HSU staff and faculty.
Presented graphic novel "Discover Cold Fusion" at 22nd Int'l Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science Poster Session in Assisi, Italy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAn1pFngV4&feature=youtu.be