Updates about the latest accomplishments—including latest research, publications, and awards—by students, faculty, and staff
Dr. Leslie Rossman presented two papers at the National Communication Association Conference. One project was on the precarious nature of academic labor and the other paper was “Whose Survival? Limitations and Possibilities of Queer Imaginaries.”
Travel award recipient and research abstract accepted for presentation during the 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, held in Washington, D.C., on February 6-8, 2020.
Professor Emeritus Sing C. Chew has a book in press entitled, Living Wisely in the Digital Dark Age: Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence, Ecology, and Life. This monograph is a follow-up to his three-volume work on World Ecological Degradation over 5,000 years of world history.
Peter Blickensderfer, Madison Kaisan, and Gabby Connors won 1st Place, Best Experimental Film in the 29th Annual CSU Media Arts Festival. Filmmakers Madi and Peter collaborated with dancer/storyteller Gabby to create the spoken word experimental film Danh Tính. All three will graduate from HSU in May 2020 with BA Degrees in Film or Dance.
Kaitlin Reed, Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, presented her paper “We Are A Part of the Land and the Land Is Us”: Settler Colonialism & Genocide in California at the California Indian Conference at Sonoma State University, November 14-16.
Dr. Sarita Ray Chaudhury, School of Business, served as a Track Chair for the topic "Marketing Education" in the recently held Society for Marketing Advances Conference in New Orleans, LA from Nov 6-9th, 2019.
She also presented a study titled "Citizen-Consumers in Action: The Thunberg Effect in Addressing the Climate Crisis" with co-authors Dr. Pia Albinsson, Appalachian State University and Dr. Yasanthi Perera, Brock University, scheduled to be published in the conference proceedings.
More information on Dr. Ray Chaudhury's research can be found on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=NyCG3WQAAAAJ
James Floss, Emeritus Faculty from the Communication Department will present a series of workshops for students and faculty of the University Benito Juarez in Oaxaca, Mexico over the next two weeks. They are: Expression Dynamics, Writing a Better Oral Message and Dynamic Delivery of speeches.
GESA Faculty Amy Rock and Nick Perdue recently took geospatial students from several departments to the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference in Tacoma, WA, where they had the opportunity to get feedback on their maps and interact with mapping professionals from National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NASA, and more.
Andrew Kinziger and co-authors from the Redwood Sciences Lab published a peer reviewed paper in Environmental Biology of Fishes:
Kinziger, A.P., R.J. Nakamoto, A. Aguilar, B.C. Harvey. 2019. California roach (Hesperoleucus symmetricus) in the Eel River of northwestern California: native or introduced? Environmental Biology of Fishes 102:771–781. DOI
10.1007/s10641-019-00870-x [article]
Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies was appointed to the Emerging Scholars Working Group of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The Working Group members, as a whole and individually, provide input on policy briefings to the Advisory Board and Executive Committee of the association.
Dr. Steve Steinberg, Adjunct Professor of Geospatial Sciences and Geographic Information officer for the County of Los Angeles, will be presenting a keynote address at the Smarter Data Smarter World Conference to be held at the British Library in London, England on November 19th.
His talk, titled “Addressing Collaboration through Innovation and Automation” discusses how the County of Los Angeles is using GIS to modernize its countywide address management system to ensure accurate, effective GIS-based management of addresses across the 88 cities and unincorporated county in support of government services for the 10.1 million residents of the County.
Kerri J. Malloy, Lecturer, Native American Studies presented his paper "In Plain Sight but Unseen: Healing in Northwestern California" at the Building Sustainable Peace conference sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, November 7-10.
Deepti Chatti, Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program has been elected to be an At-Large Councilor for the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).
Deepti Chatti, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, is the Principal Investigator for a grant from the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative at Duke University. The project is called "Researching Refills", and studies the resources and relationships required by rural families in India to sustain clean energy access.
Mark Colwell and co-authors published a paper in Wader Study, an international journal dedicated to shorebird ecology and conservation. Their work culminates 20 yrs of research on Snowy Plovers in coastal northern California, and shows that plovers prefer to breed on wide ocean-fronting beaches; however, the reproductive success of plovers in these habitats is often compromised by the presence of Common Ravens (which eat plover eggs and chicks) and humans.
Humboldt State University Wins 2nd place in Region 6 Collegiate Soil Contest, Nov. 2
Five universities sent teams to describe colors, textures, and appropriate uses of soils during the Region 6 Collegiate Soil Competition, hosted by Humboldt State University's program in Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils. HSU is among only five universities in California offering sufficient coursework to qualify graduates to become federally recognized Soil Scientists. Participating universities included Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSU Chico, CSU Fresno, Humboldt State University, and New Mexico State University. The top three teams (CalPoly San Luis Obispo, Humboldt State University, and New Mexico Stat
Amelia G. McArthur (undergraduate researcher) and Robert W. Zoellner, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) have published a peer-reviewed article entitled “Chlorates and perchlorates as potential high-energy materials: Chlorate- and perchlorate-substituted methanes” in the peer-reviewed, open-source journal “Heliyon” 2019, volume 5, issue 10, e02686 (7 pp).
Kyle D. McNamara, B.S., (recent HSU graduate) and Robert W. Zoellner, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry) have published a peer-reviewed article entitled "The effects of substituent position and orientation on the structures and dipole moments of the cyanocyclohexanes using density functional theory calculations" in the journal "Computational and Theoretical Chemistry" volume 1170, 15 December 2019, 112622 (8 pp).
Kim Vincent-Layton, Educational Developer, CTL, Dr. Armeda Reitzel, Professor, Communication, and Becky Williams, Canvas Admin, CTL presented "Data at Your Fingertips: Supporting the Success of All Learners" at the Can•Innovate Online Conference, October 25, 2019
Justus Ortega, Professor of Kinesiology, and co-authors have published two papers entitled "Relationship Between the King-Devick Test and Commonly Used Concussion Tests at Baseline" and "King-Devick Test Reliability in National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes: A National Collegiate Athletic Association–Department of Defense Concussion Assessment, Research and Education" in the Journal of Athletic Training.
Ellery Ames, Lecturer in Mathematics, jointly with co-authors Florian Beyer, (University of Otago, NZ) and Jim Isenberg (Univ. of Oregon) published a paper entitled "Contracting asymptotics of the linearized lapse-scalar field sub-system of the Einstein-scalar field equations" in the Journal of Mathematical Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5115104
Vincent Biondo has accepted an appointment to the American Academy of Religion Public Understanding of Religion Committee where he will meet with senior officials in the White House, State Department, the museum of African American History & Culture, the National Museum of American History, the Holocaust Museum, and the Museum of the Bible, among other responsibilities.
Fisheries Biology graduate student Michael Sutter published his thesis in Conservation Genetics. Michael's MS mentor was Dr. Andrew Kinziger.
Sutter, M., and A.P. Kinziger. 2019. Rangewide tidewater goby occupancy survey using environmental DNA. Conservation Genetics 20:597-613. doi: 10.1007/s10592-019-01161-9
Karen Davy presented a session on the work of her former violin teacher, Kató Havas, at the ASTA Oregon Biennial meeting at Pacific University on Oct. 5.
ESM graduate student Thomas Starkey-Owens gave a presentation of his Masters research at the 2019 American Fisheries Society (AFS) meeting in Reno, Nevada entitled "Benthic macroinvertebrate communities and juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) diet on the Trinity River below Lewiston Dam."
ESM Professor Alison O'Dowd and co-authors published a paper entitled, "Interacting geomorphic and ecological response of step-pool streams after wildfire" in the Sept/Oct 2019 issue of the Geological Society of America (GSA) Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B35049.1
Seven undergraduate, six graduate, and five faculty from the Department of Fisheries Biology attended the National American Fisheries Society meeting in Reno, Nevada (29 Sept – 4 Oct). HSU Fisheries contributed eight research presentations, three posters, and moderated four sessions. The event included an HSU Fisheries Alumni and Friends Social.
Presenters
Michael Academia - Prey composition and relationship between nesting success and food provisioning of osperys in northwestern California
Andrew Kinziger - Genetic analysis suggests Catostomus rimiculus (Klamath smallscale sucker) in the Smith River, California are introduced
Max Grezlik - An ecosystem model to facilitate ecosystem-base
Alison O’Dowd was awarded a grant from the National Parks Service to fund a student internship program with Redwood National Park.
Alison O'Dowd (ESM Professor) was awarded a research grant from the Trinity River Restoration Program to examine invertebrate drift as a food source for juvenile salmonids on the Trinity River. This project will be conducted with the Yurok Tribe and Hoopa Valley Tribe.
Jeff Dunk, Environmental Science and Management faculty member, along with seven collaborators, co-authored a paper entitled "Modeling spatial variation in density of Golden Eagle nest sites in the Western United States" in PLoSONE.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223143
Professor Susan Marshall is currently on the Society for Range Management ballot as a candidate for SRM Board Director.
Emeritus Professor Ken Fulgham was recently appointed to the Chair-Elect position on the Society for Range Management Endowment Fund Development Committee.
Dr. Seafha Ramos (Yurok/Karuk/Chicana) has been awarded a 2-year National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in biology. She will continue ongoing research in the application of Indigenous (e.g. Traditional Ecological Knowledge; TEK) and Western science in wildlife conservation. She plans to submit to peer reviewed journals two manuscripts: one on TEK through the Yurok lens and one on the use of genetic analysis of scats in a wildlife survey on Yurok ancestral lands, from her doctoral work. She will also continue new research in partnership with Redwood National Park and the Yurok Tribe to apply both scientific paradigms to explore TEK and genetic analyses of elk fecal pellets.
William English III ('19), Irma Gill Yañez ('19), and Dr. Troy Lescher published the "Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2019" report in the June 2019 edition of Theatre Journal [Association of Theatre in Higher Education].
With colleagues Elin Kelsey (U. Victoria) and Jennifer Atkinson (UW-Bothel), Dr. Ray has been chosen to host a workshop on teaching climate change, called "An Existential Toolkit for Climate Educators," at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. A call for proposals is here: bit.ly/ecoanxietyRCC.
Lecturer recognized in Publons’ global awards
Dr. Buddhika Madurapperuma, Lecturer, FWR/ESM received Publons Peer Review Awards 2019 for placing in the top 1% global peer reviewers in "Geosciences". This award was based on the Publons global reviewer database, determined by the number of peer review reports performed during 2018-19 year. He has performed 64 peer reviews according to the publons statistics as linked https://publons.com/researcher/1240224/buddhika-madurapperuma/peer-review/. Publons peer review awards honor the elite contributors who have demonstrated outstanding expert commitment to protect the integrity and accuracy of published research.
Dr. Larson gave the keynote lecture of the 28th Anniversary Conference the Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación Internacional (Galician Institute of International Analysis and Documentation, IGADI) entitled “Del 11-S a la Política Exterior de Trump” (From 9/11 to Trump's Foreign Policy), held at the Faculdade de Ciencias Políticas e Sociais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 10, 2019.
Dr. Larson presented the paper "Chega (or Basta?) Vox: The (Re-)Emergence of Right-wing Politics in Iberia" at the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies, held at the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Sept. 4-6, 2019. At the closing session of the conference, he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Association as an At-Large Member.
Mark Wicklund co-authored a paper, “Is English resumption different in appositive relative clauses?”, published in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics.
Resumptive pronouns are pronouns that they should not appear in relative clauses but nonetheless do, especially in contexts that they are difficult to process. We explored resumptive pronouns in restrictive and appositive clauses, which we posited they were different. Participants rated sentences that they had resumptive pronouns, and we found that appositive clauses are more tolerant of resumption, which that is very interesting. Corpus data also suggest that resumptive pronouns occur mostly in appositive clauses, which we expected that.
Kevin Fingerman was invited by the California Council on Science and Technology to participate in an Expert Briefing on "Beneficial Uses of Biomass from Wildfire Management Activities in California." Dr. Fingerman joined a 5-person panel at the State Capitol building on September 19th to brief legislative and agency staff members on this issue with cross-cutting implications for California's for climate, ecological, public health, and economic goals.
https://ccst.us/ccst-to-host-expert-briefing-on-the-beneficial-uses-of-…
Nicolas Malloy and Amy Rock have just published Geospatial Concepts: The Fundamentals of Geospatial Science, a low-cost, interactive text on the foundational knowledge of geospatial science. Topics include cartography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and mobile mapping with GPS.
This book uses the ePub 3.0 specification, which is natively accessible to screen readers, and allows for many interactive options that enrich the reading experience, such as links to external resources, files, and videos.
To learn more, watch the following video: https://youtu.be/_5l9na4DLyM. The book is available through Amazon.com.
Josh Meisel gave an invited lecture, "Navigating 'Legal' Cannabis," as part of the Cannabis in Context lecture series at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. This lecture was based on his qualitative work with a student research team examining bad experiences with cannabis edibles and a survey of a national panel. He also attended the First Annual Research Briefing given by the Berkeley Cannabis Research Center.
Leena Dallasheh participated at a symposium, World War II and The Middle East at The Pennsylvania State University, marking 80 years to the outbreak of WWII. She presented a paper entitled "Working Through the War: Palestinian Labor Defying Colonialism," which discussed the rise of Palestinian trade unionism during the war.
Armeda Reitzel was one of 26 scholars invited to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute "Middle Eastern Millennials through Literature, Culture, and Media” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona in August 2019. She is developing instructional materials on the Middle East for use in intercultural communication courses based on what she learned at the NEH Institute.
HSU geology student Tammy Phrakonkham has been selected to represent northern California at the 2019 Geosciences Congressional Visits Day (GEO-CVD) on Sept. 10-11 in Washington, D.C.
GEO-CVD is sponsored by American Geophysical Union along with other Earth science societies each year “to increase the visibility of and support for the geosciences in Congress.” During this event, participants will be given an opportunity to meet with members of the congressional delegation representing their state and with staff from congressional committees who have jurisdiction over issues related to geoscience.
Congratulations to HSU Film Students whose films are finalists in the 2019 CSU Media Arts Festival. Alec Cole for his film A TEMPLE TO COMEDY. Peter Blickensderfer and Madi Kaisan for their film DANH TINH.
Humboldt State University Human Performance Lab Director, Dr. YoungSub Kwon was invited as a keynote speaker at two different symposia and as an invited speaker at four different universities (Dongwon University, Korea Maritime & Ocean University, Pusan National University, and Dongshin University) in Korea.
He presented his research topics entitled 'challenging traditional dietary guidelines to prevent metabolic syndrome and Global Strategy', 'developing norms for health-related physical fitness and conditioning', and 'how to be more mentally tough (Grit)' and also worked with HSU and the aforementioned universities for Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between universities.
Received a 2019 CSU-LSAMP at HSU Summer Research Experience Award to conduct research on immunogenetics of invasive frogs with Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy (Biological Sciences).
Invited talk at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan: Forestry projects under the cap-and-trade market in California. Symposium paper in the Sophia University Journal, Global Environmental Studies.
Co-Edited Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, an annual special issue journal. Title: The American West after the Timber Wars. (both also contributed articles to the issue).
Karen Davy, lecturer in the Music Department, was a contributor to an article about the renowned violin pedagogue, Kató Havas, called "A Teacher for All" in the August 2019 edition of The Strad magazine.