Jeff TenPas, outgoing council chair and U.S. Forest Service scientist, formally presented the award to Ms. Records at the CFSC summer field trip in Eldorado National Forest Sept. 8 (see jpg). The scholarship was dedicated recently to the memory of Dr. Zinke, a co-founder of CFSC and a U.C. Berkeley forestry professor who researched soil nitrogen and carbon cycling in forest ecosystems.
Ms. Records studies Rangeland Resources Science (Wildland Soils option) at HSU and is President of the University’s Range and Soils Club. She transferred here from Santa Rosa Junior College in 2005.
She and Dr. Susan Edinger Marshall, HSU Professor of Range Resources Science, will travel to New Orleans in November to present a poster at the Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings. The poster, titled “Soils-Based Evidence for a Former Salt-Marsh; Jarosite and Buried A [editors, A is correct] Horizons (Humboldt County, CA.),” is authored by HSU’s Anthony D. Baker (Department of Biological Sciences) and Wildland Soils option undergraduates Marie Petersen, David A. Risberg and Carrie B. Alexander.
“Rosie delights the faculty and her peers with her strong intellectual curiosity, academic performance, and sparkling personality,” Dr. Marshall said. “She hardly comes to class without a bright flower tucked behind one ear and is unabashedly enthusiastic about studying soil science!”
In her winning essay, Ms. Records declared, “How we steward our soil is inextricably linked to whether or not we as humans eat, have clean water to drink, have functioning fisheries, can produce necessary goods like lumber and fiber, have a filter and means of transforming environmental contaminants, have a sink for atmospheric carbon, have livelihoods or an economically vital community.”
HSU has more qualified undergraduates gaining their degrees as soil scientists than the University of California, second only to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. HSU also has the only remaining undergraduate program in Range Resources Science in the entire state.
For details, dial Susan Edinger Marshall at (707) 26-4064 or contact her at sem11@humboldt.edu
For more information about Paul Zinke go to: http://www.forestsoils.org/nwfsc/Paul-Zinke/Paul-Zinke-Reflections.doc http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/25/BAGGHKP0FL1.DTL
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