Environmental Science & Management
Garrett Leonard (Student, ESM), Christa Dagley, and Pascal Berrill (Faculty, FFRM)
Undergraduate student Garrett Leonard published research on a novel approach to forest restoration being tested at Cal Poly Humboldt's L.W. Schatz Demonstration Tree Farm.
Angela Soto (ESM graduate student) wins ARI NextGen fellowship
Angela Soto, graduate student in the Byrne Applied Ecology Lab, has been awarded a $24,000 ARI NextGen fellowship by the CSU Agricultural Research Institute for the 2026 - 2027 Academic Year.
Student Map Design Award Winner
Geospatial Science and Technology majors Astra Mattingly and Kyra Kranyak-Schwartz won first place in the Undergraduate Digital Map Design Contest at the California Geographical Society annual conference in Huntington Beach, CA, for their interactive map of campus accessibility at Cal Poly Humbol
Jim Graham, Environmental Science & Management
Dr. Jim Graham received continued funding from California Trout (CalTrout) that will pay for a graduate student to perform GIS habitat modeling in the Eel River Watershed, and develop a subsequent Riparian Climate Refugia (RCR) data set.
Environmental Science & Management Student Capstone Project on Seafood Systems Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal
Cal Poly Humboldt students from the Environmental Science & Management (ESM) major Mary Mangubat, Erik Meusborn, and Andrew Todd are co-authors on a recent publication in the Journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
Kerry Byrne, Environmental Science & Management & Monica Sheffer, Biological Sciences
Graduate student Jesse Laine, with Drs. Monica Sheffer and Kerry Byrne, are investigating how grassland restoration shapes insect populations in Northern California’s coastal prairies.
ESM graduate student and McCrone student fellowship award winner publishes thesis
Sean Stewart has published the first chapter of his thesis in the journal Restoration Ecology. For this research, Stewart and his M.S. advisor, Dr.
ESM and FFRM faculty lead publication on the effects of severe drought on sagebrush steppe plant communities
Drs. Kerry Byrne (ESM) and Justin Luong co-led a manuscript published in the journal Ecosphere. The study describes the results of a 4-year drought experiment in southern Oregon on two understudied sagebrush species.
M.S. Student Jesse Laine (ESM) awarded ARI NEXTGEN Research Fellowship
Natural Resources graduate student Jesse Laine (ESM option) has been awarded a $25,000 NEXTGEN research fellowship from the Agricultural Research Institute to support his proposed study entitled "Insect biodiversity in a restored coastal grassland." Jesse is a first-year graduate student in Kerry