Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Justin Luong
Led by a previous undergraduate student mentee, Dr. Justin Luong co-published a paper in American Journal of Botany.
Jeff Kane and Pascal Berrill, Fire Ecology & Fuels Management
Drs. Jeff Kane and Pascal Berrill received a $144,000 grant from the USDA Forest Service to support a study that will examine the effectiveness of variable tree thinning and prescribed burn treatments to promote fire and forest resilience in mixed-conifer forests of California.
Cal Poly Humboldt Soil Science Students Excel in Region 6 Soil Judging Competition
Four Soil Science students from Cal Poly Humboldt—Tommy Dachauer, Derek Tremaine, Carter Daniel, and Nicholas Verhey—demonstrated their skills at the Region 6 Soil Judging Competition held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Kai Zhu, Yiluan Song, Josephine Lesage, Justin Luong, James Bartolome, et al. Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Justin Luong (FFRM) and colleagues recently published in Nature Ecology and Evolution on the how California grasslands are experiencing rapid shifts in response to climate change, resulting in plant communities that are more thermophillic, or adapted to warmer conditions.
RRS undegrad Dino Santia awarded STEM-NET Summer Research Award
RRS undergraduate Dino Santia was awarded a $3,750 research award over this past summer to support his ongoing independent research project in Kerry Byrne's lab, entitled "Seed Bank Emergence Study."
RRS undegrad Dino Santia awarded ARI NEXTGEN Research Fellowship
RRS undergraduate Dino Santia has been awarded an $8,000 NEXTGEN research fellowship from the Agricultural Research Institute to support his independent research project in the Byrne Lab (ESM Dept), entitled "Seed bank Emergence Study."
Wendy Kornberg & Claudia Alfaro Hernandez, Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Undergraduate students Wendy Kornberg and Claudia Alfaro Hernandez were each awarded an $11,000 California State University Agriculture Research Initiative-NEXTGEN in a systemwide competition to conduct independent research related to agricultural resources with Dr. Justin Luong.
Rosemary Sherriff and Andrew Stubblefield - Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Drs. Andrew Stubblefield and Rosemary Sherriff are Coordinating Leads on California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment’s Regional Synthesis Report for the North Coast, focusing on how climate change is impacting six counties in northwestern California.
Jeff Kane - Forestry, Fire, and Rangeland Management
In partnership with Redwood National Park and the United States Geological Survey- Arcata Field Office, Jeff Kane and graduate student Megan Joyce from the Department of Forestry, Fire, and Rangeland Management will be examining the impacts of restoration thinning treatments that burned in the 20
Dr. Lucy Kerhoulas - Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Lucy Kerhoulas received a $180,000 grant from the Columbia Land Trust to investigate white oak responses to forest restoration thinning treatments aiming to reduce fire fuels, overstory competition, and tree drought vulnerability.