Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
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.
Dr. Lucy Kerhoulas - Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Lucy Kerhoulas received a $50,000 grant from Save the Redwoods League to examine the influences of Redwoods Rising restoration treatments on forest water sources and drought responses in Redwood National and State Parks near Orick, CA.
Justin Luong, Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management
Justin Luong (FFRM) and colleagues recently published a paper in Functional Ecology on how plant geographic distribution influences chemical defenses in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations.
Range undergrad and graduate students receive grassland grants
Kenia Gomez, Gabriel Abundis & (graduate student) Ernesto Chavez-Velasco received research grants from the California Native Grassland Association to examine pressing issues on various California rangelands.
ERFSA (Emeritus Retired Faculty & Staff Association) Grant winner, Justin Luong
Justin Luong, Assistant Professor of Forestry, Fire and Rangeland Management Department was awarded a grant for assessing solar panel grid impacts on coastal prairies to guide regenerative agrivoltaics. Research in Dr.
Lucy Kerhoulas, Rosemary Sherriff, Erik Jules, and Michael Kauffmann
Lucy Kerhoulas, Rosemary Sherriff, Erik Jules, and Michael Kauffmann were awarded a $1.1 million grant to complete extensive vegetation mapping in the Klamath Mountains Ecoregion.