Achievements

Kyle D. McNamara, B.S. (recent graduate) and Robert W. Zoellner, Ph.D. (Professor of Chemistry)

Chemistry

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).

Michael Sutter and Andrew Kinziger

Fisheries Biology

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

Thomas Starkey-Owens

Environmental Science & Management

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."

Alison O'Dowd

Environmental Science & Management

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

Fisheries Biology Faculty and Students

Fisheries Biology

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

Environmental Science & Management

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

Environmental Science & Management

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.

Jeffrey Dunk

Environmental Science & Management

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

Kenneth Fulgham & Susan Marshall

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

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

Wildlife

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.