Achievements

Katherine Stonecypher

Environmental Science & Management

ESM undergraduate Katherine Stonecypher presented a poster: "Assessing Salmonid Migration Risk Using the Riffle Crest Thalweg" at the 2019 Salmonid Restoration Conference in Santa Rosa, CA on April 25th.

Melissa Collin and Sean Fleming

Environmental Science & Management

Environmental Science & Management undergraduates Melissa Collin and Sean Fleming presented, "Modeling Flows in Northwest California Watersheds with VELMA - 2.0" at the 2019 Salmonid Restoration Conference in Santa Rosa on April 26th.

Tyler Ladinsky, Harvey Kelsey, Melanie Michalak

Geology

Tyler Ladinsky (MS '12), Harvey Kelsey and Melanie Michalak were awarded a one year grant through the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to conduct a paleoseismic investigation on the Little Salmon Fault in Humboldt County. Their proposal, "In Southern Cascadia, Do Upper-Plate Faults Rupture in Concert with Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A Paleoseismic Investigation of the Little Salmon Fault Zone" is a collaborative effort between HSU faculty and students, the California Geological Survey, and United States Geological Survey to evaluate the chronology and style of earthquakes on the Little Salmon Fault in context of the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

Clare O'Connell

Biological Sciences

Received a grant from Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Mary Carlquist, Devon Michels, Anna Davis, and Issac Henderson

Wildlife

The HSU Wildlife Conclave team placed second in the The Wildlife Society's Northeast Student Conclave Wildlife Quiz Bowl, in Portland, ME, in a close final with SUNY-ESF.

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Cara Appel (former grad student), Pairsa Belamaric (current grad student) and Tim Bean

Wildlife

Published paper in Journal of Mammalogy "Seasonal resource acquisition strategies of a facultative specialist herbivore at the edge of its range"

Stella Yuan

Biological Sciences

Received grant from American Society of Mammalogist Grant-in-Aid of Research Grant

Caroline Martorano, Jeffrey Kane

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Presented a paper entitled "Long-term effectiveness of fuel reduction treatments in oak and chaparral stands of northern California" at the 90th annual conference of the Northwest Scientific Association in Lewisonton, ID.

Jeffrey Kane

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Presented a paper entitled "Effectiveness and impacts of girdling treatments in a conifer-encroached Oregon white oak woodland" at the 90th annual conference of the Northwest Scientific Association in Lewisonton, ID.

Mihai Tomescu (with A. Elgorriaga, I.H. Escapa, G.W. Rothwell, N.R. Cuneo)

Biological Sciences

Published paper "Origin of Equisetum: Evolution of horsetails (Equisetales) within the major euphyllophyte clade Sphenopsida"