Achievements

Susan Edinger Marshall, Joseph Seney (lecturer), Students: Nic Anderson, Tiffany Perez, Miles Ritch, Alexandra Urban, Daniel Guzman, Monica Pina

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

HSU participated for the first time in the Collegiate Soil Contest hosted by CalPoly SLO. Overall the HSU Team placed 19th out of 26 teams nationwide, but ranked #1 among teams from the 11 western states; higher than Land Grant Institutions such as Colorado State, Utah State, and University of Wyoming.

Jeffrey Kane

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Became a member of the Northwest Scientific Association's Board of Directors

Tim Bean (co-authors Laura Prugh, Nicolas Deguines, Joshua Grinath, Katherine Suding, Robert Stafford, and Justin Brashares)

Wildlife

Published paper in Nature Climate Change "Winners and losers in response to extreme drought"

Thomas Starkey-Owens

Environmental Science & Management

ESM graduate student Thomas Starkey-Owens presented a poster: "Benthic macroinvertebrate drift and juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) diet response to pulse flows on the Trinity River below Lewiston Dam" at the 2019 Salmonid Restoration Conference in Santa Rosa, CA on April 25th.

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.

https://sites.google.com/maine.edu/twsnortheaststudentconclave/home

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"