Achievements

Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Invited blog post on Botany One blog: "Exquisitely preserved tiny fossils are key for understanding moss evolution"

https://www.botany.one/2018/07/exquisitely-preserved-tiny-fossils-are-k…

Alison O'Dowd

Environmental Science & Management

ESM Professor Alison O'Dowd gave a presentation, "Freshwater Science in the CSU system" at the annual meeting of the California Chapter of the Society for Freshwater Science in Davis, CA on Oct 24, 2019.

Trinity Smith

Wildlife

Graduate student Trinity Smith (in Wildlife) won best student poster at the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR) conference last week for her poster entitled:
“Patterns of western red bat occupancy across a disturbed landscape in California’s Central Valley”. The conference was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 24-27 (https://www.nasbr.org/annual-meetings).

Beth Eschenbach

Environmental Resources Engineering

Served as Technical Program Chair for the 2018 Frontiers in Education conference in San Jose California. FIE is a premier international engineering education conference.

MS Student Katrina Smith (with D.C. Barton and D.A. Riggs)

Wildlife

Presenting a paper "Site selection in a population monitoring program for Townsend’s big-eared bats: Does cave morphology predict abundance of hibernating bats?" at annual meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

MS Student Justin Demianew (with A. D. Macedo, J. M. Garwood, and D. C. Barton)

Wildlife

Presented an invited paper "The high life: Ecology and conservation of montane reptiles" at annual meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Portland, OR

MS Student Alyssa Marquez (with L. Diller and D. C. Barton)

Wildlife

Presented a paper "Response of headwater amphibians to logging impacts and assessment of restoration potential in Redwood National and State Parks." at annual meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Portland, OR

Dan Barton (with P. Capitolo, R. Golightly, H. Carter, and G. McChesney)

Wildlife

Presented a paper "Application of auto-regressive state-space models to estimate population trends and observation error from seabird colony counts" at Pacific Seabird Groups's annual conference in La Paz, BCS, Mexico

Shayda Abidi, Alexander Bippus, Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Early Cretaceous anatomically-preserved Marsileaceae from California (USA) and the evolution of sporocarp morphology"

Kelly Matsunaga, Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Invited chapter in edited volume ("Current Advances in Fern Research"/Springer): "Reciprocal illumination and fossils provide important perspectives in plant evo-devo: examples from auxin in seed-free plants"

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75103-0_10