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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Cynthia Le Doux-Bloom
Fisheries Biology
Dr. Cynthia LeDoux-Bloom received a $145,000 grant from the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to develop a monitoring strategy for improving the effectiveness of water quality, sediment, and flow monitoring efforts throughout the Elk River (Humboldt Co.) watershed. The monitoring strategy will be developed in conjunction with the Science and Coordinated Monitoring Workgroup composed of government agencies, non-profit agencies, and landowners. Findings shall serve as the basis for a monitoring plan.
Andrew P Kinziger
Fisheries Biology
Coauthored and edited a special issue in Molecular Ecology Resources titled: skúkum tílixam: Uniting to Support Indigenous Contributions to Molecular Ecology
José R. Marin Jarrin
Fisheries Biology
Research from Cal Poly Humboldt graduate Gabriel Irribarren and Fisheries Biology Professor José R. Marin Jarrin was recently published in the California Fish and Wildlife Scientific Journal. Their research focuses on using empty shells to study Pacific razor clam populations at Clam Beach in Humboldt County, and is key to advancing this important research on coastal ecosystems.
Rafael Cuevas Uribe and Brian Donovan
Fisheries Biology
Faculty: Rafael Cuevas Uribe and graduate student Brian Donovan, Fisheries Biology presented at the workshop: farmed seaweed science needs in California organized by the California Science Trust in Sacramento on November 1st.
Andrew Kinzier
Fisheries Biology
David K Jacobs, Andrew Kinziger, Mira Abrecht, W Tyler McCraney, Benjamin A Hà, Brenton T Spies, Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, Mohan P A Marimuhtu, Oanh Nguyen, Colin W Fairbairn, William E Seligmann, Merly Escalona, Courtney Miller, H Bradley Shaffer, Reference genome for the endangered, genetically subdivided, northern tidewater goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi, Journal of Heredity, 2024;, esae053, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae053
Fisheries Biology - students and faculty
Fisheries Biology
Sixteen students and faculty from Cal Poly Humboldt's Fisheries Biology Department attended the American Fisheries Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, joining over 2,000 global participants to share research and build collaborations. Humboldt representatives delivered ten presentations and chaired a symposium on integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with genomic approaches in fisheries conservation. The department also hosted a gathering for alumni, faculty, and friends to reconnect and celebrate shared achievements. Travel and registration costs were primarily funded through grants, illustrating the professional development opportunities available to students through active research and involvement in major scientific events. Learn more
Lily Olmo
Fisheries Biology
Graduate student Lily Olmo was awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Olmo is among 2,000 students selected nationwide to receive the fellowship from more than 16,000 applicants. This five-year award will support her current Master's research and continuation to a Ph.D. program.
Emma Held, Darren Ward
Fisheries Biology
Emma Held was awarded a research fellowship from California Sea Grant to support her work on the life history of threatened Chinook salmon in the Mattole River. Emma's work will provide information to support ongoing conservation efforts by collaborators at the Mattole Salmon Group.
Rafael Cuevas Uribe
Fisheries Biology
Dr. Rafael Cuevas Uribe received a grant to support a collaborative project between Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Diego State University, and Cal Poly Humboldt. The project will involve building and testing a novel technology system for developing new and profitable seaweed strains for commercial, land-based aquaculture production. The system will contribute to a more diverse domestic seaweed production and larger networks of local seaweed sources, as well as aquaculture education and training through use at education institutions.
Funding comes as a subaward from University of California, San Diego, with the original funding source being SeaGrant.
Dr. Jose Marin Jarrin, Dr. Andrew Kinziger, and Michelle Schuiteman
Fisheries Biology
Dr. Jose Marin Jarrin, Michelle Schuiteman, and Dr. Andrew Kinziger received a grant to develop a population baseline of fish communities in the lower estuary of the Klamath River. The study will ensure that changes in the Klamath River estuary due to climate change and dam removal will be measurable, and will also develop a working group that can continue to tackle coastal marine issues in Northern California, including Klamath estuary monitoring. The project will be led by the Yurok Tribe Fisheries Department, with support from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and US Fish and Wildlife Service staff.