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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
FWR Students
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Congratulations to our 2021 Forestry and Wildland Resources Department scholarship recipients! At the annual (Zoom) awards banquet, over $50,000 in scholarships were distributed thanks to the generosity of alumni and other donors.
A new scholarship for Soils and Botany students was created to honor Aidan Leaf Mullin, who planned to attend HSU in 2020 but passed away unexpectedly. The scholarship will support students who exemplify Aidan’s spirit and ideals.
Special congratulations to Department award winners: Cameron Miller (Professional Promise), Judson Fisher (Academic Excellence), Allyssa Glaser (Outstanding Range Student), and Dr. Aaron Hohl (Outstanding Faculty Member).
Jeff Kane, Raul Ramirez-Barajas
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources) published an article entitled "Litter trait driven dampening of flammability following deciduous forest community shifts in eastern North America" in the journal of Forest Ecology and Management with undergraduate student Raul Barajas-Ramirez (Botany), Jesse Kreye (2008; Penn State University), and Morgan Varner (Tall Timbers Research Station).
Caroline Martorano, Jeff Kane
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Caroline Martorano (2020) published a paper entitled "Long-term fuel and understory vegetation response to fuel treatments in oak and chaparral stands of northern California" in the journal Applied Vegetation Science with Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources), Eamon Engber (2010; National Park Service) and Jen Gibson (National Park Service).
Andrew Slack and Jeff Kane
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Andrew Slack (2016) published a paper entitled "Large sugar pine mortality models informed by growth, defense, and competition in a fire-excluded forest of the central Sierra Nevada" in the journal Trees: Structure and Function with co-authors Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources) and Eric Knapp (USDA Forest Service).
Sophia Lemmo
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Sophia Lemmo (Forestry graduate student advised by Lucy Kerhoulas and Rosemary Sherriff) gave an invited talk about the post-drought demographics of select true fir species in northern California at the Annual Meeting of the California Pest Council.
Sophia Lemmo
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Sophia Lemmo (Forestry graduate student advised by Lucy Kerhoulas and Rosemary Sherriff) was awarded a Student Fellowship of $10,800 from the CSU Agricultural Research Institute for her M.S. investigation of forest mortality and regeneration in northern California.
Zachary Erickson, Kevin Boston, Pascal Berrill
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Zachary Erickson, Kevin Boston, Pascal Berrill (Forestry & Wildland Resources, CNRS) were awarded an Intertribal Timber Council, Native American Natural Resource Research Scholarship for Zachary's forestry MS thesis research into defining stewardship goals of native people, with case study example of the Wiyot tribe and HSU's Goukd'in (Jacoby Creek) Forest: “Identifying forest management objectives of the Wiyot”. $4,200.
Susan Edinger Marshall
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
"Undergraduate Soil Science Training in the USA," was recently published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal. Co-author Susan Edinger Marshall discovered that Humboldt State University is among only four universities in California (and 15 in the eleven Western States) that offer sufficient coursework for graduates to qualify as federal Soil Scientists CSA (Crop Soil Agronomy) News featured this article in their December 2020 issue. Free access is available at: https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/saj2.20140
Dr. Hunter Harrill
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Was featured in a two part podcast "Talking Timber" by the Pacific Logging Congress, about his experiences in the forest industry and teaching at Humboldt State University.
Part 1:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/381c8114/dr-hunt…
Part 2:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/34e7de73/dr-hunt…
Dr. Hunter Harrill
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Gave an invited presentation to the U.S. Forest Service, Six River's National Forest, Forest Leadership Team (FLT) Meeting, on May 18th titled: "An Introduction to Tethered Harvesting Systems."