May 3, 2024 | Digital Showcase | Humboldt Library
All Presenters & Abstracts
Motivation Strategies to Facilitate Transfer in Community College Students
Presentation Year: 2018
There is a growing disconnect between youth’s expectations to attend and graduate from college on the one hand and their ability to follow through on these plans on the other. This discrepancy is pronounced at the community college, especially among low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students. This study examined motivational and self-regulatory strategies in community college students aspiring to transfer to a university. The results suggest that goal engagement strategies, such as persisting when encountering obstacles, avoiding distractions, and seeking outside support, are useful in understanding transfer-related behaviors and outcomes in community college students.
Music and Mindfulness
Presentation Year: 2018
Music and Mindfulness is a project created in partnership with Trinidad Elementary School to assess the efficacy of using therapeutic drumming and mindfulness for substance abuse prevention. This project combines research from Trauma-Informed practices, Relational Theory, and emotional awareness to assist students in building healthy relationships and increasing self-esteem.
Nanodiscs Stabilize Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin for Transcriptional Regulation Studies
Presentation Year: 2018
Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin (ASR) is a retinal containing membrane protein from Anabaena nostoc. ASR undergoes an orange-light induced conformational change from an all trans form to a 13-cis form, which is associated with the release of a bound transducer protein ASRT. It is proposed that the ASR/ASRT complex directly controls the transcription of phycocyanin (cpc-gene) and phycoerythrocyanin (pec-gene). In order to study this protein complex, ASR nanolipoprotein particles (nanodiscs) were assembled, which allows both ends of the ASR protein to be studied. These particles will enable, the main goal of this research, which is to identify the mechanism of the ASR/ASRT control of transcription.
Nanoscale Modifications to the RsaA S-Layer Protein Enhance Lead Binding in Whole Cells
Presentation Year: 2018
Due to the many industrial processes of modern America, heavy metal contamination of our waterways, specifically in densely populated areas, has become a major issue. The Prokaryotic species Caulobacter vibrioides exhibits a surface layer protein, RsaA, forming a 2-D crystallin array above the cell membrane. RsaA can be modified to exhibit a high binding potential with many of the charged ions, such as heavy metals, which are found in waterways. Here we show through an quantitative fluorescence assay that upon exposure to 39.063nM Pb solution, engineered C. vibrioides strains Hcm 027, and 028 remediated approximately 10% more Pb than the wildtype, Hcm 009.
Native American Schools
Presentation Year: 2018
The focus on my project will be in education in Native American schools. I will research about the structure of the schools such as Albuquerque Indian School, Chemawa Indian School and Carlisle Indian School and then talk about what happened in the past and forward each of the schools. Reason(s) why the topic being researched: The reason why I am planning to do research on education in Native American schools is because my family is mixed racially and I want to learn more about what occurred at the following Native American schools.
New Petrology and SEM imagery of the West China Peak Complex of the Ironside Mountain Batholith, Klamath Mountains, Trinity County, CA
Presentation Year: 2018
The Ironside Mountain Batholith located in the Western Hayfork terrane in the Klamath Mountains province represents crustal derived plutonism that pre-dates the Nevadan Orogeny by 20Ma. Redating the Ironside Mountain Batholith will be done via U-Pb laser ablation of accessory zircons, this will yield an age of crystallization thus providing an age of emplacement, and constrain the pre-Nevadan orogeny. Barnes and Petersen dated the Ironside Mountain Batholith in 1992 using U-Pb, Pb-Pb, and K-Ar dating methods, and yielded a date in the Mid Jurassic from 169 Ma (K-Ar) to 174 Ma (U-Pb), with an accepted age of 170Ma.
Northcoast Environmental Center
Presentation Year: 2018
Social Media platform assistant. Taking photos of local landscapes around Humboldt County as well as events and strategically placing them onto the organization's social media platforms.
Novice Cyclists Using Shorter Crank Lengths Produced Greater Power at Same V̇O2
Presentation Year: 2018
Compared to trained runners, novice runners employ lower stride frequencies and shorter stride lengths as they run at lower speeds vs trained runners. Novice cyclists may benefit from a similar paradigm, utilizing shorter crank lengths as an analog to the lower stride frequencies and shorter stride lengths used by novice runners. The purpose was to determine the impact of short crank arms on novice cyclist’s performance and comfort during a bout of moderate intensity cycling. Data analysis and conclusion will be included on poster.
Oh my God. I am the highest I have ever been: User Experiences with Cannabis Edibles
Presentation Year: 2018
Cannabis legalization in the U.S. is associated with greater usage, new cultivation methods, increased THC potency, and new modes of ingestion. Inconsistent edibles labeling and dosage control resulted in a spike in cannabis edible related emergency room admissions. This study examined negative user experiences with edibles. We conducted in-depth interviews with a nonrandom sample of 45 medical and recreational cannabis users in California and Colorado. We asked interviewees about their prior use, negative edible experience, and short and long-term responses to their bad edible experience. We coded interviews for the sources and behavioral implications of negative edible experiences.
On to the Future! for Renewable Energy in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas
Presentation Year: 2018
The data analysis MCM problem asked us to create energy profiles and to understand trends and important variables in order to make future goals for the states Arizona, California, Texas, and New Mexico. We made statistical models for each state to understand trends, as well as to help in the predictions for energy usage in 1925 and 1950. A ranking of each profile was instituted based on an analysis of the given data. Using both the models and the profiles, goals were set for all the states to make together in an Energy Compact to increase renewable energy production and consumption. This was all compiled into a memo for the state's governors.
Outcomes of a Disconnected Society: Tough on Discipline and the School to Prison Pipeline
Presentation Year: 2018
In this study a triangulation of teacher testimonies and school policies is used to address how systemic inequalities are maintained through institutional rules and individual understandings and how teachers understand their role in a system that unjustly criminalizes students of color. With a grounded theory approach, four main themes were identified: 1) causes of disproportionate discipline according to educators; 2) “tough on discipline”; 3)policing, surveillance, and intolerance of student misbehavior; 4) bureaucratization of school discipline. Possible solutions are discussed and other avenues for future research are addressed.
Parents Before Prisoners: Maintaining Connection Throughout Separation
Presentation Year: 2018
The complexity of the Child Welfare System has left Humboldt County Correctional Facility (HCCF) incarcerated parents voicing their confusion of the system specifically regarding how to reach case plan objectives in an institution that offers limited family reunification services. The collective project, Parents Before Prisoners: Maintaining Connection Throughout Separation, aimed to address this matter by creating a resource guide for HCCF parents, that not only explains the child welfare system, but also contains a curriculum that can be used to reach case plan objectives.
Pathways to Healing: A Cultural Identity Development Curriculum
Presentation Year: 2018
With the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria’s Ts’ Denoni Youth Program, I developed a curriculum that covers cultural teachings such as ceremony protocol, regalia, Tribal histories, gender roles, etc. This curriculum focuses on the following: (1) for youth and their families to familiarize themselves with the local Tribal histories, ceremony protocol, regalia, basketry, etc., (2) to help Native youth and families become more comfortable in their own cultural knowledge and identity, and (3) provide a foundation of local cultural knowledge that our youth and families can pass down to the next generation, to help create a cycle of healing.
Planet Rocket Collaboration Station
Presentation Year: 2018
A collaborative experience where our team will interact with Ideafest participants and help them develop strategies to take their research to the next level. Our creative project is an online platform called Planet Rocket that will help spark community change by allowing users to crowd fund the talent and resources to make their projects a reality. We will give a live demonstration of how Planet Rocket works and recruit participants to list their projects on our platform so that they can take their research and create positive change in the local community.
Police Officer Identification and Leadership Prototypicality
Presentation Year: 2018
Survey data was collected from the CSU system’s 21 campuses’ police officers in June of 2017. We will be examining the extent to which officers’ perceptions of their leader's representativeness predicts their support for the leader, trust for the leader and the leader’s effectiveness, and how these relationships are affected by officer uncertainty.
Political Anatomy of a Farmers' Market: Food Justice, Cultural Politics and Waste Management on the Plaza
Presentation Year: 2018
My research examines the North Coast Growers Association's food access, cultural inclusion and waste management initiatives through a critical environmental justice lens. It highlights the efforts of Farmers' Market Incentive Programs such as SNAP, WIC and Market-Match in addressing food insecurity and attracting low-income and student participation to markets. I discuss the geography of waste management as it pertains to the 'zero waste' initiatives of NCGA, and touch on the general tendencies of California farmers' markets to construct themselves as 'white spaces.' My research offers several strategies to disrupt whiteness and the 'white farm imaginary' in these spaces.
Post-fire seedling recruitment in the 2008 Siskiyou complex fire
Presentation Year: 2018
The spate of recent high intensity (stand-replacing) fires in California has led some to wonder whether our tree species are adapted to such large burns. Many assume that regeneration will typically be so poor that many of these burns will be dominated by shrubs and herbs instead of forests. This study examines seedling recruitment of conifers as a function of distance across a 1 km-wide burn near Hoopa. Six transects, each 50 m x 4 m, were spaced along the 1 km transects, and seedlings and burnt cones were counted. Douglas-fir and white fir averaged 2903 ha-1 and 1996 ha-1 seedlings, respectively, and 75% of the km had >490 recruits/ha (the minimal acceptable density in California).
Potter Valley Project Relicensing: The Fate of Two Watersheds
Presentation Year: 2018
At the headwaters of the Eel River stand two large dams. Not far from the Eel River is the Russian River, which has become hydrologically connected across a natural divide by a mile long diversion tunnel transporting water from the dammed Van Arsdale Reservoir in the Eel River into the Russian River. The dams will be up for relicensing in 2022, and as such stakeholders have come together to begin the political process. An interdisciplinary analysis of the current dialogue and data provides a critical tool in understanding the complexity of the relicensing process that will ultimately decide the fate of the two watersheds and the human and non-human communities that share the water.
Predicting Renewable Energy Usage with Linear Regression and Time-Series Analysis
Presentation Year: 2018
For California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, increasing renewable energy production and consumption is important in the face of climate change. We develop a model to analyze these states’ current renewable energy production and future projection. Findings from the model could lead to policy changes in favor of renewable energy.
Predictors of School Connectedness, Self-Esteem, and GPA
Presentation Year: 2018
Students should experience feelings of belonging and safety on their university campus. We ran multiple regression analyses to identify factors that predict school connectedness, well-being, and GPA among students (n=127, 72% women, 41% white). Overall stress is a risk factor for school connectedness (p