Achievements

Jasper Oshun, Margaret Lang, Yojana Miraya

Geology

Dr. Oshun gave an invited talk at the 1ST INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHY CONGRESS OF APURIMAC IN SOUTHERN REGION PERU on August 28th. The title of the talk was, "Bonanza en los Andes: Estudio de los recursos de agua y desarrollo en colaboración con la comunidad de Zurite, Anta," and focused on Dr. Oshun and Dr. Lang's water development project in Perú. Successes so far include the construction of 1.5 km of irrigation canals, 4 student presentations at international geology conferences, and over 20 involved undergraduate and graduate students from HSU.

Alison O'Dowd

Environmental Science & Management

ESM professor Alison O'Dowd and former NR graduate student Lara Jansen published a paper in the journal River Research and Applications entitled, "A comparison of benthic algal and macroinvertebrate communities in a dammed and undammed Mediterranean river (Eel River watershed, California, USA)."

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…

Alison O'Dowd

Environmental Science & Management

ESM professor Alison O'Dowd and co-authors published a paper entitled "Characterizing benthic macroinvertebrate and algal biological condition gradient models for California wadeable streams, USA" in the journal Ecological Indicators.

Wendy Willis, Matt Johnson

Wildlife

Wendy Willis and Matt Johnson (Dept of Wildlife) published a paper, "Political Ecology of Shade Coffee: Perspectives from Jamaican Blue Mountain Farmers" in the journal Conservation and Society stemming from Wendy's thesis in HSU's interdisciplinary Environment and Community program.

Matt Johnson, Amy Sprowles, Katlin Goldenberg, Steven Margell, and Lisa Castellino

Wildlife

A team of faculty and staff published a paper documenting the effects of the first three years of the Klamath Connection placed-based learning community entitled, "Effect of a Place-Based Learning Community on Belonging, Persistence, and Equity Gaps for First-Year STEM Students" in the journal Innovative Higher Education. The article is open-access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-020-09519-5

Matt Johnson, Sacha Heath

Wildlife

Matt Johnson, professor in the Dept of Wildlife, and HSU alum Dr. Sacha Heath co-organized a symposium, "Protecting and restoring bird habitat in the agricultural matrix: net benefits for birds and farmers" with 10 invited speakers held at the 2020 North American Ornithological Conference, August 14, 2020.

Deven Kammerichs-Berke, Matt Johnson

Wildlife

Deven Kammerichs-Berke, graduate student in Wildlife, presented results from his thesis, "Community Composition and Foraging Selectivity of Insectivorous Bird on Central Kenyan Shade Coffee Farms," at the North American Ornithological Conference, Aug 12, 2020.

Katelyn Raby, Mark Colwell

Wildlife

Katie Raby and Mark Colwell published a paper in Wader Study, an international journal dedicated to conservation of shorebirds. Their 15-yr analysis show that Snowy Plover nests survived better on restored beaches of Humboldt County, CA compared with unrestored areas.

Daniel Barton

Wildlife

Dan Barton published an open-access article "Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives: Results from a survey of instructors" in the journal Ecology and Evolution. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6628