Achievements

Jeff Dunk

Environmental Science & Management

Published first authored paper (with 17 co-authors) - Conservation Planning for Species Recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A Case Study with the Northern Spotted Owl. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210643. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210643

Ryan Maberry, Jessica Souja, William Weinberg, Lucy Kerhoulas, Christopher Lee, David Baston, and Susan Marshall

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Presented a poster at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Ramorum leaf blight reduces leaf-level productivity in tanoak and California bay."

Jenny Cappuccio

Chemistry

Has been selected to join the Chemistry inter-institutional peer mentoring Alliance in the Northwest Regional Network, as part of the NSF ADVANCE Partnership ASCEND project (Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development). Her bio and photo will also be posted on the ASCEND website.https://wou.edu/ascend/

Claire Till

Chemistry

Selected as Cottrell Scholar Award Recipient

https://rescorp.org/news/2020/02/rcsa-names-25-new-cottrell-scholars-fo…

Gabriel Goff, Nicholas Kerhoulas, and Lucy Kerhoulas

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Presented a talk at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Conifer encroachment and removal in a northern California woodland: Influences on ecosystem physiology and biodiversity."

Lucy Kerhoulas, Ariel Weisgrau, Emily Hoeft, and Nicholas Kerhoulas

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Presented a talk at the Ecological Society of America Conference in Louisville, KY: "Within-crown physiology of tall Picea sitchensis trees."

Hunter Harrill

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Gave a presentation "Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California" and moderated the panel session on "Steep Slope Logging Technology" at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada, Jan. 15-16, 2020.

Hunter Harrill

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Gave a presentation "Winch-assisted Harvesting Systems: New Opportunities for Logging in California" and moderated the panel session on "Steep Slope Logging Technology" at the Associated California Loggers (ACL) annual conference in Reno, Nevada January 15th-16th, 2020.

Sean Stewart (undergraduate) and Allison Nunes (graduate student)

Environmental Science & Management

Sean and Allison each received travel awards from the Northern Califronia Botanists to attend the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA

Harold Zald and Kerry Byrne

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

Zald (PI) and Byrne (co-PI)'s awarded $87,100 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal "Quantification and mitigation of large pine mortality after prescribed burning in a drought altered Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, California, USA."