Achievements

Monica Pina, Miles Ritch, Nic Anderson, Tiffany Perez, and Daniel Guzman.

Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management

"HSU Collegiate Soil Contest team placed 2nd in group judging (where all were in one pit) and 3rd in team judging (top four contestants overall).
The contest was held near CalPoly San Luis Obispo on Nov. 3. CalPoly SLO will host the national soil collegiate contest in April. HSU's team looks forward to competing in this national competition where 20 plus teams from across the United States will compete. The team improved from its first attempt at soil judging last year where it received two third place awards. Cal Poly leads the pack (and actually has the world's best soil judger on its team), but HSU outperformed Fresno State this year in the group event and was ahead of CSU Chico overall.

Kelly Pfeiler, Alexander Bippus, Ashley Kammet, Ashley Ortiz, Mihai Tomescu (with I.H. Escapa)

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 10th European Paleobotany-Palynology Conference in Dublin, Ireland: "Fossils and seed cone morphology in the resolution of phylogenetic relationships among basal Cupressaceae s.l."

Mihai Tomescu (with A. Elgorriaga, I.H. Escapa, G.W. Rothwell, N.R. Cuneo)

Biological Sciences

Paper presented at 17th Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología, Paraná, Argentina: "Que es Equisetum? Estudio filogenético para el orden Equisetales"

p. 94 in http://www.palino.com.ar/alpp/BoletinesALPP/Programa_Resumenes_ONLINE_2018.pdf

Mihai Tomescu

Biological Sciences

Invited blog post on Botany One blog: "Exquisitely preserved tiny fossils are key for understanding moss evolution"

https://www.botany.one/2018/07/exquisitely-preserved-tiny-fossils-are-k…

Alison O'Dowd

Environmental Science & Management

ESM Professor Alison O'Dowd gave a presentation, "Freshwater Science in the CSU system" at the annual meeting of the California Chapter of the Society for Freshwater Science in Davis, CA on Oct 24, 2019.

Trinity Smith

Wildlife

Graduate student Trinity Smith (in Wildlife) won best student poster at the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR) conference last week for her poster entitled:
“Patterns of western red bat occupancy across a disturbed landscape in California’s Central Valley”. The conference was in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico October 24-27 (https://www.nasbr.org/annual-meetings).

Beth Eschenbach

Environmental Resources Engineering

Served as Technical Program Chair for the 2018 Frontiers in Education conference in San Jose California. FIE is a premier international engineering education conference.

MS Student Katrina Smith (with D.C. Barton and D.A. Riggs)

Wildlife

Presenting a paper "Site selection in a population monitoring program for Townsend’s big-eared bats: Does cave morphology predict abundance of hibernating bats?" at annual meeting of the North American Society for Bat Research, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

MS Student Justin Demianew (with A. D. Macedo, J. M. Garwood, and D. C. Barton)

Wildlife

Presented an invited paper "The high life: Ecology and conservation of montane reptiles" at annual meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Portland, OR

MS Student Alyssa Marquez (with L. Diller and D. C. Barton)

Wildlife

Presented a paper "Response of headwater amphibians to logging impacts and assessment of restoration potential in Redwood National and State Parks." at annual meeting of the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Portland, OR