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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
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."
Erin Kelly & student
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Published "Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in Mattole River Watershed, USA". Society and Natural Resources (currently online - issue forthcoming).
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2020.1718815
Lucy Kerhoulas & Rosemary Sherriff
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Kerhoulas and Sherriff were awarded $75,000 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal "Tree mortality and regeneration across competitive and geographic gradients in Northern California."
Daniel Jones
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Daniel Jones, an HSU Forestry major with a concentration in operations, won 1st place in the student web map/app contest at the California Geographic Information Systems (CalGIS) 2020, conference in Long Beach, California, on February 9-11th.
Daniel’s web map/app “ArcCollector Spillway Inspection Workflow for the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District” has been deployed for the use of the District since 2019. The use of this workflow has reduced the post-processing time of inspection/repair cataloging and reporting from 1 to 2 days down to an hour. The second iteration of his project is expected to bring inspection times down from approximately 2 minutes to about 2 – 30 seconds.
Jeff Kane
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Coauthored a paper in Nature Communications entitled "Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees"
Lucy Kerhoulas
Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Presented an invited seminar at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences in Davis, CA: "Crown-scale physiology and ecology of tall Sitka spruce."