Achievements

HSU undergraduate wildlife students Samuel Vassallo, Devon Michels, Alex Lewis, Evan Miller, and Marcie Mathieu and faculty member Daniel Barton

Wildlife

HSU's Wildlife Conclave team was featured in the two ways in The Wildlife Society's national magazine, The Wildlife Professional. The 2019 National Championship team (Samuel Vassallo, Devon Michels, Alex Lewis, Evan Miller, and Marcie Mathieu) are photographed and featured in an article on quiz bowl, and faculty member Daniel Barton wrote a short article entitled "A proud quiz bowl tradition at Humboldt State" for the magazine.

https://sites.google.com/view/bartonlab/lab-news?authuser=0

Claire Nasr

Wildlife

Wildlife Graduate Student Claire Nasr Presented paper "Measuring relative disturbance risk to marine wildlife in northern California" at Pacific Seabird Group Annual Meeting, Kauai, HI.

http://www.cvent.com/events/psg-2019-kaua-i/custom-18-bb8e62d508874406a…

Adam Mohr

Wildlife

Wildlife Graduate Student Adam Mohr presented talk at The Western Section of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting in Yosemite, CA, "Tule elk habitat selection in the Carrizo Plains Region"

Daniel Barton

Wildlife

Invited Presentation at the Shamir Research Institute, University of Haifa, Qatsrin, Israel entitled "Apparent Competition, Hyperpredation, and Spillover in Ecological Restoration: The tales of two lupines and a fish"

Mark Colwell, Katie Raby, Lizzie Feucht

Wildlife

Mark Colwell, Katie Raby and Lizzie Feucht published a paper in Wader Study (https://www.waderstudygroup.org/publications/wader-study/), an international journal dedicated to shorebird ecology and conservation. Their paper summarizes the efficiency of plovers breeding at various locations in Humboldt County over the past 18 years, with the aim of improving conservation and management practices.

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).

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 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

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

Dan Barton (with P. Capitolo, R. Golightly, H. Carter, and G. McChesney)

Wildlife

Presented a paper "Application of auto-regressive state-space models to estimate population trends and observation error from seabird colony counts" at Pacific Seabird Groups's annual conference in La Paz, BCS, Mexico