May 2, 2025
Reception & Presentations 2pm to 5pm
Cal Poly Humboldt Library
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Identifying Pleistocene Ursus fossils from dental morphology analyses of American black bear (Ursus americanus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) specimens
Tananya
Alberts
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
This project aimed to use black and brown bear teeth measurements in order to see if species identifications can be made for fossil bears.
Using specimens across four Californian natural history museums, we found that one tooth measurement was sufficient to identify between the two species.
Mycoremediation and TEK Implemented into Ecological Restoration Practices
Maya Noble
Biological Sciences
Undergraduate Student
Casey Nichols
Biological Sciences
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Mycoremediation and traditional ecological knowledge or TEK implemented within Indigenous communities and blended with accepted ecological restoration methods in order to restore the health of damaged and contaminated ecosystems.
Community Brochure for Open Door Community Health Centers
Andrea
Jones
Social Work
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
My research focuses on community access to cultural and crisis resources, through networking with community health centers. My brochure will help reach a boarder population throughout Humboldt and Del Norte counties on educating and advocating for families about health services offered at their local clinic site. While Open Door struggles to retain staff, and providers, its important for the community to have additional access to other resources that are not quite at capacity. This will support small organizations that focus on cultural and diverse practices, as well as acknowledge Indigenous people by having others support and give back through their honor tax.
How Different Tribes Harvest Their Deer
Jedidiah Parker
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
I will be providing information on how different tribes utilize parts of the deer and add insight on how it varies throughout area and season. I will include tribes from Wisconsin, California, and Oregon.
Virginidad: Concept of Virginity in Hispanic Communities
Nicole Zamora
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Virginity is prioritized highly in hispanics cultures. I want to navigate virginity and sex positivity in Latin cultures. Many young women are raised to think of our virginities as 'flowers' or 'gems', although some people are free to believe this way, the shame that comes after sex or not viewing it as that should be changed. It's a proposal for education that can be used in wide variety of locations and contexts.
White-crowned sparrow song adjustments to anthropogenic noise
Lucca
Faccini
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
An undergraduate Wildlife senior research project about understanding the relationship between white-crowned sparrow songs and anthropogenic noise.
Great Blue Herons and feeding ecology (title may change at a later date)
Thalia
Contreras
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
How successful great blue herons are with their feeding strategies and how anthropogenic factors may influence behavior in the ardeids.
Humboldt County Population Growth Correlated to Unidentified Flying Object Reports 1920 - 2021
Starsong
Brittain
History
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
This project looked to see what correlations could be found here in Humboldt county between population changes and annual number of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) repots from the years of 1920 to 2021.
Weather Impacts on Insect and Arthropod Diversity and Abundance
Megan
Solimine
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
This project examines the effects of weather on insect and arthropod diversity and abundance in Arcata, California. Data captured was keyed out to taxonomic family, then Jaccard's Index and beta diversity tests were used to identify differences between sites.
Bayside Corners
Jasson Flores
Geography
Undergraduate Student
Brooks Spencer
Geography
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Bayside Corners is a Nonprofit Organization which seeks to help foster community building in the community of Bayside.