This project concists of my participation as a co-facilitator in a substance abuse relapse prevention group through the Redwood Community Action Agency (RCAA) located at Waterfront Recovery Services in Eureka. This group meets once a week with participants who are in the early stages of recovery and who are ready to learn new coping skills that will enhance the rate of success and minimize relapse incidents. Evidence-based practice methods as they pertain to the five models of group therapy used in substance abuse treatment is being utilized in addition to traditional cultural elements congruent with the Native American worldview.

In a moment when there is a need to increase social knowledge and skills for addressing environmental issues, gardens are an important resource. Garden programs address multiple learning styles, help physical development and provide opportunities for interdisciplinary lessons for children. Within these programs, kids practice locomotor skills, patience, and responsibility. In this study, we looked at accessibility to gardens within elementary schools in Arcata & McKinleyville. In addition to observing accessibility, we looked at the limiting factors for schools that do not have access to gardens and see if there are correlations to social implications such as class and wealth.

Studying race, class, gender and age are considered crucial for understanding social inequality and offending, but criminology has yet to fully explore sexuality. In this study, we provide a baseline examination of sexuality and offending in the U.S. for several life course stages. We find that the effect of being a sexual minority on the likelihood of offending is often larger than or comparable to the significant effects of race and gender; this varies over the life course and across behaviors. We demonstrate that sexual orientation is another crucial attribute for understanding social inequality and offending, and join the call for a more intersectional approach to the study of offending.

Individuals with physical disabilities have found that the Cal Poly Humboldt campus is difficult to navigate due to topography, aging infrastructure, and more. In order to make improvements to our campus, we need to have data on barriers that prevent physical accessibility. This map seeks to be a simple way to display physical accessibility data online to both aid navigation and promote physical and social change regarding accessibility.

Our purpose is to analyze the ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) data from the PORTS Hookton Channel Day Marker 3 station in Humboldt Bay, CA, to compare with the analysis of the ADCP data at the PORTS Chevron Pier station done by Emma Modrick and Isabelle Marcus (Modrick et al., 2022). We want to determine the proportion that each tidal component makes to the mixed semidiurnal tides in the bay, by looking at the dominant frequencies in the tidal currents. We will then compare our results with those of Modrick and Marcus, as well as with the published results of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Understanding the potential locations of where plant species will thrive is a fundamental necessity for resource managers who are concerned with controlling invasive species as well as promoting endangered ones. This study examines the credibility and usage of predicting ecological niche models developed through a Python program which uses in-situ data for counties within California (primarily climatic, elevation, and slope data). We tested its validity to predict the distribution of invasive species of plants by using an easily identifiable species known as Cortaderia selloana (Pampas Grass) with initial findings indicating an extremely high degree of success (well over 90% overlap).

The Take Back the Night Organization bridges the gap between students and their community to build a support network for survivors. However, this semester, normal operations have been altered due to COVID-19, social distancing, and shelter-in-place which challenged our group to adjust the scope of our project. Using Instagram as our platform, we worked together to address the societal issues of sexual violence and domestic. We built a manual to promote healthy relationship communication. We included information on online services, hotlines, and other local resources available for sexual and domestic abuse aimed towards helping our Humboldt community during the pandemic.

Our purpose is to provide a platform that highlights and shares stories of HSU’s community engagement in Humboldt County and beyond. We publish stories that promote deep and enriching connections through learning, to enhance inclusivity and social and environmental justice efforts within the community. Redwood Roots is a community platform that serves to provide a direct, diverse, and transparent narrative that further encourages communal collaborations between students, alumni, faculty, and community partners. Redwood Roots highlight the diverse approaches HSU students engage in by combining learning objectives with community.

The Stonewall Riots in June of 1969 started the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights movement in the United States. It took four more years for "homosexuality" to be removed from the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual (DSM). This study looks at the 20 years before the Stonewall Riots, exploring how LGBTQ people were discussed in the media. Using content analysis on articles from the Los Angeles Times (1950-1969), we explore the evolution of language used to describe members of the LGBTQ communities, through the McCarthy era (1950-1956), the decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK in 1967, and social movements, like the riots in the summer of 1969.

Aquaponic systems are a combination of hydroponic gardening and a recirculating aquaculture system, which is a very efficient way to produce marketable products for growers. Humboldt State University’s (HSU) aquaculture class had the opportunity to assemble an aquaponics system (Nelson and Pade, Inc.) for the first time. Our class was provided with the equipment that allowed us to demonstrate our abilities in constructing a fully functional aquaponics system. From the knowledge acquired in the academic setting, we were able to create a hands-on, tangible system. White Sturgeon were grown in the system along with a wide variety of vegetables with great success.