My research examines the North Coast Growers Association's food access, cultural inclusion and waste management initiatives through a critical environmental justice lens. It highlights the efforts of Farmers' Market Incentive Programs such as SNAP, WIC and Market-Match in addressing food insecurity and attracting low-income and student participation to markets. I discuss the geography of waste management as it pertains to the 'zero waste' initiatives of NCGA, and touch on the general tendencies of California farmers' markets to construct themselves as 'white spaces.' My research offers several strategies to disrupt whiteness and the 'white farm imaginary' in these spaces.

From Plants to Portola: Geovisualization of the Pre-Colonial California Coast, Derived from Paleobotanical Data and Spanish Journals

Memes, photographs or videos that are edited to be satirical and that makes fun of cultural ideologies, are passed rapidly through the internet and phone applications and can end up on hundreds of websites within hours. Methods employed included participant observation, literature review, and screenshot analysis from Facebook and Instagram. Patterns in the types of posts indicate that people of all ages actively seek out dog memes to reduce anxiety and that dog memes are more popular when they are humanized. Dog memes are an artifact of our generation that transcends age groups and allows us to research meme culture that reflects a virtual population.

Intuitive to use, polyhedral dice hold meaning in the nerd and geek communities as a storytelling tool for tabletop games. Dice are rolled to advance a game’s plot by limiting the action of a scene and opening options for the story to move forward. The artifact is a product, and its image is used to advertise to the nerd and geek communities. Further research would explore polyhedral dice in relation to history, psychology, and marketing.

The proposal for the study is to restore ecosystems near fish farms. Surrounded ecosystems have shown to be harmed by heavy pollutant (lead, mercury, and arsenic). In the long run the research team plans to stop more input of heavy metals into the water with the help of the Philippines community. The outcome for the project is to educate, care for the health of the community, and have cleaner and drinkable water.

The City of Arcata Wastewater Treatment Facility (AWTF) was issued a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit in 2019, which set a water quality objective for cyanide of 1.0 µg/L to protect saltwater ecosystems. Since enactment, the AWTF has exceeded the daily maximum effluent limit. This study used distillation and colorimetric analysis to investigate cyanide formation by comparing the cyanide levels in preserved and unpreserved samples taken concurrently with monitoring samples that were sent to a certified lab. Results found that found that unpreserved samples had no detectable levels of cyanide while preserved samples demonstrated a cyanide concentration of 0 to 1.7 µg/L.

This research investigated the relationship between various raptor species and their preferred perching heights, employing a laser rangefinder and binoculars to determine these heights. My objective was to explore if different raptor species exhibit distinct perching height preferences, potentially impacting the diversity of raptors in an area, deal with various pest species using predators, and possible solutions to bring back extirpated raptor species.

Senior Voices is a book project where the residents of SilverCrest, Eureka share their life stories in a book. You’re invited to learn more about how this project unfolded.

My project, CR Student-Athlete Hub, is a centralized website that was designed to support student-athletes at College of the Redwoods and their transition after CR. It focuses on five sections, providing key resources and information on recruiting, financial aid, eligibility rules, mental health, and success stories of alumni. The goal of this project is to collect and simplify the vast amount of information on these five topics in order to promote equity, access, and opportunity.

Today, as the Millennial Generation attend and complete college, enter the workforce and start their careers—research suggests that they are redefining the “traditional” values of individualism, entrepreneurship, and materialism that convey “success” in their chosen fields. The argument of this article is that the teaching of career preparation at the university level must also change. Therefore, this article will explore the question of how to teach “career” curriculum to a generation that arguably has very different values in the small, rural context of Humboldt State University.