We are creating a digital archive of the greenwood cemetery to spark interest in the community.

It is a field research project looking at the species diversity and individual abundance of salamanders in the Arcata Community Forest.

Physical processes regarding gravity are well understood on the scale of planetary distances but pose challenges in measurements at very short distances. Theories such as the Inverse Square Law (ISL) and Einstein’s Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) of General Relativity have been tested over distance scales from 1 cm to infinity [1]. Reliable measurements of gravitational forces at scales smaller than a centimeter carry significant challenges. The non-gravitational forces that are generally negligible at the scale of everyday objects have a much more substantial effect in the sub-centimeter regime. Our experiment seeks to measure gravity at these close distances.

The objective of this project is to collaborate with the Cal Poly Humboldt Art Department to create a story of how they have impacted the community. The art department has had many art education majors reach out to the community to help citizens explore the benefits of art. The reached out primarily to elementary schools and the Pelican Bay Prison

White-crowned sparrows have different dialects in their songs depending on the region. This project was done to determine if sparrows local to Humboldt County are capable of recognizing dialects from different regions throughout the U.S.

My study looked at the ecological role nurse logs play in the Arcata Community Forest, and whether they support a different vascular plant community than the forest floor.

This project sampled benthic macroinvertebrate communities present at three locations in Humboldt County, California totaling 1642 individuals across 19 families. The composition of taxa differed significantly between upstream and downstream sites (p < 0.0000). Pollution taxa sensitive (Caenidae, Perlodidae, Pteronarcyidae, and Lepidostomatidae were present in the upstream sites and absent from the downstream site.

A research project that investigates what type of habitat black bears choose when it comes to vegetation density.

For this project, we looked at the plastics that were found in the Guts of Leach's Strom Petrels in Humboldt County, CA. In 2020, 57 of these storm petrels were found dead of natural causes and stored at Cal Poly Humboldt. In my project, I analyze if these storm petrels had plastics in their stomachs at the time of their death, and if so, how much plastic. This is the first of such studies done on Leach's Storm Petrels on the Pacific Coast. The results help to contribute to the ever-growing knowledge of how plastics in our oceans are affecting wildlife.

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.