May 2, 2025
Reception & Presentations 2pm to 5pm
Cal Poly Humboldt Library
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Watershed Base Plane
Matthew
Environmental Studies
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Surveying Campbell creek watershed, located in north eastern Humboldt county on the edge of the Hoopa Indian Reservation, implementing mitigation plans for conservation and restoration. There are many environmental impacts that are hazardest to the water runoffs and aquifers such as legal/ illegal cannibus grow, illegal solid waste dumping, and sedimentation from old logging roads. Building maps would provide baseline information for measuring activity that can be harmful to the ecosystem that provides an abundance of resources for a complex bio-diversity and cultural resources for the Hupa Tribe.
The Early History of Humboldt State University's Multilingual Literary Journal Toyon
Korinza Shlanta
English
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Toyon has been recognized as one of the best undergraduate literary journals/magazines in recent years. Currently, Toyon is published by students in a classroom setting oriented towards career preparation for individuals who wish to gain experience in the publishing field, but the beginnings of the journal had a far more humble and nearsighted goal: to publish the creative work of students. The history of Toyon has had to be constructed through primary sources such such as yearbooks, back issues of the school newspaper The Lumberjack, and details from the back issues of the journal itself. The archive editor of Toyon has researched the history of the early issues through the 1970's.
The Role of Polyhedral Dice
Laura Thompson
English
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
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.
Cage Farm Fishing Restoration Project in South East Asia: Heavy Metals in the Surrounding Ecosystem
Shelsy Morales
Oceanography
Undergraduate Student
Shelby Bishop
Malcolm Edwards-Silva
Louise Parr
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
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.
Investigation into Cyanide Levels at the Arcata Wastewater Treatment Facility
Danny Brown
Department of Chemistry
Undergraduate Student
Jack McLaughlin
Department of Chemistry
Undergraduate Student
Matthew Hurst
Department of Chemistry
Faculty
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
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.
Perching Height Preference in Raptors
Jacob
Scholar
Wildlife
Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
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.
College Corps: Senior Voices
Katie-Hope
Hennessy
Other
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
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.
College of the Redwoods Athletic Hub
Zac
Claus
School of Applied Health
Undergraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
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.
Mapping Marijuana Cultivation Sites and Water Storage in the Redwood Creek Watershed, Southern Humboldt County
Cristina Bauss
Geography
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Impending regulation of California’s medical-marijuana industry demands a quantifiable understanding of the extent of cultivation on private lands long devoted to commercial-scale marijuana growing. This research aimed to quantify marijuana cultivation and water storage in the Redwood Creek watershed of southern Humboldt County, where critical changes have taken place since the advent of the back-to-the-land movement in the late 1960s. A GIS-based spatial analysis, following a visual search using Google Earth imagery, yielded 303 greenhouses, 100 outdoor cultivation scenes, 164 water tanks, and 51 installed ponds on assessor’s parcels located within or partly within the watershed.
Settler Colonialism in Humboldt
Alexandria Jones
Geography
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
This presentation addresses the role of Fort Humboldt in settler colonialism in Humboldt county as well as fits Fort Humboldt into a larger analysis of settler colonial conflicts.