February 17-21, 2020, students from the theatre department attended the 2020 KCACTF (regional theatre festival) in Ft. Collins, Co. The students participated in a variety of workshops, competitions, and summer job searches for Acting, Musical Theatre, and Technical Theatre. Their experience is shared through a video presentation, filmed and edited by those who attended.

This Ideafest presentation aims to argue that our society might be studying drugs wrong. I will explore this topic using a problem/solution model. The problem is that drugs are stigmatized, causing a reluctance to talk openly about their role within society. I suggest the validation of drugs through pragmatic discussions within all appropriate avenues of study. Gary Laderman and Michael Pollan prove ideal examples of this solution. Quotes from Laderman highlight the integration of drugs in religion courses and academia at large. Michael Pollan is another example, and exploring his work presents another case of the topic of drugs being discussed in academic and such public settings.

The Humboldt Botanical Garden, located in southern Eureka, is where the Lost Coast Brewery Native Plant Garden thrives. Our project for The Humboldt Botanical Garden will focus on the described main role of botanical gardens. Given The Humboldt Botanical Garden is focusing on exhibiting endemic species to the Northern California region, we would like to emphasize its role as a place for understanding plants and recognizing the species diversity in the region. One of the ways to make it possible is to expand access to the botanical garden. Through making a trail map that displays whole paths in the garden, people will gain another way to navigate the garden.

Muscular imbalances are common in mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters and can decrease performance and increase injuries. This study aims to investigate the effects of fixing muscular imbalances of MMA fighters. The experiment will consist of 20 MMA fighters assigned to either an intervention group or control group. The intervention group will receive an 8-week program targeting their muscular imbalances. Pre- and post-intervention measures will be assessed. This research highlights the importance of addressing muscular imbalances in MMA fighters to improve their overall performance and reduce the risk of injury.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the therapeutic potential of exercise as an adjunctive treatment for substance use disorder, with the focus on three target problematic areas, in chronic use and relapse. 1. Regulation of the stress response or the HPA axis. 2. Promotion of neuroplasticity through BDNF expression. 3. Activation of natural dopamine reward pathways. This research will evaluate exercise's efficacy in building stress resilience, facilitating neural repair, and satisfying altered reward circuitry - thereby reducing susceptibility to relapse triggers. Potentially legitimizing its use as a low-cost, sustainable adjunct to current rehabilitation strategies.

This study aimed to understand the factors influencing extended periods of inactivity in barred owls. We analyzed environmental factors, such as temperature and seasonal variations, along with individual characteristics like sex, to better understand their activity patterns. The findings could aid in developing more effective management strategies for barred owls through targeted removal programs, ultimately improving conservation efforts for the threatened northern spotted owl.

Samsung smart tags are used as a tool for tracking the location of mule deer and assessing their use in different environments with levels of urbanisation.

Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana) and California black oak (Q. kelloggii) woodlands are unique ecosystems, yet little is known about their tree establishment patterns, nor the variability of stand structure. Research objectives were: to describe age, stand structure, and tree regeneration in 4 mixed oak-conifer woodlands in northwestern California. Most white and black oaks established from 1850-1910 with rare establishment since 1950 (< 0.05%). Most Douglas-fir trees established since ~ 1950. All sites had high proportions of oak seedling mortality in open stands. These trends likely reflect the effects of altered disturbance regimes enabling the transition to conifer-dominant stands.

The objective of our project is the prediction of the electric power usage in Humboldt County in 2017. Load is the amount of power that is being drawn from the electrical grid due to consumer, industrial, and governmental practices. Forecasting load is used to predict future electrical power that is required to meet the short term or long term demand. We have created a linear regression analysis with a moving window to predict energy use for the next hour. Our work is a mathematical model that uses past data to achieve an efficient strategy for forecasting electricity loads.

PG 1126-041 is a closeby luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a low redshift that displays complex and variable UV and X-ray absorption, which identifies winds expelled from the black hole environment. The data in this paper, collected by the Hubble Space Telescope, was normalized by polynomial fits applied using our own developed Python code. We analyzed the absorption by several ions (OVI, PV, NV, SiIV, CIV and the Lyman series) at 4 different epochs. Our goal is to study a potential correlation between the X-ray and UV absorption to understand their driving mechanism. Discoveries in this project will be compared to AGN much farther than the relatively close PG 1126-041.