Society’s Way of Making Women Fade

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The Giving Tree is a children’s story where a personified tree gives away pieces of herself to a boy whom she loves. She gives him her apples and branches as a means of further his prosperity, never taking into account her own happiness. In this project, I analyze it as a reflection of society’s view of women’s bodies. The tree in the story needs to be seen as their own character; she is a woman is a state of suffering and abuse.

Sociology Students of Higher Education

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

I'm conducting research for Mary Virnoche. The research has mostly been reviewing qualitative literature on peer mentoring, mentoring, retention rates, and approaches institutions of higher education take in order to have high retention rates among Sociology majors. The focus of the study is directly on Sociology but the literature reviewed is expansive. This project will show the audience the problem(s) with low retention rates of SOC majors and will have the key findings in my review. The research project is still taking place so I'll have plenty of data and analysis of Mary's literature and research. I may add key findings that have helped with my existing research on higher education.

Soils and Climate Change

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

The pedosphere is an often overlooked resource already affected by and contributing to climate change. For example, soil stores a certain amount of carbon, and biological processes in soil emit the powerful greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). The amount of nutrients, microorganisms, and moisture that soils hold are all affected by atmospheric CO2 levels and surface temperatures. Soils are an extremely important part of the earth’s biosphere, and they can be managed more effectively to mitigate their effects to the climate and the changing climate’s effects on them. I will explore these impacts and relate them to primary productivity, food security, human health, and land desertification.

Solar + Battery

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Consumers have similar daily patterns of electricity usage, and this causes peaks in demand. Spikes in electricity demand are inefficient for electricity producers and unnecessary costs are passed on to electricity consumers. Localized solar and battery systems are one way to ‘spread out’ electricity demand and reduce the amount of electricity sent through the grid at a given time. We created a model that describes the reduction in consumer demand by implementing a solar energy generation and battery storage system. Our model predicts >75% decrease in oscillations, and >5% decrease in costs.

Somos Semillas-Ethnic Studies as Liberatory Joy in Rural California

Marisol O. Ruiz, Education Faculty

College of Professional Studies

This is a Collective Auto-Ethnographic Participatory Action Research that uses critical race-gendered epistemologies (Bernal Delgado, 2002, pp.109-110) as a theoretical framework to understand our Ethnic Studies work in schools. Teaching Ethnic Studies is a creation process where we are not only denouncing injustice, we are creating our own sovereign spaces of knowledge production through Courageous Cuentos and healing individually and collectively. Findings show that we experienced transformation as we co-create, define, collectively heal, and document what it means to be LatinE/ ChicanX social justice educator in rural Northern California through Courageous Cuentos.

Song dialect recognition in White-crowned Sparrows

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

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.

Sorrel Leaf Healing Center Mental Health 101 Training and Coping Skills Toolbox

Ashly Kloiber, Social Work Graduate Student

College of Professional Studies

This project consisted of two deliverables. The first is a digital Canva presentation that will educate Sorrel Leaf Healing Center non-clinical staff on the basic neuroscience behind trauma and how trauma connects to behavior and diagnosis, in addition to addressing cultural considerations and incorporating mental health first aid concepts. The second deliverable is a toolbox that provides coping skills interventions for staff to use with residents that assist with co-regulation.

Soulmates within Primates

Michael Szyndler, Anthropology Undergraduate Student

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This Poster is about the potential future research within the primatology field, specifically within the studies of pair bonding between Titi monkeys, Owl monkeys, and Gibbons. This project shows the conclusive evidence of pair bonding done already and what it entails and what the outcomes are. The project also includes information on these species as well as a breakdown of what pair bonding is and why it is important.

Spatial and Temporal Variations of Microplastics within Humboldt Bay

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

This study was conducted by the students of OCN496 in the fall of 2020. The goal of this study was to quantify the amount of microplastics in Humboldt Bay by observing its sediment and water column at specific locations during the tidal cycle. Additionally, we wanted to observe how tidal fluctuations impact the concentration and transport of microplastics in the water column.

Spectral Analysis of Currents in Humboldt Bay

Taylor Juchau, Oceanography Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

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).