Temperatures Impact on Insect Capture and Black Phoebe Foraging Activity

Alyssa Lomeli, Wildlife Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

This project is a study I conducted which will be portraying the data I have collected. The data and additional outside research was done to depict temperatures impact on Black phoebe foraging activity and insect capture within the city of Arcata.

Temporal changes in body conditions of wintering waterfowl in Humboldt Bay

Amir Malikyar, Wildlife Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Overwintering migratory birds may face increased competition for resources than in other seasons due to large influxes of birds arriving and inhabiting shared areas for similar amounts of time. These mechanisms may affect food availability, which in turn is implied to affect body energy reserves. We conducted a study to determine the temporal effects of body conditions of hunted waterfowl carcasses in Humboldt Bay, California, and test whether energy reserves as functions of body condition indices decrease over the winter season.

Temporal Habitat Usage of Columbian Black-tailed Deer Across Urban-wildland Interfaces in Arcata, California

Jaret Cross, Wildlife Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

In this study, we used motion-sensing camera traps to track deer’s habitat use in and out of urban areas, measuring key explanatory abiotic factors influencing their occurrence. The study took place in the public parks and community forest in Arcata, California.

Ten Plus

Other

This is a video showcase by students in ITS Media Production called "Ten Plus." Ten Plus means that more than one in ten students on the HSU campus has a disability and requires some form of accommodation. These videos aim to build awareness as to what is currently being done and what steps we need to take in order to create accessibility on this campus through the use of Universal Design, accessible documents and more. It includes interviews by faculty, students and staff who are familiar with these issues and work with them everyday. This project is funded through the GI 2025. Its purpose is to "remove obstacles and support innovation to increase student success in graduating on time!

Ten Tribes Partnership and the Colorado River Basin

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

My project will discuss the role and influence the Ten tribes Partnership plays in the Colorado River Basin's water management and policy and how it affects the communities of it's member tribes as well as their surrounding non-native communities.

Terror at Home: A 10 Minute Play Exploring History in an Intersectional Method

Starsong Brittain, Other Undergraduate Student

College of Professional Studies

The original 10 minute play was inspired by historical research on the early decades of the Soviet Union. Specifically the "Great Terror" of the 1930s. The play tells experience of real people but portrayed as a a nature documentary.

Testing Gravitational Interactions Below Fifty Microns

Alexandra Papesh, Physics & Astronomy Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Attempts to unify the Standard Model and General Relativity often include features that violate the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) and/or the gravitational Inverse-Square Law (ISL). To investigate this, researchers at Cal Poly Humboldt are conducting precision measurements of gravitational interactions below 50 microns. This project employs a torsion pendulum configured as a composition dipole with equal masses of titanium and aluminum. The twist angle and frequency of the pendulum is measured as an attractor mass in a parallel-plate configuration oscillates within submillimeter separations. *Supported by NSF grants PHY-1065697, PHY-1306783, PHY-1606988, PHY-1908502

Testing the Variable-Density Retention Silvicultural System as a Tool for Restoration of Conifer Dominance

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

After harvesting the merchantable conifers decades ago, many secondary forests in northern California regenerated naturally and are now fully stocked with low value hardwoods intermingled with conifers. Partial harvesting to reduce hardwood densities and release conifers is expected to enhance tree vigor and reduce risk of stand-replacing wildfire. Planting a new cohort of merchantable conifers in the understory would enhance structural complexity and future value. A flexible new forest restoration treatment called variable-density retention (VDR) was designed to achieve these objectives.

Text, Comment, Message: An Analysis of Support

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

While previous research has focused upon how anonymity provides space for aggressive gestures like "trolling," less work has been done on supportive social gestures characteristic of anonymity. From public restrooms to websites devoted to anonymous confession, anonymity can and does enable gestures of support. This research develops analysis of messaging from social media platforms, including Whisper and 4Chan, public commentary, and physical space graffiti to explore anonymous gestures of support. Our research aimed to contribute to work on authenticity, self-presentation, and social interaction by exploring ways in which "support" is offered and taken up within anonymous communities.

Textbook Production

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Kelley and Bri are helping professor Janelle Asdit with her textbook: "Critical Creative Writing: An Anthology of Craft-Criticism" published by Bloomsbury publications. They are in charge of writing chapter summaries.