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Wildlife-vehicle Collisions on Highway 299 East
Marco Blancas, Wildlife Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & SciencesSenior project about wildlife-vehicle collisions on Highway 299 East. I hypothesized that more lanes and lower elevations have more roadkill.
Within the Inundation Zone: Spatial Analysis of Cultural Resources Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise and Tsunami Impacts in Humboldt Bay, Northern California
- Thomas Julian RossAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
The threat of sea level rise and tsunamis make the future of the Humboldt Bay in Northern California an uncertain situation. Modifications to the landscape of the bay have made many cultural resources more vulnerable to climate change and hazard events, based on their location, due to crumbling infrastructure that is likely to fail in holding back the tide. Protection of these resources can be expanded once an inventory of vulnerable resources is collected. Data has been collected from projections of future coastal inundation and from inventories of cultural resources.
Wolves and Native Americans
- Sarah YatskoWildlife BiologyUndergraduate Student
My research will be about wolves and their relationship with Native Americans. Lots of Native American tribes that lived in the Great Plains admired wolves because they taught the Native Americans how to hunt. These include Cheyenne, Lakota, Blackfoot, Assiniboine, Arikara, Arapaho, Osage, Shoshone, and Pawnee. It will also be about what the wolf was regarded as in terms of spiritual ties with the Native Americans and wolves.
Women are disproportionately impacted by food insecurity: How activists are connecting to local food systems
Allison Hair, Anthropology Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesFood insecurity is not being able to have access to fresh, nutritious food and the ability to have stable access to food. Millions of people suffer from food insecurity in the United States alone. This project describes how women are specifically vulnerable to being food insecure and the different factors that have led to this.
Women in Prisons and Jails
- Jazmin DelgadoPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Rosio CejaBusiness MajorUndergraduate Student
- Jeremy TietzPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Andrea GerardenNursing, International StudiesUndergraduate Student
- Kory LambertsEnvironmental Studies, Scientific DivingUndergraduate Student
This presentation was made and presented by the members of the Formerly Incarcerated Students Club. This presentation discusses the overlooked oppression that women in prisons face. Presented are the rising rates of women in jails, reasons for these numbers, how the incarceration of women affects families, birth in prisons, sexual assault in prisons, and Trans rights when it comes to incarceration.
Women of the Water Humboldt Community
- Reagan HesterRecreation AdministrationUndergraduate Student
- Hannah GarnerRecreation AdministraionUndergraduate Student
The purpose of this project is to bring together the women in our community who are either already in love with the water or who wish to create a deeper connection with it in one way or another. We aim to create a supportive and inspiring group of females who can encourage each other to not only surf, scuba dive, kayak, swim, sup, and spend time at the beach, but also to take care of our natural coastline!
Women's Intrasexual Competitiveness Tracks Changes in Their Testosterone Levels
- Hannah FergusonPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Karina GigearPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Ben Jones
- Lisa DeBruine
- Amanda HahnPsychologyFaculty
To investigate the role of hormones in female intrasexual competition, we carried out a longitudinal study of changes in intrasexual competitiveness (Study 1) and assessed intrasexual competition in women using various forms of hormonal contraceptives (Study 2). Study 1: Multilevel modeling of the data revealed a significant, positive within-subject effect of testosterone on intrasexual competition, indicating that women reported greater intrasexual competitiveness when testosterone was high. Study 2: No significant differences were observed for reported intrasexual competition among women using combined oral contraceptives versus women using progesterone-only contraceptives.
Worldviews and Ideologies of Humboldt County
- Michael HowellReligious StudiesUndergraduate Student
Mapping the worldviews and ideologies of Humboldt County
You are not losing your mind. You are losing your estrogen.
Caroline Murphy, Nursing Undergraduate Student
College of Professional StudiesMenopause is a physical, psychosocial, and cultural transition as diverse and complicated as humans themselves. Every person with ovaries who lives long enough will experience the fluctuation and decline of sex hormones, and about 80% will have symptoms likely to start earlier and be wider-ranging than expected. In this proposed project at a rural health clinic, annual screening will be offered to patients aged 35-55 years. Patient replies will result in offering resources, registered nurse consults and classes, and focused provider visits. Directly addressing perimenopause allows for anticipatory guidance and shared decision-making to improve quality of life in middle-age and beyond.
Youth Developmental Program: Captain John High School in Hoopa, CA
Rosa Granados, Social Work Graduate Student
College of Professional StudiesWe are supporting the Youth Developmental Program research and outcomes at Captain John Continue High School in Hoopa. Two Feathers provides and funded these Native American Family Services located all over Humboldt County schools and systems utilizing tribal best practices as their main guidance to a balanced community. This program runs work pods, weaving circles, drumming circles, and LGBTQ+2Spirits talking circles. They advocate and collaborate with all Two Feathers clinicians, school administrators, school counselors, programs, and resources that provide share career & college opportunities, cultural interventions, and lastly expand the connection to nature and community. For the youth!