Eureka Consumer Price Index

College of Professional Studies

Each year senior capstone students in the HSU Department of Economics provide an updated calculation of a consumer price index (CPI) for Eureka, CA, using Bureau of Economic Analysis methodology and extensive local price data collection. This year the project will also include extensive analysis of each CPI sector such as housing, food, and transportation.

Eureka Consumer Price Index (CPI)

College of Professional Studies

We will be presenting the Eureka CPI. A CPI (consumer price index) is a statistical overview of price fluctuation over the years caused by inflation and deflation in the economy. We track the economy on nine different sectors in Eureka CA by collecting data, analyzing the results, and presenting a model gauging those fluctuations in the county and how it compares to previous years. The sectors range from consumer products to occupational wages and everything in between.

Eureka CPI Project

College of Professional Studies

Calculated CPI for Eureka area using local prices and data.

Eureka High School Advance Via Individual Determination Program

College of Professional Studies

Asses Eureka Senior High School Advanced Via Individual Determination program by conducting a survey.

Eureka High School's Advance Via Individual Determination Program.

College of Professional Studies

I am working to create a survey to evaluate Eureka High School’s Advance Via Individual Determination (AVID) program. AVID is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the achievement gap by preparing underachieving and disadvantage students for college. In 2009, Eureka High School implemented AVID into their school curriculum to better prepare students for college.

Evaluating Adaptive Governance and Social-Ecological Restoration of the Klamath Dams on the Klamath River

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

This poster will examine the historical timeline of tribal water rights along the Klamath River, including the various relicensing agreements associated with the Klamath Dams. This poster will also focus on the window of opportunity that the relicensing of the hydroelectric dams by providing a framework to implement an adaptive governance approach by reconsidering socio-ecological values within the tribes along the Klamath River. This poster will also demonstrate the use of socio-spatial formations through indigenous led processes stemming from indigenous knowledge and traditional values.

Evaluating the Effects of Grazed and Ungrazed Habitat on Raptor Abundance

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

I examined the effects of ungrazed and grazed habitats on two raptor species, Northern Harriers and Red-tailed Hawks. The study evaluates how raptor abundance varies between the two habitat types, as well as, how factors such as rodent abundance and perch availability influence their distributions.

Evaluation of a Novel Cellulase to Optimize Biofuel Production

Amanda Ratcliff, Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

Cellulose waste is utilized for biofuels, however cellulase enzymes are a limiting factor. We sought to evaluate a novel cellulase identified in cow rumen metagenomic analysis provided by the Joint Genome Institute. We performed DNA analysis, SDS PAGE, and a cellulase activity assay to theoretically calculate and compare to experimental molecular weight; and determine cellulase activity. The theoretical molar mass (64.9 kD) strongly correlates to the experimental molar mass (60.7 kDa). Purified cellulase has an activity, 6.27 cm2/ug, 6x higher versus commercial cellulase enzyme. These results have positive implications for the creation of biofuels from agricultural waste products.

Evaluation of the behavior of yttrium and lanthanum in surface seawater

College of Natural Resources & Sciences

The biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the ocean, as the name implies, is a cycle that describes the complex interplay of a broad range of physical and chemical processes that govern the behavior of metals in the ocean. Input of trace metals into surface ocean water can come from any of several sources including anthropogenic input from the continental surface, airbound particles, or upwelling from the deep ocean, among others. Metal concentrations for yttrium and lanthanum were obtained from surface Pacific Ocean water and the data sets were interpreted to evaluate the behavior of each of the two metals in the context of this cycling.

Evaluation of the Scholars Without Borders’ (SWB) Undocumented Students Ally Training (USAT)

College of Professional Studies

As a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), HSU lacked a project which served its Undocumented. DACAmented and AB 540 students. Due to the need for staff, faculty and administrators to learn how to better serve this group of students, the student group Funding Resources and Empowerment through Education (F.R.E.E.) organized and advocated for many year to create a student support program. The result was the creation of the Undocumented Students Ally Training (USAT) in 2015 and Scholars Without Borders (SWB) in 2016. The purpose of the program evaluation of USAT was to measure the impact of the training on students, faculty and staff members who participated in the training.