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Measuring a Nations Fragility in Relation to Climate Change
- Jessica SolomonEnvironmental Science and ManagementUndergraduate Student
- Amanda DonaldsonGeologyUndergraduate Student
- Christina HerringMathematicsUndergraduate Student
Concluding the 21st century, changing atmospheric processes will alter regional resource availability increasing a nation’s fragility. To examine the interconnected nature among socioeconomic structures and ecosystem services, a model was developed that measures a nation’s fragility in six categories: political, economic, social, agriculture, water resources, and culture. The model was then applied to the 10th most fragile nation, The Republic of Iraq, and the 158th most fragile nation, The United States of America. The United States will too experience great changes in the environment, but accessibility to mitigate greatly reduces their progression to a fragile state in contrast to Iraq.
Media Coverage of the Klamath Dam Removal
Jessie Cretser-Hartenstein, Journalism & Mass Communication Faculty
- OdenTaylorJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
- JillianWellsJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
- EmmaWilsonJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
- GabrielZuckerJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
This study examines media representations of the removal of the Klamath Dam, a development in Northern California's Indigenous land restoration efforts. Recognizing the historical underrepresentation of Indigenous voices in mainstream media, this research analyzes local coverage of the Klamath dam removal project by Humboldt County's leading news organizations: North Coast Journal, Times-Standard, and Lost Coast Outpost.
Media Coverage of the Opioid Epidemic in Humboldt County
- Freddy BrewsterJournalism and Mass CommunicationsUndergraduate Student
- Amanda SchultzJournalism and Mass CommunicationsUndergraduate Student
- Tony WallinJournalism and Mass CommunicationsUndergraduate Student
- Michael WeberJournalism and Mass CommunicationsUndergraduate Student
- Alejandro ZepedaJournalism and Mass CommunicationsUndergraduate Student
- Jessie Cretser-HartensteinJournalism and Mass CommunicationsFaculty
This study focuses on media coverage of the opioid epidemic. We analyzed local media coverage from 2013-2018 in the Times-Standard, North Coast Journal, and Lost Coast Outpost. The study is inspired by cultivation theory, which indicates that prolonged exposure to mediated messages influence how people perceive reality. Results indicate that the majority of articles containing the term “heroin” are focused on crime rather than a health, legislation, community engagement, or other key factors that could potentially affect the future outcome of this epidemic.
Mediated Representations of Romance in Popular Culture
- Jessie Cretser-HartensteinJournalism & Mass CommunicationFaculty
- Whitney McCoyJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
- Brianne BeronillaJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
- Abraham NavarroJournalism & Mass CommunicationUndergraduate Student
The concept of romance is mass produced in American popular culture. Television audiences consume a myriad of mediated representations of courtships and relationships in fictional, and often unrealistic, tales of true love. Over the past 25 years, reality dating shows have blurred the line between fact & fiction, creating a new platform for delivering the mediated messages that shape the hearts and minds of viewers across the country. This study utilizes content analysis and survey research to examine portrayals of romance on reality TV.
Meds to Beds
- Katie OhlsenNursingUndergraduate Student
Hospital readmissions that occur within 30 days of discharge due to medication adherence are largely preventable. CMS, the largest insurance payer, does not cover hospital admissions that occur within 30 days of discharge. Our rural area lacks critical access to pharmacies. Frequent hospitalizations and medication non-adherence increase patient mortality and reduce the quality of life for the patients and their families. Providing patients with a 30-day supply of their medications prior to leaving the hospital, along with patient education and a nurse follow-up phone call 48 hours later, can reduce ER visits and 30-day hospital readmissions.
Meet and Eat
Julia Top, Social Work Graduate Student
College of Professional StudiesMeet and Eat was a project created to educate high school students from the grade tenth to twelfth. Workshops were created to educate students about what options they have post graduation. Examples consisted of helping students understand how to apply for FASFA, job resources available to students, and learning about resources on college campuses as well as learning about the benefits of a 2 year and 4 year college. This project took place in Del Norte County’s school District and was open to students within the McKinney Vento and Foster Youth program.
Mental Health - Medication Compliance in Corrections
Darin Straub, Nursing Undergraduate Student
College of Professional StudiesThe purpose of this project is to help increase inmate adherence to mental health medications during incarceration to decrease the duration of incarceration as well as decrease return incarcerations.
Mental Health Stigma and Help Seeking Among College Students
- Benjamin SkillmanPsychologyUndergraduate Student
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between mental health stigma and help-seeking intentions and behaviors at a rural university and explore differences in patterns of help seeking by race/ethnicity. We hypothesize higher levels of mental health stigma will be related to lower levels of help-seeking. Multiple regression will be used to examine predictors of mental health help-seeking. We found that higher levels of stigma lead to a lower likelihood to seek help.
Mesocarnivore Responses to Visual Lures In Freshwater, California
Adeline Tealle, Wildlife Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & SciencesThis study sought to understand the effects of a visual lure on mesocarnivores at camera trapping stations. By fashioning a lure from fur, feathers, and tinsel, I placed the lure in front of 5 randomized cameras along with 5 cameras with no lure. The cameras were placed along a 150 meter long transect on an active game trail in Freshwater, CA. 9 species of mesocarnivore were detected, and 5 species with larger sample sizes were included in analysis of interest towards the lure, time spent at camera stations, and relationships between species in response to the lure.
Mesocarnivore Temporal Niche Partitioning in Response to Anthropogenic Presence in Northern California
Anna Schwecke, Wildlife Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & SciencesThe study is aimed to determine (1) If mesocarnivores use temporal niche partitioning to reduce resource conflict, then interspecific species will have minimal activity overlap and (2) If anthropogenic presence alters temporal niche partitioning among mesocarnivores at my study site, then mesocarnivores will display circadian overlap where it typically does not occur.