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Novice Cyclists Using Shorter Crank Lengths Produced Greater Power at Same V̇O2
- Jessie ArmendarizKinesiologyGraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
Compared to trained runners, novice runners employ lower stride frequencies and shorter stride lengths as they run at lower speeds vs trained runners. Novice cyclists may benefit from a similar paradigm, utilizing shorter crank lengths as an analog to the lower stride frequencies and shorter stride lengths used by novice runners. The purpose was to determine the impact of short crank arms on novice cyclist’s performance and comfort during a bout of moderate intensity cycling. Data analysis and conclusion will be included on poster.
Oh my God. I am the highest I have ever been: User Experiences with Cannabis Edibles
- Josh MeiselSociologyFaculty
- Grecia AlfaroSociologyUndergraduate Student
- Marco ChavezSociologyUndergraduate Student
- Rosa CuevasSociologyUndergraduate Student
- Jay SchoenfieldSociologyUndergraduate Student
- Jessica SmithSociologyGraduate Student
- Torisha StoneSociologyGraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Cannabis legalization in the U.S. is associated with greater usage, new cultivation methods, increased THC potency, and new modes of ingestion. Inconsistent edibles labeling and dosage control resulted in a spike in cannabis edible related emergency room admissions. This study examined negative user experiences with edibles. We conducted in-depth interviews with a nonrandom sample of 45 medical and recreational cannabis users in California and Colorado. We asked interviewees about their prior use, negative edible experience, and short and long-term responses to their bad edible experience. We coded interviews for the sources and behavioral implications of negative edible experiences.
On to the Future! for Renewable Energy in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas
- Amanda HemingwayMathematicsUndergraduate Student
- Briana RamirezMathematicsUndergraduate Student
- Jaime SanchezMathematicsUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
The data analysis MCM problem asked us to create energy profiles and to understand trends and important variables in order to make future goals for the states Arizona, California, Texas, and New Mexico. We made statistical models for each state to understand trends, as well as to help in the predictions for energy usage in 1925 and 1950. A ranking of each profile was instituted based on an analysis of the given data. Using both the models and the profiles, goals were set for all the states to make together in an Energy Compact to increase renewable energy production and consumption. This was all compiled into a memo for the state's governors.
Outcomes of a Disconnected Society: Tough on Discipline and the School to Prison Pipeline
- Grecia Alfaro- RuizSociologyUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
In this study a triangulation of teacher testimonies and school policies is used to address how systemic inequalities are maintained through institutional rules and individual understandings and how teachers understand their role in a system that unjustly criminalizes students of color. With a grounded theory approach, four main themes were identified: 1) causes of disproportionate discipline according to educators; 2) “tough on discipline”; 3)policing, surveillance, and intolerance of student misbehavior; 4) bureaucratization of school discipline. Possible solutions are discussed and other avenues for future research are addressed.
Parents Before Prisoners: Maintaining Connection Throughout Separation
- HALEY HOBLITTSocial WorkGraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
The complexity of the Child Welfare System has left Humboldt County Correctional Facility (HCCF) incarcerated parents voicing their confusion of the system specifically regarding how to reach case plan objectives in an institution that offers limited family reunification services. The collective project, Parents Before Prisoners: Maintaining Connection Throughout Separation, aimed to address this matter by creating a resource guide for HCCF parents, that not only explains the child welfare system, but also contains a curriculum that can be used to reach case plan objectives.
Pathways to Healing: A Cultural Identity Development Curriculum
- Shaylynne MastenSocial WorkGraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
With the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria’s Ts’ Denoni Youth Program, I developed a curriculum that covers cultural teachings such as ceremony protocol, regalia, Tribal histories, gender roles, etc. This curriculum focuses on the following: (1) for youth and their families to familiarize themselves with the local Tribal histories, ceremony protocol, regalia, basketry, etc., (2) to help Native youth and families become more comfortable in their own cultural knowledge and identity, and (3) provide a foundation of local cultural knowledge that our youth and families can pass down to the next generation, to help create a cycle of healing.
Planet Rocket Collaboration Station
- Adam HayesCommunicationsUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
A collaborative experience where our team will interact with Ideafest participants and help them develop strategies to take their research to the next level. Our creative project is an online platform called Planet Rocket that will help spark community change by allowing users to crowd fund the talent and resources to make their projects a reality. We will give a live demonstration of how Planet Rocket works and recruit participants to list their projects on our platform so that they can take their research and create positive change in the local community.
Police Officer Identification and Leadership Prototypicality
- Berkeley KijsriopasPsychologyGraduate Student
- Alexandra CruzPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Haley CarterPsychologyUndergraduate Student
- Dr. Amber GaffneyPsychologyFaculty
College of Professional Studies
Survey data was collected from the CSU system’s 21 campuses’ police officers in June of 2017. We will be examining the extent to which officers’ perceptions of their leader's representativeness predicts their support for the leader, trust for the leader and the leader’s effectiveness, and how these relationships are affected by officer uncertainty.
Political Anatomy of a Farmers' Market: Food Justice, Cultural Politics and Waste Management on the Plaza
- Samantha StoneEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
My research examines the North Coast Growers Association's food access, cultural inclusion and waste management initiatives through a critical environmental justice lens. It highlights the efforts of Farmers' Market Incentive Programs such as SNAP, WIC and Market-Match in addressing food insecurity and attracting low-income and student participation to markets. I discuss the geography of waste management as it pertains to the 'zero waste' initiatives of NCGA, and touch on the general tendencies of California farmers' markets to construct themselves as 'white spaces.' My research offers several strategies to disrupt whiteness and the 'white farm imaginary' in these spaces.
Post-fire seedling recruitment in the 2008 Siskiyou complex fire
- Buddhika MadurapperumaForestry and Wildland Resources/ Environmental Science and ManagementFaculty
- David GreeneForestry and Wildland ResourcesFaculty
- Michael PerezForestry (Wildland Fire Management)Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
The spate of recent high intensity (stand-replacing) fires in California has led some to wonder whether our tree species are adapted to such large burns. Many assume that regeneration will typically be so poor that many of these burns will be dominated by shrubs and herbs instead of forests. This study examines seedling recruitment of conifers as a function of distance across a 1 km-wide burn near Hoopa. Six transects, each 50 m x 4 m, were spaced along the 1 km transects, and seedlings and burnt cones were counted. Douglas-fir and white fir averaged 2903 ha-1 and 1996 ha-1 seedlings, respectively, and 75% of the km had >490 recruits/ha (the minimal acceptable density in California).