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Presenters & Abstracts: 2019
Indigenous Health and Wellness
- Loowyza ColegroveBiologyUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Indigenous peoples have always had a balanced nutritional diet. In my poster, I want to dive into the connection between Diabetes and its connection to Indigenous people. Modern day foods are nothing comparable to the cultivated food and resources the indigenous people thrived on. I feel that because of this epidemic, Indigenous people are more susceptible to having diabetes through their bodies not recognizing “modern day food” as real food. Due to the high concentrations of sugar and fatty foods today, this has created a wave of health issues for Indigenous peoples. More simply, their bodies struggle to process the unnecessary garbage that we choose to put in our bodies daily.
Indigenous Holistic Practices
- Kamaya KillebrewBiologyUndergraduate Student
- Halijah EdisonBiologyUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
The goal of our research project is to inform our peers on the medicinal practices of tribes like the Cherokee, Creek, and Houma tribes used. We will provide some background information on these tribes and their regions they reside in. We will also discuss how they have used their developed practices to contribute to medicine today. We will then discuss what natural resources these tribes utilized to create these medications and conditions they may treat.
Indigenous People and Tiger Conservation
- Rainey StrippelhoffWildlifeUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
My poster will be an examination of current tiger conservation efforts and how indigenous people have contributed to the recent growth in tiger populations. Traditional beliefs surrounding tigers shape the perspectives of Indigenous tribes living alongside these powerful cats. Understanding the indigenous perspective of coexistence with tigers offers conservationists new insights for promoting tiger conservation elsewhere. The poster will outline where tigers fit into the attitudes and beliefs of indigenous people living alongside them, how it affects conservation efforts today, and why it is important.
Indigenous People the First Biologists: use of TEK in Sustaining the Wilderness
- Carlie SmithGeneral BiologyUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
A study on how using Traditional Ecological Knowledge can help sustain the wilderness and natural resources
Indigenous Peoples and Uses of Plants in Spirituality and Healing
- Max SchmidtbauerBotanyUndergraduate Student
- Sophia KittsBotanyUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Sophia and I will be creating our poster based around the ideas of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, as well as Indigenous plant-based medicines. We will take a look into how Indigenous peoples use plants to enrich their lives, heal, and further states of spirit and consciousness. The focus of the poster will be around common Indigenous plant-based medicines, some psychedelic allies, and we will finish it out by discussing how the gathering of these materials bring Indigenous peoples closer to their land.
INRSEP + Diversity in STEM
- Lonyx LandryINRSEPGraduate Student
- Dr. Nievita Bueno WattsINRSEPStaff
- Amanda StaackINRSEPStaff
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
HSU’s Indian Natural Resources, Science and Engineering Program (INRSEP) provides academic and research support services to historically underrepresented students in the Sciences, in order to support their academic success and degree completion, as well as connect them with the resources and opportunities to meet their career and graduate school goals.
Integrating 3D Visualizations and Geographical Data for Mayan Archaeological Mapping and Research
- Michael McDermottAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Jeremy McFarlandAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Philip PantagesAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Archaeologists have used GIS to analyze spatial patterns of ancient cultures, but integrating accurate 3D models of cultural features with GIS data is a new endeavor. This project provides a medium for spatial analysis that conserves the context of cultural features across the landscape, by combining 3D renditions with topographical LiDAR and spatial data collected by the HSU-Belize Archaeology Project in northwestern Belize. Using a variety of software, the authors modeled the field data into an interactive GIS mapping environment that integrates the multiple data formats into a working tool, allowing for accurate analysis of archaeology data in 3D or 2D layouts.
Intersections of Gender, Access, and Confidence in Women's Leadership
- Lauren WardleEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
This poster reflects my experiences in leadership positions within HSU campus organizing, and how those experiences intersect with questions of gender, power, access, and confidence. Although we might hope that leadership is open to all folks, this isn’t always true in the workplace. It was through my own journey of self-reflection, research and, trial and error to foster my own confidence and leadership skills, that I found myself asking how gender and power reinsert themselves in such contexts. My poster provides ideas for how we can foster these skills for other women in similar and differing situations.
Investigating the Genetic Diversity of Immune Genes in Non-Native Populations of American Bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus)
- Luisa SegoviaBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Karen Kiemnec-TyburczyBiological SciencesFaculty
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
The American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) is a highly invasive species that has successfully colonized different habitats around the world. Our project’s objective is to isolate and characterize the genetic diversity of a rapidly evolving immune gene in an invasive bullfrog population in California’s Sutter National Wildlife Refuge. The level of genetic variability in a population may help determine how resistant a population is pathogens and how persistent an invasive population may be over time. We compared the genetic diversity within this population to that found in other frog populations, including both native and non-native populations.
Investigating the Timing of Seed Maturation Inside Conifer Cones
- Madeleine LopezBiologyUndergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & Sciences
Evidence of high density non-serotinous recruitment post-fire questions if seed dispersal from a live tree is solely responsible. Studies suggest that seed maturation occurs before the cone scales reflex, and it’s possible that cone scales act as a protective barrier during fire, such that mature seeds are protected and remain germinable. If cone scales adequately protect seeds, then an aerial seed source post-fire is available for recruitment, relative to seed maturation and time of fire. This research aims to determine the timing of Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia seed maturation within a coniferous cone and its relationship to degree days.