Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Student Jasmine Shen Environmental Science & Management
ESM graduate student Jasmine Shen was awarded the COAST Graduate Student Research Award, which will help to fund her Masters research studying invertebrate drift on the Trinity River.
Faculty Buddhika Madurapperuma Environmental Science & Management
Won the second prize of "Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2019" in Remote Sensing. Prize will be a certification and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Remote Sensing
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards.pdf/0/pdf_16_2019_5_a…
Faculty Jeff Dunk and colleagues from other institutions Environmental Science & Management
Presentation at the Raptor Research Foundation meeting (Fort Collins, CO) - Modeling spatial variation in density of golden eagle nest sites in the western United States.
Faculty Jeff Dunk Environmental Science & Management
Published first authored paper (with 7 co-authors) - Modeling spatial variation in density of Golden Eagle nest sites in the Western United States. PLoS ONE. 14(9): e0223143. https://doi.org/10.1371/
journal.pone.0223143
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223143
Faculty Jeff Dunk Environmental Science & Management
Published first authored paper (with 17 co-authors) - Conservation Planning for Species Recovery under the Endangered Species Act: A Case Study with the Northern Spotted Owl. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210643. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210643
Student Sean Stewart (undergraduate) and Allison Nunes (graduate student) Environmental Science & Management
Sean and Allison each received travel awards from the Northern Califronia Botanists to attend the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Student Sean Stewart Environmental Science & Management
Presented a poster (with faculty Kerry Byrne) "The Impact of invasion and removal of Lupinus arboreus on seedbanks in coastal sand dune environments" at the Northern California Botanists Symposium in Chico, CA
Faculty Buddhika Madurapperuma Environmental Science & Management
Presented at SEUIARS2019 conference titled: Mapping and change detection of mangroves along the coastline of Ampara district from 2004 to 2019.
Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management
Awarded $112,000 by Trinity River Restoration Program in collaboration with the Yurok and Hoopa Tribes to conduct a pulse release study on benthic macroinvertebrate drift and a seasonal inundation study of invertebrate community development
Faculty Kerry Byrne Environmental Science & Management
Gave a public talk at the California Native Plant Society North Coast Chapter, "Astounding Astragalus in Humboldt County and Beyond"
Student Rosebelle Ines Environmental Science & Management
Received a travel award to present her research as a poster presentation at the 2020 Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM. Her poster title is "Effects of Beehive Ginger (Zingiber spectabile) on Leaf Litter Arthropods Across Forest Types at Las Cruces Biological Station, Costa Rica"
Faculty Natalie Arroyo Environmental Science & Management
Environmental Science & Management instructor and Eureka City Councilmember Natalie Arroyo will serve as a board member for the organization heading the Klamath River’s restoration, the governor’s office announced Friday.
Arroyo will be one of 15 board members serving the Klamath River Renewable Corporation, a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the removal of four Klamath dams. She is one of five board members appointed by the governor.
Student Rosebelle Ines Environmental Science & Management
Travel award recipient and research abstract accepted for presentation during the 2020 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, held in Washington, D.C., on February 6-8, 2020.
Faculty Steven Steinberg Environmental Science & Management
Dr. Steve Steinberg, Adjunct Professor of Geospatial Sciences and Geographic Information officer for the County of Los Angeles, will be presenting a keynote address at the Smarter Data Smarter World Conference to be held at the British Library in London, England on November 19th.
His talk, titled “Addressing Collaboration through Innovation and Automation” discusses how the County of Los Angeles is using GIS to modernize its countywide address management system to ensure accurate, effective GIS-based management of addresses across the 88 cities and unincorporated county in support of government services for the 10.1 million residents of the County.
Student Thomas Starkey-Owens Environmental Science & Management
ESM graduate student Thomas Starkey-Owens gave a presentation of his Masters research at the 2019 American Fisheries Society (AFS) meeting in Reno, Nevada entitled "Benthic macroinvertebrate communities and juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) diet on the Trinity River below Lewiston Dam."
Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management
ESM Professor Alison O'Dowd and co-authors published a paper entitled, "Interacting geomorphic and ecological response of step-pool streams after wildfire" in the Sept/Oct 2019 issue of the Geological Society of America (GSA) Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B35049.1
Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management
Alison O’Dowd was awarded a grant from the National Parks Service to fund a student internship program with Redwood National Park.
Faculty Alison O'Dowd Environmental Science & Management
Alison O'Dowd (ESM Professor) was awarded a research grant from the Trinity River Restoration Program to examine invertebrate drift as a food source for juvenile salmonids on the Trinity River. This project will be conducted with the Yurok Tribe and Hoopa Valley Tribe.
Faculty Jeffrey Dunk Environmental Science & Management
Jeff Dunk, Environmental Science and Management faculty member, along with seven collaborators, co-authored a paper entitled "Modeling spatial variation in density of Golden Eagle nest sites in the Western United States" in PLoSONE.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223143
Faculty Kevin R Fingerman Environmental Science & Management
Kevin Fingerman was invited by the California Council on Science and Technology to participate in an Expert Briefing on "Beneficial Uses of Biomass from Wildfire Management Activities in California." Dr. Fingerman joined a 5-person panel at the State Capitol building on September 19th to brief legislative and agency staff members on this issue with cross-cutting implications for California's for climate, ecological, public health, and economic goals.
https://ccst.us/ccst-to-host-expert-briefing-on-the-beneficial-uses-of-…
