Achievements

Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.

Student Sophia Lemmo Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Sophia Lemmo (Forestry graduate student advised by Lucy Kerhoulas and Rosemary Sherriff) gave an invited talk about the post-drought demographics of select true fir species in northern California at the Annual Meeting of the California Pest Council.

Submitted: September 23, 2021

Faculty William Weinberg, Jessica Suoja, Lucy Kerhoulas, Ryan Maberry, Dave Baston, Susan Marshall Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

William Weinberg (Forestry & Rangeland Resources undergraduate), Jessica Suoja (Forestry & Rangeland Resources undergraduate), Lucy Kerhoulas (Forestry & Rangeland Resources), Ryan Maberry (Forestry & Rangeland Resources undergraduate), Chris Lee (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection), Dave Baston (HSU Core Lab), and Susan Marshall ((Forestry & Rangeland Resources) published a "research paper":https://hsu.link/ZcR, "Phytophthora ramorum foliar infection reduces leaf-level productivity in tanoak and California bay: A pilot study from Redwood National Park," in Madroño. This study was featured by the National Park Service as a "Science Story":https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/sos-diseased-trees.htm and will be presented as a talk at the Society of American Foresters National Convention in November, 2021.

Submitted: September 23, 2021

Student Sophia Lemmo Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Sophia Lemmo (MS student in Forestry) was awarded a $1500 scholarship from the North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society for her study of regional forest mortality and regeneration.

Submitted: September 9, 2021

Student Sophia Lemmo Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Sophia Lemmo (MS student in Forestry) was awarded a $1000 Northern California Botanists Research Scholarship for her study of regional forest mortality and regeneration.

Submitted: September 9, 2021

Student FWR Students Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Congratulations to our 2021 Forestry and Wildland Resources Department scholarship recipients! At the annual (Zoom) awards banquet, over $50,000 in scholarships were distributed thanks to the generosity of alumni and other donors.

A new scholarship for Soils and Botany students was created to honor Aidan Leaf Mullin, who planned to attend HSU in 2020 but passed away unexpectedly. The scholarship will support students who exemplify Aidan’s spirit and ideals.

Special congratulations to Department award winners: Cameron Miller (Professional Promise), Judson Fisher (Academic Excellence), Allyssa Glaser (Outstanding Range Student), and Dr. Aaron Hohl (Outstanding Faculty Member).

Submitted: April 27, 2021

Faculty Jeff Kane, Raul Ramirez-Barajas Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources) published an article entitled "Litter trait driven dampening of flammability following deciduous forest community shifts in eastern North America" in the journal of Forest Ecology and Management with undergraduate student Raul Barajas-Ramirez (Botany), Jesse Kreye (2008; Penn State University), and Morgan Varner (Tall Timbers Research Station).

Submitted: March 18, 2021

Student Caroline Martorano, Jeff Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Caroline Martorano (2020) published a paper entitled "Long-term fuel and understory vegetation response to fuel treatments in oak and chaparral stands of northern California" in the journal Applied Vegetation Science with Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources), Eamon Engber (2010; National Park Service) and Jen Gibson (National Park Service).

Submitted: March 18, 2021

Student Andrew Slack and Jeff Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Andrew Slack (2016) published a paper entitled "Large sugar pine mortality models informed by growth, defense, and competition in a fire-excluded forest of the central Sierra Nevada" in the journal Trees: Structure and Function with co-authors Jeff Kane (Forestry and Wildland Resources) and Eric Knapp (USDA Forest Service).

Submitted: March 18, 2021

Student Sophia Lemmo Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Sophia Lemmo (Forestry graduate student advised by Lucy Kerhoulas and Rosemary Sherriff) gave an invited talk about the post-drought demographics of select true fir species in northern California at the Annual Meeting of the California Pest Council.

Submitted: January 29, 2021

Student Sophia Lemmo Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Sophia Lemmo (Forestry graduate student advised by Lucy Kerhoulas and Rosemary Sherriff) was awarded a Student Fellowship of $10,800 from the CSU Agricultural Research Institute for her M.S. investigation of forest mortality and regeneration in northern California.

Submitted: January 29, 2021

Student Zachary Erickson, Kevin Boston, Pascal Berrill Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Zachary Erickson, Kevin Boston, Pascal Berrill (Forestry & Wildland Resources, CNRS) were awarded an Intertribal Timber Council, Native American Natural Resource Research Scholarship for Zachary's forestry MS thesis research into defining stewardship goals of native people, with case study example of the Wiyot tribe and HSU's Goukd'in (Jacoby Creek) Forest: “Identifying forest management objectives of the Wiyot”. $4,200.

Submitted: January 20, 2021

Faculty Susan Edinger Marshall Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

"Undergraduate Soil Science Training in the USA," was recently published in the Soil Science Society of America Journal. Co-author Susan Edinger Marshall discovered that Humboldt State University is among only four universities in California (and 15 in the eleven Western States) that offer sufficient coursework for graduates to qualify as federal Soil Scientists CSA (Crop Soil Agronomy) News featured this article in their December 2020 issue. Free access is available at: https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/saj2.20140

Submitted: December 17, 2020

Faculty Dr. Hunter Harrill Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Was featured in a two part podcast "Talking Timber" by the Pacific Logging Congress, about his experiences in the forest industry and teaching at Humboldt State University.

Part 1:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/381c8114/dr-hunt…

Part 2:
https://www.pacificloggingcongress.org/podcast/episode/34e7de73/dr-hunt…

Submitted: August 26, 2020

Faculty Dr. Hunter Harrill Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Gave an invited presentation to the U.S. Forest Service, Six River's National Forest, Forest Leadership Team (FLT) Meeting, on May 18th titled: "An Introduction to Tethered Harvesting Systems."

Submitted: May 26, 2020

Faculty Erin Kelly & student Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Published "Socioeconomic Benefits of a Restoration Economy in Mattole River Watershed, USA". Society and Natural Resources (currently online - issue forthcoming).

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2020.1718815

Submitted: March 5, 2020

Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas & Rosemary Sherriff Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Kerhoulas and Sherriff were awarded $75,000 from USDA McIntire-Stennis for their proposal "Tree mortality and regeneration across competitive and geographic gradients in Northern California."

Submitted: March 5, 2020

Student Daniel Jones Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Daniel Jones, an HSU Forestry major with a concentration in operations, won 1st place in the student web map/app contest at the California Geographic Information Systems (CalGIS) 2020, conference in Long Beach, California, on February 9-11th.
Daniel’s web map/app “ArcCollector Spillway Inspection Workflow for the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District” has been deployed for the use of the District since 2019. The use of this workflow has reduced the post-processing time of inspection/repair cataloging and reporting from 1 to 2 days down to an hour. The second iteration of his project is expected to bring inspection times down from approximately 2 minutes to about 2 – 30 seconds.

Submitted: March 2, 2020

Faculty Jeff Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Coauthored a paper in Nature Communications entitled "Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees"

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14300-5

Submitted: February 25, 2020

Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Presented an invited seminar at the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences in Davis, CA: "Crown-scale physiology and ecology of tall Sitka spruce."

Submitted: February 25, 2020

Student Ryan Maberry, Jessica Souja, William Weinberg, Lucy Kerhoulas, Christopher Lee, David Baston, and Susan Marshall Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management

Presented a poster at the Agricultural Research Institute Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA: "Ramorum leaf blight reduces leaf-level productivity in tanoak and California bay."

Submitted: February 25, 2020