Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Student Gabriel Goff Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Selected to represent HSU at the CSU Research Competition with his investigation of conifer encroachment in northern California oak woodlands
Faculty Erin Kelly & Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Principal Investigators for Save the Redwoods League's Redwoods Rising Apprenticeship Program ($174,430).
Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Received an RSCA Award to purchase a cavitation chamber for measuring tree drought resistance
Student Susan Edinger Marshall, Joseph Seney (lecturer), Students: Nic Anderson, Tiffany Perez, Miles Ritch, Alexandra Urban, Daniel Guzman, Monica Pina Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
HSU participated for the first time in the Collegiate Soil Contest hosted by CalPoly SLO. Overall the HSU Team placed 19th out of 26 teams nationwide, but ranked #1 among teams from the 11 western states; higher than Land Grant Institutions such as Colorado State, Utah State, and University of Wyoming.
Faculty Jeffrey Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Became a member of the Northwest Scientific Association's Board of Directors
Student Caroline Martorano, Jeffrey Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Presented a paper entitled "Long-term effectiveness of fuel reduction treatments in oak and chaparral stands of northern California" at the 90th annual conference of the Northwest Scientific Association in Lewisonton, ID.
Faculty Jeffrey Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Presented a paper entitled "Effectiveness and impacts of girdling treatments in a conifer-encroached Oregon white oak woodland" at the 90th annual conference of the Northwest Scientific Association in Lewisonton, ID.
Faculty Lucy Kerhoulas, Allyson Carroll, Jim Campbell-Spickler Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Professor Lucy Kerhoulas and Research Associates Allyson Carroll and Jim Campbell-Spickler are featured in a five-year exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences called "Giants of Land and Sea." The exhibit features their research on redwood trees. Read more about it here: https://www.kqed.org/science/1926434/the-giants-of-california-how-redwoods-and-whales-got-so-big
Faculty Jeffrey Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Jeff Kane was invited to give a seminar entitled "Litter flammability of North American trees: Ecological insights and management implications" as part of the forestry seminar series at Purdue University on January 29th, 2019.
Faculty Jeff Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Dr. Jeff Kane was invited to give a talk entitled "Ecological insights of litter flammability traits in southeastern US tree species" as part of the Carlton N. Owens lecture series at Mississippi State University.
Faculty Buddhika Madurappeuma Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Peer-reviewed article published in Remote Sensing Journal (IF 3.41). "Remote Sensing Approach to Detect Burn Severity Risk Zones in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica"
Student Monica Pina, Miles Ritch, Nic Anderson, Tiffany Perez, and Daniel Guzman. Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
"HSU Collegiate Soil Contest team placed 2nd in group judging (where all were in one pit) and 3rd in team judging (top four contestants overall).
The contest was held near CalPoly San Luis Obispo on Nov. 3. CalPoly SLO will host the national soil collegiate contest in April. HSU's team looks forward to competing in this national competition where 20 plus teams from across the United States will compete. The team improved from its first attempt at soil judging last year where it received two third place awards. Cal Poly leads the pack (and actually has the world's best soil judger on its team), but HSU outperformed Fresno State this year in the group event and was ahead of CSU Chico overall.
Student Angelo DiMario, Jeff Kane, Erik Jules Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Forestry student, Angelo DiMario (2018) lead authored an article in the journal Northwest Science from research conducted while he was an undergraduate student. This research characterized fuel loading around large sugar pine in the Klamath Mountains and was supported by the Research, Creative Activies, and Scholarship fund. Faculty members Jeff Kane (Forestry) and Erik Jules (Biology) were co-authors on the paper.
Student Angelo DiMario, Jeffrey Kane, Erik Jules Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Angelo DiMario (2017) published a paper in Northwest Science from work he conducted as an undergraduate student that characterized fuel build-up around large sugar pines in the Klamath Mountains.
Faculty Susan Edinger Marshall Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Named "Range Manager of the Year" by the California-Pacific Section of the Society for Range Management. Awarded during HSU's 50th Anniversar Celebration. Class of 1968 Alum William Lauenroth (currently at Yale University) attended the celebration as a special speaker.
Student Jeffrey Kane, Alexis Bernal Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Forestry Graduate Student, Alexis Bernal submitted a grant proposal to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and was awarded a research grant of $24,460 for studying the effect of variable density thinning and burning treatments on the spatial patterns of drought-related tree mortality.
Faculty Michael Vernon, Rosemary Sherriff, Jeff Kane Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Alum Michael Vernon (MS 2017) with Rosemary Sherriff (Geography), Jeff Kane (Forestry), and Phil van Mantgem (USGS) published a paper titled "Thinning, tree-growth, and resistance to multi-year drought in a mixed-conifer forest of northern California" in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.043
Student Forestry and Wildland Resources Students Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Congratulations to our 2018 scholarship recipients in the Forestry and Wildland Resources Department! At the annual awards banquet, over $55,000 in scholarships were distributed thanks to the generosity of alumni and other donors. A new scholarship was created by the family of Allan Eugene Nilson, who taught for 14 years in the HSU Forestry department. The Nilson scholarship will support high-achieving students with financial need.
Special congratulations to Kristy DeYoung, recipient of the Professional Promise Award, and Mike Padilla, recipient of the Academic Excellence Award. Also congratulations to Dr. Kevin Boston, recipient of the student-selected Outstanding Faculty Member Award.
Faculty Pascal Berrill, Christa Dagley, Alex Gorman, Chelsea Obeidy, Holly Powell, Joey Wright Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Four FWR & ESM undergraduate students (Forestry: Alex Gorman & Joey Wright; ESM: Chelsea Obeidy & Holly Powell) coauthored a peer-reviewed journal article with forestry faculty Pascal Berrill & Christa Dagley on field research at HSU's L.W. Schatz Tree Farm: "Variable-density Retention Promotes Spatial Heterogeneity and Structural Complexity in a Douglas-fir/Tanoak Stand" published in Current Trends in Forest Research.
Faculty Pascal Berrill, Christa Dagley & Yoon Kim Forestry, Fire, & Rangeland Management
Yoon Kim (Mathematics), Christa Dagley & Pascal Berrill (Forestry) coauthored a peer-reviewed article in the journal Restoration Ecology: "Restoration thinning enhances growth and diversity in mixed redwood/Douglas-fir stands in northern California, USA."
