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Mapping Marijuana Cultivation Sites and Water Storage in the Redwood Creek Watershed, Southern Humboldt County
- Cristina BaussGeographyUndergraduate Student
Impending regulation of California’s medical-marijuana industry demands a quantifiable understanding of the extent of cultivation on private lands long devoted to commercial-scale marijuana growing. This research aimed to quantify marijuana cultivation and water storage in the Redwood Creek watershed of southern Humboldt County, where critical changes have taken place since the advent of the back-to-the-land movement in the late 1960s. A GIS-based spatial analysis, following a visual search using Google Earth imagery, yielded 303 greenhouses, 100 outdoor cultivation scenes, 164 water tanks, and 51 installed ponds on assessor’s parcels located within or partly within the watershed.
Mapping Our Way to Zero Waste
- Liam HazeltonEnvironmental Studies, Geospatial AnalysisUndergraduate Student
A Zero Waste perspective is supportive of reducing plastic consumption. Zero Waste Humboldt cooperated with six local governments and three schools with sponsorship from Coast Central Credit Union, Strong Foundation, and Mad River Rotary Club. They obtained a startup grant from the Footprint Foundation to implement the process of installing water bottle refilling stations to support the local communities and reduce the amount of single use plastic. They needed several maps in different mediums showing the locations where they have installed the water bottle refilling stations. I supported their efforts by making a web based map and a printed map for their public outreach.
Mapping Species Ranges in the California Floristic Province
- Alex RumbelBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Cameron JonesBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Dr. Oscar VargasBiological SciencesFaculty
- Ava GuillenBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Brittany LongBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- George SabbaghBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Luis Angel GonzalezBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Stephanie SandovalBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Tristan RoachBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Victor Garcia BalderasBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
- Zoe DraheimBiological SciencesUndergraduate Student
The California Floristic Province (CFP) is a global hot-spot of biodiversity. Creating a database of plant distributions for the CFP is pivotal to define species’s conservation status. Students associated with the Herbarium used R to create precise polygons for the range of 62 species in the CFP. We accessed publicly occurrence repositories for our target species and used a protocol to remove outliers. Using these cleaned coordinates, we created polygons of the ranges and inferred the area in square kilometers. This information was used to create a preliminary histogram for CFP plant distribution, highlighting a high percentage of plant taxa with ranges smaller than Humboldt county.
Mapping the Ancient Maya ‘Landscape’: A GIS approach to identify undocumented archaeological structures in Northwestern Belize
- Jeremy McFarlandAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
This project presents a unique approach to mapping the Maya landscape of Northwestern Belize. The basis of the research will explore various GIS and cartographic techniques to manipulate and visualize geospatial data to map and produce a model to assist with predictive site survey of archaeological structures. As a result of this research, various images of relief visualization will be produced to help with pre-field planning for the summer 2018 field season. This project is part of the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project (DH2GC) led by Dr. Marisol Cortes-Rincon at Humboldt State University.
Mapping the Cellular Origins of Atherosclerotic Plaque
Hannah Cornwell, Biological Sciences Undergraduate Student
College of Natural Resources & SciencesAtherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease causing plaque formation in arteries, leading to morbidity and mortality. Smooth muscle cells may contribute to plaque formation, but the exact origin remains unknown. Researchers can analyze smooth muscle cell function using histology, spatial transcriptomic analysis, and CODEX protein visualization. Using lineage tracing models with Rainbow mouse reporter lines, they can study cell fate and phenotypic shifts, identifying possible targets for disease tracking and modification to improve disease progression.
Mapping the Northcoast Environmental Center Adopt-A-Beach Program "Clean Beaches, Clean Water"
- Emmaline TrockeyInternshipUndergraduate Student
For my internship I have been working with the Northcoast Environmental Center to use geospatial analysis and cartography to map their Adopt-A-Beach program. For my poster I would like to display the process and final outcome of the work I have been doing.
Mapping the Sierra Nevada
- Mary Beth CunhaGeographyFaculty
- Tyler YoungGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Patrick WoodGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Henry WhippsGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Whitney NewcombENVSUndergraduate Student
- Monica Moreno-EspinozaGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Solveig MitchellGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Isabella KnoriGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Brady GoodwinENVSUndergraduate Student
- Kim DenizENVSUndergraduate Student
- Nathaniel DouglassGeographyUndergraduate Student
- John DellysseENVSUndergraduate Student
- Kelly BessemGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Selene CastilloWildlifeUndergraduate Student
- Jacob HowardGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Michael McDermottGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Mariah LomeliGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Sara PhippsForestryUndergraduate Student
- Kassandra RodriguezGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Ryan SalasForestryUndergraduate Student
- Cristina BaussGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Harrison BrooksGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Daniel CooperGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Joben PenuliarGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Aleck TanAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Aaron TaverasEnvironment and Natural ResourcesGraduate Student
Mapping the Sierra Nevada HSU advanced geospatial students map a variety of topics to accompany text in a forthcoming book about Environmental Issues in the Sierra Nevada.
Mapping Tibet
- Patrick WoodGeographyUndergraduate Student
- Nathaniel DouglassGeographyUndergraduate Student
This project aims to show two different styles of Cartography to represent the same geographic area, Tibet. The first map is paper map, a mapping project of Tibet and of Tibetan toponyms. The paper map focuses on the region rather than the geopolitics of the region and displays toponyms that reflect Tibetan culture. The second map uses a web based interactive platform to display the various routes that HSU students have taken between 2000 and 2014, while conducting research in Tibet. The web map hopes to consolidate the previous field studies conducted, into an interactive database for future research to reference.
Marijuana Cultivation on the Yurok Reservation
- Nicole PetersNative American StudiesUndergraduate Student
This poster will look at the history of illegal cannabis cultivation within the Yurok Reservation boundaries. This poster will include the impacts to the tribal communities and their dependence on the water resources used in maintaining cannabis farming, the impact on natural and cultural resources and the current tribal stance on cannabis cultivation.
Market Match: North Coast Growers Assocation
Robhn Stallman, College Corp Undergraduate Student
- FionaConnorsCollege CorpUndergraduate Student
The market match program allows EBT/SNAP cardholders to use their benefits at local farmers market with an extra incentive. Through the market match incentive, customers will receive an additional $15 to spend at local farmers markets. The North Coast Growers Association is determined to building more sustainable food systems and robust communities. Help save this essential program and help our community.