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Articles from 2025
Rhetoric and Gender Equality in Emma Watson's HeForShe Speech, Alexa Ancheta
Kendrick Lamar and the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Neo-Aristotelian Analysis, Nova Ashby
From Likes to Legislation: How the Internet has facilitated hate speech, Anti-DEI discourse and policy, and threatens our democracy, Carmen Lynn Benavides-Garb
A Moonshot in an Uncertain Time, Griffin Thomas Brown
California Dreamin’: Industrialization, The Progressive Movement, and the Americanization of the Russian Molokans, Ryan Cutillo
Becoming Reacquainted: Baseline Habitat Assessment of Streams on Returned Tribal Lands of Blue Lake Rancheria, California, Haley Davis, Sophia Enriquez, Cecilia Olnes, and Grace Poitras
Assessing Wood Jam Formation in the South Fork Elk River in Headwaters Forest Reserve, California (Year 2), Blaine Follrath, Nico Hutton, Diego Rodriguez, and Torrey Stapp
Analysis of President Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech, Arlonna Hadley
Restoring Riparian Health and Cultural Resources Along School Creek, A Baduwa’t Tributary, at Blue Lake Rancheria, Humboldt County, CA, Karlie G. Hall, Fern W. McBride, Natalie R. Christenson, Olivia C. Brock, and Emily A. King
Ecological assessment and restoration strategy for the Riparian Wetlands of Woody Ryno Farms, Bee Krstich, Ethan Michael Gilmore, Kai Jeremy Hensley, Nicolas Augusto Yanez, and Vanessa Luis
Investigating woody vegetation recruitment post Riparian enhancement extraction along the Baduwa't, Rize Martins de Oliveira, Wiley Hughes, and Owen Lenox
Assessing Understory Along the Elk River (Hikshari') in Headwaters Forest Reserve, Humboldt County, California, Julie R. Meyers, Aliyah M. Ingram, Caleb N. Larkin, and Joshua L. Carpenter
Sexualized Violence and Community Complicity in Rural Settings, Alex Neel
Is mortality of a common shrub a heritable trait? An experimental evaluation of senescence using the coast willow, Salix hookeriana., Maylin A. On, RJ Polyack, Sarah Galloway, and Erik Jules
Six Rivers National Forest hazardous fuels and fire management project 2025 Orleans Complex fire effects from 9/13/25 - 9/14/25, James L. Parr, Nosheen Maung, Darby J. Lewis, Javier E. Margarito, and Giancarlo Golloti
Assessing the Potential for Bigleaf Maple Syrup Production in Humboldt County, CA, David A. Reinhart, Juan A. Ramos-Cool, and Liam H. Richardson
Impact of an herbicide treatment in an annual grass invaded sagebrush steppe, Jordan Dino Santia
Accelerated Aging System For Pinniped Tags, Sean Shermer, Nathan Vasquez, and Deekshitha Garige
A Rhetorical analysis of Allyson Felix’s commencement speech at USC in 2022., Silvia Solares
The Horrors of History: Gender, Folklore, and Puritanism in Robert Eggers’ The Witch, Trinity Stuckey
Restoration Plan for a Seasonal Wetland in Fortuna, CA, Samuel Webb, Jack McCann, Cody Swabash, and Bryan Randolph
President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, Is Hindsight 20/20?, Max Seldon Winslow
Capstones from 2024
Intercultural and International Communication in the Surrogacy Industry, Jessica Baker
Riparian Revegetation: Re-Indigenizing the Powers Creek Tributary of the Baduwa’t Watershed at Blue Lake Rancheria, California, Genesis Beltran, Ruben Lopez, and Ben Stock
Assessing Wood Jam Formation in the South Fork Elk River in Headwaters Forest Reserve, California, Grant D. Bruchacek, Mark W. Buckton, Gus R. Figueroa, and Kevin J. Hill
The Online Education Landscape, Digital Tools, and COVID-19, Rosetta S. Burk
Eco-Cultural Restoration of Mouralherwaqh: Site Description and Invasive Species Treatment Plan in King Salmon, California, Natalie Bridget Calderon, Myion Rickey, King Baptista, Owen Bardsley, and Jillian Snowhook
Ecocultural Monitoring and Erosion Mitigation in Powers Creek, a Baduwa’t Tributary, in Blue Lake, California, Sebastian Castillo, Lillyauna Perry, Daniel Price, and Lokey Struve
Pulling Back the Redwood Curtain: The Chinese Experience in Humboldt in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Christopher J. Chu
Rending the Social Fabric: Vigilante Strikebreaking in 1930s California, Abigail Ivie Claybrook
Determining the Quality and Quantity of California Sitka Spruce (Picea Sitchensis) on Private Commercial Timberland for Use in Domestic Acoustic Steel-String Guitars, Ryan Eugene Cooper
Rhetoric on Climate Change and the Effects on Public Perceptions, Hailey Mina Rose Dossey
Amplifying Awareness: Narrative Rationality in the Discourse of Childhood Cancer, Rosalinda L. Frick
Gentrification: Colonialism In Plain Sight?, Isaiah Henderson
A Symbolic Interactionism’s Perspective of the Attack on the U.S. Capitol., Odeli Hernandez
Finding Joy and Community in Climate Action, Deanna Kellom
Mapping Kinnikinnick and Assessing Habitat Factors for Brown Elfin Butterfly at the North Ma-le’l Dunes, California, Harper Lacey, Elizabeth McGuire, Sienna Tubridy, and Mark McKenna
The Impact of Communication through Community and Public Radio, Matthew D. Mazzucco
Baduwa’t Estuary Riparian Restoration & Revegetation Plan, Brandon Patino, Blake Kennedy, and Xitlalli Rodriguez
Assessing understory vegetation response and fuel load levels following silvicultural treatments in Headwaters Forest Reserve, Humboldt County, California, Kyle James Railton and Madison Tatar
Table Top Roleplaying & Communication: Rituals, Rhetoric & Reclamation, Logan Cyrus Sayles
Implications of using eDNA as a monitoring tool in the Elk River estuary, Trinity Brooke Spencer, Christy Elaine Wheatley, and Fernando Edgar Martinez
Influence of Elevation on Plant Survivorship in Baduwa’t Estuary, Richard Louis Toledo Jr., Celine Aguilera, Rivé Prater, and Claire Durbin
Capstones from 2023
Comparing Fish Species Assemblage Between Impacted and Restored Estuarine Salt Marshes within the Eel River Estuary, Humboldt Co. CA, Adam Aguilar, Isaac Basham-Clair, Tristan F. Parkinson, and Larkin C. Wells
Coastal Prairie Enhancement Recommendations for the Baduwa’t Estuary Overlook, Kelly Corcoran, Gabe Acosta, and Parker Bacon
Prevalence of Hesperevax sparsiflora var. brevifolia (short-leaved evax) at Ocean Ranch, Humboldt County, California: exploring the effects of disturbance, Shelby DiQuirco, Matthew Estrada, Alana T. Fraley, and Alexander D. Smith
The Power of Supercomputing Applied to Fractal Image Generation, Charlin ME Duff
Cultural and Ecological Restoration of School Creek at Blue Lake Rancheria, Humboldt County, CA, Cecilia C. French, Michelle Mendoza, Roots Galindo, and August O'Neil
Analysis of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Response to Restoration Flows and Scour in the Trinity River, Northern California, Sarah Gutierrez and Julie Avina
Evaluating benthic macroinvertebrate populations in response to scouring events in the Trinity River, CA, Liam Hay, Michael W. O'Neil, and Chloe Pieper-Wasem
Sampling Lepidopter Moth Diversity across Different Treatment Plots at the Ocean Ranch Unit in the Eel River Wildlife Area, Humboldt County, California, Cory M. Kragness, Madison S. Montiel, Victoria C. Budke, and Ryanne N. Chapman
Belowground plant communities: seed bank dynamics and relationship to aboveground vegetation in grazing allotment of Klamath County, Oregon, Dellaina C. Morse and Scott M. Estepa
Measuring new growth of kinnikinnick and brown elfin butterfly abundance at the Ma-le’l & Lanphere Dunes: implications for the management of the seaside hoary elfin butterfly, Aidan Jack Murphy, Verenice Elizabeth Sanchez, Leila M. Rahimi, and Magdalena A. Villasenor
Treatment Plan and Educational Guide for Removing Invasive Barnyard Grass, Canada Thistle, and Cocklebur within the Baduwa't (Mad River) Estuary, Ashley S. Turner and Alex D. Lallman
Publications from 2022
Dissecting Ideologies Embedded in Ford Advertisement, Sidney Rain Shabnam Afsarzadeh
Continuing the conversation "The opportunity of adversity": a Neo-Aristotelian rhetorical analysis, Megan R. Ancheta
Molding Malleable Minds, One Poem at a Time, Rebecca C. Bendzick
The Paiute, Water Wars, and a Covered Up Agricultural Revolution, Nicholas Anthony Chambers
I’m Not a Tragedy: Speaking Up About Ableist Microaggressions, Kasandra Marguerite Colwell
The Power of a Podcast, Breanna Donlon
The Misrepresentation of Women in the Media and Women’s Rights, Hannah M. Endicott
The Impacts of Gender Discrimination in the Military: A Review, Cassidy Gordon
A History Cannabis as a Cultural Communication Artifact, Morgan L. Harper
A Critical Analysis of Mobile Interpersonal Relationships through Uncertainty Reduction Theory, Rachael L. Kee
Rhetorical Analysis of Choosing to go to the Moon "and do the Other Things", Skyler M. Kona
Children’s Film Media’s Influence on Gender, Race, and Identity, Sara M. Kovis
Healthy Environmental Communication Practices, Michelle Monique Magana
Interpersonal Communication From Student to Host Family, Tajma R. Magee
Challenges Faced by Recently Emancipated Youth, Williams Peña and Jerry Walter Butkiewicz III
Freedom of Movement: The Development and Disappearance of the Corset in Succession with Women's Agency, 1860-1920, Sarah J. Phelps
How Biden wants us to think about Ukraine’s conflict, Rainer Shea
Non-Verbal Communication, Anxiety, Behavioral Changes within Covid Regulatory Changes, Sydney Stack and Olivia McCracken
Data Capitalism, Digital Health, and Marxism, Samantha C. Stanger
Ripe for Consumption: Separating Women from Autonomy, Nicole Kasandra Stibbard
Capstones from 2021
Effects of Beaver Dam Analogs on stream channel complexity and overbank flow recurrence on McGarvey Creek (Del Norte County, CA), Johanna Anderson and Andreas Khechfe
Assessment of Tree Attributes and Understory Vegetation Composition Six Years Post-thinning in Redwood National Park (Northern CA, USA), Valerie Andrews, Michelle Vongsa, and Stacy Giraldo
Invasive Species Removal Management Plan for the invasive species Ammophila arenaria and Carpobrotus edulis within the Samoa Dunes and Wetlands Conservation Area, Rachel J. Denoncourt, Christopher A. Jamison, and Kyra D. Skylark
Supporting Military Women and Families Through Policy, Cassidy Gordon and Cassidy Gordon
Publications from 2020
Shifting A Culture, Ardeshir J. Arjomand
Representation in Animation, Michelle L. Benoit
Mapping Ghost Towns in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Sarah Christine Brewer
Pink Is The New Tax, Eliana Burns
Jacoby Creek Site Inventory Assessment and Management Recommendations for Parcel 502-052-022, Sean M. Dent, Aida Tavakoli Ardakani, and Mia C. Arnold
Academy of the Redwoods, Kasey J. Detrick
Trinidad State Beach Habitat Restoration Plan, Veronica Leah Farber, Marina Chow, and Claudia Rodriguez
Transgender Research Part A and B, Conor Jesse Finnegan
Patrick’s Point State Park Habitat Restoration Plan, Christopher M. Glavan, Marina De Paul, and Katie Moore
Habitat Assessment of Suitable Areas for Three Rare Plant Species (Layia carnosa, Erysimum menziesii, and Gilia millefoliata) in the Barr Parcel on Friends of the Dunes Property, Sophia Grubb, Almond Dodge, and Jeremy Cashen
Steller's Jay Territories in Arcata, CA, Jessica E. Guenther
Group Involvement: Cohesion & Tensions through Collaboration, Edwin Hernandez
Habitat Monitoring for Salmonid Health at Headwaters Forest Reserve in Humboldt County, California, Allison Michelle Hutton, Jared Buller, and Lauren Ayala
Drought Effects on Germination Rate of Two Sagebrush Species, Artemisia cana and Artemisia arbusula, and Comparison of Seed Counts using a Photography App and Weighing, Sam S. Kelly and Cessair E. McKinney
Comparison of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Composition and Concentration in Marginally- Versus Perennially-Inundated Sites on the Trinity River, Tate E. Libunao, Chris Cervi, Colton Trent, and Lesli Mounivong
Bisexuality, Intersectionality, and the Bechdel Test in Jane the Virgin, Catherine E. Mallory Ms.
Stereotyping Gender Roles: Children's Commercial Advertisement, Lucky J. McClelland
Countercultural Representation, Ethan A. McGriff
HSU Communicative Practices: Administration Must Include the Student Voice, Q Medina
True North Organizing Network, Evan R. Morden
North Korea vs United States of America Relations, Michael PItts