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Theses/Projects from 2025

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From the ashes: lessons in community recovery from 2020 wildfires in Northern California and Southern Oregon, Catriona Grace Barr

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Jaguar (Panthera onca) population status and conservation needs in Panama revealed using spatial density and occupancy models., Rebeca E. Becdach

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The menstrual cycle, dual-hormone hypothesis, and competition: implications for athletic performance, Camille Burns

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An evaluation of fuel model accuracy and multi-scale mitigation strategies in the wildland-urban interface of southern Humboldt County, Julia I. Cavalli

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Post-prohibition changes in cannabis genetics, Caleb Y. Chen

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Physiological conditions of barn owl (Tyto furcata) nestlings as indicators of habitat quality within the wine-growing region of Napa Valley, Christian Cortez

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The impact of plant-based diets on erythrocyte function, oxidative stress, and vascular inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Walter G. Craig

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Resource guide to evidence based practices for children with autism spectrum disorder, Guadalupe Cruz

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North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) prey selection of wintering waterbirds in a wetland complex, Gina Yael Culver

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Assessment of the genetic population structure and extent of clonality in a rare serpentine endemic, Lathyrus biflorus T.W. Nelson & J.P. Nelson (Fabaceae), using ddRAD sequencing, Ashley Dickinson

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Grade-band instructional framework using art integration as a social emotional learning tool to increase accessibility and equity for all learners, Greta Dodson Turney

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An economic and production analysis of seaweed farms in California and the Pacific Northwest, Brian Donovan

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The masa that holds us: Indigenous epistemologies and the food we share, Necahual Gamboa

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An assessment of the California logging workforce, Kendra Jean Gerstenberg

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Can dyslexia diagnosis induce a stereotype threat effect? A literature review and research proposal, David H. Harris

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Groundwater pumping impacts on stream depletion in Humboldt County, Ca: integrating analytical models and field data, Andy Hans Heise

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Uncertainty reduction as an underlying motive for optimal distinctiveness, Chad Hinojosa

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"We'll never get this opportunity again": Lived experiences of platform-based gig workers, Catey Hoehn

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Who are we restoring Maunalua for? Place name resurgence and environmental restoration in Maunalua, O‘ahu, Cassidy J. Hollenbeck

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Investigating the refugial river mouth hypothesis: assessing the effects of low salinity conditions on the microscopic life stages of Nereocystis luetkeana, Duncan Jackson

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Factors influencing elk road crossing behavior, Brielle Christine Jaglowski

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Molecular and serological detection of Rickettsia species phylotype G022 and Rickettsia tillamookensis in small mammals and fleas in northwestern California, Oh Byung Kwon

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“We are the future of this community”: exploring belonging and rural healthcare practice intent in a high school medical sciences club, Sydney Ann Lyons

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Multi-grade classroom professional development and curated resources, Angie Marshall

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Benthic community structure changes in Northern California following a marine heatwave, Franklin D. Moitoza

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"Gen Z Climate Being": podcast series on youth, climate emotions, and affective climate justice, Rachel Wynne Moszkowicz

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Snag failure and fuel recovery following stand-replacing fire in the Klamath Mountains, Joseph R. Nicholas

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Empowering former Hispanic student-athletes to become leaders in college athletics: an identity-specific and assets-based leadership training program for career advancement, Raquel Orozco

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Our stories of coming home: project rebound student experiences at Cal Poly Humboldt and College of the Redwoods, Eddie Peña

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Home range, habitat Use, and fall migration of Lewis’s woodpeckers in the Eastern Cascade Range, Oregon, Cameron Piper

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Comparison of the division and fairness of household labor between the 1980s and early 2000s, Madeline Rose Provins

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Grieving in doorways: a critical autoethnographic exploration of embodied knowledge amid shifting reality and radical possibility, Holly Rae

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Campesino world-building: stories of migration, memory, and care in the tension of the colonial frame, Chelsea Ríos Gómez

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Place-based learning practices: a diptych case study of human and more-than-human relationality at the tribal and western academic institutional interface, Karley M. Rojas-Vienneau

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Social emotional learning: through a culturally relevant and spiritual lens, Albert Roman

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Exploring the influence of ethnic studies on Latinx students in rural Northern California, Georgina C. Salvarrey

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The social critic: challenging cultural norms through the adaptation and interpretation of Euripides' Medea, Samantha M. Sanchez

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Housing Cal Poly Humboldt students, Andrea Santamaria

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“Thanks for the [land] acknowledgement, now what?”: Settler histories and decolonial futures at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Schatz Tree Farm, Sangeeta Sarkar

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An exploratory attempt to incorporate social criteria into spent nuclear fuel site screening and relocation, Julie M. Sorfleet

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A review of contact dependent interactions among encrusting bryozoans, Sheena Emily Stephens-Norton

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Exploring coastal spaces of tribal sovereignty and self-determination in ancestral waters proposed for offshore wind development, Alyssa Suarez

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Twice-exceptionalism and the complexity of supporting students who are both gifted and disabled, River Johnathon Taylor

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All red inside: embodied metaphor in Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Ian Vargas

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First-year college transition: The role of psychosocial resources in student motivation, Hayley Weatherill

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The molecular and serological detection of Rickettsia species phylotype G022 and Rickettsia tillamookensis in the blood of domestic dogs in Northern California, Nicholas Woronchuk

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Investigating the role of motivation in open-label placebo responses, Joshua Worthington

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Patterns of tree damage and fuels around powerlines in Northern California, Zoe J. Ziegler

Theses/Projects from 2024

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Countering dominant narratives in community: The many voices in spoken word poetry, Natalie Raquel Acuña

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Assessing relocation habitats and assisted migration of the Lassics lupine, an endangered California serpentine-endemic, Caitlyn M. Allchin

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A case of incipient budding speciation in the California Floristic Province, infraspecific divergence in Abronia Villosa, Eli J. Allen

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Mouralherwaqh: Coastal wetland road crossing Da’luk, Filip Amborski

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Evolution of regulations impacting landowner decision making: A comparison of private forest policies in California and Oregon, Claire E. Anderson

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Studying redtail and silver surfperch in sandy beach surf zones with MPAs in Humboldt County, California, USA, Noah G. Angell

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Evaluating the utility of tracers to characterize environmental DNA transport and inform detection of fishes in small streams, Gavin B. Bandy

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The impact of a structured exercise program on the pre-established exercise goals for individuals with disabilities, Emily C. Batini

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Performance activism versus collective action, Grace Belt

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Assessing sustainability: Knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes before and after college, Seth Blair Comella Bradley

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Using environmental DNA methods for estimating juvenile Chinook salmon abundance, Jacqueline Marie Bridegum

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Climate change, policy paralysis, and a nuclear waste island? Exploring perceptions of risk, trust, and community agency in navigating uncertain futures facing Humboldt Bay's spent nuclear fuel storage site, Alexander Brown

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Examining the drivers of nocturnal behavior of pikas at lower elevations in Lassen National Forest, California, Evan Burnett

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Effects of habitat selection and individual quality on the reproductive success of barn owls (Tyto furcata), Jaime E. Carlino

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Post-fire persistance of Sequoia semperviens in a secondary forest: Examining drivers of basal resprouting response, Jackson T. Carrasco

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Two-dimensional hydrodynamic model comparison for fish habitat assessment in rivers, Tyler Caseltine

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Characterizing new plant fossils with woody growth from the Battery Point Formation of Quebec (Canada), Emma T. Casselman

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The effect of interval time on time to exhaustion during high intensity interval training running in recreational male runners, Abraham Castrejon

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How influential is petro-pedagogy on federal educational guidelines?, Cherrie Amor Chavez

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Drought's lingering shadow: Monitoring the recovery of sagebrush steppe plant communities after four years of experimental drought, Francisco Jesus Chavez

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Fueling identities: A study of ethnic and athletic identities on dietary choices, Tally Chavez

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Common raven resource selection, diet, and behavior around a threatened shorebird, Janelle Chojnacki

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Fire severity mediates marten and fisher occurrence: Impacts of the Dixie Fire on a carnivore community, Christopher James Collier

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Environmental implications of modern food production: An analysis for the conscious consumer, Jessica T. Coming

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Movement-based interventions to support executive function and emotional regulation in autism through the potential molecular induction of neuroplasticity: a systematic review, Julie Dalmolen

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Breaking barriers: a resource guide for transitioning foster youth, Tylor Davis

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Bird predation on coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in Humboldt Bay, Colton J. Dixon

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Building detailed and accurate whole-plant concepts: A morphometrics-informed reconstruction of a zosterophyll from the lower Devonian of Wyoming, Samar R. El-Abdallah

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Assessing community perspectives to inform kelp forest restoration and management: The case of Mendocino Coast, California, Jocelyn Enevoldsen

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Temperature driven variability in bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) early life stages: a comparative study of California populations, Marzia Fattori

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Longevity of prescribed fire effectiveness in mixed-evergreen forests of the Klamath Mountains, Kaily M. Fineran

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The "upside-down" river: Trends in total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and microcystin concentration in the Klamath Basin, 2010-2021, Kayla M. Fitzpatrick

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Satellite-based phenology and climate anomaly analysis in evaluating the response of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands tropical forests to the 2015-2016 drought, Sean Fleming

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Exploring colorism in children’s literature: Sulwe and Black is Brown is Tan, Jasmine April Fortunato

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Agitprop: A deep dive into leftist affinity spaces, Brittany M. Fuher

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Composition, spatial co-occurrence, and temporal overlap of small mammal species at American pika (Ochotona princeps) activity centers, Tina Giudici

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Comparative morphology and ultrastructure of olfactory epithelia in plethodontid salamanders: Effect of life history variation, Emily Gremling

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Simulated effects of postpartum depression on maternal-infant bonding: Mediated by reward-related responses to infant facial cuteness, Caitlin Harp

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Black to the kitchen: A genealogical cookbook, Dillon Avery Harp

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Bridging cultural disconnects: implementing social and emotional learning through the use of action research and community responsive pedagogy through the art-making process, Rajeev Colleen Haymond

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Incorporating equity into sea-level rise planning: Perspectives from practitioners across California, Nayré Herrera

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"Kindness eases change / love quiets fear": Mapping change and movement in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Elizabeth Hershey

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Experience of early educators currently enrolled in the North Coast Teacher Induction Program: A case study, Melissa Hodgson

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Transitional course for incoming transfer students at Cal Poly Humboldt, Marissa Carla Holguin

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Pond characteristics that influence oviposition site selection by two pond-breeding amphibians, Northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora) and Northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile), Jessica Jones

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Evaluating the Trojan Y Chromosome Strategy for the removal of invasive Sacramento Pikeminnow from the Eel River, CA, Alexander W. Juan

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Interactions between New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) and toxic cyanoabacteria (anabaena) in Baduwa’t (Mad River), Humboldt County, California, Cecilia F. Kennelly

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Petrologic and geochemical constraints on the pre-eruptive storage conditions of magmas erupted during the ~12.5 ka flare up of Medicine Lake Volcano, CA, Regina M. Khoury

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The effects of scour and marginal inundation on Trinity River invertebrate biomass and density with potential implications for juvenile salmonid food resources, Benjamin King

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Accelerations and EMG differences between isocaloric high-incline walking and level grade jogging, Taj Krieger

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The persistent voice of the colonizer: troubling a mascot’s settler-colonial past, Linda J. Kuckuk

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Comparative analysis of ac coupled and dc coupled microgrids: analyzing electrical performances and economics, Sanjeev Kumar