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Dear Alumni, here is the second annual Forestry and Wildland Resources newsletter. There is much
to talk about—some of it bad I am afraid—so let’s get started.
We made an important curricular change during the year. Following the advice of our Forestry
Advisory Committee (led by Russ Forsberg and Andrea Tuttle), we switched the required math
component from calculus to statistics. The argument was that while it might be ideal to have both,
we are already up against the 120-unit limit imposed by Sacramento and thus must choose between
them. Crucially, the FAC felt that statistics was more important for the great majority of the career
paths that flow from a forestry degree.
Our new ASC, Alma Zechman, started in February. With 20 years experience, she quickly got the
hang of things, and already a few months later is a welcome fixture in the front office. This is not an
easy job; we are arguably the busiest department on campus. But Alma is smart, curious, affable, and
industrious, and we feel lucky to have someone with her talents in this position.
While enrollments in forestry at Cal Poly and Berkeley continue to decline, our numbers have sky-
rocketed. From 2010 to 2014, our annual intake of freshmen and transfers averaged about 50. The
numbers then began going up and, next August, we will be welcoming more than 100 new students!
Whether this a statistical blip or word has gotten out that there are lots of employment opportunities
for foresters is not at all clear. Certainly, recruiting efforts by this department or the university have
been minimal. In any case, while the sudden growth creates headaches as we scramble to offer extra
lab sections and find larger classrooms, this is a welcome type of problem to have, and one that is a
good thing for the forest sector of the economy.
Starting in August our incoming freshmen will be enrolled in a new initiative called the Klamath
Connection. The idea behind this endeavor is that the great majority of students here are far from
home and initially, in many cases, simply lonely, lacking any link to the area or to the other students.
As you have probably heard, first-year attrition of undergraduates in the California State University
system (and our department is no different) is very high. If this initiative staunches that loss even by
a few percentage points, it will be worthwhile. The Klamath Connection experience begins in the
week before classes start, with all the freshmen in the natural resource departments (Fisheries,
Wildlife, Environmental Science and Management, Forestry and Wildland Resources) mingling as
professors take them for walks in the forest, rangelands or seashore. Using the Klamath River
drainage as a unifying theme, students will collect and analyze data, and discuss their results. (There
is one afternoon in that first week where the forestry and range students will be off on their own,
and Humboldt Redwood Company has generously offered to lead them on a tour of their
Freshwater operations.) After this initial week, they are then block-enrolled into the same classes for
the fall. The expectation is that this experience will spawn friendships and, just as important, a sense
of place, a sense of belonging to this place: HSU and the landscape around us.
Now we turn to bad news. We lost three invaluable faculty this year: Han-Sup Han, Dan Opalach,
and Justin Kostick.
Dr. Han-sup Han, our splendid forest operations professor, was offered a position by Northern
Arizona that he could not refuse. They asked him to lead a new institute devoted to research on
forest biomass utilization (his specialty) with a multi-million dollar budget and a large staff. (He told
me on the phone a few weeks ago that he needed to make arrangements for a trip and for the first
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time in his life a staff member procured tickets, accommodation, etc. “I can get used to this,” he
said.) He is now positioned to take a leadership role at the international level in research on the uses
of harvest residue. While we will certainly miss him, students and colleagues wish him the best as he
takes this new path in his career. Luckily, we have Kevin Boston ably teaching Han’s operations
courses, and Jeff Kane has replaced him as director of the McIntire-Stennis program at HSU.
Dan Opalach retired from his day job (Green Diamond) and his night job (teaching mensuration for
us) and moved to Redding. He taught mensuration not for the money (peanuts compared to his
salary at Green Diamond) but strictly for the joy he found in teaching a subject he loves. He had a
wonderful natural ability to teach, combining theory with the practical experience of several decades
in the woods, all of it imbued with his infectious enthusiasm. Not surprisingly, he was immediately
hired by the forestry program at Shasta College in Redding. Many of those kids will transfer to HSU
after they finish their AA degree, and so in a sense he is still teaching for us.
A major transition in 17-18 occurred as our Logging Sports adviser Justin Kostick was transferred
by Green Diamond to Oregon at the start of the season. Justin did a great job and he will be missed.
His role was filled this year by our new adviser, Connor Goldstein, who, like Justin, is a forestry
alum (class of 2014) and Green Diamond employee.
Finally, we lost our ASC, Maurine Nicholson. (The ASC is the person who runs the front office.) As
their daughter went off to Indiana as a freshman, she and her husband decided it was time to move,
and they are now in Idaho. Maurine will be remembered by all of us. She was not merely good at her
job, she was able to play the role of surrogate ‘mom’ for the students, listening, counseling, and
encouraging them. Sometimes the faculty forget that our students are young adults who are still
uncertainly feeling their way forward; Maurine never forgot.
Following questionable financial management during the last decade, HSU finds itself—and during
an economic boom within the state—one of two campuses of the State University system to be
currently enduring a budgetary crisis. For many years the university ran a structural deficit,
borrowing from the Reserve Fund (in essence, a savings account) to balance the books. That Fund is
now about empty. Worse, enrollments at HSU (but not in FWR) have declined for two straight
years, thus reducing tuition fee receipts. One way to save money at a University is to run a few large
classes rather than several smaller ones, and though this reduces flexibility in scheduling classes for
students, it is the least painful approach. For 2019-20 our department met our required cuts by using
this method as well as by greatly reducing the number of science GE courses we offer for students
in other colleges. But for 2020-21 the Provost wants an equally large round of cuts. It is not clear
how we could do this: all the largest classrooms are now fully booked from 8 am to 5 pm and thus
we cannot adopt the approach we used for 19-20 of running large classes unless we place them at
night and on Saturdays. You may have heard that the Governor just granted more money to the
California State University system and some of that will trickle down to HSU. But this is unlikely to
make the second round of cuts less onerous because HSU presently receives too much money from
the CSU (i.e. we are funded at a rate determined prior to those recent enrollment declines), and so
the total amount we get is unlikely to change. In short, it looks like this next round of cuts remains
on the table. Stay tuned. . .
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Alumni activities for 2017-18 included the SCLC breakfast in Redding, the Loggers Ball in Arcata; a
bowling night in Eureka; and the Awards Banquet on campus. Please try to attend any of these
events you can. It is important for our undergraduates to interact with you; these are great
opportunities for you to offer career advice to the students.
For 2019-20 the students would like us to have the Loggers Ball to immediately follow the Awards
Banquet on the same evening. As one student put it: “The banquet ends at 9 pm just when we feel
like we are getting started.”
I am not sure how long this has been around—certainly it predates my arrival--but we have had a
board in the hallway of the Forestry Building festooned with the business cards of alumni. The
purpose was to give students an idea of the variety of careers that are out there. But there have been
no additions for a few years now. Please mail us a business card at Department of Forestry,
Humboldt State University, 1 Harpst St., Arcata, CA, 95521.
One last thing: if anyone is interested in serving on the HSU Forestry Alumni Board, please contact
Kevin Conway ([email protected]).
David Greene, Chair, FWR
Logging Sports Highlights of 2017-18 Season
Seniors: We say goodbye to our graduating seniors, plus Halloween pumpkin carving.
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Chris McMaster
Garret Godwin, Kylie Reich, Alex Luna
Bearclave 2017: The team took first place overall. Our team also produced this year’s Belle and Bull of the Woods.
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Brian Dunham (President) and Katelyn Suderman (VP)
At the fall football games, the team provides some sideline entertainment!
Mersadies Brown, Tess Palmer, Sierra Berry, Katelyn Suderman, Abi Price, Naya Wood
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Cal Conclave 2017, hosted by Cal Poly: We had a great competition!
Sean Ihle
SCLC: We took home first place at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference, and had a fantastic time putting on shows for the kids. We also learned so much from the professional demos. We also participated in the very well-attended HSU Alumni Breakfast in Redding, and we thank the alumni for the breakfast and the conversation!
SCLC Team
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Association of Western Forestry Clubs 2018, hosted at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo: We competed very well at AWFC. The team had a great time soaking up the SoCal sun, and represented our school admirably, taking home the Sportsmanship Award. Seniors Conrad Stielau and Sierra Berry represented HSU in the Stihl Collegiate Series and the Women’s Triple Event.
AWFC Team
For the 2018-2019 year, we welcome our new officer team. They are very excited to get started, and
to continue the hard work that this year’s team has put in. We have many returning seniors, as well
as lots of promising new recruits. This upcoming year is going to be full of great competitions, fun,
and memorable team building.
Range & Soils News - 2018 (update by Susan Edinger Marshall)
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Attendees at multi-university “Science in the Sagebrush Steppe” event (Burns, OR) visiting BLM Botanical Area near Selma, OR. From left: Tiffany Perez, Janette Palk, Tess Palmer, Sierra Berry, and Cecily Sanchez.
Save the Date!! –The 50th Anniversary of the Range Program at Humboldt State University will be celebrated October 12-14, 2018 on campus, concurrent with the Fall Cal-Pac SRM meetings. Our featured speaker will be Professor Bill Lauenroth, class of 1968, who is now associated with the Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. We hope to have a big turnout from all you HSU Range Alumni for this meeting and have arranged for great lodging rates at the Blue Lake Casino Hotel.
Check out a New Video at Rangeland Careers and Education Website – It features many HSU students on field trips during the 2017-2018 school year:
https://rangelandswest.org/careersandeducation/students-in-action
Range Plant ID Team, Soil Judging and Staff Changes - Our Range Plant ID team took 3rd place at the Society for Range Management Annual Meetings in Reno, NV! Antonio Narro (Mexico) and University of Alberta (Canada) took 1st and 2nd place. That makes our team #1 in the U.S. Many thanks to Todd Golder who continues to coach the team and Deedee Soto who led the team with her high scores placing her fifth in the individual ranking.
Three HSU students braved rain and hailstorms to attend our first Region 6 Collegiate Soil Judging contest in Butte County and placed third among four teams.
Jasmine Westbrook, our range lecturer, moved on to a position with the Solano Land Trust, closer
to her home ranch in Napa County. We were scheduled to obtain a tenure-track range faculty
position in 2018 but the former dean of the College of Natural Resources and Sciences had a sudden
and inexplicable change of mind and gave the position to another department.
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We are concerned about future field trip budgets and tenure track positions in our program. Our
program can easily meet 6 of 7 standards for SRM accreditation; the only one lacking is having three
Ph.D. level instructors in the Range curriculum. Our goal is to get the Range program SRM-
accredited within the next few years.
We always welcome feedback and support from our Range and Soils alumni. Please contact me
(Susan Marshall) directly or send posts and pictures to our Humboldt State University Range and
Soils Club Facebook page.
Enrollments and Graduates - Our program finished strong this year with 29 students enrolled in the Range option and 18 students in the Wildland Soils option. Final counts on graduates won't be available until late July, but we estimate that about 10 people graduated in 2017/2018.
Professional Meetings - . Fifteen students traveled to the Society for Range Management meetings in Reno, Nevada. We are generating fundraising ideas to get the Plant ID Team to Minneapolis next February 10-14 2019 for SRM. No students attended the Soil Science Society of America meetings in far-off Tampa, FL in 2017, but we are excited that the SSSA meetings will be held in San Diego in early January 2019, a location close enough that many of our students can attend.
Professional Exams - One former Ecological Restoration student, Ut Huynh (with a minor in Wildland Soils), passed the Fundamentals of Soil Science exam offered this spring.
Promotion: Pascal Berrill
In 2018 Dr. Pascal Berrill was promoted to full professor in the Forestry Department at Humboldt
State University. A native of New Zealand, Pascal studied forestry at UC Berkeley (something we
long ago forgave) where he met his future spouse (and future research colleague), Dr. Christa
Dagley. For the last 10 years he has taught silviculture and also teaches our forestry capstone and
forest restoration classes. Working closely with local companies and agencies, his research is focused
on almost every aspect of silviculture and restoration in coastal forests. He involves students at each
stage of the research, instilling an appreciation for the science that must inform forest management,
and he was voted teacher of the year in 2017. Over the school breaks, you will find him in the Sierra
doing research on post-fire oak restoration in the lower slopes or on aspen restoration at Lake
Tahoe. While his promotion was never in doubt—he is a tireless researcher and teacher—it is
nonetheless a welcome recognition by the University of his professional excellence.
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Dr. Berrill teaching students how to do quality control checks on tree planters at the Schatz Tree
Farm
Focus on research: Lucy Kerhoulas
Dr. Lucy Kerhoulas grew up in San Rafael, CA, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. She came to
Humboldt State University to study botany as an undergraduate student, finishing her degree in
2006. When expressing an interest in graduate school, her undergraduate advisor, Dr. Stephen Sillett,
said he’d take her on as a Master’s student to study redwood physiology and she jumped at the
opportunity. Beginning that first field day – it was pretty much love at first tree. After finishing this
MS degree in 2008, she moved to Flagstaff to get her PhD at Northern Arizona University studying
the influence of management on ponderosa pine water use and growth. For this doctoral work, she
received a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy, allowing her to remotely finish her
degree from a log cabin in Fairbanks Alaska. Here, she and her husband, Nick (an HSU Wildlife
alum), lived for nearly four years while he worked on his doctoral research studying hoary marmots.
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It was a rustic experience, with no running water, an outhouse, a sauna, a wood stove, a 12-cord
wood shed, 60F below winters, northern lights, and.... wifi! Here, with few distractions (such as
sunlight), Lucy wrote her dissertation, completing the degree in August 2013, just weeks before
having her first baby, a daughter named Penn (little sister Camille followed in 2016).
Following completion of her Ph.D., she worked for FWR as a lecturer. On the strength of that
performance as a teacher (voted Teacher of the Year by our students in 2014) and her stellar
research profile, she was hired to be our newest tenure-line professor in 2016. She presently teaches
our Dendrology and Silvics courses.
Her main research interests are in tree water use, forest restoration, and the diverse and complex
canopy ecology of old-growth forests. In the two years since she was hired, she has garnered
$542,179 ($161,589 as Principal Investigator) in research funds from entities as diverse as the
Agricultural Research Institute, Save the Redwoods League, McIntire-Stennis, and CAL FIRE.
One example of her research is a current project on epiphyte diversity in old growth Sitka spruce
trees on the North Coast. Epiphytes are plants such as lichens, mosses, and ferns that live on trees.
These communities are poorly understood — indeed, until people like Lucy and Steve Sillett started
climbing old growth trees, we did not know they existed — and we are only just now starting to
realize how diverse and complex they are. For example, on a single spruce she found 66 epiphytic
species! This inventory-based work in ancient tree crowns is very important to a broad spectrum of
organizations, as the first step to being able to conserve and manage something is to first know what
is there. Both Six Rivers National Forest and Save the Redwoods League have been very interested
in and supportive of this aspect of Dr. Kerhoulas’ research.
Another current research project involves the oak woodlands of northern California. Traditionally
this mix of oaks and grasses was impervious to conifer encroachment because of frequent surface
fires. But as fire suppression became more successful, much of this habitat in the state has been
slowly converted into conifer-dominated (mainly Douglas-fir) stands. Specifically, she is monitoring
oak water status and productivity to see how these metrics respond to experimental conifer removal.
This work is supported by the Agricultural Research Institute and McIntire-Stennis and aims to
improve oak woodland health and foster productive grasslands for cattle grazing.
A final example of Dr. Kerhoulas’ work is her investigation of conifer drought resistance in the
Sierra Nevada mountains, a project she is collaborating on with Dr. Harold Zald, another new
tenure track hire in our department. Given the dramatic fluctuations in annual precipitation in the
state and increasing temperatures, drought resistance is an issue of growing importance. Based at the
Teakettle Experimental Forest in the southern Sierras, Dr. Kerhoulas and Dr. Zald are using tree-
rings (proxy for tree growth) and stable isotopes (proxy for tree physiology) to understand the effect
of silvicultural prescriptions on the capacity of conifers to deal with drought stress. By investigating
both growth and physiology, this work will be highly informative to land managers such as CAL
FIRE about the efficacy of silviculture to increase forest drought resistance, an important deliverable
given the drought-induced tree mortality sweeping the state.
There has been an abiding tradition at HSU for faculty to focus our research on issues of immediate
concern to local companies and agencies rather than the “curiosity-driven” research more typical of
a forestry department such as at Berkeley or Oregon State. Researching regional topics of interest to
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local groups such as Green Diamond Resource Company, Humboldt Redwood Company, Six
Rivers National Forest, CAL FIRE, Redwood National and State Parks, and Save the Redwoods
League, Dr. Kerhoulas has happily embraced this tradition. We are lucky to have her here as one of
our newest professors.
Measuring Sitka spruce photosynthetic capacity with a LiCor-6400 (with 2-yr old daughter, Penn, lab
assistant; photo credit: Nick Kerhoulas).
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Climbing an ancient redwood tree for the California Academy of Sciences “Redwood Ascent”
exhibit (photo credit: Will Goldenberg).
Annual Awards Banquet
Our 20th Annual Awards Banquet was held on campus on April 10th. Several alumni were able to
attend. Altogether, students received that night almost $50,000 in scholarships; almost all of that
amount was provided by alumni. Below is a list of the winners for 2017-2018
Allan E. Nilson Scholarship Recipient
Suoja, Jessica $2,000 Dillard Bailey Graduate Scholarship Recipients
Bernal, Alexis $500
Faubion, Chris $500
Jones, Danielle $500
Sanchez Andre $500
Urias, Anna $500 Dillard Bailey Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients
Baldwin, Kirk Charles $1,000
Butler, Jesse $1,000
Chastain, Olivia $1,000
Cofresi, Joseph $1,000
Mann, Kyle $1,000
McGlynn, Arianna $1,000
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Smith, Colleen $500
Stoflet, Cameron $1,000 Ed & Joan Pierson Scholarship Recipients
Crandall, Brett $500
Goff, Gabriel $500
Forestry Pathfinders Scholarship Recipient
Erickson, Zachary $2,000 Gayleen Smith Scholarship Recipients
Levin, Jordyn $1,000
Ortiz, Kalie $ 1,000
Rocha, Zach $500 Helen Barnum Scholarship Recipients
Alderton, Melanie $600
Ollar, Griffin $600
Trozera, Jonathan $600 HSU Forestry Alumni Scholarship Recipients
Navares, Kawai $750
Rodriguez, Kayla $750
Suderman, Katelyn $750 Jerry Partain Scholarship Recipients
Dunham, Brian $1,000
Escamilla III, Domingo $750
Lamping, James $750 Louis H. Wayers Scholarship Recipients
Ackerman-Mero, Sophia $1,000
Blanchard, Chad $1,000
Felder, Scott $1,000
Goetz, Evan $1,000
Ordonez, Gabriel$ 1,000
Paredes, Elmer $1,000
Rodda, Joshua $1,000
Rolf, Hanah $1,000
Sewart, DaShayne $1,000
Vasale, Imri $1,000
Weinberg, William $1,000 Mark B Rhea Soils Scholarship Recipients
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Anderson, Nicolas $500
Berry, Sierra $1,000
Bueno-Strong, Aliah $500
Martin, Louise $750
Perez, Tiffany $1,000
Pinnegar, Darren $750 Robert Cary Scholarship Recipients
Carter, Cody $500
De Paul, Marina $750
Price, Brigitte $750
Sipola, Nathan $500
Soland, Kevin $500
Wood, Tenaya $500 James T Brown HAF Scholarship Recipients
Blanchard, Chad $700
Escamilla III, Domingo $1,000
Hammons, David $700 Ron Hoover HAF Scholarship Recipients
Felder, Scott $500 Charles G. & Helen Schober Forestry HAF Scholarship Recipients
Hammons, David $750
MacAdam, Samuel $750
Madrigal, Justina $750
McKeand, Taylor $750
Montes, Celina $1,000
Russelll, Sonnette $750
Stielau, Conrad $750 Non-Monetary Awards: Academic Excellence Award
Mike Padilla Professional Promise Award
Kristy DeYoung Professor of the Year Award
Kevin Boston Awards to our students from other sources this year included:
North Coast Chapter of Women in Timber
Colleen Smith
Sierra Berry
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Tess Palmer
Justina Madrigal Redwood Regional Logging Conference (RRLC: Emanuel Fritz Scholarship)
Domingo Escamilla
Grifin Ollar
Zach Rocha
Redwood Regional Logging Conference (RRLC: Recognition Scholarship)
Brian Dunham
Scott Felder
Kayla Rodriguez
Rustici Livestock and Rangeland Scholarship (offered through the California Farm Bureau Federation)
Sierra Berry
Julieta Castro
Thomas Mendoza
Tess Palmer
Kegan Richards
Bob Archibold (class of 1959) presenting the Pathfinders award to Zack Erickson.
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Sungnome Madrone is elected Supervisor
While faculty members in our department certainly have a wide range of hobbies and outside interests, Sungnome Madrone has taken this to an entirely new level. He ran for Fifth District Supervisor and in June 2018 he won! Campaigning on a platform that emphasized sustainable land use planning and sound fiscal management, he unseated a popular incumbent.
Sungnome is an HSU alum (class of 1975) with a Masters in Watershed Management (also from
HSU). He has won awards for his research and activism on stream restoration issues from the
Humboldt Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (1995), the Alliance of Sustainable Jobs and
the Environment (1995), and the Salmonid Restoration Federation (2016). He has repeatedly taught
our watershed management and introductory forestry seminar courses over a long career here. This
coming fall will mark the last time he teaches for us; in January he starts his new career. While
students and colleagues will miss him, his election is a great gain for Humboldt County. Good luck,
Sungnome.
Sungnome Madrone
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Erin Kelly in Japan
Dr. Erin Kelly was invited to give a keynote lecture at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan on
June 17 as part of an international forestry symposium. She was invited by Dr. Shingo Shibata,
the Dean of the Global Environmental Studies graduate program at the university. Erin spoke
about forestry projects under the California cap-and-trade market and whether these projects
achieved their environmental and social objectives. The lecture was simultaneously translated
into Japanese for the audience, which included approximately 450 students and forestry
professionals. After the symposium, Erin and the other speakers gathered with notable attendees,
including the Ambassador of Malawi to Japan, who is a forester. On June 18, Erin taught a
Global Environmental Studies graduate class at Sophia University. The class included students
from Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe – thankfully, she says, they all spoke English!
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Dr. Erin Kelly (left) and Dr. Shingo Shibata (right) address a class of Japanese graduate students.
Focus on a student: Conrad Stielau (class of 2019)
Like so many future foresters, I was raised in the woods. I was barefoot, climbing trees,
playing in the dirt, and getting poison oak on a weekly basis. So in a sense studying Forestry, and
pursuing a career in the forests and wildlands, was simply it seemed a way to continue my
adolescence. After high school I took a few years to find myself, spending winters as a ski bum in
the mountains of Utah, and summers traveling, exploring or working random seasonal positions as a
naturalist, camp counselor, trail crew leader etc. This was not wasted time. It was these seasonal “gap
years” that led to a maturing respect and fascination with forests. After deciding to return to
California, I attended a small community college and took as many lower division courses on natural
resources as they offered.
I first encountered Humboldt State Forestry back in the summer of 2014, simply passing
through on a road trip. I had no idea at the time how profoundly the place would affect me. There
was no sign on 101 indicating a major fork in the road. And yet I decided that summer day I would
transfer to HSU to pursue my passion, studying forestry in one of the most beautiful places in the
world. The trees, the weather, the coast, the people (or lack thereof), and the overall mentality and
joy of living in a majestically beautiful place while studying a subject about which I am passionate.
In my opinion, everything about the forestry program at Humboldt State is unique and
influential down to the smallest detail. The classes are fascinating and enjoyable, and taught by
professors who are as passionate as I am, and know me by name. Not to mention the great amount
of muddy and rainy outdoor lab time to get you real world experience and training. The campus is
gorgeous, and nothing settles the mind on a Monday morning like a quick jaunt through the
community forest to marvel at the giants all around. And the like-minded friends I’ve made within
the forestry department are friends for life, and I feel we’ll be learning and working together for
many years to come, even if from a distance as we head off into our careers.
I feel rather lucky to have had such an amazing college experience so far and am looking
forward to the rest of my time here in Humboldt. It’s not often a college student gets to study
exactly what they want and love, in a place they deem pretty close to perfect. And the experiences
I’ve had, friends I’ve made, and education I’ve enjoyed, mean that the decision I made as a young
adult, passing through Arcata four summers ago, is about the smartest and luckiest thing I have
done.
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George Pease (class of 1989)
Our stockroom manager “apprenticed” as a forestry student working in the stockroom in 1988. He
took over the job in spring 1993 and has been a well-liked fixture of the Department ever since.
Married for 28 years and with three grown children, George enjoys the constant contact with
undergraduates. Although his bark is far worse than his bite, luckily, our students do not realize this,
and so tools are always brought back from field excursions thoroughly cleaned. George has
maintained the system that Jerry Partain installed long ago with easy pick-up and return of the
equipment—using external lockers whose back door can be opened from inside the stockroom.
Indeed, when the accreditation renewal team of the Society of American Foresters came to HSU in
2015, they all agreed that the stockroom was a wonderful model for their own universities to follow
and intended to mimic his system when they returned home.
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George Pease
Teacher of the Year for 2017-18: Kevin Boston
Dr. Kevin Boston holds a BS in forestry from Humboldt State, and received his MF and PhD in Forest Engineering from Oregon State. Not content with that too-common level of ambition, he obtained in 2016 a law degree in environmental and commercial law from Lewis and Clark College in Portland. Still unsatisfied, he completed executive courses in strategy at the SaÏd School of Business at University of Oxford. (When asked, he said he considers that his schooling is now finished. . . maybe.) He has held commercial and academic appointments in the United States and New Zealand. He is both a registered professional forester in the state of California and licensed logging engineer in the state of Oregon. He has received the outstanding faculty award at three intuitions where he has worked: University of Canterbury, Oregon State University and now (most prestigious of all!) Humboldt State University where the students voted him teacher of the Year for
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2017-18. Kevin’s astonishing level of engagement as a professor can be characterized by a telling habit: he regularly eats his lunch among the students in the lounge area, offering career advice, helping with homework questions for courses he is not even teaching, and providing them with anecdotes drawn from his very busy career.
At the banquet in April, Dr. Kevin Boston receives the award from Dr. Erin Kelly and Alma Zechman.
Achievements by faculty during 2017-2018 Awards
Boston, Kevin. 2018. Outstanding Faculty of the Year in FWR. Kelly, Erin. Trione Graduate Scholarship Faculty Honoree. Madurapperuma, Buddhika. Faculty Recognition Awards: HSU Sustainable Learning for replacing
the textbook with OER selections. Teaching & Learning Innovation Showcase, April 26th, 2018.
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Refereed Publications
Akbulut, R., Bettinger, P., Ucar, Z., Obata, S., Boston, K. and Siry, J., 2017. Spatial forest plan development using heuristic processes seeded with a relaxed linear programming solution. Forest Science, 63(5), pp.518-528. Berrill, J-P.; Dagley, C.M.; Coppeto, S.A.; Gross, S.E. 2017. Curtailing succession: Removing
conifers enhances understory light and growth of young aspen in mixed stands around Lake Tahoe,
California and Nevada, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 400: 511-522.
Berrill, J-P.; O’Hara, K.L.; Headley, S. 2017. Predicting Redwood Productivity using Biophysical
Data, Spatial Statistics and Site Quality Indices. Pp. 39-46 in: Standiford, R.B.; Valachovic, Y., tech
cords. 2017. Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future direction.
USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Berrill, J-P.; Libby, W.J. 2017. Comparing Growth and Form of Coast Redwood Selfs and
Outcrosses at the UC Russell Research Station, California. Pp. 229-240 in: Standiford, R.B.;
Valachovic, Y., tech cords. 2017. Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes
and future direction. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Berrill, J-P.; Schneider, K.A.; Dagley, C.M.; Webb, L.A. 2018. Understory light predicts stump
sprout growth in mixed multiaged stands in north coastal California. New Forests
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-018-9636-6.
Berrill J-P.; Dagley, C.M.; Gorman, A.J.; Obeidy, C.S.; Powell, H.K.; Wright, J.C. 2018. Variable-
density retention promotes spatial heterogeneity and structural complexity in a Douglas-fir/tanoak
stand. Current Trends in Forest Research. CTFR-108. doi: 10.29011/CTFR-108. 100008.
Berrill, J-P.; Perry, D.W.; Breshears, L.W.; Gradillas, G.E. 2017. Tree size, growth, and anatomical
factors associated with bear damage in young coast redwood. Pp. 326-328 in: Standiford, R.B.;
Valachovic, Y., tech cords. 2017. Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes
and future direction. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Bettinger, P. and Boston, K., 2017. Forest Planning Heuristics—Current Recommendations and Research Opportunities for s-Metaheuristics. Forests 8(12), p.476. Brevik, E.C., K.L. Vaughan, S. J. Parikh, H. Dolliver, D. Lindbo, J. J. Steffan, D. Weindorf, P. McDaniel, M. Mbila, and S. Edinger-Marshall. Trends in Undergraduate Soil Science Education at Selected Universities in the USA from 2009-2013. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 82:295-306. Carroll, A.L., Sillett, S.C., Van Pelt, R. 2018. Tree-ring indicators of fire in two old-growth coast
redwood forests. Fire Ecology 14: 85-105.
Dagley, C.M.; Berrill, J-P.; Leonard, L.P.; Kim, Y.G. 2018. Restoration thinning enhances growth
and diversity in mixed redwood/Douglas-fir stands in northern California, USA. Restoration
Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12681.
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Dagley, CM, J-P Berrill, **FJ Johnson, LP Kerhoulas. 2017. Adaptation to climate change? Moving
coast redwood seedlings northward and inland. Pp. 219-228 in: Standiford, R.B.; Valachovic, Y.,
tech cords. 2017. Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future
direction. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Dellysse, J.E., and Madurapperuma, B.D. 2018. Developing a coastal GIS model of Sri Lanka to
pinpoint areas at risk from tsunamis. ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from
Humboldt State University. (In Press)
Di Mario, A.A., J.M. Kane, E.S. Jules. Accepted. Characterizing forest floor fuels surrounding large
sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) in the Klamath Mountains, California. Northwest Science.
Grabinski, Z.S., R.L. Sherriff, J.M. Kane. 2017. Controls of reburn severity vary with fire interval in the Klamath Mountains, California, USA. Ecosphere 8: e02012. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2012
Kane, J.M., J.M. Varner, M.R. Metz, P.J. van Mantgem. 2017. Characterizing interactions between
fire and other disturbances and the impacts on tree mortality in western U.S. forests. Forest Ecology
and Management 405: 188-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.09.037
Kelly, E.C., G.J. Gold, J. Di Tommaso. 2017. The willingness of non-industrial private forest owners to enter California’s carbon offset market. Environmental Management 60(5): 882-895.
Kerhoulas, LP, TE Kolb, GW Koch. 2017. The influence of monsoon climate on latewood growth
of southwestern ponderosa pine. Forests 8: 140-156.
Kreye, J.K., J.M. Varner, G. Hamby, J.M. Kane. 2018. Mesophytic litter dampens flammability in
pyrophytic oak-hickory woodlands. Ecosphere 9: e02078. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2078
Leonard, L.P.; Berrill, J-P.; Dagley, C.M. 2017. Ecosystem Responses to Variable-Density Thinning
for Forest Restoration in Mill Creek. Pp. 287-290 in: Standiford, R.B.; Valachovic, Y., tech cords.
2017. Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future direction.
USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Madurapperuma, B.D., and Dellysse, J.E. 2018. Coastal fringe habitat monitoring using Kite Aerial
Photography: A Remote Sensing-based case study. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment. (In
Press)
Matasc,i G, Hermosilla, T, Wulder, MA, White, JC, Hobart, GW, Coops, NC, Zald HSJ. 2018.
Large-area mapping of forest structural attributes across the boreal forest of Canada using Landsat
pixel composites and lidar plots. Remote Sensing of Environment 209: 90-116.
Matasci, G, Hermosilla, T, Wulder, MA, White, JC, Hobart, GW, Zald HSJ, Coops, NC. 2017. A
space-time data cube: Multi-temporal forest structure maps from Landsat and LiDAR. Geoscience
and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017 IEEE International. doi:
10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127523.
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Miller, C. and Boston, K., 2017. The Quantification of Logging Residues in Oregon with Impacts on Sustainability and Availability of Raw Material for Future Biomass Energy. Eur J Forest Eng, 3(1), pp.16-22. Sessions, J., Leshchinsky, B., Chung, W., Boston, K. and Wimer, J., 2017. Theoretical stability and traction of steep slope tethered feller-bunchers. Forest Science, 63(2), pp.192-200. Sillett, S.C., Antoine, M.E., Campbell-Spickler, J., Carroll, A.L., Coonen, E.J., Kramer, R.D., Scarla,
K.H. 2018. Manipulating tree crown structure to promote old-growth characteristics in second-
growth redwood forest canopies. Forest Ecology and Management 417: 77-89.
Slack, A.W., J.M. Kane, E.E. Knapp, R.L. Sherriff. 2017. Contrasting impacts of climate and
competition on large sugar pine growth and defense in a fire-excluded, mixed-conifer forest of the
central Sierra Nevada. Forests 8: 244. DOI: 10.3390/f8070244
Vernon, M., R. Sherriff, P. van Mantgem, J. Kane. (In Press). Do fuel treatments promote resistance
to multi-year drought in a mixed-conifer forest of northern California. Forest Ecology and Management.
Webb, L.A.; Berrill, J-P.; Lindquist, J.L. 2017. Long term results of early density management of a
third growth redwood stand. Pp. 267-278 in: Standiford, R.B.; Valachovic, Y., tech cords. 2017.
Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes and future direction. USDA
Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Zald HSJ, Dunn CD, Bailey JD. 2018. Disentangling drivers of wildfire severity in a multi-owner
forest landscape, Oregon USA. Ecological Applications.
Zamora-Cristales, R., Boston, K., Long, J., Sessions, J., 2018. Economic Estimation of the Available Biomass Following Logging Operations in Western Oregon and Washington. Forest Products Journal.
Workshops, Conference Presentations, and book chapters
Barela-Nystrom, A., J.M. Kane, L. Richmond. Revitalizing Yurok Ethnoforestry: Utilizing ecology
and oral history to assess the role of fire on pepperwood (Umbellularia california) flower and fruit
production. Klamath Fire Ecology Symposium, Orleans, CA, May 10-12th, 2017.
Bernal, A., J.M. Kane, E. Knapp. The effectiveness of variable density thinning and prescribed fire
in promoting resistance to drought- induced bark beetle mortality. 7th International Fire Ecology and
Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
Berrill, J-P.; Boston, K. 2018. “Simulating 100 years of multi-aged stand growth, yield and carbon in
Douglas-fir tanoak type: influence of conifer and hardwood retention levels”. Redwood Region
Forest Management and Marketing Opportunities Conference, April 4, 2018. Eureka, California.
Berrill, J-P.; Dagley, C.M. 2017. South Lake Tahoe, California. Invited speaker for two-hour
presentation: “How are aspen responding to restoration? Monitoring reveals trends in tree growth,
regeneration, and recovery of understory plant cover after conifer removal and pile burning”.
Workshop comprising two-hour presentation (Berrill) and afternoon field tour for regulatory and
land management agency representatives around Lake Tahoe. May 22, 2017.
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Berrill, J-P.; Harrell, K. 2018. New Silvicultural Techniques for Forest Health & Restoration.
California Forest Pest Council Newsletter, February 26, 2018 Vol. 5, Issue 1.
Berrill, J-P.; Rogers, P. 2017. Commentary: Uphill battle to restore aspen in the Sierra. Tremblings –
Western Aspen Alliance Newsletter, Vol 8(3), August 2017.
Berrill, J-P.; Dagley, C.M. 2017. New Practice Promising for Restoring Lost Forests of Giants:
Ecosystem Responses to Variable-Density Thinning for Forest Restoration in Mill Creek. Save the
Redwoods League Newsletter, June 14, 2017.
Berrill, J-P.; *Schneider, K.A.; Dagley, C.M.; Webb, L.A. 2017. Coppice with Standards: Modeling
Understory Light and Stump Sprout Growth of Redwood and Tanoak in Mixed Multiaged Stands in
California. European Coppice Conference. June 21-23, 2017. Limoges, France.
Boston, Kevin. Invited presentation.Technology in Forest Operations - What it can do and why it might not California Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Livermore, California. Brevik, E.C., K.L. Vaughan, S. J. Parikh, H. Dolliver, D. Lindbo, J. J. Steffan, D. Weindorf, P.
McDaniel, M. Mbila, and S.Edinger-Marshall. 2017. Enrollment trends in American soil science
classes: 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 academic years. European Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19.
Brevik, E.C., K.L. Vaughan, S J. Parikh, H. Dolliver, D. Lindbo, J. J. Steffan, D. Weindorf, P.
McDaniel, M. Mbila, and S.Edinger-Marshall. 2017. The academic majors of students taking
American soil science classes: 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 academic years. European Geophysical
Research Abstracts, Vol. 19.
Collins, B., J. Miller, J.M. Kane, D. Fry, A.E. Thode. (In Press). Chapter 6: Characterizing Fire.
Regimes. In: J. W. van Wagtendonk, N. G. Sugihara, S. L. Stephens, A. E. Thode, K. E. Shaffer, and
J. Fites-Kaufman. Fire in California's Ecosystems: Second Edition, Revised. University of California
Press, Berkeley, California, USA. (Expected publication date May 2018).
Cortenbach, J., Williams, R., Madurapperuma, B. 2018. Map of wildfire severity of the Santa Rosa:
CA 2017. ideaFest Conference, Library, Humboldt State University, 19th April 2018.
Cortenbach, J.W., Madurapperuma, B.D. 2018. Survey and Map English Ivy (Hedera helix L.)
Distribution at the Patrick’s Point State Park, California. ideaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of
Creative Works and Research from Humboldt State University. (In Press)
Cortenbach, J.W., Arthur, T., Johnson, G., Trockey, E., Borrowdale, C., Close, P., Fleming, S.,
Collin, M., Luckens, E., Thuresson, K., Kelley, A., Saint, R., Osipowitsch, I., Rodriguez, K.,
Settelmayer, M., Douglass, N., Lanz, C., Le Donne, T., Bogner,S., Castro, S., Mayfield, N., Williams,
R., Dellysse, J., Lamping, J. and Madurapperuma, B.D. (2017). Mapping Ma-le'l Dune Coastal
Ecosystem: A multiscale approach using UAV images. INRSEP/CNRS UG Scientific Research
Symposium, October 2nd, Humboldt State University Library, Volume: 2.
Cortenbach, J.W., Arthur, T., Johnson, G., Trockey, E., Borrowdale, C., Close, P., Fleming, S.,
Collin, M., Luckens, E., Thuresson, K., Kelley, A., Saint, R., Osipowitsch, I., Rodriguez, K.,
Settelmayer, M., Douglass, N., Lanz, C., Le Donne, T., Bogner,S., Castro, S., Mayfield, N., Williams,
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R., Dellysse, J., Lamping, J. and Madurapperuma, B.D. (2017). Mapping Ma-le'l Dune Coastal
Ecosystem: A multiscale approach using UAV images. GIS day Poster Session, 15th November,
2017, Humboldt State University Library, Volume: 2.
Cortenbach, J.W. and Madurapperuma, B.D. 2017. Survey and map English Ivy distribution at the
Patrick’s Point State Park, California. ideaFest Conference, Library, Humboldt State University,
21st April 2017.
Cortenbach, J.W. and Madurapperuma, B.D. Map of wildfire severity of the Santa Rosa Tubbs fire:
CA 2017. North Coast GIS User Group Meeting, Wharfinger Building, Bay Room, 1 Marina Way,
Eureka, CA 95501, 18th April, 2018.
Dagley, C.M.; Berrill, J-P.; Johnson, F.J.; Kerhoulas, L.P. 2017. Adaptation to Climate Change?
Moving Coast Redwood Seedlings Northward and Inland. Pp. 219-228 in: Standiford, R.B.;
Valachovic, Y., tech cords. 2017. Proc. of Coast redwood science symposium—2016: Past successes
and future direction. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA. 446 p.
Dellysse,J.E., Madurapperuma, B.D. and Kuruppuarachchi, K. A. J. M. 2017. Preliminary study on
biomass mapping along the coastal zone of Hambantota region, Sri Lanka using Landsat imagery.
The Open University Research Sessions, 16th and 17th November 2017, 497-500.
Dellysse, J.E. and Madurapperuma,B.D. 2017. Coastal GIS models of Sri Lanka to pinpoint
tsunami impacts: Lessons in Kite Aerial Photography. INRSEP/CNRS UG Scientific Research
Symposium, October 2nd, Humboldt State University Library, Volume: 2.
Dellysse, J.E. and Madurapperuma, B.D. 2017. Coastal GIS models of Sri Lanka to pinpoint
tsunami impacts: Lessons in Kite Aerial Photography. GIS day Poster Session, 15th November, 2017,
Humboldt State University Library, Volume: 2.
Dellysse,J.E. and Madurapperuma, B.D. 2017. Tsunami effects and mitigation results for Southeast
regions in Sri Lanka. ideaFest Conference, Library, Humboldt State University, 21st April 2017.
Edinger-Marshall, S. 2017. Do Knowledge Surveys Show Consistent Trends and Correlation to the
Cognitive Domain? Oral presentation, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings, Tampa,
FL, Oct. 22-25, 2017.
Fulgham, K.O. and D.A. Hosack. 2017. Black bear damage to northwestern conifers in California: a
review. Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Gorman, A.J., Berrill J-P., Dagley, C.M., Obeidy, C.S., Powell, H.K., and Wright, J.C. 2018. Testing
the variable-density retention silvicultural system as a tool for restoration of conifer dominance.
IdeaFest Conference at HSU. April 19, 2018. Arcata, California.
Gorman, AJ, M.G. McCord, W.T. Polda, N.J. Kerhoulas, L.P. Kerhoulas. Epiphyte diversity and
distribution in an old-growth Sitka spruce Crown. Humboldt State University IdeaFest. Arcata, CA,
April 19, 2018.
Greene, D.F. and M.J. McCavour. 2017. Dispersal, diffusion, and migration. A chapter in the
Encyclopedia of Geography (Wiley-Blackwell/AAG).
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Kane, J.M., E. Strand. An overview of the JFSP Graduate Research INnovation grant program 7th
International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
Kane, J.M., A.W. Slack. Examining the role of climate and competition on resin duct defenses:
implications for tree mortality. Ecological Society of America Conference, Portland, OR. August 6-
11th, 2017.
Kane, J.M., Z. Grabinski, R. Sherriff. Controls of fire severity in repeat fires vary with fire interval in
the Klamath Mountains. Klamath Fire Ecology Symposium, Orleans, CA,
Kangath, R.V., Maduraperuma, B., Borges, J.S. and Ramachandrapai, R. 2018. Effects of regional
climatic variability on West Nile Virus outbreaks in the United States. IDWeek, October 3-7, San
Francisco, CA.
Kelly, E.C. Moving past the timber wars: lessons in restoration from communities and landowners. International Symposium for Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) 7/21/2018. Umea, Sweden. (session organizer: Contemporary forest land conservation). Kelly, E.C. Timber management through negotiation. Society of American Foresters 11/17/17. Albuquerque, NM. Kelly, E.C. How I got into forestry. Women in Timber career panel. 02/08/2018. Kelly, E.C. Women in math and science panel (invited speaker). You Belong Here 3/25/2018. Arcata, CA. Kelly, E.C. Forestry education in California. California Forest Foundation board meeting. 3/27/2018. Sacramento, CA.
Kelly, E.C., C.P. McIver, R.B. Standiford, M. Haggerty. 2017. Socioeconomics of the redwood region. In: Proceedings of the Coast Redwood Science Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. Pages 345-356.
Kelly, E.C. 2017. The listing of coast redwood as endangered under the IUCN Red List: lessons for conservation. In: Proceedings of the Coast Redwood Science Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. Pages 361-370.
Kelly, E.C., J. Di Tommaso, A. Weisgrau. 2017. Family forest owners in the redwood region: Management priorities and opportunities in a carbon market. In: Proceedings of the Coast Redwood Science Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-258. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. Pages 403-412.
Kerhoulas, LP. Invited speaker, California Women in Timber Speaker Panel. Arcata, CA, February 8,
2018.
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Kerhoulas, LP. Crown ecology in tall Sitka spruce trees. Invited talk, California Women in Timber
Annual Meeting. Redding, CA, October 14, 2017.
Kerhoulas, LP, TE Kolb, GW Koch. Using stable isotope analyses to determine ponderosa pine
water sources in northern Arizona. Invited talk, Geological Society of America Conference. Flagstaff,
AZ, May 17, 2018.
Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.J.M., Madurapperuma, B.D. and Seneviratne, G. 2018. Ecosystem carbon
sequestration of different land-uses of the lowland wet zone: A case study from Waga area, Kalutara
District, Sri Lanka. 2nd International Research Symposium - IRSUWU2018, 221p.
Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.J.M., Madurapperuma, B.D. and Seneviratne, G. 2017. Floristic composition
and carbon sequestration of "Indikada Mukalana" Forest Reserve , Waga: A low land wet zone of Sri
Lanka. Proceedings of the 22nd International Forestry and Environment Symposium, 10th -11th
November 2017, Tangerine Beach Hotel, Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka.
Kreye, J.K., J.M. Varner, G. Hamby, J.M. Kane. Impacts of species composition on litter
flammability: a potential role in the mesophication of eastern US hardwood forests. 7th International
Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
Kreye, J.K., J.M. Kane, J.M. Varner, G. Hamby, J.K. Heirs. Effect of radiative heating on litter flammability. 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017. Lindbo, D.L., E. C. Brevik, K. L. Vaughan, S. J. Parikh, H. Dolliver, J. J Steffan, D. Weindorf, P. McDaniel, M. Mbila, S. Edinger-Marshall, and P. Thomas. 2017. Trends in gender diversity American soil science classes: 2004-2005 to 2013-2014 academic years. European Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 19. Madurapperuma, B., Close, P. Fleming, S., Collin, M., Thuresson, K., Lamping, J., Dellysse, J.
Cortenbach,J. 2018. Habitat mapping of Ma-le'l Dunes coupling with UAV and NAIP imagery.
Proceedings of 2nd International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing, 1 (doi: 10.3390/ecrs-2-
05182)
Madurapperuma, B.D., Dellysse, J.E., Zahir, I.L.M. and Aathamlebbe, I. 2017. Mapping shoreline
vulnerabilities using kite aerial photographs at Oluvil Harbour in Ampara. 7th International
Conference of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 197-204.
Madurapperuma, B., Greene, D., Perez M. 2018. Post-fire seedling recruitment in the 2008 Siskiyou
complex fire. ideaFest Conference, Library, Humboldt State University, 19th April 2018.
Madurapperuma, B., Close, P., Fleming, S., Collin, M., Thuresson, K., Lamping, J., Dellysse, J.,
Cortenbach, J. 2018. Habitat mapping of Ma-le'l Dunes coupling with UAV and NAIP image. 2nd
International Electronic Conference on Remote Sensing. 22nd March – 5th April 2018.
Madurapperuma, B.D., Dellysse, J.E., Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.J.M., Dissanayake, K. 2017. Mapping
topographic and vegetation bioshield mass recovery along the shoreline using Kite Aerial
Photography. 10th and 11th November 2017, At Tangerine Beach Hotel Waskaduwa, 78p.
Madurapperuma,B.D., Dellysse,J.E., Zahir, I.L.M. and Aathamlebbe,I. 2017.Mapping coastal fringe
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community variability using high-resolution kite aerial photography. 24th November 2017, University
of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Madurapperuma, B.D. GIS day Guest Presentation (2:45 pm -3:15 pm), Coastal GIS models of Sri
Lanka to pinpoint tsunami impacts: Lessons in Kite Aerial Photography. HSU Library, 15th
November, 2017.
Madurapperuma, B.D. Project-based learning: A big difference in student success. Teaching and
Learning Innovation showcase, April 26th, 2018, HSU Library 3rd Floor.
Martorano, C., J.M. Kane. Variability of surface fuels in conifer-encroached oak woodlands of
Humboldt County, California. 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando,
FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
McCavour, M.J., D.F. Greene, J.M. Kane. Faculative serotiny. Society of American Foresters conference, Albuquerque, N.M. November 13th-18th, 2017. McCord, MG, WT Polda, NJ Kerhoulas, LP Kerhoulas. Epiphyte diversity in Sitka spruce crowns.
Humboldt State University IdeaFest. Arcata, CA, April 20, 2017.
McNamara, B., J.M. Kane, D.F. Greene. Post-fire fuel succession patterns in Baker cypress forests.
7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
Pilatti, M., Guezille, F.M., Russell, S. and Madurapperuma, B.D. 2018. Helena fire burn severity and
effects on vegetation. ideaFest Conference, Library, Humboldt State University, 19th April 2018.
Rios, L., J.M. Kane. Effects of prescribed fire season on Pinus lambertiana growth and defense in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017. Soland, KR, *S Russell, *MA Burger, *TS Dunlap, NJ Kerhoulas, LP Kerhoulas. Physiology,
growth, and immediate response to thinning in suppressed redwood, Douglas-fir, and tanoak stands.
Humboldt State University IdeaFest. Arcata, CA, April 19, 2018.
Rozario, P., Madurapperuma, B. and Wang, Y. 2018. Geospatial modelling of human-induced
wetland fire of semi-fossorial turtles in Palo Verde, Costa Rica. American Association of
Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018.
Stephens, S.L., J.M. Kane, J.D. Stuart. (In Press). Chapter 10: North Coast Bioregion. In: J. W. van
Wagtendonk, N. G. Sugihara, S. L. Stephens, A. E. Thode, K. E. Shaffer, and J. Fites-Kaufman. Fire
in California's Ecosystems: Second Edition, Revised. University of California Press, Berkeley,
California, USA. (Expected publication date May 2018)
Strand, E., J.M. Kane. Closing remarks: GRIN values beyond the award. 7th International Fire
Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
Stubblefield, A., E.C. Kelly, J.M. Kane, G. Ortiz-Lombardo. CAMBIO: Adapting to a changing student demographic with experiential learning and research opportunities related to forests, rangelands, and watersheds. USDA-NIFA Hispanic Serving Institute Project Directors Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. February, 2017.
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Sumanathna, A.R., Madurapperuma, B., Hangawaththa, T.A. and Pathirage, I. 2018.Developing
Coastal Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to Indicate Tsunami Flooding Topography in Arugam Bay,
Sri Lanka. Institute of Professional Studies and Skills Development Sri Lanka, Grand Day Abstract
2018, EcoAstronomy Sri Lanka, 5th April, 2018.
External Service and Outreach
Boston, Kevin. Managing Editor - Mathematical and computational Forestry in Natural Resources. Associate Editor - Forest Science Edinger-Marshall, Susan. Green Point Elementary School District Board of Trustees, President of the Board, 2010 to present. Edinger-Marshall, S. Forestry Institute for Teachers, July 2012 through July 2017
Edinger-Marshall, S. Associate Editor, Rangeland Ecology and Management, 2016 to present. Edinger-Marshall, S.. California Rangeland Manager Certification Panel, Chair, 2015 to present. Edinger-Marshall, S. Soil Science Society of America, Division Chair/Program Planning for 2019 Annual Meeting - Outreach and Education Division. Fulgham, K.O. Society for Range Management: Bylaws Revision Task Force, Chair. Fulgham, K.O. Society for Range Management: Membership Services and Meeting Management, Chair. Greene, D.F. Member of the Forestry Advisory Committee for the forestry program at College of the Redwoods. Greene, D.F. Edited a set of papers for a Proceedings volume of the Redwood Ecology Conference held in Eureka, CA, in September, 2016. Kane, J. National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (NWCG) RX310-Fire Effects course (2017) Kane, J. Associate Editor for Fire Ecology Kane, J. Journal Reviewer (6) – Fire Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management (×2), International Journal of Wildland Fire, New Phytologist Kane, J. Book Chapter Reviewer (2) Fire in California’s Ecosystems, 2nd Edition (2017) Kane, J. Wildland Fire Education and Training Center Steering Committee Member/Reviewer
(2015-present)- participated in conference calls about program development and reviewed several
scripts and videos of wildland fire science teaching materials.
Kane, J. Education Committee member, Association for Fire Ecology
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Kane, J. Northern California Prescribed Fire Council
o Vice Chair o Steering committee member o Research committee member
Kane, J. Research Committee, Northwestern California Oak Network Kane, J. Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Grant Review Co-leader, USDA/ DI Joint Fire Science Program (2017) Kane, J. Advisory Committee Member, California Fire Science Consortium, Northern region (2012-present) Kane, J. Special Session Organizer, GRIN: Stoking the Flames for the Next Generation of Fire Scientists 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017. Kane, J. Fire Circle Organizer, A Conversation on How to Write a Successful GRIN (Graduate Research Innovation) Proposal. 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Orlando, FL, Nov. 2th-Dec. 2nd, 2017.
Kane, J. Fire Lab Demonstrations and Tours (0.5- 1 hr each)
HSU Spring Preview-HSI-STEM potential students
Arcata Natural Resource Science Camp
Hoopa California Conservation Corps
“I’ve Already Been Admitted to College” program
Kane, J. LA Times: quoted in an article entitled “Northern California is facing catastrophic wildfires
more typically seen in the south. Experts aren't sure why” by Bettina Boxall (October 16th, 2017)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-north-south-20171016-story.html
Kane, J. Times Standard: quoted in an article entitled “Forest Service: Island fire benefitting
wilderness” by Sam Armanino (August 11th, 2017). http://www.times-
standard.com/article/NJ/20170810/NEWS/170819978
Kelly, Erin. 2018 co-editor Humboldt Journal of Social Relations special edition: The American
West after the Timber Wars
Kelly, Erin. Featured scientist in Giants of Land and Sea: Redwood Ascent exhibit at the California
Academy of Sciences. June 2018 – June 2023.
Kelly, Erin. Arizona Daily Sun cited my work in an article entitled “Future monsoons could bring 40
percent less rain” (October 20, 2017).
Sillett, S.C., Campbell-Spickler, J. Crown structure of a Sequoia sempervirens tree near Orick. Report to
the Save the Redwoods League, 17 April 2017, 8 pages.
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New Grants
Berrill, J-P. California State (Dept. Forestry & Fire Protection). $96,777. Effects of Hardwood
Management.
Berrill, J-P. U.S. Dept. Agriculture, Forest Service. $63,825. Power Fire Oak Restoration Sprout
Clump Thinning.
Edinger-Marshall, S. USDA Forest Service Special Technology Development Program (STDP)
grant: $153,950, 2017-2020.With David Baston and Christopher Lee. “Improved genetic technique
for rapid detection & identification of invasive Phytophthora spp.”
Edinger-Marshall, S. Agricultural Research Institute (California State University): $51,933, 2016-2018
with Han-Sup Han. “Cut-to-length thinning in northern California redwood forests: cost and
impacts on soils and residual trees.”
Edinger-Marshall, S. National Park Service (with Joseph Seney): $40,206 2017 "Manage Invasive
Plants in Strawberry Creek”
Kane. J. USDOI National Park Service, California Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (2017-
2020), $64,162. Fire effects monitoring in Klamath Network Parks.
Kane, J. USDA CSREES McIntire-Stennis Program (2017-2020), $165,584. Project: Evaluating oak woodland restoration in northern California (Kane portion: $33,166).
Kelly, E. Trione: Scholarship of $35,000 to be awarded to a graduate student of her choice. Kelly, E. Agricultural Research Institute. Politics of biomass. $52,499 Kelly, E. Save the Redwoods League undergraduate apprenticeship program: $63,062
Kelly, E., LP Kerhoulas. Redwoods Rising Restoration Apprenticeship. Save the Redwoods League,
$96,523
Kerhoulas, LP, R Sherriff, A Stubblefield, NJ Kerhoulas. Informing restoration of encroached oak
woodlands in northern California. Agricultural Research Institute, $75,789.
Kerhoulas, LP, J Teraoka, NJ Kerhoulas. Efficacy of forest restoration treatments across a 50-year
chronosequence in Redwood National Park. Save the Redwoods League, $24,982.
Stubblefield, A. Informing restoration of encroached oak woodlands in northern California,
$75,789 Co-Pi with Lucy Kerhoulas and Rosemary Sherriff. California Agricultural Research
Initiative.
Stubblefield, A. Evaluating oak woodland restoration in northern California, $180,00. PI with Co-PIs Rosemary Sherriff, Lucy Kerhoulas, Pascal Berrill, Jeff Kane, Susan Marshall. USDA McIntire Stennis.
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Sillett, S. $151,290—Kenneth L. Fisher Chair of Redwood Forest Ecology. 2017-2018
contributions.