This master’s project investigates the feasibility of establishing a composting facility for greenwaste diversion on Vashon Island, WA. The composting facility would serve to compliment waste reduction efforts already in place on the island. The benef . . .

Annie Smith Peck, a scholar, explorer and Pan-Americanist, educated the general public and businessmen about geography, especially Latin American geography. Peck wrote and lectured to Americans about tourist sights, archeology, exploration, mountainee . . .

This study explores the prevalence and the relationship of cyberbullying among Native American students at Humboldt State University. Cyberbullying defined in brief is the repetitive use of technology to harm an individual. Cyberbullying is a widely s . . .

Field data collected from the consumption of organic forest soil (duff) by smoldering combustion are analyzed to determine the spatial patterns as input for a smoldering combustion model. Moisture, organic, and inorganic contents were measured at long . . .

The primary evolutionary goal of many hatchery supplementation programs is to minimize genetic change and fitness loss associated with captive breeding. The objective of this study was to assess the genetic stability of a hatchery steelhead (Oncorhync . . .

Studies that examine family violence assert that many abusive behaviors are transmitted intergenerationally. Investigations of intergenerational transmissions of family violence it is important to acknowledge that childhood traumatization has a signif . . .

A sample of sixteen homicides occurring in Humboldt County, California was used to compare the Times-Standard’s treatment of homicides in 1982, 1995, and 2009. The sample examined eight homicide cases involving a Native American victim or suspect and . . .

In this study, two ways of accumulating Pb were investigated: natural accumulation and chemically enhanced accumulation with the chelating agent ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Young cattails (Typha latifolia) were removed from the Arcata Comm . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine mental health factors including substance use, depression, caretaker bonding, and social self-efficacy in individuals who were previously placed in foster care. This study sought to compare outcomes in those fo . . .

I studied sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) nesting habitat from mid-March through mid-August of 1998-2000 in eastern Lassen County, California. I located nest sites of forty-five radio-marked hens. To evaluate habitat selection I measured veget . . .

This project addresses the origins and effectiveness of the political party system in America. The major themes of the scholarly research included in this historiography are that political parties are and have been controversial, that political partie . . .

For over a century, salmonids have been stocked in historically fishless, montane lakes for the sole purpose of creating recreational fishing opportunities. Salmonid introductions have had transformative impacts on historically fishless systems where . . .

The purpose of my project is to provide both a report of the 2005 Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference and a longitudinal evaluation of the effects that past EYH Conferences have had for middle school girls in Northern California. The goal of each . . .

The majority of world language programs in the United States are offered to students beginning in high school, an earlier start in middle school gives students the opportunity to lengthen their course of study, and attain higher proficiency in a world . . .

A one-dimensional dense snow avalanche model has been developed to predict avalanche runout distances, flow velocity and flow height over general terrain.

In temperate coniferous forests, forest floor fuels have been linked to variation in important effects of fire, most notably mineral soil heating and post-fire tree mortality. To improve the understanding of fire effects, I collected forest floor fuel . . .

This project sought to lay the groundwork for an outreach effort by CASA of Humboldt to better communicate with community professionals (care providers, teachers and school staff, medical and mental health providers, social workers, probation officers . . .

A Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to build the Health Risk Tool, a decision support tool to model objective health risk. The model was developed using Esri ArcGIS 10.0 and Python 2.6. The tool allows users to customize and implement a dyn . . .

The purpose of this study was to understand how alexithymic characteristics relate to help seeking behavior. Additionally, this study sought to measure the levels of alexithymic characteristics between men and women and how they related to help seekin . . .

This investigation attempts to characterize the flow of quality assurance information in Kenya's off-grid lighting market in order to identify key opportunities for improving access to product information throughout the supply chain. While traditional . . .