Student Research Competition Presentations

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On Friday, April 22nd, CI’s participants in the CSU Student Research Competition will present their research for the CI community. This is an opportunity for students to hone their presentations and receive constructive feedback from faculty and students. This session will begin at 9 AM in Broome Library 2490. The schedule of talks is as follows:

9:00  Ande Murphy & Soraya Zarook, “Humanity for Robots: A Guide to Passing as a Person”

Faculty Mentor: Brad Monsma

9:15  Reily Pratt, “Establishing Giant Brown Kelp as Biosentinel of Environmental Mercury”

Faculty Mentor: Simone Aloisio

9:30  Maria Pimentel,  “Is Education the Great Equalizer? Comparing the Wages of Native and Immigrant Latinos and Asians in California: 2000-2012”

Faculty Mentor: Luis Sanchez

9:45  Zosimo Geluz, “Neurocognition and Personality Processes: A Study of the Dark Triad”

Faculty Mentor: Kimmy Kee-Rose

10:00 Cordell Tarrant, “Just how far will that tweet go? Quantifying the Social Media Impact of United States Senator’s Twitter Activity”

Faculty Mentor: Bryan Tomlin

10:15 Brittany Marberry, “Investigating Individual and Contextual Factors Related to Arrests across Latino Immigrant Generations”

Faculty Mentor: Luis Sanchez

10:30  Vanessa van Heerden, “Assessing the health of coral reefs in an era of anthropogenic stressors at Aitutaki, Cook Islands”

Faculty Mentor: Sean Anderson

10:45  Tevin Schmitt “Ecological Impact of the Refugio Oil Spill on Sandy Beach Systems”

Faculty Mentor: Sean Anderson

11:00  Samantha Freitag, “Analysis of Mercury concentration in cigarettes as a viable source of human absorption of the top two brands sold in the United States”

Faculty Mentor: Simone Aloisio

 

 

 

 

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Vegetation Signatures

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I finished the official 2015 vegetation signatures several weeks ago and recently produced a scatter plot example of how the program (GIS) is able to determine these ‘signatures’ based off mathematical equations and different light frequency bands (red, green, blue, inferred ext..). An example is the the dark green blob, which signifies mixed woodland.

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Relief & Contemplation

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April 19

Hi everyone,

smiley1Hope you guys are having a good week and even more so now that our group inquiry paper has been completed! (Whoop whoop!) Please comment and let me know what you guys did your project on, I am curious and interested. Overall, I feel pretty good about me and my partner’s paper. More confident than I felt for my personal inquiry project that’s fer sure. Do you guys remember the reflection we completed after submitting our personal inquiry project? Well in my reflection I had stated that I should have went more in depth in analyzing my topic within the lenses I chose. I might of worded it differently but my statement was along those lines. However, when writing our group inquiry project I wanted to avoid feeling like I should have done better. There is always areas of improvement but this time around my partner and I established sub categories within our actual interdisciplinary lenses. Establishing subcategories encouraged us to further discuss our topic in each discipline. As stated in my last post our three disciplines were health science, communication, and sociology. In which, are subcategories comprised of Oxytocin, communicative clarity, affections/ nurturance, and environments “baby talk” is prone to be used in such as, hospitals. Since, we will be discussing our topic through our poster presentation, I am going to stop myself from going into detail of the technicalities behind our paper to avoid redundancy of what you guys will hear in our presentation.

To that end, I want to discuss a current interdisciplinary dilemma I am going through. In my last post I mentioned I was currently working on a presentation for my MKT 442 class also known as Psychology of Judgement Decision making. In which, my presentation covered prospect theory and some of the underling factors behind prospect theory. The underlying factors my group and I discussed in our presentation were loss aversion, framing, and endowment effect. However, we applied these factors to the use of marketing. We did this comparison by showing two different commercial ads that were essentially asking the same thing (animal shelter donations) yet they each framed their add differently. One portrayed animals as being sad, hurt, and neglected while the other only captured happy healthy animals. We then compared the endowment effect to how companies offer free trials of their products and or services. For those of you  who may not know the endowment effect occurs when we grow fonder of a product or service the longer we acquire it. For example, Netflix offers a 1 month free trail, they do this so the consumer can start to embed their service in their routine. Once they are hooked it conveniently  is the time their subscription is going to expire. What does the consumer do? Well by nature since we do not like the feeling of losing, the consumer is most like going to subscribe to the service.But now onto the dilemma I am currently dealing with, my group and I are going to discuss what we presented in class in our paper. However, to yield 15 to 20 pages we need another angle that will connect prospect theory and marketing together. So currently what we are going to discuss further in our paper is under debate.

Well that is enough of my interdisciplinary discussion for now, hope you guys have a good rest of the week!

Restaurant Logo Design

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Logo Design Branding, All elements, Menus, Table menu, to go bag.
Logo Design
Branding,
All elements, menu design, table elements, to go bag.

Natural Disaster

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Oklahoma and Texas Flooding

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During the month of May this past year in 2015, large parts of central and southern plain states faced deadly flash flooding and tornadoes.  At least 31 people were killed in storms.  The rolling storms causing disaster throughout the communities it struck, left homes without electricity, gas, or water for days to weeks.  Houston was one area in particular that was struck the hardest.  Many were displaced from homes and a body count of at least six people.

floodHarris County’s emergency management office said that there were 1,200 high water rescues on Monday as a slow-moving storm system dumped more than a foot of rain on many parts of the US’s fourth-largest city.  Because of the severe flooding, the access to roads, highways, and freeways was nearly impossible.  This made emergency healthcare extremely hard for both parties.  Ambulances inability to travel and vice versa community members unable to travel to local hospitals or red cross shelters.  Debris and water borne illness are the most important health related issues with thee flooding that was important for the entire health care system in both states.

Update 4/18/16

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This week was spent working on my final map that will show the growth of the main grove over the course of 76 years and my poster for SAGE research conference. Both of these processes have taken quite a bit of time and I am glad to see the work that is turning out.

In the next few days I hope to have my main map finalized, at which point I can begin to run various analyses to determine temporal change. One way this will be accomplished is by creating shapefiles that are set to the same coordinate system as the photos. I can outline the perimeter of the groves as they change throughout the years and measure the difference in area.

 

Open Torrey pine cone with an aborted seed
Open Torrey pine cone with an aborted seed

Japanese Tsunami debris found on Santa Rosa Island

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Last weekend on Santa Rosa Island we found a very strange piece of debris on Sandy Point when we were surveying. This large stake type thing had Chines or Japanese symbols on the top, and it was so interesting to me that I decided to take it home and find out what these symbols mean. I didn’t find out exactly what it means, but a family friend who studies Japanese told me that some of the symbols mean “Japanese national” or something of that nature. After googling “Japanese land marker” and “Japanese land marker marine debris” I found that these things have been showing up all over the West Coast, and last time someone found one was in Oregon in 2014. I don’t think that there has been any Japanese tsunami debris found on the Channel Islands yet so this was very interesting to me.IMG_6759IMG_6761

Here is some information on Japanese property markers I found:

Japanese Researchers Visit Oregon for Marine Debris Project

http://www.aquablog.ca/2015/02/haida-gwaii-awash-with-marine-debris/

 

First Draft Poster

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LA Water Keeper Event was Awesome!

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Cheryl Hines, Stacey Anderson

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Sean and I manning the booth and having a great time talking about micro plastics with people at Paradise Cove

Saturday I was able to have a booth at the LA Water Keeper event at Paradise Cove, Malibu The Annual Stand Up for Clean Water event is awesome as professional athletes along with weekend racers come out and paddle to raise awareness for clean water in Los Angeles county.  Due to some strong winds the first race was cancelled half way thru and the beach party started a little earlier.  But the wind dies down and the relay and kid events still got to go on in the afternoon.  Robert Kennedy Jr. and his wife Cheryl Hines were there to discuss the history and importance of the work that each and every person needs to continue doing to ensure that we keep our watersheds clean.

Capstone

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I have finished collecting data in my common garden. I found that there is more growth in the mainland population compared to the island population. Now, I am working on my poster, paper, and statistics.