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Giant salamander in creek
Comparing salamander abundance in restored and unrestored habitat

2016

Faculty: Martha Shott, Jeremy Qualls, Nathan Rank, Fran Keller, Jackie Guilford, Wendy St. John

Partners: Sugarloaf State Park, Center for Environmental Inquiry

spear point
Galbreath Cultural Resource Plan

2011 to 2013

Faculty: Adrian Praetzellis

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry

Profile of the creek along a transect
Quivira backwater channel survey

2015

Faculty: Jeff Baldwin

Partners: Sonoma County Water Agency

Students collecting samples with a soil auger
Sedimentary analysis of a sag pond at Fairfield Osborn Preserve

2014 to present

Faculty: Michelle Goman, John-Scott Forester

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry

Student holding cross section of a tree trunk
Dendrochronology, landslides and climate change in the Copeland Creek headwaters

2014

Faculty: Michelle Goman

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry, Sonoma County Water Agency

Poster of the soundscape project
The Soundscape Project

2013

Faculty: Kristen Daley, Jack Ou

Partners: Bernie Krause (Wild Sanctuary), Jessie Olsen Bay (Composer), Center for Environmental Inquiry

Students and wheelbarrow filled with removed weeds
Coastal Prairie training materials

2009 to 2013

Partners: Bodega Pastures, CDFW's Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program, California Native Plant Society, California State Parks, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, Ocean Song, Sonoma Counjty Ag & Open Space, Sonoma Land Trust, Center for Environmental Inquiry, UC Davis Plant Sciences, UC Davis CSTARS Lab, UC Davis Bodega Marine Reserve

Students taking a core sample in a marsh
Marsh sedimentation rates at the Osborn Preserve

2012 to 2013

Faculty: Michelle Goman

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry, Sonoma County Water Agency

Osborn Shed
Changes in land use at the Osborn Preserve

2013-present

Faculty: Steve Estes

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry, History Department, Donors and Faculty Affiliated with Osborn Preserve

Coastal Prairie Website Homepage
California's Coastal Prairies website

2010 to 2013

Partners: Ocean Song Farm and Wilderness Center, Center for Environmental Inquiry, Diana Jeffery

Sonoma State University acknowledges the Coast Miwok, Central and Southern Pomo, and the Wappo as the traditional stewards of our preserved lands. Let it be acknowledged that the Sonoma State University campus is located within the traditional homelands of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. Sonoma State offers deep gratitude to the original stewards of this land and recognizes its immense historical, spiritual, and personal significance to the Native nations and peoples of this region.

Sonoma State University reconoce a los Miwok de la costa (Coast Miwok), los Pomo del centro y del sur (Central and Southern Pomo), y los Wappo como los guardianes tradicionales de nuestros terrenos preservados. Cabe destacar que el campus de Sonoma State University está ubicado dentro de las tierras tradicionales de los Indios Federados de Graton Rancheria (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria). Sonoma State expresa su profunda gratitud a los guardianes originales de esta tierra y reconoce el inmenso significado histórico, espiritual, y personal a las naciones y pueblos indígenas de esta región.