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The Center archives environmental inquiry projects conducted by SSU students. Launched in 2010, the archive now contains results from over 140 student projects on a wide range of topics. We provide abstracts, research methods, results and data sets where possible. 

Coastal vegetation, with Salmon Creek and the Pacific Ocean in the distance
Evaluation of restoration at Salmon Creek estuary

2017

Faculty: Jackie Guilford, Wendy St. John

bay leaves with brown tips
Spread of Sudden Oak Death in the Copeland Creek Watershed

2017

Faculty: Nathan Rank, Melina Kozanitas

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry

Facility Art
Master Plan for Galbreath Preserve facilities

2011 to 2016

Partners: SSU Facilities and Planning, Bob Johnson Family, School of Social Sciences, School of Science & Technology, School of Arts & Humanities, School of Business & Economics, Jasper Ridge Biological Field Station, Yorkville Community Members, SSU Advancement, Academic Affairs

Rocky creek bed in forest
Effects of land use on riparian areas

2015 to 2016

Faculty: Steve Estes

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District

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

Profile of the creek along a transect
Quivira backwater channel survey

2015

Faculty: Jeff Baldwin

Partners: Sonoma County Water Agency

spear point
Galbreath Cultural Resource Plan

2011 to 2013

Faculty: Adrian Praetzellis

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry

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

Osborn Bridge
Osborn Cultural Resources Plan

2013 to 2014

Faculty: Adrian Praetzellis

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry