The Center develops long-term partnerships, collaborations, and relationships that help agencies and organizations move towards sustainable and resilient approaches. The work is sponsored by organizations and donors who provide financial support for faculty and students to study priority issues. Each collaborative engages a wide range of disciplines to better address the complex issues arising from the interaction of environment, culture and economy.

Leading Partners

Leading partners identify priority regional challenges, provide guidance and expertise, assist in the implementation of solutions. 

Participating Organizations*

Participating organizations collaborate on regional initiatives; develop & incorporate lessons learned from outreach events; visit, participate, or conduct research at SSU preserves; and assist with preserve management or regulations. (see below for a full list of partners)

Current Participating Organizations

• Advisory Committee of California Interagency Council on Homelessness
• Anderson Valley Fire Department
• Anderson Valley Land Trust
• Apis Arborea
• Appreciating Earth
• Archbold Biological Station
• Arizona State University
• Ashland University
• Atlas Vineyard Management
• Audubon Canyon Ranch
• Audubon Canyon Ranch, Living with Lions
• Barnard College
• Baywork
• Bell Springs Fire Department
• Bennett Valley Community Association
• Bijagual Ecological Reserve
• Bodega Marine Reserve
• Cal Poly Swanton Pacific Ranch
• California Geologic Survey
• California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
• California Naturalist
• California State Parks
• Chemeketa Community College
• City College San Francisco
• City of Rohnert Park
• City of Santa Rosa
• Clear Lake Environmental Research Center
• CNPS Milo Baker Chapter
• Colby College
• Community Soil Foundation
• Comptche Volunteer Fire Department
• Contra Costa Resource Conservation District
• Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District
• Covelo Fire Protection District
• Credo High School
• CRPUSD
• Deering Estate
• di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
• DPW
• East Bay Regional Park District
• Eel River Recovery Project
• Eldorado National Forest
• Ethos Environmental
• Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
• Fire Forward
• Firewise Anderson Springs
• Forestry Reciprocity Group
• Friends of the Library, Rohnert Park
• Friends of the Mark West Watershed
• Golden State Land Conservancy
• Grant Elementary
• Greenbelt Alliance
• Hatfield Marine Science Center
• Herring Gut Coastal Science Center
• Hunter College - NYC
• Inform Evaluation & Research
• Keene State College
• Keysight Industries
• La Tercera Elementary
• Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation
• Lake County Resource Conservation District
• LandPaths
• Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
• Latino Outdoors
• League of Women Voters Sonoma County chapter
• Listening for a Change
• Livingston Sound
• Madrone Audubon Society
• Madrone Elementary
• Marin County Office of Education
• Mark West Elementary
• Matanzas Elementary
• Mendocino County Fire Safe Council
• Mendocino County Library - Round Valley
• Mendocino County Prescribed Burn Association
• Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
• Mendocino Redwood Company
• Mendocino Unified School District
• Monte Vista Elementary
• Mount Holyoke College
• Napa Communties Firewise Foundation
• Napa County PBA steering committee
• Napa County Resource Conservation District
• National Audubon Society
• National Outdoor Leadership School
• Navarro Area Fire Safe Council
• North Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board
• North Coast Opportunities
• North Park Veterinary Clinic
• Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance
• Northern Sonoma County Fire Protection District
• Notre Dame de Demur University
• OAEC
• Oak Grove Elementary
• Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
• Old Adobe Elementary
• Orange County Public Schools
• Pacific Gas & Electric
• Pacific Watershed Associates
• Pathways Charter School
• Pepperwood Preserve
• Pine Mountain Fire Safe Council
• Pollinator Partnership
• Portland Community College
• Potter Valley Fire Department
• Proctor Terrace Elementary
• Rancho Adobe Fire District
• RCPA Climate Advisory Committee
• Recology of Sonoma/Marin
• Red Rancheria LLC
• Redwood Adventist
• Refill Mercantile LLC
• ReLeaf Petaluma
• Richard Crane Elementary
• Ridgewood Fire Safe Council
• Roseland Creek Elementary
• Round Valley Prescribed Burn Association
• RRWA
• Russian Riverkeeper
• Sacramento State University
• Safari West Wild Animal Park
• Santa Rosa Junior College
• Savannah State University
• Sheppard Accelerated Elementary
• Skagit Valley College
• SMUD
• Sonoma County Agricultural & Open Space District
• Sonoma County Gazette
• Sonoma County Library
• Sonoma Ecology Center
• Sonoma Land Trust
• Sonoma Mountain Institute
• Sonoma Mountain Preservation
• Sonoma State University
• Sonoma Valley Groundwater Sustainability Agency Advisory Committee
• Sonoma Water
• South Ukiah Rotary Club _ Environmental Committee
• Spanish group
• Strawberry Elementary
• The Dalton Homeschool
• The Evergreen State College
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Nature Conservancy's Center for conservation Initiatives
• Thompson Water Resource Consulting
• Town of Windsor
• UC Berkeley Grizzly Corps Program
• UC Davis
• UC Master Gardener Program of Lake County
• UC Merced
• UCANR
• UCCE Master Gardener of Sonoma County
• UCCE Sonoma
• UCCE Sonoma SOD Outreach Program
• University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology
• University of Alaska Fairbanks, Toolik Field Station
• University of Kansas, Kansas Biological Survey/Field Station
• University of Kansas; KU Field Station
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• University of The Bahamas
• Upper Mark West Fire Safe Council
• USDA NRCS
• West County Health Services
• Wildcare
• Wilding Landscapes
• Wildlife Society
• Wilmar Union Elementary
• Woodland Star Elementary
• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
• Yorkville Community Benefits Association
• Yorkville Fire Safe Council
• Zero Waste Sonoma
• Zone 7 Water Agency

Complete List of Participating Organizations

• AboutDisability
• Advisory Committee of California Interagency Council on Homelessness
• Ag + Open Space Sonoma County
• Alameda County 
• AlertNorthBay
• All Eyes on the Amazon
• Amazon Indigenous Health Route
• AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps
• AmeriCorps Watershed Stewards Program
• Analytical Sciences, LLC
• Anderson Valley Fire Department
• Anderson Valley Junior/Senior High School
• Anderson Valley Land Trust
• Anderson Valley Unified School District
• Apis Arborea
• Apple Blossom Elementary
• Appreciating Earth
• Archbold Biological Station
• Arizona State University
• Ashland University
• Association of Waorani Women of Ecuador
• Atlas Vineyard Management
• Audubon Canyon Ranch
• Audubon Canyon Ranch, Living with Lions
• Barnard College
• Baseline Consulting
• Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program
• Baylor University
• Bay Nature Institute
• Baywork
• Bell Springs Fire Department
• Bellevue Elementary
• Bennett Valley Community Association
• Bijagual Ecological Reserve
• Binkley Elementary
• Bodega Marine Reserve
• Bradford Creek Studios
• Cal Poly Swanton Pacific Ranch
• CalFire
• CalFlora
• California Coastal Conservancy
• California Conservation Corps
• California Department of Fish & Wildlife
• California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
• California Department of Water Resources
• California Fire Science Consortium
• California Geologic Survey
• California Indian Museum and Cultural Center
• California Lichen Society
• California Native Plant Society, Milo Baker Chapter
• California Native Plant Society, Sanhedrin Chapter
• California Naturalist
• California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region
• California State Parks
• California State Water Resources Control Board
• California Sustainable Development Council
• Canemah Nature
• Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• Center for Coastal Studies
• Central Plains Experimental Range
• Charlie Judson Photography
• Chemeketa Community College
• Children's Museum of Sonoma County
• City College San Francisco
• City of American Canyon
• City of Gresham, Oregon
• City of Hayward
• City of Napa
• City of Oakland
• City of Penngrove
• City of Rohnert Park
• City of Santa Rosa
• Clear Creek Creative
• Clear Lake Environmental Research Center
• Climate Corps
• Climate Resolve
• Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
• Colby College
• Community Foundation of Mendocino County
• Community Soil Foundation
• Comptche Volunteer Fire Department
• Conservation Corps North Bay
• Conservation Works
• Contra Costa Resource Conservation District
• Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District
• County of Marin
• County of Sonoma
• Covelo Fire Protection District
• Crecer ConCiencia
• Credo High School
• CRPUSD
• D’Argenzio Winery
• Deering Estate
• Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Department of Transportation
• di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
• Digital Mapping Solutions
• Disability Services & Legal Center 
• Dominican University
• DPW
• Earth Team
• Earthways, LLC
• East Bay Regional Park District
• Ecoshift Consulting
• Eel River Recovery Project
• El Cerrito Community Garden Network
• Eldorado National Forest
• Emerald Earth
• Environmental Discovery Center Spring Lake
• Environmental Volunteers
• EPIC-N
• Ethos Environmental
• Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
• Fire Forward
• Firewise Anderson Springs
• Foothill College
• Forest Ecotherapy
• Forestry Reciprocity Group
• Friends of Copeland Creek
• Friends of the Library, Rohnert Park
• Friends of the Mark West Watershed
• Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District
• Gold Rush Nursery
• Golden State Land Conservancy
• Grace Hudson Museum
• Grant Elementary
• Grassland Groupies
• Grassroots Ecology
• Great Old Broads For Wilderness
• Greenbelt Alliance
• Hahn Elementary
• Harmony Drum Circles
• Hatfield Marine Science Center
• Heal the Bay
• Healdsburg Center for the Arts
• Heartwork Accessible Nature Photography
• Herring Gut Coastal Science Center
• Hidden Valley Elementary
• HIVOS
• Hunter College - NYC
• Inform Evaluation & Research
• Institute for Bird Populations
• Institute for Wildlife Studies
• James Monroe Elementary
• John Reed Elementary
• Keene State College
• Keysight Industries
• La Tercera Elementary
• Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation
• Lake County Resource Conservation District
• LandPaths
• Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
• Latino Outdoors
• League of Women Voters Sonoma County chapter
• Listening for a Change
• Livingston Sound
• Los Angeles Community College District 
• Luther Burbank Elementary
• Madrone Audubon Society
• Madrone Elementary
• Marin County Office of Education
• Mark West Elementary
• Matanzas Elementary
• Meadow Elementary
• Mendocino County Fire Safe Council
• Mendocino County Library - Round Valley
• Mendocino County Prescribed Burn Association
• Mendocino County Resource Conservation District
• Mendocino Redwood Company
• Mendocino Unified School District
• Michigan State University, Kellogg Biological Station
• Miwok Valley Elementary
• Mohonk Preserve
• Monte Vista Elementary
• Mount Holyoke College
• Murrieta Valley Unified School District 
• Napa Communities Firewise Foundation
• Napa County PBA steering committee
• Napa County Resource Conservation District
• Napa County Wildlife Conservation Commission
• National Audubon Society
• National Opinion Research Center
• National Outdoor Leadership School
• National Resource Conservation Service
• Navarro Area Fire Safe Council
• Navarro River Watershed
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hudson River Estuary Program
• North Bay - ALERT Wildfire
• North Bay Children's Center
• North Bay Conservation Corps
• North Bay Forward 
• North Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board
• North Coast Opportunities
• North Fork Mono Tribe
• North Park Veterinary Clinic
• Northern Arizona University
• Northern Mendocino Ecosystem Recovery Alliance
• Northern Sonoma County Fire Protection District
• Notre Dame de Demur University
• OAEC
• Oak Grove Elementary
• Oak Hill Farm
• Oakland Zoo
• Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
• Old Adobe Elementary
• Olympic College
• Orange County Public Schools
• Orchard View School 
• Oregon Sea Grant
• Organization of Biological Field Stations
• Osher Life Long Learning
• Outward Bound
• Pacific Gas & Electric
• Pacific Watershed Associates
• Pathways Charter School
• Penngrove Cares
• Pepperwood Preserve
• Permit Sonoma
• Pernusky Chatham, Inc.
• Petaluma Garden Club
• Phytosphere Research
• Pine Mountain Fire Safe Council
• Point Blue Conservation Science
• Pollinator Partnership
• Portland Community College
• Potter Valley Fire Department
• Prospect Silicon Valley
• Rancho Adobe Fire District
• Rancho Cotati High School
• RCPA Climate Advisory Committee
• Re-Oaking Coalition
• Recology of Sonoma/Marin
• Récolte Energy
• Red Rancheria LLC
• Redwood Adventist
• Redwood Forest Foundation Inc
• Redwood High School
• Refill Mercantile LLC
• Regional Air Quality Control Board
• ReLeaf Petaluma
• Rhodes College
• Richard Crane Elementary
• Ridgewood Fire Safe Council
• Rincon Valley Union School District 
• Rips Redwoods
• Roseland Creek Elementary
• Round Valley Prescribed Burn Association
• Russian River Watershed Association
• Russian Riverkeeper
• Sacramento Municipal Utilities District
• Sacramento State University
• Safari West Wild Animal Park
• San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
• San Francisco Estuary Institute
• San Francisco Zoo
• Santa Rosa City Schools
• Santa Rosa Creek Commons
• Santa Rosa Creek Stewardship Program
• Santa Rosa Junior College
• Savannah State University
• Save Mount Diablo
• Saved by Nature
• Saving Birds Thru Habitat
• Scott Gibson Outdoor Photography
• Scott Hess Photography
• SHARE Sonoma County
• Shelly Benson Consulting
• Sheppard Accelerated Elementary
• Silicon Valley Clean Energy
• Skagit Valley College
• Skukuza Research Station, Organization for Tropical Studies
• SMUD
• Solano Audubon Society
• Sonoma Applied Villages Services
• Sonoma Birding
• Sonoma Clean Power
• Sonoma County Agricultural & Open Space District
• Sonoma County Fire & Emergency Services
• Sonoma County Forest Conservation Working Group
• Sonoma County Gazette
• Sonoma County Hiker
• Sonoma County Library
• Sonoma County Office of Education
• Sonoma County Office of Emergency Management
• Sonoma County Office of Recovery & Resiliency
• Sonoma County Regional Parks
• Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office
• Sonoma County Technical Services 
• Sonoma County Youth Ecology Corps
• Sonoma Developmental Center
• Sonoma Ecology Center
• Sonoma Land Trust
• Sonoma Mountain Institute
• Sonoma Mountain Preservation
• Sonoma Mountain Ranch Preserve
• Sonoma Resource Conservation District
• Sonoma State University
• Sonoma Valley Groundwater Sustainability Agency Advisory Committee
• Sonoma Valley School District
• Sonoma Water
• Sons in Retirement Senior Club
• South Ukiah Rotary Club _ Environmental Committee
• Southern Nazarene University, Quetzal Education Research Center
• Spanish group
• Spirit of Nature
• SSU Facilities
• SSU Green Music Center
• SSU Join Us in Making Progress (JUMP)
• St. Helena Unified School District
• Stanford University Alumni Organization
• State Water Resources Control Board
• Station biologique de Paimpont: Accueil
• Strategic Energy Innovations
• Strawberry Elementary
• Sustainablity North Bay
• Texas A&M University
• Texas Tech University
• The Dalton Homeschool
• The Energy Coalition
• The Evergreen State College
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Nature Conservancy's Center for conservation Initiatives
• The Wildlands Conservancy
• Thompson Water Resource Consulting
• Tim Dye Consulting
• Town of Windsor
• TREE Fund
• Trione-Annadel State Park
• True Wild
• UC Berkeley
• UC Berkeley Grizzly Corps Program
• UC California Naturalist Program
• UC Cooperative Extension, Humboldt and Del Norte Counties
• UC Cooperative Extension, Mendocino County
• UC Cooperative Extension, Sonoma County
• UC Davis
• UC Davis, Bodega Marine Reserve
• UC Davis, Institute of the Environment
• UC Davis, John Muir Institute
• UC Davis, McLaughlin Reserve
• UC Los Angeles
• UC Master Gardener Program of Lake County
• UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County
• UC Merced
• UC Natural Reserve System
• UC Naturalist Program
• UC Riverside
• UC San Diego, California Institute for Telecommunications & Technology
• UC Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute
• UCANR
• UCCE Master Gardener of Sonoma County
• UCCE Sonoma
• UCCE Sonoma SOD Outreach Program
• Ukiah Unified School District 
• Undergraduate Field Experiences Research Network
• United States Department of Agriculture
• Université de Rennes
• University Elementary at La Fiesta
• University of Alabama Birmingham
• University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology
• University of Alaska Fairbanks, Toolik Field Station
• University of Alberta, Edmonton
• University of Kansas, Kansas Biological Survey/Field Station
• University of Kansas; KU Field Station
• University of Minnesota
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• University of The Bahamas
• Upper Mark West Fire Safe Council
• US Fish & Wildlife
• US Forest Service
• US Geological Survey
• USDA NRCS
• Utility Arborists Association
• Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
• Watsonville Wetlands Watch
• Weber State University
• West County Health Services
• West Side Elementary
• Western Weather Group
• Wholly H2O
• Wichita State University
• Wildcare
• Wilding Landscapes
• Wildlife Conservation Society
• Wildlife Society
• Wilkinson School
• Wilmar Union Elementary
• Woodbury University
• Woodland Star Elementary
• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
• Yorkville Community Benefits Association
• Yorkville Fire Safe Council
• Zone 7 Water Agency
• Zero Waste Sonoma

*list last updated October 2024