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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. 

Student holding harvest mouse
Impacts of cattle grazing on grassland communities

2017

Faculty: Derek Girman

Partners: Center for Environmental Inquiry, Sonoma Mountain Ranch Preservation Foundation

A field with grape vines
Sustainability of Sonoma County wineries

2017

Faculty: Gillian Parker

Partners: Sonoma County Winegrowers

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