By Beverly Wong: One might notice the huge contrast between the atmosphere of the different parts of Sonoma State’s campus. While there are herds of students buzzing and rushing about to get to their next class in the main area by the infamous ‘Bacon and Eggs’ structure, the atmosphere quickly Read more
By Megan Gaitan and Brian McIsaac: The Copeland Creek Monitoring Plan has grown from an ecological model formed at the start of the semester into a full blown project that now includes a baseline level of data and clearly outlined methods for monitoring in years to come. This investigation stems Read more
By Jordan DeSilva and Jasmin Perdue: The Plan Channel Morphology of Copeland Creek–that was our task. What did that mean? What do we measure? Where do we start? Those were the thoughts racing through our minds upon our assignment. The semester long project clearly began with research research research, which is Read more
By Jana Johnston and Jessi Laughlin: We were tasked with collecting base line data for the under story vegetation of Copeland Creek. To do this, we measured whole plot species richness as well as absolute and relative cover of herbaceous species by using a point intercept method and percent cover of shrub Read more
By Jordan DeSilva and Amy Unruh: The Day Begins Today day was the day that we all set out to take a stab at getting to know our new study site–Copeland Creek. Our restoration ecology class has been tasked with developing a baseline data report and the first step is Read more