On Saturday, March 25th, SSU collaborated with the California Conservation Corps’ Watership Stewardship Program to start work on our riparian restoration project (more details about the work we did on Saturday coming soon). One of the side benefits of working alongside the creek is encountering some of the wildlife that shares the campus with us. Here are a few of the highlights of our day . . .
(more…)Today, I attended the beginner level Create-An-App Workshop, put on by SSU’s Women in Tech program, and it was pretty cool! We were walked through the steps of creating an app for a whack-a-mole game on an Android phone, using the MIT App Inventor. The program was pretty simple to use, and it looks like it has loads of functionality. It took me about half an hour to create my MoleMash game:
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I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated and inspired by the natural world. Now, as an ecologist, science educator, and illustrator, I strive to inspire others with a similar love and appreciation for science.
This is the stretch of Copeland Creek running through the Sonoma State University campus, right behind the Environmental Technology Center. In nearly 10 years on campus, I’ve never seen Copeland Creek with this much water, or running so fast. It Read more
“Scientists across the country are increasingly interested in communicating directly with the public, media and elected officials in the wake of President Trump’s inauguration.” Read the full article here: Scientists Increasingly Speak Out – Scientific American
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By Amy Unruh: After weeks of logistical issues, we were finally able to get ahold of the Sherman traps from the biology department that we would be using to capture and analyze the small mammals along Copeland Creek. With the Read more
By Manuel Hernandez and Julianne Bradbury: Most problems are relative, right? In an urban creek like Copeland Creek, certain species are bigger problems than others. The Restoration Ecology class at Sonoma State has detected a whole spectrum of problem species Read more
By Paolo Solari: Frogs are both terrestrial and aquatic animals, which means they live both on the land and in the water, making all parts of the riparian corridor and creek potentially critical habitat. Pacific Tree Frogs are noisy critters, Read more
By Danielle Wegner: Another viewpoint we wanted to incorporate when examining the Copeland Creek is how species with large ranges utilize the creek that cuts through the north end of Sonoma State. We grouped this category into the wide range apex Read more
