By Jessi Laughlin and Jasmin Perdue: Our class got the opportunity to take a tour of the Laguna de Santa Rosa located off Highway 12 just outside of Sebastopol. Wendy provided us with some articles from Brent Reed (our tour Read more
My Restoration Ecology class spent the day in the Laguna Santa Rosa, helping plant sedges on a site being restored by the Laguna Foundation. Hard work, and good fun.
By Megan Gaitan and Julianne Bradbury: What, exactly, is the difference between “ecology” and “restoration ecology?” Where does one end and the other begin? Students in two Sonoma State University courses by those titles are discovering the differences, the similarities, Read more
By Jana Johnston and Brian McIssac: Long Windy Drive to Tomales Bay The weather could not have been better as we climbed into the vans and headed to Point Reyes, CA. Today’s field trip was a combination of Hall Cushman’s 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 Read more
Another Restoration Ecology field trip . . . this time, to Point Reyes, to visit the long-term field exclosure experiment being conducted by Dr. Hall Cushman, to investigate the effects of Tule elk on vegetation. We also practiced some field Read more
Fantastic field trip today with A Watershed Year (Science 120 freshman experience course). First, we visited the brand new salmon viewing area at the water treatment facility in Santa Rosa, and then over to Occidental to look at salmon restoration Read more
I had the opportunity to attend a couple of fantastic events this week sponsored by ieSonoma (Innovate, Educate, Sonoma).
(more…)As the semester winds to an end, I thought I’d share some artwork . . . a couple of things I drew for my students during finals week:
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