Awards

The Family Nurse Practitioner Program at SSU offers a Master of Science as well as a Post Masters Certificate Program with a full and part-time option.  The mission of our program is to serve the underserved populations in Northern California. With the help of grant funding we are able to provide an opportunity for Advance Practice Nurses in rural areas to become nurse practitioners while staying in their community to provide the care to those patients in need.

The purpose of this Task Order is for the SSU to provide technical professional services to West Yost for the City of Ukiah/Russian River Watershed Association (RRWA) Task Order #3 contract 592-60-22-15 as follows:

The California Mathematics Project: North Coast (CMP:NC) is one of 19 sites of a statewide network of University-based professional learning providers.  As a collaboration between SSU's Department of Mathematics and Statistics and School of Education and the Sonoma County Office of Education, CMP:NC has provided extended, multi-year professional learning opportunities to K-12 mathematics teachers from Marin County to the Oregon border since its founding in 1999.

The ASC will develop an Interpretation Master Plan for Empire Mine State Historic Park. The project team will develop a baseline survey of interpretive infrastructure, current conditions and relevant programming. The project team will also examine visitor needs and interests through surveys, key personnel interviews, and visitor statistics. ASC will also hold regular meetings with State Parks and the Sierra Gold Parks Foundation as well as lead four public stakeholder meetings.

California has adopted Dyslexia Guidelines for future teachers. These must be incorporated into each basic credential program (education specialist, multiple subject, single subject). The legislature has made funding available so that teacher education programs can align their coursework with the guidelines (AB 128). Course revision and program revision to include pedagogy related to literacy and dyslexia may result from this work.

This research seeks to revise fundamental scaling laws in Ecology by quantifying the broad controls on tree-level 3D structure. We will accomplish this through the development of a global-scale 3D trait databases based on terrestrial laser scanning data assembled from an international community of researchers. The project will result in an open access global 3D trait database that will support improved biodiversity characterization and mapping.  Lisa Bentley will advise in all matters related to scaling theory in the proposed research and contribute to planned research manuscripts.

The 2022 Summer Tinker Academy is a two-week program designed to engage and inspire middle school students through Maker principles, to encourage the exploration and development of technical, mathematical and artistic abilities. For Summer 2022, twenty-four middle school students from across Sonoma County have been selected by CTE Foundation to attend the hands-on sessions to be taught by SSU professors and student assistants in the SSU Makerspace. They will participate in a variety of activities including coding, modeling, crafting, sewing, and building.

This project will connect physiological and novel remote sensing tools to better understand the effects of wildfire and fuels management on forested ecosystems in California under a changing climate. This will integrate Dr. Bentley’s long-term research and education goals related to the responses of forests to environmental change using terrestrial laser scanning, metabolic scaling ecology, modeling and virtual reality based outreach.

Mapping and monitoring the structure, function, and biodiversity of Earth's ecosystems is one of the most important research objectives for space science this decade, in particular to address the rapid decline of biodiversity under anthropogenic pressure and climate change. To respond to the urgent need of mapping and monitoring biodiversity in a timely manner, the BioSoundSCape project will use a novel, generalizable, and species agnostic approach to retrieve acoustic and plant spectral and structural diversity.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will research, survey, and record the Jones Bar mining site for the Sierra District of State Parks. The site burned in the 2020 Jones Bar fire and new cultural features and artifacts may be exposed. It may have also been damaged by the fire. ASC will assess any damage. The site record will be provided to Parks for their records and filed with the appropriate information center.