Awards

With this grant, SSU plans to create a comprehensive coordinated community response that is victim ­centered, enhances victim safety, provides confidential services to sexual assault victims, holds offenders accountable, and includes outreach activities at institutions of higher education. Some of the initiatives that this grant will fund include the hiring of a second, full time Confidential Sexual Assault Victims' Advocate, the creation of a campus wide Sexual Misconduct/Assault Response Team, and personnel and resources to support a broad spectrum of outreach programs for the campus.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will supply an archaeologist to deliver an on-site tailgate training session to construction personnel prior to commencement of excavation work at the Belvedere Tiburon Library Expansion Project. ASC will also supply one archaeologist to perform monitoring functions at the site and to prepare a draft and final Archaeological Monitoring Report upon completion.

Through a partnership between Sonoma State's Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Analysis (CIGA) and the CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technician was hired through a competitive process to assist the agency in creating a variety of planning maps. A high-priority product will be pre-fire attack maps in the tri-county area. Pre-attack maps include base imagery overlaid with spatial information on fire control lines, access, gates, water resources, structures, and known hazards.

Through this cooperative agreement, the Northwest Information Center (NWIC) supports the fulfillment of the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) obligations by 1) gathering, managing, and providing access to the statewide inventory of historical resources within the NWIC’s 18 county region; 2) providing guidance in the use and interpretation of historical resources information: and 3) providing broad public education in support of cultural heritage preservation including internships and volunteer opportunities here at Sonoma State University. 

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will manage and research the archaeological collection at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MGAGCC), Twentynine Palms, CA. This will include accessioning the backlog of artifacts and reports, receiving and processing new artifacts and reports, managing and updating inventory database, facilitating and conducting research on the collection, and designing and assembling a full-room interpretive archaeological display.

To meet the need of the ever-increasing need for teachers in California public schools, particularly in the areas of bilingual education, special education, and STEM education, SSU has partnered with Napa Valley Unified School District (NVUSD) and Santa Rosa City Schools (SRCS) to prepare teacher candidates in the North Bay Teacher Residency Program (NBTRP).

This award will allow for the installation of a new standalone generator to meet the back up power requirements of the EOC in the Schulz Information Center; and associated transformer, panelboard, heat pump and modifications to existing fuel system and controls to accommodate the new generator. The new generator will utilize the existing fuel tank in the facility area.

The Scholarship America fund provides a one-time scholarship award of $379 to students who experienced financial hardship related to the California Wildfires in Fall 2019. The scholarship allows students to use this funding for tuition, fees, books, housing, and other education-related expenses. 

This project will investigate the role of naturally increased endogenous carbon monoxide (CO) in a deep-diving marine mammal. Several species of deep-diving seals have concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO) in their blood that resemble the levels seen in chronic cigarette smokers. The proposed work measures the turnover of red blood cells in marine mammals as a potential source of CO production and examines the effects of elevated CO on the oxygen binding characteristics of blood and the regulation of mitochondrial metabolism during breath-holds.

This project will continue the research started in Phase One on a long-term monitoring network on west coast powerline Rights-of-Ways (ROWs). Vegetation management needed to maintain safety in powerline ROWs has significant effects on local ecosystems.  The main goals of this Phase Two study are 1) To allow all sites at the “West Coast Observing Network” to obtain a full three years of pollinator and vegetation observations, 2) To continue to train students in current environmental issues and 3) To help improve the understanding of ecosystem recovery after wildfires.