Awards

The County of Sonoma Arts Impact Grant for Organizations (AIGO) funding will support the Green Music Center in 2024 in our effort to present a diverse array of the most compelling artists of our time who will engage audiences on and off our stages. Using our platform to work toward cultural equity, programming will contribute to the wellbeing of our communities and will help build empathy in our multicultural world.

This project is a collaborative initiative focused on strengthening the STEM pipeline in our community by partnering with the Sonoma County Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to engage K-12 students in aerospace education and hands-on activities. By leveraging CAP's Aerospace Education Program, which covers a wide array of aerospace topics, the initiative aims to spark curiosity and enthusiasm for STEM subjects among students. The implementation plan emphasizes the use of project-based learning (PBL) and other active learning techniques to enhance student learning outcomes.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will perform as-needed Cultural Resource Services for the Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project. The Project requires a Task Order(TO) per assignment request. Each TO must outline the selected tasks from the As-Needed Scope of Work and a Not-To-Exceed amount of $50,000/year.

Despite the role of wildfire in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function, recent trends are toward large-extent, high-severity wildfires in California. The wildfire research and management communities need better data on forest fuel distributions to better predict wildfire impacts and guide management strategies. We will address this pressing need by conducting a multi-part analysis of large wildfires in California using contemporary information on forest structure measured by NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) space-based lidar.

Sonoma State will host regional K-12 District administrators, staff and counselors regarding the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI). CCGI has received funding from the State of California to develop collaborative partnerships with regional county offices of education and/or higher education campuses to support local educational agency utilization of the College and Career Guidance Initiative’s statewide college and career planning tools.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC), in collaboration with representatives from the Northern Valley Yokut tribe, will develop content for three (3) interpretive panels to be installed at Eagles’ Landing Park in Lathrop, California.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct a cultural resources survey and reporting for four Marin Water Prescribed Burn Project areas. Marin Water is proposing to conduct a series of prescribed fires over a total of 303 acres on Marin Water property.

This project will meet the needs of rural, high-poverty, and emergent-bilingual Spanish-English communities to increase student achievement in science by scaling a moderate-evidence-based, three-component model. The components are i) three units of hands-on, injury, and standards-based STEM curriculum, ii) evidence-based Professional Development (PD), and iii) sustainable teacher support.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will provide an archaeological survey in support of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Diablo Range District's Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Are (SVRA). The Carnegie SVRA is a 4,675-acre off-highway vehicle (OHV) park overseen by the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division and operated by the Diablo District of State Parks. The SVRA is located within unincorporated Alameda and San Joaquin Counties, approximately 15 miles east of Livermore and 12 miles west of Tracy.

State Parks is preparing a Park Classification and General Plan for the Alameda-Tesla property and requires archaeological survey work for the project. The Anthropological Studies Center at Sonoma State University (ASC) conducted archaeological surveys of the park from 2008-2010. The work proposed here would relocate 55 previously recorded sites, in the western section of the SVRA (the Alameda Parcel; as previously surveyed), and record new sites in areas that were not previously surveyed.