The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct archaeological monitoring for the 630-800 Cesar Chavez Street Project in San Francisco, CA and, as a prerequisite for monitoring, will work closely with San Francisco Planning Department, including both the archaeological review team and the Environmental Review Officer to develop an appropriate Archaeological Monitoring Program.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will perform record searches of the California Historical Resources Information System (CHRIS), on an as-needed basis, in response to individual requests by the State Water Board. Record searches will include inventories of records, maps and files housed at nine regional branches of the CHRIS.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct an archaeological study for The Sierra Fund for their proposed Champion Mine Trail near Nevada City, California, and prepare a summary letter report assessing the project's potential impacts to any identified cultural resources and make recommendations, as warranted.

Working in collaboration with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, SSU's Native American Studies Program has designed a pilot program addressing food sovereignty, cultural practices and land management at FIGR's Learning Center located on a 450-acre preserve. Programming has been drastically impacted by COVID-19. The grant funding will be used to develop curriculum; host a workshop informed by FIGR experts and virtual lectures by Native experts; and fund transportation to FIGRLC.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will assist Worthington Miller in replacing exclusion fencing at Empire Mine State Historic Park. Ruins of abandoned, 19th century gold mines are in the vicinity of the project and the ASC will help ensure they are not impacted during the project.

Dr. Teresa Nguyen will use her Visionary Grant Award from the American Psychological Foundation to test a proposed culturally-sensitive model of marriage and relationship development.

This project's overarching objective is to demonstrate the value of NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) spaceborne lidar for systematic and timely wildfire severity prediction, and to assess how GEDI-detected structural changes due to wildfire and fuels treatments alter predictions of future wildfire severity in California forests. Our research will provide insights into post-wildfire recovery, forest management strategies to reduce wildfire risk, contemporary fire regimes, and potential fire impacts under extreme wind conditions and in wildland-urban interface areas.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will collaborate with ESA Inc. and CA State Parks to conduct an archaeological and tribal cultural resources inventory at China Camp State Park, in Marin County, and to develop a model for understanding climate effects to significant resources. Climate modeling includes identifying areas likely to be disturbed or destroyed by rising sea levels, tidal action, and erosion due to changes in vegetation patterns, infrastructural projects, and public access.

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.