The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct a cultural resources survey and inventory report for the East Bay Regional Park District’s Robertson Land Bank Trails Project. ASC will do three tasks to complete the project including: Background Research, Archaeological Field Survey and Recordation and Archaeological Resource Documentation and Archaeological Survey Report.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will undertake NHPA Section 106 evaluation and data recovery of the proposed Hotel Sebastopol project. The scope of work includes ground-penetrating radar survey, National Register of Historic Places evaluation and determination of eligibility, assessment of effects and mitigation measures for all affected cultural resources. The site is the location of Chinese- and Japanese-American settlement in Sebastopol from the 1870s through the 1940s.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct a cultural resources survey of Calabazas Creek Regional Park. The cultural resources study will update the initial MND and is being prepared to support an IS/MND, Master Plan, and Resource Management Plan. Sonoma County Regional Parks is serving as the lead agency and the final cultural resources study report will address the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended.

Archaeological survey in support of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Sonoma-Lake-Napa (LNU)’s Sonoma Land Trust Vegetation Management Program (VMP) Project. The Sonoma Land Trust VMP is located approximately .5 miles east of Glenn Ellen in Sonoma County, California. The 2022 VMP proposes 4 burn units comprising approximately 74 acres. The Sonoma Land Trust VMP is situated on private land owned by Sonoma Land Trust and the Audubon Canyon Ranch. 

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) at Sonoma State University has been requested by the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and Sonoma County Land Trust (SCLT) to conduct an archaeological resources study of approximately 90 acres at Jack London State Historic Park near Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California. The study would support planning and execution of a fuels reduction project funded by a Sonoma Valley Wildlands Collaborative grant.

To determine, to the extent possible, the presence or absence of archaeological resources at the 805 Bryant Street Project and to identify whether any archaeological resource that may be encountered on the project site constitutes an historical resource under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Archaeological resources study of approximately 12 acres at the Tracy ACE Station site at 4800 Tracy Blvd in the town of Tracy for the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission Project. The archaeological resources study is being prepared in support of a Categorical Exclusion (CE) under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970, as amended.

Professors Don Romesburg and Steve Estes, in collaboration with two SSU students through a special studies (WGS/HIST 495) course in Fall 2022, will conduct, transcript, and archive a series of 6-8 oral histories related to the historic preservation of the longtime San Francisco house of lesbian icons and heroes Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Martin and Lyon founded the first US lesbian political organization in the 1950s and after a life of activism went on to become the first same-sex couple to marry in California.

The purpose of this funding is to continue to grow the Cinematic Arts & Technology degree at SSU. Specific areas of support include an animation suite, scholarships, a guest speaker series and equipment upgrades and maintenance. The goal of our cinematic arts program is to give our students the potential to learn a wide variety of skill sets they can take into the job market. Because digital animation is a vibrant and growing field, our graduates would have yet another possible career avenue.

To Provide On-call cultural resource support services to Caltrans North Region (Districts 1,2,3) through Pacific Legacy Inc., under the terms of Contract 03A3090 to support Caltrans in the maintenance, development, and construction of proposed Caltrans transportation facilities.