Walk Through the Watershed

03/07/2026

Still walking through the watershed! Hope to see you at the fairgrounds this Saturday

05/10/2025

Join us for a journey across this varied and abundant landscape while learning about Sudden Oak Death. Attendance Limit: 20

05/08/2025

Oaks are keystone species in our watershed. Join this yearly participatory science project to help protect them! If you can't attend the event, contact Kerry to receive sampling materials to conduct a survey in your community on your own schedule.

Help control this destructive forest pathogen! Now in its 18th year, this statewide citizen science project is vital to managing Sudden Oak Death. Sonoma County continues to be a hotbed of infection, and Osborn Preserve was the first location it was detected here back in 2001, so maintaining long-term research on site is particularly important. Join us to contribute to science while getting your own bay laurel or tanoak trees tested at no cost. This is a bilingual event (English and Spanish).

This event is in collaboration with UCCE Sonoma and Sonoma Mountain Preservation.
Sonoma Mountain Preservation UCCE Sonoma

03/12/2025

SSU’s Campus Nature Corridor: An outdoor learning and research space for all students November 5, 2024 Previous Next A meandering creek. A sun-dappled clearing in a forest. Ripened fruit warmed by the sun. You can find this peaceful getaway right on the SSU campus.Now this 15-acre area, known as S...

03/08/2025

03/09/2024

Join us at North Bay Science Discovery Day NOW! At the Sonoma County Fairgrounds until 4pm

SSU Center for Environmental Inquiry
Sonoma State University Biology Department

02/29/2024

Free virtual event Thursday, March 7th from 1-2pm! Single-use, disposable plastics are a problem. We see the impact in our oceans and our streams and want to be responsible consumers, but often don’t know what we can recycle and what we can’t. Learn from our experts about ways you can help reduce the problem.

Learn more & register: https://cei.sonoma.edu/plastics

10/18/2023

"Embers of Awakening: From Firestorm to Climate Healing" Screening & Panel THIS Fri 10/20, 7-9PM & Sun 10/22, 3-5PM
Learn more and register at https://cei.sonoma.edu/embers-sfi

Stories from 2017 Tubbs fire survivors situate a global climate crisis in Sonoma County. How can we recover from trauma while providing insights to prevent the further demise of our communities and planet? Peter Coyote narrates, with interviews of scientists, politicians, theologians, psychologists, physicians, business people, climate activists, firefighters and those who lost homes. Join us on campus (Darwin Hall, Room 102), and stay for a discussion and panel of filmmakers, climate activists, local survivors & scientists.

08/19/2023

Here's a nice FREE opportunity to learn about CA grasslands with SSU tomorrow on Sonoma Mountain. You can also learn how to be a docent for their field trip programs.

Grasslands: this Sunday, August 20 (10 am to 1 pm)
Naturalist Ed Series event, FREE
More info & Register: https://cei.sonoma.edu/NES-grasslands
Proper management of grassland habitat on Sonoma Mountain provides a high diversity of native plants and animals. Explore Sonoma Mountain to learn how grassland management techniques, including but not limited to cattle grazing, provide the best possible habitat for rare species including the California Red-legged Frog and other native animals.
Jeff Wilcox, Managing Ecologist with Sonoma Mountain Ranch Preservation Foundation, has been a field mentor for countless SSU graduate biology students involved in research on Sonoma Mountain. Jeff also leads workshops as an expert on rare wildlife species that rely on grassland habitat and has published countless articles on this topic.

04/15/2023

Want to improve your land for conservation but worried about regulatory red-tape? Join this small group hike Monday 11am at Osborn Preserve to discuss various permitting actions available to you through the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), including benefits for listed species.

We'll also get an overview of the California Endangered Species Act and talk about how CEQA fits in.

Learn more & register at https://cei.sonoma.edu/red-tape

03/07/2023

¿Quieres inspirar a que aprendan ciencia de una manera divertida? No puedes perderte este gran evento totalmente GRATIS! Habrá mas de 100 actividades para pasar un día lleno de diversión